I was driving through Austin, Texas, recently and I saw a Waymo vehicle. These are autonomous vehicles that—in principle, at least—drive themselves. The Waymo Driver boasts a variety of whirling gadgets that detect the surrounding environment and guide the vehicle. But when I pulled up alongside, I saw there was a human in the driver’s seat. This

An internal developer platform (IDP) is a self-service layer built by an organization that standardizes infrastructure, tools, and workflows into a product-like experience for that organization’s internal developers. Its goal is to abstract away operational complexity, enforce guardrails, and give developers “golden paths” — predefined workflows or sets of best practices—to build and deploy software

Microsoft 365 (and Office 365) subscribers get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches, and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available. We’re doing

Once upon a time, a word processor was little more than a blank canvas for your finger-transmitted musings: You’d open up the program, type whatever you wanted — and, well, that was pretty much it. These days, dealing with documents has practically become an art. And even though Google Docs is among the more approachable

The authoritarian, surveillance-loving UK Labour government remains deeply committed to magical thinking, slamming yet another encryption-busting “Technical Capability Notice” (TCN) on Apple, according to the Financial Times.  The difference is that this time it says it only wants to damage the privacy and security of the UK’s subject population. “The UK government has issued a new order to Apple to

Copenhagen-based 55 North has announced the first close of its €300 million quantum technology fund, raising €134 million from anchor investors Novo Holdings and EIFO. The fund positions itself as the world’s largest dedicated quantum technology venture capital vehicle, focusing exclusively on the sector’s emerging opportunities. The fund was co-founded by three general partners—Owen Lozman,

Feedzai, an AI-native platform focused on financial crime prevention, has raised approximately $75 million in new funding, pushing its valuation past $2 billion. The investment round brings in several institutional investors including Lince Capital, Iberis Capital, and Explorer Investments, with continued support from existing backers Oxy Capital and Buenavista Equity Partners. The funding comes as

FreeGF AI is pitched as a free AI companion and girlfriend simulator. It’s designed for folks who want to explore conversations, roleplay, and even intimacy with an AI partner without hitting the frustrating “content blocked” walls common in other apps. At its core, it’s about giving you a digital sidekick who feels available, personal, and—most

Curiosity got the better of me, as it usually does, and I decided to dive into the wild world of uncensored AI prompt generators. These aren’t the buttoned-up, corporate AI tools you see on LinkedIn ads. No, these are the tools that cut loose—the ones built for personalization, intimacy, and sometimes downright eccentric creativity. What

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.5, an update of the company’s coding model that features extended autonomous operation, greater context awareness, and enhanced tool usage. Claude Sonnet 4.5 shows significant improvements on real-world computer tasks, agentic coding, agentic terminal coding, and agentic tools use, as well as reasoning and math, according to Anthropic. Claude Sonnet