24 Billion Stolen Passwords in One Database: Inside the Industrial Infostealer Economy

In June 2026, researchers at Cybernews found a single, publicly exposed Elasticsearch database holding more than 24 billion stolen credential records — over 8.3 terabytes of usernames, email addresses, plaintext passwords, login URLs, and source tags. It was not a new breach. It was a consolidation: the aggregated output of years of infostealer infections, prior … Read more

Echovane Raises $1M to Run Market Research To Answer The Big Questions for P&G, Haleon & Kantar

Market research exists to make companies faster and the machinery of it has spent forty years making them slower. A single ambitious study at a consumer goods company can combine qualitative and quantitative methods, narrow participant criteria, observation, longitudinal fieldwork and multiple countries, all chained to a launch deadline, and running it means assembling a … Read more

Whose Memory Is It? Building Multi-Tenant, Multi-Tier Memory for AI Agents (Part 2)

This is a 4-part series on how agents remember: building short-, medium- and long-term memory that scales across users, agents, and kubernetes clusters. Alice and bob are talking to the same agents. Alice interacts with various agents for infra management. Bob interacts with various agents for app development. Both are able to build on learnings … Read more

YouTube is making it harder to earn money on YouTube

Starting February 1st, 2027, creators who want to monetize their channel through YouTube’s Partner Program (YPP) will need at least 1,000 subscribers and either 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year, or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days. That’s a sizeable jump from YouTube’s current requirement of 1,000 subscribers with … Read more