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Microsoft acknowledges that December 2025 security updates have broken Microsoft Message Queuing on some older Windows 10 and Windows Server systems, causing inactive queues. The root cause is tightened NTFS permissions on the MSMQ storage folder, which now block required write access for MSMQ users. Only older, mostly enterprise systems are affected. There is no proper fix beyond workarounds or uninstalling the update.
TruffleHog's new JWT detector identifies public-key-signed tokens and verifies liveness through local claim validation and OIDC Discovery.
Kimwolf is a large DDoS botnet that hijacked around 1.8 million Android TVs, TV boxes, and tablets worldwide to flood targets with traffic.
Chinese-linked threat group Ink Dragon is compromising misconfigured IIS servers at government organizations in Europe, Asia, and South America to create a stealthy mesh relay network that obscures C2 traffic origins.
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In 2026, AI will shift from better models to better workflows, governance, and security. AI fluency will become a baseline skill, and “AI Whispering” will emerge as the next hot liberal arts major. Creators will scale into lean media businesses as newsletters, email monetization, and owned audiences outperform social platforms. Health trends will focus on longevity, women's care, and biometrics. Economically, stablecoins will expand payments, data centers will drive land and energy races, and space investment will accelerate. Culturally, people will push back on screens through offline community, human-first retail, and social video moving to TVs.
The BBC's potential shift toward advertising could reshape how revenue flows across the UK advertising and digital media markets. Advertising is unlikely to replace the licence fee, which delivered £3.8bn of its £5.9bn revenue in 2024/25, and adding BBC inventory would increase supply in a market where broadcaster ad share has fallen from 15.8% in 2003 to a forecast 5% next year. That influx would likely divert spend from existing broadcasters and digital publishers rather than create new demand. The decision will influence how large public media organizations balance trust, scale, and sustainability as audiences move toward platform and subscription-led media.
Lowering CTA commitment to match visitor readiness increased transactions by 28% for it. Visitors were often stressed and early in research, yet the site pushed high-commitment actions too soon, which reduced clicks and confidence. Replacing early Buy Now style CTAs with exploratory steps increased product page visits by 9.7% and moved more users deeper into the funnel. The test showed that clear progression and smaller commitments increase movement and sales without delaying purchase decisions.
The most cited themes were outbound and ABM (20%), partner ecosystems (20%), and events (16%). Tactics ranged from automated LinkedIn outreach and personalized demos to partner-led co-marketing and executive-led intros. Community activations, including webinars and intimate events, emerged as conversion drivers. Content-led strategies emphasized AI discovery and answer engine optimization through LLM visibility. Product-led growth and onboarding flows contributed materially to revenue outcomes, particularly when mapped to ICP behavior.
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This free event starts today at 12 PM EST. It will feature 8 industry experts sharing data-backed predictions on how newsletters, email marketing, and media will evolve in 2026. The session will focus on what is changing, what is working now, and what to prioritize next year.
Instagram is testing Instagram for TV, a new app that brings Reels to the big screen for shared viewing. Available in the US on Amazon Fire TV, the experience organizes Reels into interest-based channels like music, sports, travel, and trending moments, with autoplay and full sound for lean-back watching. Users can add up to 5 accounts for personalized feeds and search for creators or topics.
Click-based attribution remains popular because it provides clear, deterministic outputs that are simple to interpret. However, these models do not account for untracked influences such as video, social exposure, or thought leadership content that shape perception and intent. As a result, executive dashboards dominated by click metrics can create bias toward activities that generate visible conversions at the expense of long-term demand generation. This focus may impact investment in brand building and creative impact while prioritizing only short-term returns.
Virality is increasingly shaped by how language evolves through algorithmic exposure. Slang terms that once remained localized now spread rapidly across global platforms optimized for engagement and trend replication. Expressions tied to identity, humor, or community affiliation gain traction based on metadata and usage frequency. These shifts influence how audiences communicate, interpret meaning, and assign cultural relevance to content.
Women are less likely to use AI, not due to a lack of skill, but because their caution reflects real risks. Studies show women have 22% lower odds of using AI websites and apps than men, both at work and in everyday life. Many first encountered AI through harms like sexual deepfakes, which are 90% female-targeted, or through biased systems that disadvantage women in hiring, pay, healthcare, and justice. Women also face a double penalty, with AI use lowering perceived competence by 13% versus 6% for men.
While performance across film, parks, and streaming shows signs of decline, Disney's merchandising continues to grow. Its approach focuses on acquiring and amplifying existing franchises through partner channels and collaborations. This reduces the need for original audience building and enhances brand reach. Familiarity remains a core tactic, allowing consumers to quickly categorize and engage with products. The model is effective when it maintains simplicity, trust, and alignment with established consumer behavior.
A recap of this year's top ads, including Apple TV's Severance at Grand Central, Facebook's Secret Santa, and more.
