Author: Carter

SPOILER ALERT: Jeff Booth does not know what the world will look like in 2036. I know, I know… You probably wanted to hear from Jeff — author of The Price of Tomorrow and someone with incredible foresight and vision — that all eight billion of us would be living in the type of abundance he often talks about on podcasts. You likely wanted to read that Jeff foresees Bitcoin replacing fiat by 2036 and that we’ll all be able to just kick back and relax as we enjoy living in a deflationary system by then. I, too, was slightly…

Security firm Sysdig says it has found what it believes is the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent. Its Threat Research Team calls the operator JADEPUFFER and says a large language model handled the whole job: breaking in, stealing credentials, moving deeper into the network, then encrypting and wiping a company’s production database. Ransomware has always needed a skilled person somewhere in the loop, either at the keyboard or writing the script the malware follows. If a model can chain those steps on its own, the skill needed to run an attack drops to whatever it…

[1] examined how powerful machine learning can look deceptively convincing when the evaluation setup is flawed. However, in spatial prediction problems, such as real estate applications involving capital gains estimation, rent forecasting, or price prediction, the problem does not end with fixing temporal leakage. Even when time is handled correctly, models can still appear far better than they really are if spatial dependence, repeated-asset structures, and uneven regional coverage are ignored. In these settings, the hardest part is often not fitting a flexible model, but designing an evaluation framework that tells us whether the model truly generalizes beyond the neighborhoods,…

Upgrading a Kubernetes control plane has long been a one way door. Open source Kubernetes doesn’t support control plane rollback, so once you upgrade, there’s no going back. The community is making real progress here, and KEP-4330 introduces emulated versions to ease rollback. But in practice this constraint has pushed organizations to build elaborate compensating mechanisms like bake periods, stagger groups, automated sign offs, and months long upgrade cycles. With Kubernetes releasing three minor versions per year, teams managing hundreds of clusters, especially in regulated environments, often delay upgrades entirely because they aren’t confident they can recover if something goes…

The 2026 Spring General Assembly of the FTTH Council Europe brought together industry leaders and stakeholders from its pan-European membership to set strategic priorities, renew the organisation’s leadership, and confirm a restructured Committee landscape reflecting the Council’s expanding scope. The General Assembly resulted in the composition of a new Board of Directors, including a new President, and the election of new Committee Chairs across both established and newly created Committees. The full list can be found at the end of this release. The newly elected Board of Directors appointed Stefano Fogli, Director Technology and Solutions at Adtran as new President. The…

As robotics continues to transform industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and agriculture, the demand for precise and energy-efficient motion control has never been greater. At the heart of many modern robotic systems are Brushless DC (BLDC) motors, known for their high efficiency, reliability, and long service life. However, the true performance of a BLDC motor depends heavily on its motor controller. A well-designed BLDC motor controller not only ensures accurate movement but also minimizes energy consumption, making it one of the most important components in any robotic system. Understanding BLDC Motors and Their Controllers Unlike traditional brushed DC motors,…

Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Their work spans the breadth of modern AI — robotics and embodied intelligence, large language models and reasoning, computer vision, generative modeling, AI safety, human-AI interaction, AI for science and healthcare, and much more. Along the way, they have published influential research, built systems with real-world impact, mentored their peers, and shaped the BAIR community for the better. Now they are headed everywhere…

In brief Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on June 30, revealing it as the model behind “Owl Alpha.” The anonymous Model had ranked first on Hermes Agent, second on Claude Code, and third on OpenClaw by call volume. Standard API pricing is $0.75 per million input tokens and $2.95 per million output tokens—well under GPT-5.5’s $5/$30 and Claude Sonnet 5’s introductory $2/$10. Chinese tech company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on June 30, confirming the open-license, 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model is the same system that spent two months running anonymously on OpenRouter under the alias Owl Alpha.Parameters are the total number of…

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware artifact generated using DeepSeek that constructed a novel attack path combining “unrealistic browser-malware concepts with a real browser capability” to turn it into a working ransomware technique that runs entirely inside the browser on both Windows and Android devices. “This is the first documented case where a frontier AI model independently bridged the gap between a theoretical browser-only ransomware risk and a practical, working attack chain – surfacing a novel attack path that defenders had previously dismissed as unfeasible due to browser sandboxing limits,” Check Point said in a statement shared with The…

A couple of months ago, I sat across from my nine-year-old daughter’s teachers at a parent-teacher conference. They were kind but concerned. She takes her time on assignments, they said, she’s often deep in thought. How would she do on timed tests next year? I told them I wasn’t worried. What they described as a problem is, to me, one of the most important things she can learn: the ability to take a hard problem and reason through it from beginning to end. In a world optimized for efficiency, qualities like patience, perseverance, and attention to detail are not deficiencies. They are the…