In other words, the bridge is about to be raised for those chasing the American dream. And everyone is worried about being left on the wrong side. It’s the kind of FOMO that on first blush seems to require a huge suspension of disbelief. But the idea’s mere existence helps explain some of the…

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Microsoft says it will provide encryption keys for Windows PC data protected by BitLocker where it has access to them and it's received a valid warrant. getty Early last year, the FBI served Microsoft with a search warrant, asking it to provide recovery keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three…

Subscribe to Zero Day Zero Day is a reader-supported publication. If you'd like to support my work become a paid subscriber. But you can also subscribe for free. No spam ever. A cyberattack that targeted power plants and other energy producers in Poland at the end of December used malware known as a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court for the past year has repeatedly allowed President Donald Trump to fire heads of independent agencies, but it appears to be drawing a line with the Federal Reserve. The court has signaled for months that it sees the Fed in a different light. It has said that the…

Executive summary Tech and AI: Emails and personal notes written by Greg Brockman that improve Elon Musk’s position in his lawsuit against OpenAI and others were revealed during the lawsuit’s discovery phase. Forecasters think there’s a 31% (15% to 40%) chance that Elon Musk will win at least $40…

It’s the moment software engineers, executives and investors turn their work over to Anthropic’s Claude AI—and then witness a thinking machine of shocking capability, even in an age awash in powerful artificial-intelligence tools. Many coders spent their holiday breaks on a “Claude bender,” testing…

unlimited software 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before. Benj Edwards – Jan 19, 2026 7:00 AM | 67 Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Story text Size…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in security tools to analyze applications, suggest exploits, and identify potential vulnerabilities. In many cases, they surface useful leads faster than traditional approaches. But teams trying to operationalize LLM-driven security quickly hit a…

In 2026 cybersecurity is entering a period of instability that many security leaders can feel, but few have fully named, Last year, I described this moment as the Chaos Phase, a period where AI-driven threats begin to outpace human-speed security models. At the time, that shift was emerging. Today,…

US inflation held firm last month as Donald Trump faces mounting pressure over the cost of living for millions of Americans. The closely-watched consumer price index rose 2.7% in the year to December, in line with the previous month, according to official data published on Tuesday morning, ahead of…

Surgical face masks provide inadequate protection against flu-like illnesses including Covid, and should be replaced by respirator-level masks – worn every time doctors and nurses are face to face with a patient, according to a group of experts urging changes to World Health Organization guidelines.…

This winter break was an opportunity for devs to step back from day-to-day work and play around with side projects – including using AI agents to juice up those half-baked or incomplete ideas. At least, that’s what I did with a few features I’d meant to build for months, but didn’t get around to…

Meta has cut a trio of deals to power its artificial intelligence data centers, securing enough energy to light up the equivalent of about 5 million homes. The parent company of Facebook on Friday announced agreements with TerraPower, Oklo and Vistra for nuclear power for its Prometheus AI data…

The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?” There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for new roles in the…

Private employers added 41,000 jobs in December, according to ADP’s latest data release on Wednesday, a modest rebound from November’s losses. But beneath the headline growth, the composition of hiring portrayed a far more fragile — and even frightening — picture of the underlying economy. Here's…

(Image credit: Getty Images) Share by: Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter OpenAI has updated its browser to boost protection against prompt injection attacks, but it warned the risk may never fully…

The global economy proved to be more resilient in 2025 than had been feared, despite severe headwinds that ranged from Donald Trump’s trade war to geopolitical tensions and the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Entering the new year, the hope is that the worst of the recent inflation shock…

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said. It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the threshold set in the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7…

Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate “images depicting minors in minimal clothing” on social media platform X. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s company xAI, has been generating a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Flu is rising rapidly across the U.S., driven by a new variant of the virus — and cases are expected to keep growing with holiday travel. That variant, known as “subclade K,” led to early outbreaks in the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. In the U.S., flu typically begins its…

5 minutes ago5 minutes agoMaduro faces 'narco-terrorism conspiracy' charges - US Attorney General Bondi Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted in the Southern District of New York, US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Saturday, hours after US President…

A Chinese delegation may have been caught in the crossfire during recent events in Venezuela, according to the Telegram channel Baza. The report states that about 10 hours before the US-led attack, a meeting took place in Caracas between Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the special envoy of…

Jan 3 (Reuters) - Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez is in Russia, four sources familiar with her movements said on Saturday, after President Donald Trump said President Nicolas Maduro had been seized by U.S. forces after an attack on the country. Her brother, Jorge Rodriguez, the head of the…

Key Points Gold’s 70% surge is biggest since 1979.A tough Fed then stamped out inflation, and gold’s rally.For 2026, gold investors are pricing a different scenario. You know something big is happening in the world when the price of gold is not only at record highs but is also on track to have its…

One kilogram and a five hundred gram gold bars next to one kilogram silver bars at The Vaults Group gold dealers arranged in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday, April 28, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Gold and silver prices lost ground on Wednesday as investors booked profits after a historic…

Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who is retiring at the end of 2025, has entertained and educated shareholders in his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate for many years with his pithy annual letters outlining the firm’s performance. Every year since 1965 he has updated his investors on the…

“In the chronicles of American financial history,” writes David Clark in The Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway’s Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth,” Charlie Munger will be seen as the proverbial enigma wrapped in a paradox—he is both a…

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Shane Parrish was a cybersecurity expert at Canada’s top intelligence agency and an occasional blogger when he noticed something curious about his modest readership six years ago: 80 percent of his followers worked on Wall Street. The blog was meant to be a method of self-improvement, helping Mr.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Silver and gold futures fell sharply Monday after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, one of the world’s largest trading floors for commodities, asked traders to put up more cash to make bets on precious metals with prices surging this year. This year, gold futures are up 65% and silver…

When Sundar Pichai took the stage at Google I/O on Tuesday morning, he said that the rise of generative artificial intelligence would provide new opportunities: for creators, developers, startups, and for everyone. Two hours later, after the sun rising over the Shoreline Amphitheatre sent audience…

Amazon warehouse workers are using bots to automatically and instantly claim precious time off slots before their coworkers, according to multiple Reddit posts by Amazon workers and Github pages for two of these bots viewed by 404 Media. The Amazon workers are trying to claim voluntary time off, or…

I. The smartest person I’ve ever known had a habit that, as a teenager, I found striking. After he’d prove a theorem, or solve a problem, he’d go back and continue thinking about the problem and try to figure out different proofs of the same thing. Sometimes he’d spend hours on a problem he’d…

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Kevin Beaumont 15 min read· May 3, 2024 -- Recently, Microsoft had quite frankly a kicking from the US Department of Homeland Security over their security practices in a Cyber Safety Review Board report. I’ve tried to keep as quiet as possible about this one for various reasons (and I was not…

Costs are rising, prices are coming down, unit economics are going sideways, and cybersecurity startups must adapt. Cybersecurity SaaS businesses are undergoing several significant changes that will hurt the broader market. This is what it all means. A Quick Primer on Margins Here’s a quick lesson…