Napa and Sonoma wine regions began harvesting grapes in July, weeks ahead of the typical early-to-mid-August start, following a record March heat wave and early bud break. Rodney Strong Vineyards, founded in Healdsburg in 1959, drew on decades of experience to manage the shift, with leaders including chief winemaking and operations officer Justin Seidenfeld and head of winegrowing Allison Derrico overseeing the process.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-11-09
Harvest, a time-tracking and invoicing tool acquired by Bending Spoons in 2025, has restructured its pricing. A longtime customer reports their monthly cost rose from $13.32 to $133.98 under a new 'enterprise/unlimited' plan, while an alternative 'flex' plan at $12.65 now adds a 2% surcharge on top of standard card processing fees. The customer also says email support has been replaced by an automated LLM response system.
aphyr.com
· 2026-11-09
Forescout Technologies analyzed roughly 2.5 million devices across more than 50 healthcare organizations and found widespread gaps in support for post-quantum cryptography. Only about half of IT devices supported SSH implementations capable of PQC, versus 16% of operational technology and just 6% of Internet of Medical Things devices such as patient monitors and insulin pumps. The firm also found over 5,500 Internet-reachable systems holding medical records and imaging data, only 31% of which used TLS 1.3, the protocol needed for current PQC standards.
darkreading.com
· 2026-10-06
Okanagan Specialty Fruits, which farms over 1,250 acres of apple orchards in Washington State, is testing camera-based AI from Canadian firm Vivid Machines to forecast crop yields and optimal harvest dates. The cameras, mounted on tractors, capture images of trees so AI can identify buds, flowers and fruit, producing crop estimates alongside weather-informed harvest timing. Company representative Joel Carter says the system catches small flower buds humans might miss, though forecast accuracy depends on the quality of historical data fed into it.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-30
IBM built a top-secret cryptographic computer called Harvest for the National Security Agency, which operated from the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 until the mid-1970s. The machine processed data up to 200 times faster than other computers of its era and included the first automated tape library, robotically retrieving magnetic tape cassettes on demand. IBM also created a custom programming language, Alpha, so analysts could describe cryptographic problems the way Fortran was used for scientific computation.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-08-25
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