Microsoft avoids EU fine after Slack complained about Teams bundling

Microsoft has avoided a fine from the European Commission after it was charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling its Teams app with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. The European Commission says it has accepted commitments from Microsoft to address competition concerns related to Microsoft Teams, following an anti-competitive complaint filed by Slack in … Read more

Here are the 3 Things to Watch as Bitcoin’s Rally toward $120K Gathers Speed

This is a daily analysis by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole. Bitcoin (BTC) continues to gain ground, consistent with the inverse head-and-shoulders breakout from early this week, which opened the door for a rally to $120,000. Prices have crossed above the 50-day simple moving average (SMA), a widely-tracked momentum indicator. Additionally, the … Read more

Algorithms That Learn as They Schedule: A Twin-Model Approach to Modern FJS

Abstract and 1. Introduction Mixed integer and constraint programming models 2.1 Mixed-integer linear programming model 2.2 Constraint Programming model Constructive Heuristics Benchmark instances Numerical experiments 5.1 Experiments with the constructive heuristics 5.2 Solving the proposed models with a commercial solver Conclusions and References 2 Mixed integer and constraint programming models In this section, we present … Read more

Beyond the Hype: The Quiet Rise of AI Agents That Run Your Digital Life

Three months ago, I watched a Salesforce demo where their AI agent handled a complex customer refund dispute—escalating to billing, checking inventory, and coordinating with logistics—without a single human touch. The customer got their resolution in four minutes. The support rep? She was handling three other cases simultaneously. That moment crystallized something I’ve been tracking … Read more

World Liberty Financial Token Holds Steady as Community Backs Buyback-and-Burn Plan

World Liberty Financial’s native token (WLFI) is holding steady after the project’s community overwhelmingly approved a plan to direct all protocol-owned liquidity fees toward a buyback-and-burn mechanism. WLFI is trading near $0.20, up 0.2% over the past 24 hours and 7.8% higher on the week, according to CoinGecko data. The token has a market capitalization … Read more

This Invisible ‘ModStealer’ is Targeting Your Browser-Based Crypto Wallets

A new strain of malware purpose-built to steal crypto wallet data is slipping past every major antivirus engine, according to Apple device security firm Mosyle. Dubbed ModStealer, the infostealer has been live for nearly a month without detection by virus scanners. Mosyle researchers say the malware is being distributed through malicious recruiter ads targeting developers … Read more

Apple Watch hypertension alerts cleared by FDA for new and old watches

Starting next week, Apple’s new hypertension notification feature will be coming to Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later with the launch of watchOS 26. That’s according to an emailed statement from Apple spokesperson Zaina Khachadourian saying the feature that monitors blood pressure has been cleared by the FDA. Apple’s … Read more

The One Line of Code That Ate 12GB of SeaTunnel Kafka Connector’s Memory in 5 Minutes

What happened? In Apache SeaTunnel version 2.3.9, the Kafka connector implementation contained a potential memory leak risk. When users configured streaming jobs to read data from Kafka, even with a read rate limit (read_limit.rows_per_second) set, the system could still experience continuous memory growth until an OOM (Out Of Memory) occurred. What’s the key issue? In real … Read more

AI Unleashes a 50x Leap in Stem Cell Reprogramming: OpenAI’s GPT-4b Micro Changes the Game for Life

The intersection of artificial intelligence and life sciences is proving to be fertile ground for breakthroughs, and a recent collaboration between OpenAI and Retro Biosciences offers a compelling glimpse into this future. The two organizations have leveraged a specialized AI model, GPT-4b micro, to achieve an astonishing 50-fold increase in the expression of stem cell … Read more

The Paradox of Brilliance: Why Our Smartest AI Still “Bluffs” And How We Can Teach It True Humility

Are our most advanced AI systems secretly bluffing? This isn’t a rhetorical question, but a critical challenge underpinning the trustworthiness and future adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs). Imagine asking a widely-used chatbot for the PhD dissertation title of a prominent researcher, Adam Kalai. You might expect a single, accurate answer. Instead, it confidently provides … Read more

What We Lost When Ethereum Switched to Proof-of-Stake

Ethereum’s move to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) has often been described as one of crypto’s biggest technological breakthroughs — and, admittedly, it is. The network finally achieved things that were nearly impossible on Proof-of-Work (PoW): a more robust foundation for truly decentralized applications, including oracles and complex DeFi protocols. But behind this technical victory, there is another … Read more

To AI or Not to AI: How Startups Can Wisely Add AI to Their Products

In today’s tech landscape, startups often feel intense pressure to add “AI-driven” features to stay competitive. Gartner predicts that by 2028, about a third of enterprise apps will include AI, so teams worry about falling behind. However, hype alone isn’t enough. Nielsen Norman Group warns that many early AI features (e.g., Instagram’s AI chat or … Read more

Spacecoin and the Promise (and Pitfalls) of Banking the Unbanked

In 2021, approximately 1.4 billion adults remained unbanked globally, while 3 billion people still lack internet access. This creates a dual barrier: no bank account and no digital connectivity. Spacecoin proposes to break this cycle by combining satellites and blockchain technology—but is this innovation truly groundbreaking, or merely another ambitious project with more promise than … Read more