Prioritize short-form vertical videos, quadruple brainstorming time, and do not chase trends.
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The new version of ChatGPT Image is designed to make and edit images more precisely. It can generate pictures up to four times faster than the previous image-generation model. OpenAI is creating a new section within ChatGPT specifically for making images. The company is aiming to cater to a mix of personal and professional uses.
Warner Bros. plans to reject Paramount's hostile takeover bid due to concerns about financing and other terms. The board will urge shareholders to reject the tender offer. It views the company's existing agreement with Netflix as offering greater value, certainty, and terms than what Paramount has proposed. While Warner Bros.' agreement with Netflix bars it from soliciting proposals from other bidders, it is allowed to entertain incoming proposals.
OpenAI partnered with Red Queen Bio to introduce a new evolutionary framework that uses GPT-5 to optimize cloning protocols. The project involved the pilot of an autonomous robot to carry out the protocols. GPT-achieved a 79x cloning efficiency gain and introduced a new enzyme-based approach. While this is not a bio breakthrough, the novel optimization shows that GPT-5 is at the level of a competent PhD student at this task.
Fontana Dam started showing cracks in 1972, caused by concrete expansion. Engineers decided to give the concrete more room to grow rather than patching cracks as they appeared. They cut a relief slot all through the dam without draining the reservoir or causing any disruptions to the hydropower plant. This post explains how this was achieved. A video showing footage of the procedure is available.
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Machines can now be programmed in our native tongues. This year, the industry has made significant progress on how to use AI agents and is seeing significant returns from that effort. There's still more work to learn how to use them efficiently, but there's no doubt that the technology is the future of programming. This will bring the power of computing to more places, more people, and more problems.
Working on internal AI adoption is a thing every engineering leader will need to do. This post details how Imprint approached the problem, detailing the lessons learned during the process. It is still early for AI adoption, so focusing on the rate of learning is more valuable than anything else. Engineers leading the internal AI initiative must also be using the tools they are introducing.
Meta has unveiled a dedicated Instagram Reels TV app. The app will debut on Amazon's Fire TV before expanding to other platforms. It will allow users to watch Instagram Reels' short-form, user-generated videos on bigger screens. Social video is increasingly capturing big-screen attention, with platforms like YouTube gaining more watch time on TV than anything else.
Messaging platforms command astronomical acquisition prices, but they often flounder when left to stand alone in the public markets. Messaging is perhaps the most valuable loss leader in digital history. It creates massive utility, commands unparalleled user attention, and offers high retention, but captures almost no direct financial value of its own.
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GitHub is introducing a $0.002 per-minute platform fee for all GitHub Actions usage.
Designers who rely too heavily on AI from the very beginning risk never developing vision and taste skills.
Waymo is spending heavily to ramp up its fleet and continue expanding to more regions.
The US has been pushing Europe to open up its tech sector to American firms, but the EU has not walked back broader regulation of company business practices and has proceeded with investigations of major US tech firms.
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OpenAI has launched GPT-Image-1.5, a faster and more accurate image generation model with improved instruction-following and editing. The rollout follows competitive pressure from Google's Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro models, which recently led key benchmarks.
Meta has introduced SAM Audio, a new model capable of isolating specific sounds from complex audio using text, visual, or time-based prompts. As part of the Segment Anything family, it brings flexible, prompt-driven sound editing to tasks like removing background noise or isolating instruments in a recording.
OpenAI quietly abandoned the automatic model router, a key feature of its GPT-5, for Free and Go tier users, defaulting them to GPT-5.2 Instant instead of routing complex queries to reasoning models. The router had increased free users' reasoning model usage from under 1% to 7% but a source says it hurt daily active users because people don't want to wait 20 seconds for a better answer.
The infrastructure layer is no longer converging on a single 'best' model. Instead, it is splitting into two durable and economically attractive markets. One side provides reserved and hourly compute platforms designed to deliver predictability, control, and determinism for customers willing to operate infrastructure directly. The other side operates inference APIs, trading some control for scale while absorbing utilization risk and abstracting complexity in exchange for cost-efficiency and speed. Understanding the split is essential to evaluating where value will accrue as inference becomes ubiquitous.
Catched input tokens are currently 10 times cheaper than regular input tokens for both OpenAI and Anthropic's APIs. They can even reduce latency by up to 85% for long prompts. It is clear that these providers aren't just saving responses and reusing them. This post takes a look at what's actually cached and how prompt caching works in general.
The state-of-the-art in large language model streaming is surprisingly bad. Both Gemini and Claude require users to refresh the page if their conversation is interrupted mid-stream. This guide shows readers how to implement good, resumable LLM streams. This allows users to refresh tabs mid-stream, switch between chats mid-stream, navigate to other sections of an app without interrupting a stream, and continue streams through momentary internet connection disruptions.
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