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# Introduction The typical data scientist devotes approximately 45% of their work hours to data cleaning and preparation — not to modeling, not to generating insights, and not to tasks that demand real judgment. This figure keeps surfacing in industry surveys because it remains stubbornly accurate. The activities consuming that time — profiling columns, identifying null values, running the same exploratory data analysis (EDA) scripts, searching through hyperparameter grids, and writing identical monitoring checks — are predictable enough to follow well-defined rules. That predictability is exactly what makes them suitable for agent-driven automation. Agentic workflows don’t eliminate the role of…

# Adjusting Language Models on Apple Silicon Using MLX Adjusting a language model to your needs once meant paying for cloud GPU time and watching costs climb. If you have a Mac running an Apple Silicon chip, you can now tailor an open model to your own information right on your device, with no cloud expenses and without any of your data leaving your machine. My journey away from Windows and Dell computers to Mac began in 2014, and I haven’t regretted it since. What began as interest in a neater operating system grew into a genuine admiration for how…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The views and insights shared are solely his and might not align with those of Decrypt. Also, don’t forget to tune into our fresh daily podcast, which breaks down the biggest headlines in just 5 minutes—grab it on Apple Pod or Spotify.GM!Today’s top stories: Leading cryptocurrencies are in the red, falling 1-5%, SOL takes the lead; BTC sits at $59.5k Strategy’s STRC plunges to a new low of $73; MSTR drops to $84 Following ETH’s drop, Tether’s USDT overtakes ETH in FDV, becoming the second-largest token Kraken aims for a…

A newly identified cyberattack operation has been spotted distributing a previously unknown malware family known as SharkLoader. This malware functions as a loader, designed to deliver Cobalt Strike Beacon onto infected machines. Kaspersky, tracking the operation under the name StrikeShark, reported that the campaign has focused on a diplomatic body in Indonesia, government agencies in Taiwan, software development firms spanning several countries, and various other organizations based in Hong Kong, Lebanon, Syria, Colombia, North Macedonia, Nepal, and Serbia. “The victim profile indicates an operation with a wide geographic scope and a broad range of targets, rather than a concentrated focus…

Published on June 26, 2026 by Sascha Grunert (Red Hat) CNCF projects featured in this article Linux offers robust kernel-level security features—seccomp, SELinux, and AppArmor—that limit what containerized workloads are allowed to do. Each of these relies on profiles that define acceptable behavior, but manually authoring, distributing, and maintaining those profiles is both tedious and prone to mistakes. The Security Profiles Operator (SPO) addresses this challenge by enabling you to manage security profiles as Kubernetes custom resources, capture profiles from running workloads, and attach them to pods using declarative configuration. With v1.0.0, the Security Profiles Operator promotes all eight of…

Lance Whitney/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Whenever I’m snapping photos with my iPhone, I occasionally spot an animal, plant, landmark, painting, or some other object that piques my curiosity. In those situations, I want a fast way to learn more about what I’m looking at. Fortunately, that’s now something I can do effortlessly thanks to the new Siri mode built into the iOS 27 Camera app.Also: I put Siri AI through the same tests I use for ChatGPT and Gemini on MacOS 27 — here’s how it performedRight now offered as part of the iOS 27…

Sjvn/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Top points from ZDNETNations across the globe are looking to reduce their dependence on American technology firms.Open source serves as the foundation for achieving digital independence.The US is against the push for digital sovereignty, though this stance finds little support beyond its borders.NEW YORK – During the United Nations Open Source Week, the idea of digital sovereignty shifted from being a mere policy catchphrase to becoming a concrete action plan. Ministers and technology experts spanning Germany, Ireland, Morocco, Tanzania, and numerous other nations detailed how open source, interoperability, and open AI…

Perplexity launched Computer for Counsel. It is an agentic AI system built for legal teams. The product extends Perplexity Computer, the company’s LLM-agnostic agentic system. It is available now to Perplexity Enterprise and Max subscribers. Lawyers lose hours to administrative work. Computer for Counsel targets that work directly. Nearly 75% of lawyers call administrative tasks a major time challenge, a Thomson Reuters survey found. The story is mostly architectural. It is an orchestration layer wired into the tools lawyers already use. TL;DR Perplexity launched Computer for Counsel on June 24, 2026, for Enterprise and Max subscribers. It routes 20+ frontier…

This week, CryptoQuant — a firm specializing in cryptocurrency data analysis — pushed back against the dominant narrative surrounding Michael Saylor’s Strategy, calling on the company to halt Bitcoin acquisitions and instead rebuild its cash buffer. The advisory came after Strategy’s dividend coverage window shrank dramatically, from approximately seven years down to a mere 14 months.Strategy isn’t on the brink of a liquidity crisis just yet, but CryptoQuant’s alert draws attention to the financial architecture underpinning its Bitcoin ambitions. As cash reserves dwindle and dividend commitments mount, Strategy’s capacity to keep fueling new purchases is coming under sharper examination.In other…

SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news digest provides a brief yet insightful summary of significant stories that might not warrant detailed individual reporting but are crucial for understanding the wider cyber risk landscape. This handpicked collection spotlights major developments spanning vulnerability disclosures, novel attack techniques, regulatory shifts, industry research, and other notable occurrences — all aimed at helping readers maintain a comprehensive perspective on the ever-changing state of cybersecurity. Below are the week’s top stories: Russia deployed Celexploit tools to crack activist’s smartphone A Citizen Lab investigation revealed that Russian officials successfully used UFED tools from the surveillance vendor Cellebrite to compromise…