In need of a little confidence boost before a face-to-face with your boss? That urge seems to be driving employees at rideshare giant Uber to strange places. According to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, some of his… Read more: Uber Employees Have Created an AI Clone of Its CEO

Health officials in Illinois turned to an AI chatbot to try to solve a puzzling outbreak linked to a county fair. But whether it was actually helpful or not remains unclear. According to a report… Read more: In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT

Scientists racing to tackle plastic pollution have created a surprising new contender: a biodegradable packaging film made partly from milk protein. Researchers at Flinders University blended calcium caseinate with starch and natural nanoclay to form… Read more: This plastic is made from milk and it vanishes in 13 weeks

Scientists at Texas A&M are turning an everyday pick-me-up into a high-tech medical switch. By combining caffeine with CRISPR gene editing, researchers have created a system that allows cells to be programmed in advance —… Read more: Your morning coffee could one day help fight cancer

Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming harder to treat, pushing scientists to look for new antibiotic targets. Researchers have now discovered that several unrelated viruses disable a key bacterial protein called MurJ, which is essential for building… Read more: Scientists discover a bacterial kill switch and it could change the fight against superbugs

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that giant embryonic cells divide—without relying on the classic “purse-string” ring long thought essential for splitting a cell in two. Studying zebrafish embryos, researchers found that instead of… Read more: Textbooks challenged by new discovery about how cells divide

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and skeleton-free, explaining why their fossils don’t appear until much later. By analyzing hundreds of genes and… Read more: The first animals on Earth had no skeletons and that changes everything

Scientists have built a massive cellular atlas showing how aging reshapes the body across 21 organs. Studying nearly 7 million cells, they found that aging starts earlier than expected and unfolds in a coordinated way… Read more: How the body really ages: 7 million cells mapped across 21 organs

The warning signs are piling up for anyone still working as a software engineer in 2026. In a recent episode of former Airbnb guy Lenny Rachitsky’s tidily-named audio show, “Lenny’s Podcast,” the creator of one… Read more: Creator of Claude Code Fears This Could Be the Last Year That Software Engineers Are Employable

The Trump administration is scrambling to replace Claude, the chatbot embedded throughout the Pentagon’s entire scaffolding, with Elon Musk’s pet AI system, Grok. On paper, xAI’s Grok makes sense: the AI model is already used… Read more: Government Insiders Concerned by Musk’s Erratic and Sycophantic Grok Being Deployed for Incredibly Sensitive Purposes

After taking his company, Block Inc — formerly Square Inc — to a market cap of over $30 billion, billionaire entrepreneur Jack Dorsey has laid off nearly 40 percent of the fintech giant’s staff. In… Read more: Jack Dorsey Lays Off 4,000 Employees After Move to AI

Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot On 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A… Read more: Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.

Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered a microbe that bends one of biology’s most sacred rules. Instead of treating a specific three-letter DNA code as a clear “stop” signal, this methane-producing archaeon sometimes reads it… Read more: Scientists discover microbe that breaks a fundamental rule of the genetic code

Google on Friday unveiled its plan for its Chrome browser to secure HTTPS certificates against quantum computer attacks without breaking the Internet. The objective is a tall order. The quantum-resistant cryptographic data needed to transparently… Read more: Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space

Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.

DENVER—The US Air Force’s new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile is on track for its first test flight next year, military officials reaffirmed this week. But no one is ready to say when hundreds of new… Read more: The Air Force’s new ICBM is nearly ready to fly, but there’s nowhere to put it

Netflix has dropped out of the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), making Paramount Skydance the expected owner of WBD. A Paramount-WBD merger remains subject to regulatory approval, but it’s likely that we will… Read more: Under a Paramount-WBD merger, two struggling media giants would unite

During a summer internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Ivy Mahncke, an undergraduate student of robotics engineering at Olin College of Engineering, took a hands-on approach to testing algorithms for underwater navigation. She first discovered her… Read more: Featured video: Coding for underwater robotics

Despite the headline, this isn’t really a story about superconductivity—at least not the superconductivity that people care about, the stuff that doesn’t require exotic refrigeration to work. Instead, it’s a story about how superconductivity can… Read more: Photons that aren’t actually there influence superconductivity

President Donald Trump’s sudden order comes after the Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.

