A new report details chaos inside the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The agency’s acting director allegedly failed a polygraph test, leading to a major internal standoff.
The AI boom is pushing rack power demands toward 1 megawatt, breaking traditional power infrastructure. The fix? A new wave of power semiconductors and radical designs like 800-volt DC systems and solid-state transformers.
According to a senior consultant, 2026 will see ransomware go mainstream against industrial systems, while solar panels and data centers become new cyber war targets. Meanwhile, the quantum decryption threat is looming closer, with a potential “Pandora’s Box” opening around 2027 or 2028.
Data centers are the defining infrastructure of our time, but they’re almost universally designed as bland, windowless warehouses. This boring architecture is a missed opportunity to counter their well-known negative impacts. Some firms are finally starting to explore better design.
An Irish engineering firm is betting on growth with a new, nearly zero-energy building. The expansion aims to boost its presence in domestic and international markets.
Apple, long an outlier, has laid off dozens of sales employees in a surprise move. It’s part of a broader trend where tech layoffs have become a standard tool, with over 700,000 cuts since 2022. The industry’s glamour is fading fast.
A growing industry is training executives on social media best practices, with roles like PayPal’s “Head of CEO Content” paying over $300k. But recent posts from leaders at Blockworks and Snowflake highlight how quickly a personal brand push can backfire, causing real business and legal headaches.
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to confirm a supernova from when the universe was only 730 million years old. Surprisingly, the ancient stellar explosion looks a lot like ones we see nearby today.
Hackers stole over 200 million PornHub user records for extortion. Meanwhile, a critical Cisco zero-day has been exploited for weeks, and two cybersecurity professionals have pleaded guilty to running their own ransomware scheme. The security landscape is getting messy.
YouTube’s podcast audience has exploded, reaching a billion monthly viewers. The real story is the massive growth happening on living room TVs, not phones.
