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Ring is switching its default video encryption to a new scheme called TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption), which temporarily decrypts footage in the cloud to power AI features like Smart Alerts before deleting the keys within 24 hours. The standard, built on the IETF's Messaging Layer Security protocol, will roll out globally starting in September, though users can still opt for full end-to-end encryption instead.
Qisutu, a self-hosted, open-source help desk and ticketing platform built with Perl/CGI, MariaDB/MySQL and Template Toolkit, has reached version 1.0.2, marking its first stable, production-ready release. The software includes an agent and customer portal, email handling, directory login, automation, a knowledge base, CMDB, reporting and a REST API, and ships with eleven complete interface languages including English, German, French and Spanish. Installation is done via a shell script that sets up a dedicated system user and lets administrators pick their interface language during setup.
Nintendo will raise the price of its base 256GB Switch 2 console from $449.99 to $499.99 beginning next Tuesday, September 1st. The company had previously announced the increase, and it also recently unveiled two game bundles priced above $500 that include a slight discount.
New tracking data shows gas-fired power capacity under development in the United States has surged past China's, reaching roughly three times the amount, driven largely by data center demand. The volume of U.S. gas power projects tied to data centers nearly doubled in just the first half of 2026.
According to data reported to French telecom regulator Arcep as of December 31, 2025, fiber-to-the-home (FttH) networks now reach 94.9% of premises across France. The regulator's interactive map lets users check deployment status by commune and even by individual address when zoomed in at the neighborhood level.
Andrew Ng, founder of Coursera and a Stanford lecturer, analyzed over 10,000 job postings and interviewed AI experts, hiring managers and recruiters to compile a list of four core skills needed for AI development careers, including building AI applications with LLMs and agentic workflows, plus solid software engineering fundamentals. Some industry observers argue his list leans too heavily on technical building skills and overlooks other necessary competencies.
Marketing firm Vital Design saw organic blog traffic drop 60% as AI search tools rose, yet its sales-ready leads held steady or grew. The company credits a strategy called answer engine optimization (AEO), which aims to get AI chatbots to recommend a business during a customer's research phase before they ever visit a website.
Outdoor gear maker Arc'teryx is beginning a company-wide redesign effort aimed at making every product it manufactures fully recyclable, starting with one of its most technically complex hard shell jackets. The initiative is being framed as a multiyear circularity program rather than a single product launch.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch revealed she spent her first week back from the 10-day Artemis II lunar mission journaling about the experience while deliberately avoiding any mission photos. She wanted to capture her memories as they actually felt before the widely shared images could reshape them. Koch, along with commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and specialist Jeremy Hansen, completed the farthest human trip around the moon in over 50 years in early April.
Devine and the author, working on Uxn tooling, have been reworking POP-2—a 1970s programming language from the Lisp era—into a new dialect called Pop-2000 meant to serve as a common language across minimal, bootstrap-friendly systems. The project stems from Devine's search for a high-level language to write a new Uxn assembler, paired with the author's long-standing interest in designing 'tiny compilers' that are easy to implement with little tooling.
NASA and industry engineers have outlined a synchronal bimodal nuclear rocket concept that pairs nuclear thermal propulsion with electric power generation using a single reactor and two separate fluid loops. The design avoids the complicated mode-switching valves of earlier bimodal reactor concepts while still delivering high thrust and steady electric power for spacecraft systems. Researchers say the approach could cut crewed Mars transit time from roughly 620 days down to 335 days or fewer.
Businesses are increasingly asking to automate workflows or build apps and agents using no-code tools, driven by how easy it now is to spin up software. Yet many teams jump into building without first mapping requirements, ownership or long-term maintenance needs.