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When a leader asks for a set of features by a given date, that should be the start of a conversation, not the end of one. Too often, though, it gets treated as fixed. The leader says what they want and when they want it, leaving the team to figure out how to make it happen. If the work does not fit, the problem somehow becomes the team’s problem alone. That is not the best way to approach planning. Most leaders want more than can reasonably be achieved in the time available. That is not because they are unreasonable. It…

Android 17 is coming. Whether you care about it or not, the next major version of Google’s mobile OS is just around the corner, with no fewer than four public betas available if you own a Pixel 6 or later. The final version could arrive as soon as June. All signs suggest it’ll be an iterative update (no qualms here), but there are several features that I’m already enjoying: separate Wi-Fi and mobile data toggles in quick settings and the option to remove app labels finally coming to Pixel, plus a dedicated slider for virtual assistant (read: Gemini) volume. However,…

Almost all of the 20 U.S. state government-run health insurance marketplaces shared residents’ application information with advertising and tech giants, including Google, LinkedIn, Meta, and Snap, according to a new investigation by Bloomberg. The report drives home the privacy problems created by pixel-sized trackers, which allow website owners to collect information about their visitors, often for web analytics and identifying bugs. A common tool in digital advertising, these trackers also allow the collection of personal information if misconfigured and placed on websites that contain sensitive content, such as healthcare data. Per Bloomberg, New York’s health insurance exchange shared information with…

When she was a child, MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt would spend summers on her grandparents’ farm in rural Alabama outside Birmingham. The practical and cultural differences between farm and city life became more pronounced by comparison. “Life and the way we lived it slowed down on the farm,” she says. “It was a nice change of pace.” These days, Honeycutt, a double major in computation and cognition and linguistics, still finds herself moving between several worlds that are simultaneously connected and distinctly different. Her research interests lie at the intersection of human thinking and awareness, language learning and acquisition, technology, and social group…

For more than a decade, the internet has been operating under a quiet constraint: the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses.  Officially depleted in most regions since the early 2010s, IPv4 was expected to give way to IPv6 as the next standard for internet addressing. Yet, despite the urgency and the clear technical advantages of IPv6, adoption has been far slower and more uneven than many predicted. The reality is that IPv4 is not gone. It is still deeply embedded in the infrastructure of the internet, and the transition to IPv6 is proving to be less of a clean switch and more…

The following is an excerpt from Cisco’s FY25 Purpose Report. Explore the full report to learn more about how we Power an Inclusive Future for All. At Cisco, we see resilience as the ability to turn disruption into growth and innovation. Whether it’s responding to a crisis, building AI skills, or investing in nonprofit partners, our goal is to make people and places stronger for the future. Here’s how. Country Digital Acceleration This year, we celebrated 10 years of innovation, partnership, and impact. From powering AI in Saudi Arabia to driving autonomous vehicle innovation in Italy, Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program demonstrates…

On December 4, 2025, a 17-year-old was arrested in Osaka under Japan’s Unauthorized Access Prohibition Act. The young man had run malicious code to extract the personal data of over 7 million users of Kaikatsu Club, Japan’s largest internet cafe chain. When asked, the young man shared his motivation for the hack: he wanted to buy Pokémon cards. In a sense, this is a fairly conventional story. Since the 1990s, we’ve read about computing wunderkinds such as Kevin Mitnick, whose technical ability exceeded their judgment and who were drawn into high-profile cybercrimes in pursuit of status, profit, or excitement. But…

Over the last few years, a slew of solutions have entered the market that allows organizations to work with their own data and their partners without exposing it recklessly: clean rooms, trusted research environments, and tokenization. These advances support a shift toward collaborative intelligence, acknowledging that limiting data sources to what is available in-house inherently results in less representative and incomplete data.No single institution possesses all the data it needs. This poses a huge opportunity for highly-regulated industries like life sciences and financial institutions to work collaboratively. Diversifying datasets with partners is the rising tide that lifts all boats. Working…

Samsung Electronics today introduced Galaxy Book6 Enterprise Edition, the first Galaxy Book designed specifically for an enterprise environment. Powered by the latest Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3 processors with Intel vPro®,1 Galaxy Book6 Enterprise Edition combines the reliable performance, security and manageability required for modern enterprise environments. “Galaxy Book6 Enterprise Edition marks an important step in expanding the Galaxy Book series into enterprise computing,” said Andrew Chun, CVP & Head of B2B NPC Group, Mobile eXperience (MX) Business at Samsung Electronics. “We’re excited to bring the connected Galaxy experience to enterprise IT environments to help enable seamless workflows across devices…

Materials known as relaxor ferroelectrics have played an important role for decades in technologies such as ultrasound imaging, microphones, and sonar. Their unusual performance comes from the way atoms are arranged inside them. However, that internal structure has been extremely difficult to measure directly, leaving scientists to rely on incomplete models. Now, researchers from MIT and collaborating institutions have, for the first time, mapped the three dimensional atomic structure of a relaxor ferroelectric. Their results, to be published in Science, offer a clearer foundation for improving the models used to design future computing systems, energy devices, and advanced sensors. “Now…