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For decades, the enterprise technology industry operated on a simple principle: software companies built products, and services firms helped enterprises implement, customize, and operate them. The relationship was highly complementary, but the businesses themselves remained largely separate. Today, however, the rise of agentic AI platforms is beginning to challenge that longstanding division. As enterprises move toward outcome-driven AI systems, we are witnessing a structural shift that is pulling software and services into a much deeper and more integrated relationship. The implications could reshape how technology is bought, sold, deployed, and monetized over the next decade. Why Software and Services Historically…

Hi readers! Shayla Love here, science journalist and longtime fan of Your Mileage May Vary. I’m honored to be subbing for Sigal while she’s out on parental leave. I’m diving into your questions as a way to help understand human nature and our choices through multiple lenses: philosophical, psychological, and beyond. Please send in any emotional, body/brain, sociological, perceptual, or other kind of life quandaries you might have.Being online is extremely stressful and unpleasant, and on days I don’t use Twitter, or Bluesky, or any other social media, I typically feel much better mentally — less stressed about the posts…

Contributed Article By Ferris Adi, Chief Information Security Officer, Trans Americas Fiber System Subsea cables have long been viewed as physical infrastructure, fiber on the ocean floor, landing stations, and cable ships. That view is no longer sufficient. Today’s subsea systems are defined less by steel and fiber, and more by the digital operating ecosystem that surrounds them. As these environments become more automated, remotely managed, and vendor-integrated, they are quietly transforming into critical cyber systems, and expanding the attack surface in ways many organizations have yet to fully recognize. The risk has shifted, but the narrative hasn’t Public discussion…

Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Their work spans the breadth of modern AI — robotics and embodied intelligence, large language models and reasoning, computer vision, generative modeling, AI safety, human-AI interaction, AI for science and healthcare, and much more. Along the way, they have published influential research, built systems with real-world impact, mentored their peers, and shaped the BAIR community for the better. Now they are headed everywhere…

Looking to model to implement pose estimation? I know something that can perform detection, instance segmentation, pose estimation and classification, all of that in real-time. Yes, I’m talking about the YOLO26 from ultralytics.  It can aid security systems or can be fine-tuned to detect even smaller objects. Wondering how to get started? No worries, we’ll cover the basics of YOLO and learn to perform inference using the model.   Background on YOLO YOLO (You Look Only Once) is a family of deep learning models used for computer vision tasks; the foundational logic is the use of localization and classification. In…

When I joined Amazon, Jeff had an idea: no team should be so large that it couldn’t be fed by two pizzas. In those early days, some teams were so small that one pizza would’ve been enough to get the job done. But it was never really about feeding hungry engineers. We could’ve just as easily said a “six sandwich team”, but sandwiches don’t evoke the same imagery as pizza. Pizza is what you order when you and your peers are crowded around the whiteboard late into the evening.We wanted to keep teams small enough so that everyone in the room…

A U.S. government entity paid about $1 million to keep stolen files from being leaked, according to a new case study by Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC, built on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left. The odd part: the group that took the money calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang at all. Krishnan found no sign that it ever locked a single machine: no encryptor, no locker, no demand for a decryption key. The threat was simpler. Steal the files, then charge the victim not to publish them. Krishnan does not name…

The numbers forecast for data center investment are the kind that stop a conversation before it starts. Capital spending on AI infrastructure is on track to surpass $1 trillion as soon as 2027 — the largest infrastructure buildout in U.S. history as a share of GDP since the Louisiana Purchase — and now exceeds annual investment in upstream oil and gas. Spending of this magnitude locks in assets for 20, 30, even 50 years. The window to shape these assets is narrow and closing. That was the premise behind the Sustainable AI Infrastructure Forum, a half-day, invitation-only working session we…

Posted by Tibian Elsheikh, Product Manager, Android Core Graphics and Jeffrey Jose, Product Manager, Android Core GraphicsWe’ve all been there: You’re scrolling through your favorite social media feed in a dim room, and suddenly an HDR video pops up. It’s so intensely bright that you have to squint, or maybe you find yourself turning down your screen brightness just to read the caption. Other times, a video that looks vibrant on your phone looks flat, dark, or washed out when you watch it on your living room TV. While High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology was designed to make videos look richer…

Part of the SD Times 100 2026 series. See the full SD Times 100 2026 list for every category and honoree. For most of software development’s history, engineering leaders have had remarkably poor visibility into the thing they’re actually responsible for managing: how engineering work actually flows, where it gets stuck, and whether investments in tooling, process, or headcount are paying off. Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) exists to close that gap, turning the exhaust data already generated by version control, project management, and CI/CD systems into genuine insight about engineering performance, health, and risk. The companies recognized in this year’s…