Department of Defense and artificial intelligence company were unable to reach agreement before deadline Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Donald Trump said Friday he will… Read more: Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI

AI chipmaker Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, demolished analyst expectations this week when it posted a massive 73 percent increase in fourth-quarter revenue. But then something strange happened: Nvidia’s shares tanked by over five… Read more: The Economy Is Lurching Downward as Fear of AI Spreads

The Trump administration has a new rival in its ongoing feud with AI company Anthropic: Silicon Valley’s rank-and-file. Newly reported by Bloomberg, a coalition of labor groups representing over 700,000 workers from Amazon, Google, Microsoft,… Read more: AI Workers, and Even CEOs, Suddenly Turning Against the Trump Administration

We haven’t had a new film from Gore Verbinski for nine years. But the director who brought us the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies, the nightmare-inducing horror of The Ring (2002), and the… Read more: The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

The US military mistakenly shot down a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone near the Mexican border in a strike that reportedly used a laser-based anti-drone system. The CBP uses drones to track people crossing… Read more: Whoops: US military laser strike takes down CBP drone near Mexican border

Deal signals feverish pace of AI investment with multibillion-dollar backings from Nvidia, Amazon and more OpenAI said on Friday it is raising $110bn in a blockbuster funding round that would value the ChatGPT maker at… Read more: OpenAI announces $110bn funding round that would value firm at $840bn

A new study found that chatbot use appeared to worsen symptoms of mental illness in people struggling with an array of conditions, adding to a rising consensus among medical experts that interacting with unregulated chatbots… Read more: Chatbot Use Can Cause Mental Illness to Get Worse, Research Finds

One-click deployment of NVIDIA’s open-source inference framework across public, private, hybrid, and on-prem environments Gcore, the global infrastructure and software provider for AI, cloud, network, and security solutions, today announced the integration of NVIDIA Dynamo into its… Read more: Gcore Integrates NVIDIA Dynamo for AI Inference

Anthropic’s ongoing battle with the Pentagon over the military’s use of its AI systems flared up this week around a hypothetical nuclear strike scenario, according to new reporting from the Washington Post. The Claude AI… Read more: Anthropic Blowout With Military Involved Use of Claude for Incoming Nuclear Strike

For years now, Valve fans have been making jokes about the company’s slow transition from game maker to glorified digital hat and knife paint marketplace. This week, though, a lawsuit brought by the state of… Read more: How strong is New York’s “illegal gambling” case against Valve’s loot boxes?

Dan Simmons, the author of more than three dozen books, including the famed Hyperion Cantos, has died from a stroke. He was 77. Simmons, who worked in elementary education before becoming an author in the… Read more: Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77

Media outlets indicate connection to bankrupt educational technology company that created chatbot for district Two days after the FBI searched the headquarters of the Los Angeles unified school district and the home of its superintendent,… Read more: Questions loom over FBI raid of LA superintendent’s home and district office

Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, dates back about 11.5… Read more: James Webb reveals a barred spiral galaxy shockingly early in the Universe

This strategic integration empowers AWS customers to move beyond visibility and take control, providing a unified platform to discover, purchase, and govern every identity at the heart of their cloud security strategy SailPoint, Inc. (Nasdaq: SAIL), a… Read more: SailPoint Integrates with New Extended Plan for AWS Security Hub

Vertiv OneCore factory-integrated, digitally validated infrastructure reduces on-site deployment complexity and accelerates schedule certainty amid tightening construction constraints Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, today announced a major evolution in high-density data… Read more: Vertiv Advances AI Deployment With Hut 8

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges. Hidden inside rocks over 541 million years old are rare molecular “fingerprints” that match compounds made by modern… Read more: MIT study finds Earth’s first animals were likely ancient sea sponges

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced sweeping changes to the Artemis program on Friday morning, including an increased cadence of missions and cancellation of an expensive rocket stage. The upheaval comes as NASA has struggled to… Read more: NASA shakes up its Artemis program to speed up lunar return

Netflix backed out of its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD’s) streaming and movie studios businesses on Thursday night. After increasing its bid for all of WBD by $1 per share on Tuesday, Paramount… Read more: Netflix cedes Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount: “No longer financially attractive”

Scientists have unveiled a breakthrough way to turn natural gas—long burned as fuel—into valuable chemical building blocks for medicines and other high-demand products. By designing a clever iron-based catalyst powered by LED light, researchers managed… Read more: Scientists turn methane into medicine in stunning breakthrough

Researchers at Nagoya University have created a more efficient iron-based photocatalyst that could reduce the need for rare and expensive metals in advanced chemistry. Unlike earlier designs, the new catalyst uses far fewer costly chiral… Read more: Iron outperforms rare metals in stunning chemistry advance

