March 6, 2025

Software

SquareX Unveils Polymorphic Extensions That Morph Infostealers Into Any Browser Extension | HackerNoon

PALO ALTO, Singapore, March 6th, 2025/CyberNewsWire/–With recent attack disclosures like Browser Syncjacking and extension infostealers, browser extensions have become a primary security concern at many organizations. SquareX’s research team discovers a new class of malicious extensions that can impersonate any extension installed on the victim’s browser, including password managers and crypto wallets. These malicious extensions can morph themselves to have the exact same user interface, icons and text as the legitimate extension, making it an

CyberNewswire March 6, 2025

Software

Bybit Becomes The First Exchange To List USDtb , Bringing Institutional-Grade Stability To Crypto | HackerNoon

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, March 6th, 2025/Chainwire/–Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, becomes the first platform to include USDtb, a blockchain-based USD stablecoin created and managed by Ethena Labs, on its Spot exchange. USDtb combines the liquidity of stablecoins with the security and transparency of institutional-grade U.S. Treasury assets, marking a pivotal innovation in the evolution of digital dollars. USDtb is backed primarily by BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund Token (BUIDL),

Chainwire March 6, 2025

Robotics

Behind the scenes: Atlas humanoid learns to sequence auto parts

[embedded content] Boston Dynamics released a new video of the electric Atlas humanoid. The video shows behind-the-scenes snippets of the Atlas engineering team and the robot in various states of assembly and repair. It’s a refreshing look at the complex systems that make up a humanoid robot, and it’s also an honest look under the hood at a time when many companies are guarded about the IP within their robots. Aaron Saunders, chief technology officer

Mike Oitzman March 6, 2025

How to Spot and Prevent Model Drift Before it Impacts Your Business | Towards Data Science

Despite the AI hype, many tech companies still rely heavily on machine learning to power critical applications, from personalized recommendations to fraud detection. I’ve seen firsthand how undetected drifts can result in significant costs — missed fraud detection, lost revenue, and suboptimal business outcomes, just to name a few. So, it’s crucial to have robust monitoring in place if your company has deployed or plans to deploy machine learning models into production. Undetected Model Drift

Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi March 6, 2025

2025 IEEE Medal of Honor Awarded to Broadcom’s Henry Samueli

4 min read Joanna Goodrich is the associate editor of The Institute IEEE Fellow Henry Samueli, cofounder of Broadcom, is the 2025 IEEE Medal of Honor Laureate. Samueli Foundation IEEE Fellow Henry Samueli, cofounder of Broadcom, is the 2025 IEEE Medal of Honor Laureate. He is being recognized for his “pioneering research and commercialization of broadband communication and networking technologies, and promotion of STEM education.” The news was announced on 20 February in New York

Joanna Goodrich March 6, 2025

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor | TechCrunch

Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. But compared to its $6 billion valuation, its global market share is still relatively low. However, the recent launch of its chat assistant on mobile app stores was met with some hype, particularly in its home country. “Go

Anna Heim March 6, 2025

Peer raises $10.5M for metaverse engine, launches 3D personal planets

Peer announced today it’s raised new funding to build its AI-powered metaverse engine and launched its “personal planets” feature.Read More

Rachel Kaser March 6, 2025

AR/VR

A standard, open framework for building AI agents is coming from Cisco, LangChain and Galileo

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More One goal for an agentic future is for AI agents from different organizations to freely and seamlessly talk to one another. But getting to that point requires interoperability, and these agents may have been built with different LLMs, data frameworks and code. To achieve interoperability, developers of these agents must agree on how they can communicate

Emilia David March 6, 2025

Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7 | TechCrunch

On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members of the AI community to lead breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and AI aficionados attending our newest event, which will be held in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley. There’s just one catch: You have to apply by the end

TechCrunch Events March 6, 2025

Amazon GameLift Streams lets game devs deliver high-fidelity, low-latency games to players

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon GameLift Streams, which enables developers to deliver high-fidelity, low-latency game experiences to players. The players can enjoy the GameLift Streams games on virtually any device with a browser. With GameLift Streams, game developers no longer need to spend time and resources modifying their games for streaming or building their own streaming infrastructure. Players around the world can begin playing games in seconds instead of waiting minutes for streams or hours for downloads. The new capability

Dean Takahashi March 6, 2025