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Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

4 min read If you are building an application, you rely on email to communicate with your users. You validate their signup, notify them about events, and send them invoices through email. The service continues to find new purpose with agentic workflows and other AI-powered tools that rely on a simple email as an input or output. And it is a pain for developers to manage. It’s frequently the most annoying burden for most teams. Developers deserve a solution that is simple, reliable, and deeply

Can you trust cloud storage services in 2025? My verdict after testing fan favorites

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The best way to prevent data loss is to back up your files onto a cloud storage service. On top of safeguarding documents and photos, you can access content across multiple devices. I explain key terms, compare popular services, and even recommend third-party options. One of the most important (and harshest) lessons I've learned as a tech writer is to always back up your files. Sooner or later, the

Why a good cloud service is non-negotiable in 2025 - and 7 I actually trust

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The best way to prevent data loss is to back up your files onto a cloud storage service. On top of safeguarding documents and photos, you can access content across multiple devices. In this guide, I explain key terms, compare popular services, and even recommend third-party options, among other things. One of the most important (and harshest) lessons I've learned as a tech writer is to always back u

Waymo for Business

We're introducing Waymo for Business and inviting organizations to sign up to explore the benefits of our fully autonomous ride-hailing service. After conducting successful pilots with a variety of organizations, we're ready to partner with more employers, universities, and event organizers to help streamline their transportation needs. With over a million trips every month, Waymo has become the go-to mobility option for many people in our service areas. In fact, nearly 1 in 6 of our local ride

Waymo is launching a new service for business travelers

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Waymo is standing on business. The robotaxi operator is launching a new service called Waymo for Business, aimed at companies that may want to set up Waymo accounts for their employees en masse. This new service allows employers to man

The Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server

We are excited to announce the public release of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. This release marks a major milestone in making all of Data Commons’ vast and interconnected public datasets instantly accessible and actionable for AI developers, data scientists and organizations worldwide. This capability further supports the larger ambition of Data Commons: using real-world statistical information as an anchor to help reduce Large Language Model (LLM) hallucinations. Benefi

Best Vegan Meal Delivery Services for 2025, Tested by CNET's Own Plant-Based Eater

When trying to find a vegan meal delivery service, several factors should be considered to find your perfect fit. Prepared meals versus meal kits: Prepared meals come ready to heat in the microwave or in a pan on the stovetop. Meal kits, on the other hand, provide all the ingredients and instructions you’ll need to prepare the meals yourself. Though prepared meals are easier and take less time, meal kits may be good for those who like cooking or want to learn to cook. Fresh versus frozen: On t

Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI — and training pipelines will love it

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to access real-world statistics using natural language and better train AI systems. Launched in 2018, Google’s Data Commons organizes public datasets from a range of sources, including government surveys, local administrative data, and statistics from global bodies such as the United Nations. With the rel

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Waymo is getting into the corporate travel business

Waymo’s ever-expanding robotaxi aspirations have spread to the corporate world. The Alphabet-owned self-driving vehicle unit has launched “Waymo for Business,” a new service designed for companies to set up accounts so their employees can access robotaxis in cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco. Waymo announced Wednesday in a blog post it is inviting organizations to sign up for Waymo for Business. The new a service will let businesses subsidize their employees’ rides or purchas

‘Marvel Zombies’ Has Plenty of Blood, but No Heart

After a relatively quiet 2024 with a small handful of projects, 2025 has seen Marvel release nearly 10 shows and films. Its penultimate project for the year is Marvel Zombies, based on the recurring comics metaseries first created by Robert Kirkman, Greg Land, Sean Phillips, and Mark Millar in 2005. Spinning out of the zombie-focused episode of Marvel’s What If…?, the series is set in an alternate version of the MCU where the world’s gone to hell after being ravaged by the undead. Most of the o

