These startups are building innovations that make life (and death) better

Founders Gabriel Sanchez (Enspectra Health) and Tom Harries (Earth Funeral) share what it takes to build in heavily regulated industries where “move fast and break things” simply won’t work. In this episode of Build Mode, they reveal the realities of navigating FDA approval processes, state-by-state regulations, and cultural taboos while building products that are literally … Read more

Riot Games found a motherboard security flaw that helps PC cheaters

Riot Games says a security flaw in many recent motherboards could be exploited by cheaters undetected, and now companies including Asrock, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI have released BIOS updates to address the issue. According to Riot, “had this issue gone unnoticed, it would have completely nullified all existing DMA detection and prevention tech currently on … Read more

Build and deploy scalable AI agents with NVIDIA NeMo, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands Agents

This post is co-written with Ranjit Rajan, Abdullahi Olaoye, and Abhishek Sawarkar from NVIDIA. AI’s next frontier isn’t merely smarter chat-based assistants, it’s autonomous agents that reason, plan, and execute across entire systems. But to accomplish this, enterprise developers need to move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that scale securely. This challenge grows as … Read more

Bi-directional streaming for real-time agent interactions now available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Building natural voice conversations with AI agents requires complex infrastructure and lots of code from engineering teams. Text-based agent interactions follow a turn-based pattern: a user sends a complete request, waits for the agent to process it, and receives a full response before continuing. Bi-directional streaming removes this constraint by establishing a persistent connection that … Read more

Inside Modern Code Review Research: Themes, Gaps, and Priorities

Table Of Links 1 INTRODUCTION 2 BACKGROUND AND RELATED WORK 3 RESEARCH DESIGN 4 MAPPING STUDY RESULTS 5 SURVEY RESULTS 6 COMPARING THE STATE-OF-THE-ART AND THE PRACTITIONERS’ PERCEPTIONS 7 DISCUSSION 8 CONCLUSIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES 8 CONCLUSIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In this paper, we conducted a systematic mapping study and a survey to provide an overview … Read more

Netflix snags Elle Duncan from ESPN to host live events

Netflix is bringing ESPN host Elle Duncan onboard to become the voice of its growing roster of live events. Duncan, who has appeared on SportsCenter, College GameDay, and WNBA Countdown, will make her debut on Netflix with next year’s Skyscraper Live broadcast. During the livestream, free solo climber Alex Honnold will attempt to ascend the … Read more

Why One Lock Isn’t Enough: How Buburuza Designs Multi-Layer Security for AI Banking

Buburuza COO Grygoriy Bakalor explains why AI banking security must go beyond single-layer encryption. With deepfake fraud surging and breaches eroding trust, banks need multi-layer, multi-agentic defenses that isolate threats, prevent insider risk, and protect users even from mistakes—delivering security that works invisibly but decisively when needed.

How Atlas Obscura plans to embrace the 3D web

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Atlas Obscura has been crowdsourcing strange and wonderful places from all around the world since its founding in 2009. To date, the site’s users and editorial staff have collected and … Read more