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The following article originally appeared on Markus Eisele’s newsletter, The Main Thread, and is being republished here with the author’s permission.There’s a mental model spreading through the developer community right now that goes something like this: Agents are smart enough to figure things out, so heavy upfront specification is bureaucratic overhead you don’t need anymore. Just describe the goal loosely, let the agent explore, and correct as you go. Fast. Flexible. Modern.It’s wrong. Not because agents aren’t capable—they often are—but because the accounting is off. You’re not eliminating cost. You’re deferring it, fragmenting it, and making it harder to see.Let’s…

2 The FCC faces a spectrum balancing act: strengthen GPS resilience without disrupting a thriving 900 MHz unlicensed ecosystem powering critical IoT, smart infrastructure, and billions in economic value across the U.S. Olivier Beaujard at Semtech explains how. The 902–928 MHz band is one of the most productive pieces of wireless spectrum in the United States. It powers hundreds of millions of devices that U.S. citizens and U.S. economy rely on every day – smart utility meters, home security sensors, supply chain RFID tags, agricultural monitors, and LoRaWAN IoT networks connecting cities, factories, militaries, and farms. The FCC now has…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips to reveal a half-dozen squirming red earthworms. There are likely hundreds of thousands more wriggling just under the surface. The worms and microbes are part of a “vermifiltration” system that cleans manure wastewater. The approach may dramatically cut methane, nitrous oxide, and water pollution. Vermifiltration is…

Imagine being unable to tell your doctor whether you’re in pain or running a fever. This is a reality for many people living with dementia — and it means doctors can struggle to make the right diagnosis, leading to delayed treatment.For people living with dementia, subtle changes such as sleep disruption, reduced movement and shifts in daily routine can signal meaningful changes in health. But when people living with dementia aren’t able to fill in the gaps themselves, capturing that data and making it useful for care providers can significantly improve outcomes. At the UK Dementia Research Institute Centre for…

A prompt injection attack can trick GitHub’s preview Agentic Workflows into retrieving content from private repositories and publishing it publicly, exposing a broader risk as enterprises deploy AI agents with privileged access to software development environments, according to new research from Noma Security. The AI security company detailed the attack, dubbed GitLost, in a blog post, saying an unauthenticated attacker could exploit GitHub’s preview Agentic Workflows by submitting a crafted GitHub issue to a public repository. If the AI agent has read access to private repositories within the same organization, it can retrieve sensitive information and publish it in a public…

Co-Authored by Cary Wright, Endace, VP Product Management Cisco Live AMER 2026 was the perfect place to put the Agentic SOC to work, protecting the attendees and conference infrastructure. We innovated by giving the Agentic SOC access to Endace’s always-on, full packet capture, and asked the agent to assess a potential SharpHound Recon attack that we had seen while threat hunting. Within minutes, the agent returned an accurate and descriptive assessment of the threat, concluding that it was a benign near miss. This saved us many hours of work, giving us confidence that the Agentic SOC will be a massive…

Finalists and winners from the 2026 Pump Industry Awards Entries have opened for the 2027 Pump Industry Awards, one of the UK’s longest-running pump industry recognition programmes, with nominations sought from companies, organisations and individuals in the sector. A new addition is an award celebrating prowess in pump maintenance and repair.   Organised with the support of the British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA), the awards recognise achievements in engineering excellence, innovation and business performance across the pump sector. Winners will be announced at the Pump Industry Awards Presentation Dinner, which is scheduled to take place on 11 March 2027 at the…

The PDA is dead. Long live the PDA! The quirky little personal digital assistants that were found stuffed in pockets and backpacks throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s met their demise at the hands of the smartphone. It’s no wonder why: a phone can do everything a PDA could and more, only better. However, after two decades of smartphones, people are increasingly seeing them as sources of distraction rather than productivity, weighed down by endless notifications, addictive social media feeds, and a constant demand for attention.Coding on the device (📷: Ashtf)This has led to an anachronistic resurgence of interest…

As companies old and new rush to capitalize on AI, many AI startups say that their revenue is not just growing, but rapidly accelerating, hitting their next milestones in shorter timeframes. The following list of startups have reported a pattern of such flywheel growth. One thing to note is that the underlying metrics used by these companies differ, even if they are using the term “ARR.” Some may be referring to annualized recurring revenue (ARR), or revenue under contract from a paying customer but not yet billed. Some are referring to annualized run-rate revenue, or projecting annual income by calculating…

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