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Campari has launched the 14th annual Negroni Week, a promotional campaign that runs at thousands of participating bars and restaurants nationwide to celebrate the classic bitter cocktail. The company tapped 'The Traitors' host Alan Cumming to front this year's 'stay bitter' campaign, linking the drink's signature bite to the show's dramatic eliminations.
An investigation involving over 45 interviews with officials, Border Patrol agents, medical examiners and tech workers found that Anduril's AI-powered surveillance towers along the US-Mexico border are both failing to detect migrants and, when detections do occur, agents are failing to respond in time. Anduril says CBP operates the towers post-delivery and that surveillance range depends on terrain and privacy-related boundaries CBP itself sets.
Bitcoin surged past $85,000 on Monday morning, hitting an intraday high of $85,229 before settling near $84,256, a gain of roughly 3.8% on the day. The move extends a multi-day rally that has pushed the token up more than 7% over five days and nearly 35% over three months, though it remains far below its October peak above $126,000.
A new app called ZuckOff scans nearby Bluetooth signals to alert users when smart camera glasses like Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, or Snap Spectacles are in the vicinity. The app processes everything locally on the phone, requires no account, and lets users log all detected devices, mark their own glasses to silence alerts, and export scan history as CSV. It also sells branded merchandise through Fourthwall to help fund development.
Australia's government is considering banning camera-equipped smart glasses from public workplaces, a move Reuters says would be the first of its kind. Separately, more than 70 plaintiffs have filed an amended class-action lawsuit against Meta in a California federal court, alleging its smart glasses recorded intimate moments—including bathroom and bedroom footage—without users' knowledge, which was then reviewed by contractors in Kenya training Meta's AI.
Evite CEO David Yeom recounts that his career began not with strategy or glamour, but with three straight days operating a copy machine at his first job. He says the mundane task taught him foundational lessons about discipline and persistence that he still applies as a chief executive.
The FBI published CJIS Security Policy version 6.1 on June 25, 2026, refining the modernized control-based framework introduced in v6.0 last December. The update raises required encryption key strength from 128-bit to 256-bit for CJI both in transit and at rest, and increases mandatory vulnerability scanning frequency from quarterly to monthly.
WIRED polled 634 women working in the technology industry about their daily experiences, gathering candid feedback on workplace culture and emerging tools. Respondents described ongoing friction with male-dominated office dynamics even as executives increasingly integrate AI into their routines.
Certified refurbished electronics, ranging from laptops to networking gear, can offer substantial savings for professionals building out a workspace, often at 40% to 60% below retail prices. The savings come without meaningfully sacrificing performance, provided buyers know which categories of hardware hold up well after refurbishment and which don't.
A technical blog post (originally from 2018) revisits a classic question about neural network training: why does the backpropagation algorithm invented by Rumelhart et al. in 1986 compute gradients by propagating errors backward through the network rather than forward, given that both directions are mathematically valid applications of the chain rule. The author walks through the notation and structure of a neural network node to set up an explanation of why forward-mode differentiation is computationally suboptimal compared to the standard backward approach.
Apple introduced iPhone Handoff, a new iOS 27 capability that lets a single phone number and carrier account work across two iPhones simultaneously. Users simply unlock whichever iPhone they want to use, and calls, texts, saved payment cards and most apps sync automatically without needing separate accounts on each device.
Biochemist Anna Pertl at the Whitehead Institute prompted an AI system called Co-Scientist to generate novel strategies for disrupting molecular condensates that fuel the cancer-driving protein MYC. Unlike a simple chatbot, the tool deploys multiple autonomous agents that search literature, debate competing explanations, and iteratively refine hypotheses before returning results, a process that can take hours. The work builds on prior findings by her supervisor Richard Young, whose lab showed cancer cells hijack condensates at super-enhancers to overproduce MYC, research now being pursued commercially through his company Dewpoint Therapeutics.