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Trump’s arch is atrocious. Don’t build it.

Trump’s arch is atrocious. Don’t build it.

Published by Sam Flores

The meanings of words such as honor, sacrifice, and humility have been leaking away from American civic life like red blood cells from an anemic. But if there’s one place where they retain their rich, sticky, life-giving force, it’s surely in the air around the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. The cemetery is where Americans remember those who sacrificed their lives for the nation. The memorial is where they remember their greatest president—the man who proclaimed an end to slavery and kept the union intact, though the cost was staggering. The air between these two places is the medium through which Lincoln gets to speak with his war dead, and vice versa. If President Trump’s ambition is realized, a triumphal arch will thrust its way into this murmuring conversation like a boastful bore crashing into a huddle of friends swapping stories about a loved one at a wake. Heavy-handed and overbearing, it would pervert the significance of this uniquely meaningful place, forcing visitors to see these two sites through a crass and generalized assertion …

Build 2026: Microsoft’s MDASH exits preview with 100+ specialized threat-hunting AI agents

Build 2026: Microsoft’s MDASH exits preview with 100+ specialized threat-hunting AI agents

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Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Microsoft is turning AI into a security triage tool. Microsoft wants to secure code, agents, data, and models. MDASH uses AI agents to cut through scanner noise. Last month, Microsoft introduced MDASH, its Microsoft Security multi-model agentic scanning harness. Despite the unfortunate name, this was a big swing, designed to reduce security alerts from constant noise to those that directly cause exploitable vulnerabilities. The big news today coming from Build 2026 is that Microsoft is folding the MDASH capability into a full enterprise security control plane, connecting Defender, GitHub Code Security, Agent 365, and Purview. Also: Enterprise AI agents are multiplying fast, and Microsoft wants full control of them According to Microsoft’s chief security architect Aleš Holeček, “AI vulnerability discovery has crossed from research curiosity into production-grade defense at enterprise scale, and the durable advantage lies in the agentic system around the model rather than any single model itself.” How MDASH changes vulnerability analysis One of the big problems …

Microsoft Build 2026 Kicks Off Today: Live Updates on Copilot AI and Dev Tools

Microsoft Build 2026 Kicks Off Today: Live Updates on Copilot AI and Dev Tools

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Project Solara, a new AI cloud platform, was announced at Microsoft Build. Corinne Reichert/CNET Nadella announced Project Solara, billed as a “new chip-to-cloud platform” for AI agent devices. Steven Bathiche, who leads Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, demonstrated onstage a new portable device built with Qualcomm silicon. “It’s a turnkey solution for building unique agent-first devices,” Bathiche said, as he showed off an early prototype.  Steven Bathiche demonstrated a new AI agent access badge built using Qualcomm silicon. Corinne Reichert/CNET “The Access Badge, built using Qualcomm silicon for wearables — this digital badge is a lightweight form factor designed for agent interactions on the go,” he said. You can unlock the badge with your fingerprint and use verbal commands to control the AI agent.  During the demo, he asked the badge to take photos for a social media post, using it to scan the crowd at the Build keynote. He asked Copilot to find some good shots from the audience scan, clean them up and send them to him and his team for review. Microsoft is …

Microsoft’s first reasoning model is one of 7 AIs just released at Build – what we know so far

Microsoft’s first reasoning model is one of 7 AIs just released at Build – what we know so far

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Screenshot by Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways  Microsoft AI launched several new models at Build. One of them is the company’s first reasoning model. A new image model appears competitive with Nano Banana Pro.  Microsoft kicked off its annual Build developer conference Tuesday with a keynote, during which the company announced seven new AI models, including its first reasoning model. During the keynote, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman reiterated the lab’s “humanist superintelligence” framing when introducing the new models.  Here’s what each model can do.  MAI-Thinking-1  Microsoft AI’s first reasoning model, MAI-Thinking-1, was trained on “enterprise-grade, clean and commercially licensed data,” the company said in the blog announcement. Given mounting concerns (and active lawsuits) about copyright and AI use, calling this out will be important for Microsoft’s customers, but it’s not the first company to make such a promise.  Also: Microsoft’s MDASH exits preview with 100+ specialized threat-hunting AI agents Microsoft said that the 35-billion-parameter model beat Anthropic’s Sonnet 4.61 when evaluated by independent reviewers …

Enterprise AI agents keep creating data silos. Microsoft’s Build answer is Microsoft IQ and Rayfin.

Enterprise AI agents keep creating data silos. Microsoft’s Build answer is Microsoft IQ and Rayfin.

