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On July 4th, America will celebrate 250 years since the dawn of its creation. But according to a new Reuters/Ipsos survey, many Americans aren’t feeling very hopeful about the nation’s future. The survey, which polled 1,537 U.S. adults from June 12 to the 15, found that over a third (38%) of Americans didn’t think the country would continue to exist in its current form for another 250 years. Interestingly, the view comes from both sides of the aisle, with 40% of Democrats and 26% of Republicans sharing the belief. Likewise, the vast majority of Americans (64%, up from 57% just…
Brian Contos is the Field CISO at Mitiga with 30+ years of experience building successful companies and evangelizing cybersecurity.The identity apocalypse isn’t coming. It’s already logged in. Today’s attacks inherit trust, look legitimate and operate unnoticed inside your environment.Autonomous AI is accelerating a shift that was already underway. Human and non-human identities now operate at a scale and with a level of access that traditional security models were never designed to handle. The result is, you guessed it, more risk. Mostly, it’s a breakdown of the assumptions that identity-based security depends on.Attackers don’t need to break in anymore. They log…
Shares of Sleep Number Corporation will no longer be publicly traded after next week. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC), the embattled mattress and bedding company confirmed that its stock (Nasdaq: SNBR) will be delisted from the Nasdaq after it had received written notice from the exchange’s listings qualifications staff. The company’s stock will be delisted when the market opens on Tuesday, June 23. The news follows Sleep Number’s Friday, June 12, voluntary filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In its delisting announcement, Sleep Number stated, “Nasdaq’s determination was based on the filing of the Chapter 11…
Capital Factory and Joshua Baer hosted many large companies like Tim Cook’s Apple former CEO to link together the big enterprises and the small entrepreneurs.Joshua BaerJoshua Baer was the founder and CEO of Capital Factory, the most active early-stage investor in Texas for AI and one of the forces that turned Austin into a national startup hub. He built it on a simple instinct, that the right introduction at the right moment can change the trajectory of a company.Capital Factory’s public portfolio includes at least 100 AI, robotics, and autonomy companies. Joshua Baer’s greater legacy was the human infrastructure that…
Tech CEOs are eager to blame AI for mass layoffs. But a recent Gallup poll shows that only 1% of laid-off workers agree. The poll finds that layoffs have leveled off at 21% after nearly tripling between 2022 and 2025. Tech jobs and federal government work are susceptible as the job market tightens. Remote employees are among the most vulnerable—25% of surveyed laid-off workers were fully remote. Hybrid and on-site remote-capable workers see similar layoff rates. RTO mandates spark turnover. Bosses know it Cutting remote positions could be an easy excuse to lay off huge amounts of over-hired jobs in…
Camping with kids is pure joy, with the right gear.Even mercurial teens can be comfortable, happy, and entertained on a family camping trip—with the right gear (Photo: Lisa Jhung)Published June 18, 2026 04:00AMI love family camping. Even when my teenage boys are fighting over dumb things and throwing rocks way too close to where I’m sitting, I just lean back in my camp chair and take a giant whiff of pine trees and smile at the chipmunks.My family car camps, and—even as an Outside writer—I feel absolutely no shame in that. Sure, backpacking deep into the wild would be great.…
Dr. Samer Taha, CEO of Atoco.Nanotechnology has quietly progressed through three distinct generations, and the third is now reshaping how deep-tech R&D itself must be organized. The first generation, dominant from the early 2000s into the 2010s, produced passive nanostructures, materials whose nanoscale architecture conferred enhanced but static properties. Carbon nanotubes are textbook examples for the first generation. The second generation, which we are still living in, introduced active nanostructures: materials engineered to respond dynamically to stimuli such as light, temperature or pH. Targeted drug-delivery vessels are a familiar example. The third generation, emerging now, is fundamentally different. It is…
Four years after a big injury, the skateboarding GOAT opens up about what it looks—and feels—like to shred in your fifties. (Photo: Joe Gall)Published June 18, 2026 03:00AMIt seemed like just another day at the backyard ramp. It was March of 2022, and Tony Hawk—the Michael Jordan of skateboarding—had just completed a skateboarding session at his home in Southern California, when some friends showed up. Hawk, who was 53 at the time, wanted to show that his aging body could still perform at its pinnacle. He dropped in, soared up the side, and attempted a trick called the McTwist—a 540-degree…
Below, Joanna Stern shares five key insights from her new book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything. Joanna is an Emmy-winning tech journalist. She is the founder of New Things and NBC News’ chief tech analyst. She spent 12 years at The Wall Street Journal, has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and was a technology editor at ABC News and The Verge. To write this book, she spent a year letting AI and robots take over nearly every part of her life—or at least as much as she could without losing her mind, marriage, or job.…
The Matrix of Leadership from ‘Transformers: The Movie’ is available from Hasbro this August.HasbroOver the years, we’ve had a lot of Transformers-related toys, but we’ve never had a depiction of The Matrix of Leadership quite like this.Introduced in Transformers: The Movie, The Matrix of Leadership was passed down from one Autobot leader to the next.Its narrative origins are quite complex, but in the continuity that aligns with the movie, the Matrix contains the soul of Primus, which was the sworn enemy of Unicron.While Galvatron steals the Matrix in the movie, he’s unable to wield it, and it’s Hot Rod who…