Catch up on big investments and startups making waves in their communities in this week's The National Beat newsletter.

Coding in 2026 shifts toward software design and AI agent management; a six-month path covers Git, testing, and security ...

AI Overview citations diverge further from organic rankings. AIO coverage grows 58% across industries. Google and Bing both ...

Stop Googling. The answer is staring you right in the face—you just have to read it.

Agriculture is drowning in data it can barely use. A new class of AI wants to fix that. Agricultural data is “fragmented, distributed, heterogeneous, and incompatible.” That’s the verdict from a major ...

New attack waves from the 'PhantomRaven' supply-chain campaign are hitting the npm registry, with dozens of malicious packages that exfiltrate sensitive data from JavaScript developers.

An AI agent called Zephyrus converts plain-language questions into code to analyze real weather datasets and forecast models ...

Malicious JavaScript code delivered by the AppsFlyer Web SDK hijacked cryptocurrency, potentially in a supply-chain attack.

Data incidents have become so common that you may be tempted to throw away notification letters. Don’t do that, experts say.

Quadratic regression is a classical machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. Quadratic regression is an extension of basic linear regression. Quadratic regression can deal with ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...

Donald Trump says the US is the most powerful country and does not need help from countries who "don’t want to get involved" ...