In August 2026, a major cyberattack attributed to the Rhysida ransomware gang exfiltrated 5.79 terabytes of data from administrative systems in Berlin. When the Berlin Senate Chancellery contracted United States security firm CrowdStrike to deploy its Falcon Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agent across municipal networks, the district administration of Lichtenberg formally refused access to … Read more
“The world is in peril.” These were not the frantic words of a fringe doomer, but the parting warning of Mrinank Sharma, the architect of safeguards research at Anthropic, the very firm founded on the premise of “Constitutional AI” and safety-first development. When the man tasked with building the industry’s most respected guardrails resigns in … Read more
Elastic’s Return to Open Source: The Knight is back to the Pavilion Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, recently decided to revert to an open-source licensing model after four years of operating under a proprietary license. This decision reflects a shift in strategy that emphasizes community-driven innovation and collaboration. In 2019, Elastic initially adopted a proprietary … Read more
Despite its hefty $1.3 billion investment, the recent collapse of Inflection serves as a stark reminder of the volatile AI startup landscape. Inflection’s flagship product, Pi, a ChatGPT rival, failed to gain traction, leading to the company’s dismantling by Microsoft. This case exemplifies the broader trend of massive capital influx into AI ventures lacking substantial … Read more
Disclaimer: I have been an enormous proponent of Developer Productivity and have tried to implement automated metrics collection in 3 orgs with varied success. In my Mentoring sessions with early-stage startup leaders as well, I (re)enforce the importance of being aware of Dev Productivity. So much so, that I have written a 2-part article on … Read more
The fact that you clicked on this article tells me that you are leading/heading a Team, group or an entire Engineering function and most likely a fast-paced startup. Assume the following, It was a regular weekday, and your CEO/CTO asked the most intriguing question. Do we measure Engineering Productivity? How do we fare? What can … Read more
Yesterday, Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos introduced the Blue Origin capsule to the press corps. Speaking Wednesday at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Bezos vowed to lower the cost of space travel and start taking customers to space by next year. Jeff Bezos said he is selling $1 billion in stock of his retail … Read more
File photo of Malaysia’s first submarine, “KD Tunku Abdul Rahman”, a Scorpene-class diesel-electric submarine. © Bazuki Muhammad Sourced from WikiMedia A massive leak of documents on India’s new military submarines from French shipbuilder DCNS is the result of a hack, the country’s defence minister said on Wednesday. Manohar Parrikar claimed, according to local reports, that … Read more
Organizers of yesterday’s massive demonstration in São Paulo against the Brazilian government have employed an analytics tool to get accurate attendance data. Opposition group Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL) was offered the technology by Israeli startup StoreSmarts for free through its Brazilian distributor SmartLok in exchange for the marketing exposure linked to the anti-government demo. The … Read more