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It started, as these things do, with a shortcut I was certain would work. I’ve been building SwiftAgents, my Swift framework for talking to language models, and one of the local providers it supports is LM Studio — the app a lot of us reach for to run models on our own Macs. LM Studio recently grew support for the newer “Responses” API, the OpenAI-style endpoint that can remember a conversation for you. Instead of re-sending the whole chat history on every turn, you send only the new message plus a little breadcrumb — previous_response_id — that tells the server…

Apple announced iOS 27 at its annual WWDC with a load of new features. However, the developers are still putting the finishing touches on it and iOS 27 beta 2 brings several new features. One of them is Write with Siri, which will replace the standalone Writing Tools. A shortcut for Write with Siri will appear on your keyboard – it can not only write text based on your instructions, it can also proofread and rewrite text. A key improvement over the old Writing Tools is that this is fully integrated with Siri – this means that it can use…

You’ve invested the time. You’ve trained people. You’ve created teams. You’ve named product owners and scrum masters. You have a product backlog. You hold sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. By any reasonable outside measure, you are “doing Scrum.” And yet, you’re not getting the benefits you hoped for. Work is not reaching customers faster. Iteration is not happening as rapidly as expected. Quality is not improving much, if at all. Employees are not happier. Teams are frustrated. Work carries over from one sprint to the next. And people are starting to ask why they spend so much…

Not-yet-profitable AI companies are constructing a vast and expensive global network of server farms to support cloud-based generative AI (genAI) services. Deeply financed by venture capitalists who will one day want to see return on their investments, these centers are consuming enough memory to drive consumer technology prices higher and higher. Yet, for all the investment now going on, it’s inevitable that new on-device genAI models will emerge. When they do, the AI tasks for which you use cloud services today will be handled on device tomorrow. And at the speed we’re going, tomorrow is not very far away. We already…

Instagram is exploring new formats in an apparent effort to bring its platform to more TV users. The social network, which launched a TV app last year, says it’s going to experiment with longer-form content, episodic series, and Live TV. Instagram said it is exploring ways to bring longer-form videos, content spanning multiple episodes, and live creator experiences to its TV app. This follows news earlier this month that Meta is testing a new “Series” feature for Reels that’s designed to make it easier to keep up with serialized content on Instagram and Facebook. While Instagram has long been competing…

EchoStar Corporation, the parent company of DISH Network, Boost Mobile, Sling TV, and Hughes Network Systems, today announced that it will change its Nasdaq stock ticker symbol from “SATS” to “ECHO” to better represent the company’s expanding lines of business.EchoStar’s common stock will begin trading under the new ticker symbol “ECHO” on the Nasdaq effective June 24, 2026. The CUSIP number for the Company’s common stock is not affected by the stock symbol change.EchoStar’s LegacyEchoStar Communications Corporation was founded in 1980 selling C-band satellite dish systems to rural Americans. In 1995, after years of building a successful business, EchoStar opted…

Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy. That potential fueled excitement around the long-anticipated initial public offering of SpaceX. Investors are not simply betting on rockets anymore. They are betting on an entire orbital ecosystem. Among the most ambitious and challenging ideas riding this wave of enthusiasm is something that sounds almost like science fiction: orbital data centers. SpaceX may be one of the most well-known companies seeking to build them, but it is not the only one. The logic is seductive: Launch the data centers into orbit, where…

Noam Shazeer’s Move to OpenAI Tests How Frontier AI Labs Evaluate Talent and Risk Noam Shazeer spent twenty-two months back at Google after a $2.7 billion deal brought him home. On June 17, he announced his departure for OpenAI, and the exit raises a question heavier than any talent war: how much weight should an executive’s previous company carry into the next hire? A Resume Built on the Transformer Paper Shazeer ranks among the most consequential researchers in modern artificial intelligence. In 2017, he co-authored “Attention Is All You Need,” the paper introducing the transformer architecture now powering ChatGPT, Gemini,…

We are excited to announce our intent to acquire WideField Security Inc. WideField’s technology will be integrated into Splunk to boost the Agentic SOC capabilities by helping normalize and correlate identity, session, and activity telemetry from a variety of sources. This will enable Splunk to assemble context across human, non-human, and AI-agent activity, including signals from Cisco Identity Intelligence. The rapid deployment of AI agents, autonomous workloads, and non-human identities – all operating at machine speed – introduced a new class of security risk. Beyond unauthorized access, the challenge also includes authorized entities taking unsafe actions in the wrong context, which can cause significant…

Threat actors are increasingly turning massive infostealer-derived credential collections into searchable underground services, allowing buyers to request credentials for a specific company, platform, domain, geography, or account type. Flare researchers analyzed 470 underground forum posts published between January 2025 and June 2026, across different sources, related to actors offering to search for and extract stolen credentials from their databases. The dataset included advertisements, reposts, buyer feedback, pricing references, and disputes around quality and validity. The findings show a dedicated service layer sitting between infostealer infections, raw logs trading and account takeover activity. The profile of the threat actors who offer…