ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout

Six weeks ago, a video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop went viral. It was, of course, not real. It was generated by Seedance 2.0, ByteDance’s AI video model, and it set off a firestorm [...]

BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally

The Rijen-based startup, which retrofits existing sprayers with nozzle-by-nozzle PWM control, will use the capital to commercialise its LeapEye camera system and scale LeapBox internationally from Eur [...]

iOS 26 preview: Liquid Glass is more than just a visual refresh

At WWDC 2025, Apple revealed a major visual shake-up for iOS (not to mention the rest of the company’s operating systems). This is the biggest change, aesthetically, since the shift away from the st [...]

LLM-referred traffic converts at 30-40% — and most enterprises aren't optimizing for it

For more than two decades, digital discovery has operated on a simple model: search, scan, click, decide. That worked when humans were the ones doing the web searching; but with the advent of AI agent [...]

Big stages, smaller impact.

For years, the tech industry equated success with scale. Bigger stages, larger crowds, more logos, more panels, more noise. Five thousand people became ten thousand. Ten thousand became the goal. Some [...]

The enterprise voice AI split: Why architecture — not model quality — defines your compliance posture

For the past year, enterprise decision-makers have faced a rigid architectural trade-off in voice AI: adopt a "Native" speech-to-speech (S2S) model for speed and emotional fidelity, or stick [...]

Top US defense device maker IEH Corporation admits hackers broke into its systems

Someone used social engineering to access an employee's email account, viewing purchase orders, engineering-related documentation, and more. [...]

Scattered Spider hackers are targeting US critical infrastructure via VMware attacks

Scattered Spider has reportedly perfected social engineering, getting privileged access in hours. [...]

Rare gifted word-learner dogs like to share their toys

"It raises the possibility that social motivation plays a role in why some dogs end up learning object names." [...]