Bluesky down for some, with frozen feeds or error messages

Social media app Bluesky is down for some users. Some are reporting that their feed appears to be frozen with only older posts appearing, while others are seeing an error message … Based on reports at Downdetector, the problems first started around 5am ET and have been building since then. At the time of writing, the company’s status page shows that everything is fine, nothing to see here, but it’s not unusual for companies – including Apple – to take time to acknowledge issues. The Verge’s Do

The best WordPress hosting services of 2025: Expert tested

Many websites now use a content management system (CMS) for backend management. You don't need to know any coding -- such as HTML or CSS -- to build or operate a website these days. WordPress is one of the most popular options around, according to W3Techs, around 61% of all websites with a known CMS using the service. The CMS is free and popular due to its ease of use, allowing for quick launch without requiring any technical knowledge. WordPress is also often offered as a one-click installatio

My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

Hello, I am a guy that makes a funny rhythm game called Project Heartbeat. I'm based in Spain. Recently, I got a home server, and decided to throw in a status report software on it that would notify me through a telegram channel whenever my game's server is unreachable. Ever since then I've noticed my game's server is seemingly unplayable at times, which was strange because as far as I could tell the server was fine, and I could even see it accepting requests in the log. Then it hit me: I use

Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

Servers running on motherboards sold by Supermicro contain high-severity vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to remotely install malicious firmware that runs even before the operating system, making infections impossible to detect or remove without unusual protections in place. One of the two vulnerabilities is the result of an incomplete patch Supermicro released in January, said Alex Matrosov, founder and CEO of Binarly, the security firm that discovered it. He said that the insufficient f

Why you need a cloud service in 2025 (and the 7 best I've used)

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The best way to prevent data loss is to back up your files onto a cloud storage service. On top of safeguarding documents and photos, you can access content across multiple devices. In this guide, I explain key terms, compare popular services, and even recommend third-party options, among other things. One of the most important (and harshest) lessons I've learned as a tech writer is to always back u

Building a better online editor for TypeScript

Val Town makes it easy to ship TypeScript automations and applications to the internet via an integrated web editor experience. We strive to offer a magical tight feedback loop, with 100ms deploys on save. That online editor experience should be great: we should support high-quality highlighting, autocompletion, information for when you hover over bits of code. But unfortunately it hasn't been so: our previous editor has been buggy and slow to give useful TypeScript feedback. But now, we've re

Discover Agatha Harkness’ Secrets in This Magical New Marvel Tome

Marvel magic arrives in a fun tome inspired by Agatha Harkness. This Halloween you’ll be able to dive into the mind of the comic book and Marvel Television icon (played by Kathryn Hahn on WandaVision and Agatha All Along) in The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness: A Magical History and Spellbook—and we’ve got an early look inside. Insight Editions gave io9 a special preview of the book, which delves into the journals kept by Harkness, left behind by the mighty magician to garner annotations from two o

Internet Data Caps Explained: How to Avoid Overages and Find Unlimited Plans

Many of us have signed up for an unlimited internet plan, thinking we'd never have to worry about running out of data. While the wording on the plan might suggest worry-free 4K video streaming and limitless game downloads, unlimited often comes with asterisks and conditions. Many unlimited plans hide restrictions behind fair use policies that can significantly hamper your online experience. Data caps, monthly limits on how much data can be downloaded or uploaded, are at the center of this confus

‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say

The recent discovery of a sprawling SIM farm operation in the New York City area has revealed how these facilities, typically used by cybercriminals to flood phones with spam calls and texts, have grown large enough that the US government is warning it could have been used not just for crime, but large-scale disruption of critical infrastructure. On Tuesday morning, the US Secret Service revealed that it had found a collection of facilities across the “New York tristate area” holding more than

Permeable materials in homes act as sponges for harmful chemicals: study

Scientists injected volatile organic compounds into a test house and found large reservoirs for the potentially hazardous chemicals in porous surfaces such as wood, concrete and paint. VOCs contained in insecticides, cigarette smoke and wildfire smoke can remain on indoor surfaces for as long as one year. Irvine, Calif., Sept. 22, 2025 — Indoor surfaces have an unexpectedly strong ability to absorb and hold harmful chemical compounds that can threaten human health for as long as a year, accord

