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Cognizant agrees to acquire Astreya, which helps manage data center infrastructure, AI lab environments and enterprise networks, for about $600 million, expected to close in the second quarter (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 29, 2026

Reuters: Cognizant agrees to acquire Astreya, which helps manage data center infrastructure, AI lab environments and enterprise networks, for approximately…

Technology

Citizen Lab details two espionage campaigns that exploit weaknesses in SS7 and Diameter protocols on 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G networks to track people’s locations (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 25, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Apple after Tim Cook, OpenAI’s new Mojo, Meta’s internal tracking escape The Big Technology Podcast…

Business & Money

Life sciences lab real estate recovers from disaster

By Stacey D. WallsApril 22, 2026

A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new…

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Investigation details Webloc, an advertising-based geosurveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of recordings from up to 500 million mobile devices (The Citizen Lab)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 11, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The dilemma of the Anthropic myth, violence against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta The Big Technology…

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Meta Oversight Board Says Community Ratings Are Not a Proper Substitute for Fact-Checking and Warns Expanding Beyond the U.S. Could Pose Human Rights Risks (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 27, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Bubble Discussion A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon,…

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How Lego’s Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors and proprietary communications system to integrate seamlessly with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Venture is in its peak growth era A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela…

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A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using the latest lab tools, thinking about atrophy, and more, plus increased productivity (Siddhant Khare)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Getting Paid to Rock Code: Inside the New Work of the AI Age | Lazar Jovanovic…

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An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert on the United States’ adoption of authoritarian digital practices, the research group’s accomplishments, and more (Finian Hazen/MIT Technology Review)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 25, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “A Ugly Citizen”, with Quinn Nelson The director’s commentary track for Daring…

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Singapore-based ChemLex has raised a $45 million funding round led by Granite Asia to build an automated, AI-powered chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 13, 2025

Rachel Jones / Semafor: Singapore-based ChemLex has raised $45 million in funding led by Granite Asia to build an automated,…

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Google DeepMind plans to open its “first automated science lab” in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 11, 2025

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: So what happens after the AGI? A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela Du,…

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A profile of Runway, an AI video generation startup that trains models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3 billion and added $40 million in ARR in the second quarter (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Ofcom says X committed to implementing tougher protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hateful content within 24 hours, following an investigation (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Bill Ackman says his fund took a new stake in Microsoft after the company’s recent stock price decline; Ackman says investors underestimated Microsoft (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

A profile of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who is killing projects, downsizing and pleasing Wall Street, all while steering the company into an AI-centric era (Bloomberg)

UK-based Iceotope, which develops liquid cooling technology for data centers, raised a $26 million Series B round co-led by Two Seas Capital and Barclays Climate Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Browsing: lab

Cognizant agrees to acquire Astreya, which helps manage data center infrastructure, AI lab environments and enterprise networks, for about $600 million, expected to close in the second quarter (Reuters)

Citizen Lab details two espionage campaigns that exploit weaknesses in SS7 and Diameter protocols on 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G networks to track people’s locations (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Life sciences lab real estate recovers from disaster

Investigation details Webloc, an advertising-based geosurveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of recordings from up to 500 million mobile devices (The Citizen Lab)

Meta Oversight Board Says Community Ratings Are Not a Proper Substitute for Fact-Checking and Warns Expanding Beyond the U.S. Could Pose Human Rights Risks (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

How Lego’s Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors and proprietary communications system to integrate seamlessly with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using the latest lab tools, thinking about atrophy, and more, plus increased productivity (Siddhant Khare)

An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert on the United States’ adoption of authoritarian digital practices, the research group’s accomplishments, and more (Finian Hazen/MIT Technology Review)

Singapore-based ChemLex has raised a $45 million funding round led by Granite Asia to build an automated, AI-powered chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)

Google DeepMind plans to open its “first automated science lab” in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)