The world’s largest automaker has had a somewhat difficult relationship with battery-electric vehicles. Toyota was an early pioneer of hybrid powertrains, and it remains a fan today, often saying that given limited battery supply, it makes… Read more: And the award for the most improved EV goes to… the 2026 Toyota bZ

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss wishes made, god complexes, and the point… Read more: Behind the Blog: Using Your Brain

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have been born in a colossal cosmic crash. New research suggests Titan formed when two older moons slammed together hundreds of millions of years ago—an event so violent it reshaped… Read more: A lost moon may have created Titan and Saturn’s rings

CEO Jack Dorsey said 4,000 employees would be laid off as the fintech company, which owns Cash App, embraces AI Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox… Read more: Square parent company Block cuts nearly half of workforce as AI takes jobs

A group of more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers have demanded the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provide its definition of “domestic terrorist,” after the agency labelled U.S. citizens Renée Good and Alex Pretti, which… Read more: Lawmakers Demand DHS Define ‘Domestic Terrorist’ As It Uses Vast Array of Surveillance Tools

eBay cuts 800 jobs while investing in AI and acquiring Depop for $1.2 billion, reshaping its workforce to compete in the booming recommerce market. The post eBay Lays Off 6% of Workforce Amid $1.2B Depop… Read more: eBay Lays Off 6% of Workforce Amid $1.2B Depop Deal

A “thought experiment” about the impacts of AI sent stocks tumbling earlier this week. It’s probably going to keep happening.

Excepting the AirTag 2, so far it’s been a quiet year for Apple hardware. But that’s poised to change next week, as the company is hosting a “special experience” on March 4. The use of… Read more: Apple says it has “a big week ahead.” Here’s what we expect to see.

Block, the fintech group headed by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, will cut its workforce by “nearly half” in one of the clearest signs of the sweeping changes AI tools are having on employment. Shares in… Read more: Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools

An Ars Technica colleague recently bought a new M4 MacBook Air. I have essentially nothing bad to say about this hardware, except to point out that even in our current memory shortage apocalypse, Apple is… Read more: How to downgrade from macOS 26 Tahoe on a new Mac

When I joined Capital One in 2018, the product marketing function was essentially non-existent. We had talented people scattered across the organization doing product marketing work, but there was no unified vision, no consistent approach,… Read more: How we transformed product marketing at Capital One

In 2021, a splinter group of former OpenAI employees founded a new startup, Anthropic, to pursue building AI models with a renewed focus on safety, after feeling that their employer had gone astray. OpenAI itself was… Read more: Anthropic Drops Its Huge Safety Pledge That Was Supposedly the Whole Point of the Company

Dario Amodei may boast many credentials, but we weren’t aware that meteorologist was one of them. This week, the Anthropic CEO warned of an impending AI “tsunami” that will upend human society as the tech… Read more: Anthropic CEO Warns of “Tsunami” on Horizon

Nanoparticles on a glass slide amplify the sensitivity of a microscope to detect trace amounts of hazardous pollutants. Brandon Martin/Rice University Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are… Read more: Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water, soil and blood

Welcome to Edition 8.31 of the Rocket Report! We have some late-breaking news this week with an update Thursday afternoon from Rocket Lab on the timing of its much-anticipated Neutron rocket. Following the failure of… Read more: Rocket Report: Vulcan “many months” from flying; Falcon 9 extends reuse milestone

Improving trust in agentic AI for finance workflows remains a major priority for technology leaders today. Over the past two years, enterprises have rushed to put automated agents into real workflows, spanning customer support and… Read more: Upgrading agentic AI for finance workflows

The app reads your email inbox and your meeting calendar, then gives you a short audio summary. It can help you spend less time scrolling, but of course, there are privacy drawbacks to consider.

