Author: Carter

No, It’s Not the “Easy” Round in on interviews at my previous company, I used to think the behavioral part of the interview was the easy part. That if someone was technically proficient and could wow the interviewers with their analytical mind, they’d be the top contender for any job. Then I witnessed a highly technically skilled applicant lose out to a more socially competent one. Not because he lacked experience. He had done good work, and he obviously knew what he was doing. He just had no idea how to tell us about what he’d done in a way…

With Bitcoin plunging below $60,000 and Strategy’s share price down by more than 70% from the high, some crypto investors are questioning if Strategy could become this cycle’s Terra/LUNA — a highly leveraged bet on crypto market structure that explodes under stress.The company’s response? A new capital framework released on Monday aimed at addressing investors’ fears.The package includes up to $1 billion in buybacks for MSTR, up to $1 billion in buybacks for STRC and related securities, an increase in STRC’s dividend to roughly 12%, and a cash buffer expansion to $2.55 billion. Of particular note for a company famed…

New Microsoft research shows how attackers can hijack AI agents that act on a user’s behalf, using nothing more than a poisoned tool description to make the agent quietly hand over company data to an outsider. The trick is that the agent never breaks a rule. Every step looks routine, so in a default setup no alarm may fire. The work comes from Microsoft Incident Response and its Defender security research team, and it lands as companies start letting AI do more than read and summarize. What changes when an agent can act Until recently, the workplace AI risk was mostly framed…

companion to Enterprise Document Intelligence, a series whose stance is that enterprise RAG amplifies the expert, it does not replace them. The architecture follows from that: four bricks (document parsing, question parsing, retrieval, generation), each emitting typed pieces that converge on one LLM call. The industry now calls that practice context engineering. Scope here is the single-document case; corpus, conversation, and tool-call extensions are follow-up work. where this article sits in the series: Article 7bis (context engineering), the reframing companion to the four bricks – Image by author 📓 Runnable notebooks are on GitHub: doc-intel/notebooks-vol1. The public companion-code repo at…

Today, we’re announcing AWS CloudFormation Express mode, a new deployment mode that accelerates deployments for developers and AI tools iterating on infrastructure. Express mode accelerates deployments by completing when CloudFormation confirms resource configuration is applied, rather than waiting for extended stabilization checks. This reduces deployment time by up to 4 times for iterative development workflows and production scenarios. How it works Every CloudFormation deployment performs stabilization checks after resource configuration is applied. These checks serve an important purpose when you need to confirm resources can serve traffic before shifting load. However, many workflows do not require full stabilization to proceed. Express…

By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News.Berg Insight expects the installed base of fleet management systems in Latin America to reach 20.6 million units by 2030, pointing to a larger addressable market for telematics connectivity, platforms and lifecycle services across the region.Fleet management in Latin America is often discussed in terms of hardware adoption, but the more important signal for the IoT ecosystem is the size of the active installed base. Devices already deployed in vehicles generate recurring demand for cellular connectivity, cloud platforms, integrations, support, upgrades and data-driven services long after the initial sale.That is why Berg…

By integrating reinforcement learning with high-fidelity physics-based simulation, morph said it enables a faster translation from concept to product. | Source: morph As advances in AI have made robots smarter and more capable, some developers are increasingly focusing solely on the software element of intelligence. Robotics startup morph is taking a different approach, one that sees embodied AI as both a hardware and a software problem. The London-based company embeds sensing and adaptive control directly into reconfigurable deformable materials, enabling real‑time change in morphology and stiffness. The result is soft cells that developers can integrate into a range of robots. “We’re…

Linq developers can now build iMessage Apps. These are interactive mini-apps that run inside a iMessages conversation. A user can shop, play a game, book a flight, or pay. None of it requires leaving the iMessage thread. There is no deep link to an external browser. There is no ‘tap here to finish in the app.’ Previously, an agent’s main API option was to send a link. The user then had to follow it somewhere else. iMessage Apps remove that handoff. TL;DR Linq’s new imessage_app part renders tappable, interactive cards directly inside an iMessage thread. One card handles full workflows:…

President Donald Trump holds more than $50 million in Bitcoin, stored in cold wallets, according to his 2025 annual financial disclosure released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. The filing is a detailed federal accounting of the president’s personal crypto position since he took office in January 2025. In total, Trump reported generating more than $1 billion in crypto-related revenue last year, including $635 million in royalties from his memecoin venture and more than $500 million from token sales associated with World Liberty Financial. The headline figure of over $50 million sits in a single line of the report.…

Bash (Bourne Again SHell), the 1989 GNU rewrite of the original Linux Bourne Shell, can still cause problems more than three decades later through its Bash Tricks. Adversa AI has discovered a structural security flaw in multiple open source AI agents. It’s not a specific bug but a process that can get malicious Bash instructions ingested into the agent, and from there into whatever the agent does – typically with the operator’s approval. Adversa calls this structural issue GuardFall. “We tested eleven popular open source agents, including Hermes, OpenCode, Roo-code, and others,” explains Omer Ben Simon, lead researcher at Adversa…