How a grocery merger could expand a surveillance network
Kroger's $1.65 billion proposed acquisition of Giant Eagle might not only consolidate the grocery market, but also a vast surveillance network that includes Flock cameras, a new report warns. Beyond standard concerns that a merger could decrease…
Amazon’s new Echo Studio speaker has a camera
Amazon is giving its premium smart speaker a camera. The new Echo Studio with Home Camera, announced today as part of Amazon's big blast of announcements, has a built-in camera for monitoring a room while you're away, showing things to Alexa, and, soon,…
Our first look at Amazon’s big new Echo Show 16
Amazon's latest Echo Show smart display is big, gorgeous, and eye-wateringly expensive. Announced today, the Echo Show 16 costs $499.99 (wall mount included) and is available to preorder now. There's a Nanomatte display option for $569.99, plus a $100…
Google Signals A Wider Crackdown On UGC SEO Spam via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google signals that its fight against SEO spam is expanding to new kinds of platforms, tools, and services. The post Google Signals A Wider Crackdown On UGC SEO Spam appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Oracle adds native Snowflake service to OCI to ease data integration
Oracle on Tuesday said it has partnered with Snowflake to make the latter’s AI Data Cloud available as a native service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The partnership, announced at Oracle’s ongoing AI World conference, ...
Eight reasons you are better than coding agents
Last week I wrote about how coding agents are better developers than humans. I’ll stand by that — the current agents can write code better, faster, longer, and with far less complaining than we humans can. But that doesn’t make h...
Six elements of resilient AI orchestration platforms
While many organizations are in early AI agent rollouts, research suggests that more will scale to greater numbers of agents and assistants in the coming year. An August 2026 report states that 66% of enterprises are likely to in...
Attackers compromised 42 GitHub repositories by using files too large to be searched
A security research firm reported Monday that it had identified breaches of 42 third-party GitHub repositories in which attackers had deployed payload blobs large enough “to evade the GitHub search and API paths normally used to ...
VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
My Preschool Students Taught Me What Educators Lose in English-Only Programs
As Head Start faces a proposal to end bilingual education, remember that children aren’t the only ones who benefit from multiple languages.