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An air-dominant, 3D-nanoprinted waveguide combines rapid molecular access with low-loss optical confinement, creating new possibilities for compact sensors and quantum photonic interfaces. Artistic illustration of the segmented on-chip hollow-core waveguide – the Photonic Scaffold – that includes ultrahigh cladding-openness fraction, allowing light guidance in an air-dominated geometry. Paper: Photonic scaffolds as ultrahigh-openness on-chip hollow-core waveguides for quantum photonics and optofluidics A recent study published in the journal Nature Communications introduced ‘Photonic Scaffolds’, a new class of open-membrane hollow-core optical waveguide featuring a cladding openness of up to 80%. Models predicted attenuation at or below 1 dB/mm at this openness, while experiments measured sub-1…

Google claims to have fixed the bug on Pixel 9 and Pixel 10 series phones in its July update, with the problem now listed as ‘Fixed’ on its IssueTracker. Pixel 8a and Pixel 9a owners, apparently, will need to wait until the September Quarterly Platform Release for their own fix. The Pixel 10, pre-battery drain bugChris Martin / Foundry Bug unsquashed However, it’s not certain that the bug has been squashed in quite the way it has been claimed. As Android Authority points out, there’s no specific mention of an idle battery drain issue being fixed in the July Pixel…

Silent Hill games have rarely ventured beyond the titular mysterious town in Maine, but that’s changing — first with last year’s Silent Hill f, set in 1960s Japan, and soon with Silent Hill: Townfall. Set in a sleepy Scottish port town, the upcoming game from studio Screen Burn Interactive, in partnership with Konami and Annapurna Interactive, pushes the boundaries of the franchise. I got to play a few hours of the game, and what I saw was an intimate horror tale of reality you can’t trust in a town you don’t remember. Silent Hill: Townfall, which will be released on…

Every agent you deploy expands your blast radius. A predictive model can produce a bad response, but an agent can act on it. Agents can retrieve sensitive data, change systems of record, trigger workflows, or pass errors to other agents. The risk is no longer just model quality. It is the authority an agent holds, the systems it can reach, and how quickly a failure can spread. Eliminating autonomy isn’t the answer. Autonomy without governance creates unmanaged risk. Governance that blocks autonomy creates stagnation. The goal is controlled autonomy: enough authority to create value, with behavior that remains bounded, observable,…

Modern organizations processing vast amounts of data on Amazon EMR with Apache Spark face a growing cost challenge. As the number of encrypted Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) objects grows, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) decrypt API calls multiply rapidly, driving up operational costs. Consider a retail organization processing hundreds of terabytes of customer transaction data daily in S3 encrypted with AWS KMS. Each Spark task accessing an encrypted S3 object triggers an AWS KMS decrypt API call. At scale, these calls accumulate into significant and often unexpected cost increases. This is especially true for workloads that require…

Agent security is becoming a systems problem A chatbot can give a bad answer. An agent can take a bad action. That difference changes the security model. Once an AI system can call tools, inspect repositories, query databases, open tickets, summarize internal documents, interact with APIs, or trigger workflow automation, the boundary is no longer just the model. The boundary includes permissions, tool design, application logic, data flow, logging, authorization, and the assumptions developers made when they connected everything together. The risk is not limited to strange model behavior; the risk is system behavior. An agent that reads untrusted content…

Google’s next flagship smartphones are almost here, but not everything you’ve read about the Pixel 11 carries the same weight. The tech giant has confirmed it will unveil the Pixel 11 lineup during its Made by Google event on Aug. 12. Ahead of that announcement, reporting from various outlets has helped fill in many of the remaining details. Some of that information comes directly from Google, while other details are based on reputable pre-launch reporting that has yet to be officially verified. Here’s what Google has confirmed, what credible reports suggest, and what remains unknown ahead of launch. Pixel 11…

Xcode 27 is probably Apple’s most significant IDE update in years, and it’s not just about a fresh coat of paint. This release introduces agentic coding, a unified Device Hub, and a redesigned workspace that fundamentally changes how you build apps. Whether you’re prototyping a new feature, debugging a performance issue, or localizing your app for global audiences, Xcode 27 has something that will speed up your workflow.In this tutorial, we’ll walk through every major feature in Xcode 27 and show you how to take advantage of them in your own projects. Let’s dive in.PrerequisitesTo follow along, make sure you…

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Imagine two startups building similar products. Both choose Claude Sonnet 5 and ask it to automate the processing of incoming customer requests. One month later, the first agent classifies inquiries, retrieves the right data, and completes tasks consistently. The second hallucinates missing details, loses track of the original request, and falls into a loop after two steps. The model is the same. The outcomes are not. This gap helps explain why AI projects fail even when teams start with a capable LLM. Gartner predicts that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027…