# workplace-productivity

Meta buys a fifth of Cred, and a new WhatsApp boss

Meta is paying $900mn for a fifth of Cred, an Indian fintech. The bigger prize is its founder, Kunal Shah, who will now run WhatsApp. Meta has found its next WhatsApp boss the way it now likes to find people: by writing a cheque. On Monday, the company said it would invest $900mn in Cred. […] This s

Germany tells Trump: you cannot get to the moon without us

Germany’s space minister has a message for Washington: the dependence runs both ways. In an interview with Politico at the VivaTech trade show in Paris this week, Dorothee Bär said Europe provides “critical key technologies” for American space missions, adding bluntly: “Without us, it cannot be done

UPS pours $48 million into cold chain facilities as the biologics boom reshapes logistics

UPS has announced a $48 million investment in 27 temperature-controlled freight cross-dock facilities spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The facilities are designed for short-term storage between air and ground movements while maintaining specific temperature ranges of 2 to 8 degrees Celsius,

SpaceX Enters Debt Market to Finance AI Research Initiatives

Fresh from a record IPO that helped make Elon Musk a trillionaire, SpaceX is raising at least $20bn in its debut bond sale to bankroll a vast AI build-out. SpaceX is about to do something none of Elon Musk’s companies has done before. It is borrowing money from public bond investors. On Monday the r

AI Transparency Under Fire: OpenAI's Unaudited Finances Raise Concerns

OpenAI’s books show zero debt and just $46mn of quarterly capital spending. The catch, reported by The Information: around $665bn of commitments sitting just off the balance sheet, now heading for regulators’ desks. On paper, OpenAI looks like a lean software business. The reality is far heavier. As

· · Ars Technica AI

Indian Engineers Push Hybrid Corvette to Unprecedented Pikes Peak Heights

The high-altitude race is a unique test of car and driver.

#ai

Lucid Motors trims workforce by 18% as CEO revamps production strategy

Lucid Motors is cutting 18 percent of its workforce, roughly 1,500 employees, just four months after the EV maker laid off 12 percent of its staff. The company said Monday that it has also eliminated the second production shift at its factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, and scrapped the chief operating

· · Ars Technica AI

Little attention given to US military's latest space exercise launch

The Space Force wants to cut the time to field new satellites from years to weeks, days, or hours.

#ai

Instagram is coming for your living room with episodic series and live TV on Samsung

Instagram for TV is expanding to Samsung smart TVs across the United States, making the app available on the majority of connected TV devices in the country. Meta announced Monday that the expansion comes alongside several new features, including interest-based channels, phone-to-TV casting, and the

· · Ars Technica

Lucid Motor Announces Largest Layoff Yet, 1500 Jobs Affected

The cuts and redundancies are part of a plan to "simplify the company," the CEO says.

#mobile-tech#wearable-technology#discounts#shopping-deals

· · GSMArena

The Ultrahuman Ring Air is on sale - get a better discount with our exclusive promo codes

Ultrahuman has an annual sale to celebrate Prime Day. Two things – first, we can do better since Ultrahuman sent us codes that stack with Amazon’s discounts. And second, you don’t have to go through Amazon, you can buy from the company’s online store too. You can get the Ultrahuman Ring Air from ult

· · AndroidPolice

Google Voice Search's latest update adds live chat, translation, and song recognition all at once

Google Voice Search is getting even more love from Google

#mobile

Unlocking Efficiency with SRE Automation: India's Cloud Infrastructure Just Got Smarter

Every SRE team has a list of things they intend to automate. The list grows faster than it shrinks. New services join the platform and generate new alert categories. Compliance requirements expand and generate new evidence collection obligations. Incident volumes increase and generate new runbook en

New browser security model encourages users to stay engaged.

The browser security model is one of the most carefully thought-through pieces of software engineering on the planet. Same-origin policy. User gesture requirements. Click-to-permission grants. Site isolation at the process level. Cookie partitioning. Cross-origin resource sharing. Each of these mech

The Importance of Accountless Core Usage in Secure Applications

Review the no-account privacy posture: PainTracker privacy boundary The account wall is not neutral. For ordinary apps, it may be a conversion step. If you want privacy-first, offline health tech to exist without surveillance funding it: sponsor the build → https://github.com/sponsors/CrisisCore-Sys

#api-security#cloud-computing#developer-tools#security-scanning

Protecting APIs from Cyber Threats with AI-Powered Scanner Solutions

Four years into a career focused on APIs and developer tooling, I kept running into the same gap: security scanning options were either too heavy (stand up a platform, configure a workspace, wait for results) or too risky to run in CI without careful guardrails. I wanted a lightweight, CLI-first too

#cloud-deployment#frontend-testing#test-automation#software-reliability#devops

Boost frontend reliability with these 21 actionable cloud-based testing strategies

Frontend test automation rarely fails because a team picked the “wrong” framework. It usually fails through accumulation. A browser update changes timing behavior. A loading animation introduces a race condition. A test gets retried until everyone stops trusting it. An AI tool generates another hund

Harvesting a regression test set from gateway logs with a plugin

TL;DR: Our eval sets went stale because a human wrote the test cases by hand once and never updated them. We moved the capture point into the gateway. A Bifrost custom plugin logs every production request and response, and we curate a weekly regression set from real traffic instead of inventing inpu