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Nanoplastics research must embrace a chemistry‑led framework and integrate molecular‑level metrics to measure, classify, regulate, and mitigate environmental and health impacts. Within the broader context of global plastic pollution, nanoplastics have attracted increasing attention from the scientific community, policymakers, and, recently, the general public alike. Nanoplastics are typically formed through the fragmentation of larger plastic debris via mechanical, thermal, UV-mediated, and biological processes, resulting in highly heterogeneous particles with diverse sizes, shapes, and compositions. Unlike microplastics, nanoplastics exhibit size-dependent properties such as dominant Brownian motion, high surface-area-to-volume ratios, and enhanced interactions with natural colloids and biological systems1.The persistence of nanoplastics…

Typically, long-running agent workflows are AI-driven tasks that execute over extended periods, from minutes to days, often involving multiple steps, system interactions, pauses for human input, or recovery from interruptions before reaching completion. For such workloads, the runtime includes support for durable execution, allowing workflows to resume after outages or human approvals, along with secure sandboxing for isolating agent components, session consistency controls for distributed workflows, and connection recovery features intended to preserve execution state during network interruptions, Google wrote in a blog post. The runtime also supports “trajectory branching,” which allows developers to test alternate execution paths from saved…

Indonesia has blocked access to Polymarket after officials concluded that the prediction market platform operates as online gambling under national law. The Communication and Digital Affairs Ministry announced the move on Friday and said authorities are stepping up enforcement against digital betting services across the country. Officials argued that platforms allowing users to speculate on uncertain future events fall within Indonesia’s gambling restrictions, even when those services are tied to crypto assets or blockchain technology. The government will not allow any form of online gambling in Indonesia,” Alexander Sabar, the ministry’s director general of digital space supervision, told reporters in…

At any given time, technology does two things to employment: It replaces traditional jobs, and it creates new lines of work. Machines replace farmers, but enable, say, aeronautical engineers to exist. So, if tech creates new jobs, who gets them? How well do they pay? How long do new jobs remain new, before they become just another common task any worker can do?A new study of U.S. employment led by MIT labor economist David Autor sheds light on all these matters. In the postwar U.S., as Autor and his colleagues show in granular detail, new forms of work have tended…

No AI Alliance Should Be Treated as Permanent: The Microsoft-OpenAI Lesson For three years, enterprise AI strategy had a reliable blueprint: OpenAI models, Azure infrastructure, and Microsoft productivity tooling built around the pair. In April 2026, Microsoft and OpenAI rewrote their landmark deal into a non-exclusive arrangement. Every CIO who built around that stack now has a different set of decisions to make.What the April 2026 Restructuring Actually ChangedMicrosoft and OpenAI announced the revised agreement in late April 2026, altering several core terms of their original partnership. Microsoft retains a non-exclusive license to OpenAI intellectual property through 2032. OpenAI can now…

Infrastructure strategies are being pushed to a breaking point. Data is growing exponentially. Workloads are becoming more distributed. And organizations expect consistent performance regardless of where applications run. Yet many are still relying on fragmented storage architectures that were never designed for this reality. At Cisco, this isn’t a new challenge. We’ve long focused on driving IT efficiency by breaking down silos through innovations like unified fabrics and unified communications, helping organizations simplify infrastructure and free IT teams to focus on strategic innovation rather than managing infrastructure sprawl. That same approach now extends to data. Customers are moving toward unified…

The FBI is warning about the Kali365 phishing-as-a-service platform (PhaaS) that is used to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing OAuth device code authentication to steal session tokens and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). According to the FBI PSA, Kali365 first emerged in April 2026 and is distributed via Telegram channels for cybercriminals seeking an easier way to compromise Microsoft 365 accounts without stealing passwords or intercepting MFA codes.  The platform uses device code phishing, an increasingly popular method that abuses Microsoft’s legitimate OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization grant flow to gain access to Microsoft Entra and Microsoft 365 accounts. This authentication method…

TORONTO — “Build Canada Strong” is a central mantra of the federal government’s plans to bolster Canada’s economy in a rapidly changing world, with new housing and infrastructure key to Canada’s nation-building efforts. But all this construction poses a problem: the production of building materials can be a huge source of emissions. Thankfully, there are solutions that can reduce this downside, at little or no extra cost—while also supporting Canadian industry, as a new report, Build Canada Clean, from Clean Energy Canada reveals.The report, which features case studies from across the country—from apartment buildings to roads to wastewater facilities—finds that lower-carbon…

As the cybersecurity landscape rapidly evolves, driven by groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), Cisco is adapting its vulnerability disclosure practices to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by these technologies. Notably, the recent introduction of frontier models with advanced cybersecurity reasoning capabilities is transforming how vulnerabilities are discovered, analyzed, and mitigated. These AI capabilities enable unprecedented speed and scale in identifying security issues, while also allowing network defenders to continuously evolve to address emerging threats. Cisco recognizes that network infrastructure is critical, and demands for availability are unrelenting. The AI evolution puts pressure on defenders to absorb and deploy…

Shimul Sood / Android AuthorityTL;DR A YouTube Music bug is preventing users from playing the Next track. While the bug mostly affects iOS users, there is at least one report from an Android user reporting a similar issue. The fix for the problem seems laughably simple, though. YouTube Music has been highly rated in many Android Authority surveys, both individually as the preferred music streaming service and as the best Spotify alternative. Its popularity stems from several factors: it’s bundled with YouTube Premium, works across platforms and devices (except Amazon Echo), and lets you play unofficial renditions and covers alongside…