Why Tech Giants Are Accused of Causing Social Media Addiction
In a series of landmark trials, plaintiffs are alleging that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused personal injury through addictive products. Our technology reporter Cecilia Kang describes what’s at stake for tech giants and social media users.
Anthropic Raises $30B At $380B Valuation In Second-Largest Venture Funding Deal Of All Time
Generative AI company Anthropic announced Thursday that it raised $30 billion in a round that values it at $380 billion post-money. The financing marks the largest venture funding deal of 2026 so far and the second-largest of all time, per Crunchbase data.
Why is Cilium one of the most widely adopted Container Networking Interfaces (CNIs) in production Kubernetes environments? What does it do differently from a...
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…
Apple flubbed this launch | Pages, Keynote, and Numbers 15 Go Freemium - TidBITS
Apple has folded Pages, Keynote, and Numbers into its Creator Studio subscription bundle, but the upgrade process has been confusing and the App Store ratings have cratered. Here’s what happened, what’s actually behind the paywall, and what you should do.
Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment
While Linux 7.0 is the next kernel version solely over Linus Torvalds' numbering preference, there is a notable symbolic change that was sent in overnight for this new kernel merge window: formally concluding the 'Rust experiment' with upstream kernel developers now in acceptance that Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay.
Claude Desktop Extensions Exposes Over 10,000 Users to Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - LayerX
Summary: LayerX discovered a zero-click remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT), in which a single Google Calendar event can silently compromise a system running Claude Desktop Extensions. The flaw impacts more than 10,000 active users and 50 DXT extensions. Unlike traditional browser extensions, Claude Desktop Extensions run unsandboxed with full […]
Event Success: A plan for KubeCon awareness to leads to revenue | LinkedIn
We can all agree that trade shows and major events such as KubeCon are expensive and an investment. When leadership asks, “What did we get from it?” marketing needs to be able to answer the question.
Snyk Finds Prompt Injection in 36%, 1467 Malicious Payloads in a ToxicSkills Study of Agent Skills Supply Chain Compromise | Snyk
Snyk’s ToxicSkills research reveals 36% of AI agent skills contain security flaws, including 1,467 vulnerable skills and active malicious payloads targeting OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Cursor users.
The prospect of disruptions from artificial intelligence has hung over the economy for years. But this week advances in software tools precipitated a sell-off on Wall Street.