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Bill Gates is rarely one to mince words, and his latest warning about artificial intelligence is no exception. Speaking with Ezra Klein, Gates laid out a sobering view of where AI is headed, suggesting the pace of change is outrunning our ability to manage its consequences. It's a reminder that even the people who built this world have serious questions about where it leads.
On the security front, Google's Chrome team has introduced connection allowlists, a new mechanism that lets developers lock down which external network endpoints a web application is actually permitted to reach. The idea is straightforward but powerful — rather than trusting apps to behave, you define the boundaries upfront. It's the kind of defensive architecture that security teams have wanted baked into browsers for a long time.
And in the world of crypto, DogeOS is making a serious play to transform Dogecoin into a platform for decentralized applications, launching a DeFi testnet that it hopes will eventually be secured by Dogecoin miners. The catch is that right now, those apps still rely on selected operators rather than the broader miner network, which means the decentralization story is more aspiration than reality for the moment.
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