Figma made its design tools more accessible to AI agents

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Figma is launching some new updates that allow AI models to directly communicate with its app-building tool and access designs remotely. Figma’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) server — a bridge that enables AI models to tap directly into the code behind pr

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Tesla’s robotaxi push is confusing the hell out of regulators

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For a company that’s staking its future on AI and robotics, Tesla sure is having a tough time explaining its technology to government regulators. The company’s efforts to launch a robotaxi service in San Francisco, which isn’t actually

The Secret Service seized a network capable of shutting down New York City's cell service

The Secret Service says it thwarted a telecommunications cyber-op in New York City. On Tuesday, the agency announced that it seized a network of SIM servers. It was capable of jamming cell towers, conducting DDoS attacks and enabling encrypted communications. The discovery came ahead of world leaders gathering for the UN General Assembly this week. The network, reportedly discovered in August, was extensive and sophisticated. It included over 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multipl

US uncovers 100,000 SIM cards that could have “shut down” NYC cell network

The US Secret Service announced this morning that it has located and seized a cache of telecom devices large enough to "shut down the cellular network in New York City." And it believes a nation-state is responsible. According to the agency, "more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards" were discovered at multiple locations within the New York City area. Photos of the seized gear show what appear to be "SIM boxes" bristling with antennas and stuffed with SIM cards, then stacked o

CISA says hackers breached federal agency using GeoServer exploit

CISA has revealed that attackers breached the network of an unnamed U.S. federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agency last year after compromising an unpatched GeoServer instance. The security bug (tracked as CVE-2024-36401) is a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability patched on June 18, 2024. CISA added the flaw to its catalog of actively exploited vulnerabilities roughly one month later, after multiple security researchers shared proof-of-concept exploits online [1, 2, 3], demo

Secret Service dismantles network capable of shutting down cell service in New York

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The US Secret Service says it has disrupted a network of devices used to carry out assassination threats against US officials and for anonymous communications between threat actors, according to a report from NBC News. In the Tuesday announcement, the agency rev

The Secret Service found 300 servers capable of crippling NYC's cell system

Federal agencies See all topics Follow On Christmas Day 2023, a man called the suicide prevention hotline claiming he had shot his girlfriend and threatening to kill himself. Police barreled toward the address but turned around once before they arrived. It was a hoax – a swatting call at Marjorie Taylor Greene’s residence. Five days later, GOP Sen. Rick Scott’s home in Florida was swatted. Within a month of Donald Trump clinching his second presidential election win, several of his Cabinet p

Indoor surfaces act as sponges for harmful chemicals

Scientists injected volatile organic compounds into a test house and found large reservoirs for the potentially hazardous chemicals in porous surfaces such as wood, cement and paint. VOCs contained in insecticides, cigarette smoke and wildfire smoke can remain on indoor surfaces for as long as one year. Irvine, Calif., Sept. 22, 2025 — Indoor surfaces have an unexpectedly strong ability to absorb and hold harmful chemical compounds that can threaten human health for as long as a year, accordin

How Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Remembers SignalGate: ‘No Fucking Way’

In March of this year, Meredith Whittaker was at her kitchen table in Paris when Signal, the encrypted messaging service she runs, suddenly became an international headline. A colleague sent their group chat the story ricocheting across the globe: “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.” Of course, you know the rest: In the piece, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, detailed how he’d been added to a Signal chat about an upcoming military operation in Yemen.

Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs

Childhood looks a lot different for Dante than it did four months ago, before his mom lost the day care business she was running and the family was evicted from their four-bedroom home about three hours away. Now, living out of a roughly 175-square-foot RV with his mom and 6-year-old sister, Dante’s space is limited to a twin bed wedged under a loft, cordoned off with privacy curtains. Without regular Wi-Fi, he rarely plays video games anymore. Most of his belongings are confined to a couple of

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