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Security teams thought AI would be their salvation, and in some ways it has been. A new report finds teams using AI-assisted platforms cut critical vulnerability fix times by roughly fifty percent over the past year. The catch? Their backlog of unresolved critical issues grew nearly twenty-nine fold in the same period. Faster tools, it turns out, also find far more problems.
On the financial frontier, asset management giant BlackRock is making a notable prediction: AI agents will soon be purchasing their own computing power and data autonomously, using stablecoins to settle transactions. BlackRock sees payments as the near-term opportunity here, with broader compute markets still taking shape. It is a striking vision of economic actors that hold no bank accounts and answer to no payroll department.
And in a quieter corner of the hardware world, Wired has reviewed the Kiwibit Bird Feeder two Pro, a smart feeder delivering action-camera-quality imagery of your backyard visitors. The hardware earns high marks, but too much of what makes it worthwhile sits behind a subscription wall — a familiar frustration as more everyday devices adopt the software-as-a-service playbook.
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