Rillet co-founder and CEO Nicolas Kopp seems justifiably confident as we talk over Zoom a day after his company announced a $100 million raise at a $1 billion valuation. The U.S. has a shortage of accountants right now, which is driving growth of his AI-native accounting platform so much, he raised that cash in 48…

For a time, netbooks were everywhere. They emerged around 2007 at a time when laptops were becoming more common and were marketed as cheaper, smaller, and lighter alternatives to desktop personal computers. Netbooks, as their name indicates, were primarily made for accessing the internet and became popular for their portability. However, their era didn’t last…

Seattle’s surveillance camera debate has largely been framed as a choice between safety and privacy. But cybersecurity engineer Noah Williams, a member of the Community Not Cameras coalition, told “The John Curley Show” on KIRO Newsradio that the real problem isn’t cameras themselves. It’s the system running them.

Microsoft pushed a batch of updates into Azure AI Foundry this month that change how the platform is actually used. As of August 2026, Claude models hosted inside Microsoft Foundry now support structured outputs, web search, web fetch, MCP connectors, and tool search natively, turning what used to be a bare model endpoint into something…