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Months of speculation over the future of data security company Varonis Systems Inc. ended today when Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. agreed to buy it for about $6.3 billion in …
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Duncan Riley (via SiliconANGLE)
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10/15/26
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Doing away with the leap second might prevent time-related computer anomalies in the future.
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Julian Dossett (via CNET Technology)
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10/15/26
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The "Power to the Players Act" bill would direct the FTC to write rules ensuring that buying a video game translates into ownership and not a revocable license. Games that depend on online …
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Via TechSpot
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10/15/26
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Ramp Business Corp., a provider of corporate credit cards and business software, today announced that it has raised $1.85 billion in late-stage funding. Dragoneer led the Series G round. Thrive …
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Maria Deutscher (via SiliconANGLE)
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10/15/26
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Your Phillips bit might be one size too small, and that's why your screws keep stripping.
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Jorge A. Aguilar (via How-to Geek)
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10/15/26
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The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and …
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Konstantinos Komaitis (via Techdirt)
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10/15/26
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Memtest86+ 9.0 brings the popular open-source memory testing utility to ARM64 devices, including Snapdragon X laptops and Raspberry Pi boards. The update also introduces new RowHammer and memory …
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Via TechSpot
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10/15/26
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Meta Platforms Inc. today released open weights for its Muse Spark artificial intelligence model, which had been proprietary since its April debut. The release, called Muse Spark Open, is built for …
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Duncan Riley (via SiliconANGLE)
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10/15/26
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For once, fans, artists, and the music industry itself all agree that something needs to change. YouTube Music just took a big step toward appeasing everyone.
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Via BGR Tech
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10/15/26
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria is leaving the company and will be replaced by former Disney and Fox executive Peter Rice, who starts October 26 — In …
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Via Techmeme
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10/15/26
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A new Marvel adventure and a Sylvester Stallone crime drama highlight our top shows to watch this weekend.
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Dan Girolamo (via How-to Geek)
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10/15/26
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Breaking away from Arrakis after three movies is understandably a daunting task.
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Cheryl Eddy (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/15/26
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Commissioners voted to create a working group to discuss amendments to the county's automated license plate reader contracts. The group will produce suggestions by February 2027.
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Sarah Grunau (via Houston Public Media)
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10/15/26
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The Government of Canada is looking to build a data centre in Ottawa. According to a notice from Defence Construction Canada, the facility would be used by Canada’s cyber spy agency, Communications …
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Bradly Shankar (via MobileSyrup)
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10/15/26
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Withings has introduced an Apple Health Sync paywall, requiring all new users to pay $99.99 each year to see their weight within Apple's default Health app.
Withings will charge new users $99 per …
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Via AppleInsider
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10/15/26
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The Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse use artificial intelligence to process conversations into summaries, to-do lists and more. Just make sure you ask people for permission to record first.
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Alex Valdes (via CNET Technology)
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10/15/26
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky expands Attie, its AI tool for building custom feeds, with a “social vibe coding” feature to create sites, games, quizzes, and more on the AT Protocol …
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Via Techmeme
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10/15/26
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Multi Eisner‑nominated creator Linnea Sterte’s graphic novel sends a drifting god of destruction through a dragon‑filled land so alien its nothing short of fantasy in its purest form.
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Isaiah Colbert (via Gizmodo | Tecg. Science. Culture)
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10/15/26
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Making expensive network gear redundant one little fix at a time.
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Monica J. White (via How-to Geek)
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10/15/26
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For the fourth straight year, Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey has found that PostgreSQL tops the list of the database management systems developers prefer — and the favorability ratings even …
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Paul Gillin (via SiliconANGLE)
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10/15/26
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