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Every new AI agent your team deploys starts from scratch: no memory of how the business works, where data lives, or what rules apply. And as agentic coding tools spin up applications faster than anyone can govern them, each one risks becoming another silo outside your data layer entirely. Microsoft is addressing both problems directly at Build 2026. According to VentureBeat’s VB Pulse’s Q1 2026 RAG Infrastructure Market Tracker, hybrid retrieval intent among 100-plus employee organizations tripled from 10.3% in January to 33.3% in March, a signal that enterprises have moved past expanding RAG coverage and are now focused on the architecture underneath it. Shared business context is the part retrieval does not solve. On the context side, Microsoft is expanding Fabric IQ, its existing business data context layer, into a broader unified system called Microsoft IQ, adding three additional context sources covering how the organization works, what it knows and real-time global signals from the web, so any agent can tap all four as a single foundation. On the application side, Rayfin, a new …

OpenAI’s Codex update lets agents build interactive enterprise workspaces via Sites and role-specific plugins

OpenAI’s Codex update lets agents build interactive enterprise workspaces via Sites and role-specific plugins

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Agentic AI is moving rapidly from the developer terminal to the corporate world. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a major update of its agentic AI platform Codex, introducing domain-specific workflows, a rapid, semi-private web hosting feature within it for enterprises called “Sites,” and an in-place editing tool named “Annotations”. The release marks a deliberate strategy to transform Codex from a specialized programming assistant into an everyday operating environment for business professionals. Non-developers—including financial analysts, marketers, operators, and researchers—now constitute approximately 20% of the platform’s 5 million weekly users and are adopting the technology three times faster than traditional engineers, according to research shared by OpenAI with VentureBeat and other outlets. OpenAI is capitalizing on this shift to position Codex as the premier application for white-collar task automation. The timing of the announcement is highly strategic, arriving precisely as its own primary investor turned business rival Microsoft this week kicks off its annual BUILD developer conference in San Francisco—where a slate of competing enterprise productivity tools is expected—and hot on the heels of Anthropic’s rapid adoption among …

Graphic Novels Build Kids’ Literacy Skills, and More Library News

Graphic Novels Build Kids’ Literacy Skills, and More Library News

Published by Jenni Sidey

Katie’s parents never told her “no” when she asked for a book, which was the start of most of her problems. She has an MLIS from the University of Illinois and works full time as a Circulation & Reference Manager in Illinois. She has a deep-rooted love of all things disturbing, twisted, and terrifying and takes enormous pleasure in creeping out her coworkers. When she’s not at work, she’s at home watching the Cubs with her cats and her cardigan collection. Other hobbies include scrapbooking, introducing more readers to the Church of Tana French, and convincing her husband that she can, in fact, fit more books onto her shelves. Twitter: @kt_librarylady View All posts by Katie McLain Horner Source link

How to watch Microsoft Build 2026 live on June 2

How to watch Microsoft Build 2026 live on June 2

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We’re officially right in the middle of Big Tech developer conference season. Google served up its AI-filled event, Google I/O 2026, a few weeks ago. Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC, is next week. But, next up? Microsoft Build. Microsoft’s annual developer conference begins tomorrow, June 2, 2026, in San Francisco. If you don’t already have plans to attend the event, you’re out of luck, as Microsoft says tickets are sold out. However, you can still watch Microsoft Build 2026 online from anywhere in the world. Mashable Light Speed Watch the Microsoft Build keynote The Microsoft Build livestream will kick off with a keynote from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. ET (9:30 a.m. PT). As per usual, you can watch the event live on YouTube: What to expect from Microsoft Build 2026 What’s to be expected from this year’s Microsoft Build? According to the company’s description of the opening keynote event, CEO Nadella and other key Microsoft figures will talk about how the company is “creating new opportunity for developers across our …

Quantum computers could expose our digital secrets – but there are much better reasons to build them

Quantum computers could expose our digital secrets – but there are much better reasons to build them

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Quantum computers are coming. Or, at least, that’s what current predictions say. These machines harness the power of quantum mechanics, the set of rules governing how physics operates at atomic and sub-atomic scales. Because of this, they operate in radically different ways to current machines. Tasks requiring trillions of years on existing supercomputers might be reduced to days on future quantum computers. They could tackle a range of challenges that are out of reach for existing technology. These potential challenges include code-breaking. In 1994, the American computer scientist Peter Shor came up with a quantum algorithm capable of breaking the form of encryption that would later underpin routine email messaging and internet security. Shor’s advance drew interest from the US military and intelligence community, which began investing in the emerging field. While decryption is often touted as a potential use for quantum computers, there are now protections against attempts to use them in this way. And in recent decades, other exciting applications have emerged. So is the threat to secure communications being overstated? Currently, nobody …

A celebrity trainer recommends these three dumbbell exercises to build strength and muscle

A celebrity trainer recommends these three dumbbell exercises to build strength and muscle

Published by Jenni Sidey

Beyond a basic biceps curl, I used to feel stuck on what to do when faced with the dumbbell rack, often opting for a kettlebell workout or gym machines instead. I imagine I’m not alone in this, which is why it’s useful to have a professional share their experience on how to use dumbbells for the best results. Luckily for you, Ngo Okafor, celebrity trainer and founder of Iconoclast Fitness, has shared a circuit that goes back to basics with three moves that cover four fundamental movement patterns—a squat, lunge, push and pull—and hit most major muscle groups. Latest Videos From You may like Give it a go and let us know in the comments how you fare. How to do the full-body dumbbell circuit Perform three rounds of the following three exercises. Squat press Stationary lunge Bent-over row Rest for 10 seconds between exercises, and for 30 seconds between rounds. 1. Squat press “The squat press is a highly efficient full-body movement that combines lower-body strength with upper-body pressing and cardiovascular conditioning,” says Okafor. …