Many organisations are eroding the foundations of business – productivity, competitiveness, and efficiency. This is happening due to poor implementation of human-AI collaboration, according to cloud data and AI consultancy, Datatonic. The company says in… Read more: Poor implementation of AI may be behind workforce reduction

Renewing your enterprise AI platform in 2026? Ask these five questions to evaluate ROI, cost control, scalability, and vendor risk before committing. The post Five Questions to Ask Before Renewing or Expanding Enterprise AI Platforms… Read more: Five Questions to Ask Before Renewing or Expanding Enterprise AI Platforms in 2026

Banks are testing a new type of artificial intelligence, like agentic AI, that does more than scan for keywords or follow preset rules. Instead of relying only on static alerts, some trading desks are beginning… Read more: Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank test agentic AI for trade surveillance

Baby dinosaurs weren’t coddled like lion cubs or elephant calves—they were more like prehistoric latchkey kids. New research suggests that young dinosaurs quickly struck out on their own, forming kid-only groups and surviving without much… Read more: Scientists compared dinosaurs to mammals for decades but missed this key difference

Franki Chamaki/Unsplash Recently some Australian shoppers got more than they bargained for when they chatted with Woolworths’ artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Olive. Instead of sticking to groceries, recipes and basket suggestions, Olive reportedly produced strange,… Read more: Woolworths’ AI agent rambled about its ‘mother’. It’s a sign of deeper problems with the tech rollout

The Commonwealth Bank reportedly suspects around A$1 billion in home loans were obtained fraudulently, including through AI-generated documents. The Australian Financial Review says the bank has reported itself to police and the corporate watchdog to… Read more: Why Commonwealth Bank’s $1 billion suspected loan fraud should change how we bank and do business

The machine that will make tomorrow’s AI chips possible has just been declared ready for mass production–and the clock for the industry’s next leap has officially started. ASML, the Dutch company that holds a global… Read more: ASML’s high-NA EUV tools clear the runway for next-gen AI chips

Green hydrogen could be a game-changer for the clean energy transition—but right now, it’s too expensive and still relies on harmful “forever chemicals.” A new EU-backed project called SUPREME aims to fix that by reinventing… Read more: Green hydrogen has a hidden problem and scientists may have fixed it

OpenAI-powered assistant will help to ‘understand overall service patterns’, company says, as move sparks backlash From hospitality workers to retail employees, the exaggerated “customer service voice”, often mocked in internet memes as wildly different from… Read more: Burger King cooks up AI chatbot to spot if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running various models. The company claims that Computer, currently available… Read more: Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded out of Africa, resulting in a substantial amount of Neanderthal DNA scattered throughout our genome. Less… Read more: Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women

Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Plus: All you need to know about TAT-8 and undersea cables.

Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude model Anthropic said Thursday it “cannot in good conscience” comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety… Read more: Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks

Google’s latest image model, Nano Banana 2, is a powerful AI photo editor that punctures reality. Well, sometimes.

We’re all familiar with the high-pitched squeak of basketball shoes on the court during games, or tires squealing on pavement. Scientists conducted several experiments and discovered that the geometry of the sneakers’ tread patterns determines… Read more: The physics of squeaking sneakers

For miles around xAI’s makeshift power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, neighbors have endured months of constant roaring, erupting pops, and bursts of high-pitched whining from 27 temporary gas turbines installed without consulting the community. In… Read more: xAI spent $7M building wall that barely muffles annoying power plant noise

Getty Images The steady embrace of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public and private sectors in Australia and New Zealand has come with broad guidance about using the new technology safely and transparently, with good… Read more: AI can slowly shift an organisation’s core principles. How to spot ‘value drift’ early

The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down.

Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers.

Virgin Media O2 launches O2 Satellite, using Starlink to reach UK “not-spots” and boost landmass coverage to 95%. The post O2 Launches Starlink Satellite Service for UK ‘Not-Spots’ appeared first on TechRepublic.

It it time to get rid of group assignments at university? Federal Opposition education spokesperson Julian Leeser thinks so. On Thursday, he called for universities to drop group assessments entirely, arguing they are fundamentally “unfair”… Read more: Should unis ditch group assignments?

VGC / Getty Images Artificial intelligence (AI) is at a very Chinese time in its life. Recent moves from Chinese AI labs are throwing the dominance of American “frontier labs” such as Google and OpenAI… Read more: How China is betting cheap AI will get the world hooked on its tech

Nvidia posted record $68.1 billion Q4 revenue and $43B net income, driven by data center AI demand, and guided $78B revenue for the current quarter. The post The $120 Billion AI Machine: Nvidia’s Blockbuster Year… Read more: The $120 Billion AI Machine: Nvidia’s Blockbuster Year by the Numbers

Few actors are imitated as often as Michael Caine. Even Michael Caine has imitated Michael Caine. His voice has been used in birthday card greetings and been the source of jokes in various comedy sketches.… Read more: Michael Caine’s voice is iconic. Why would he sell that to AI?

Player is captain of NHL’s Ottawa Senators Tkachuk expresses regret over Trump joke US ice hockey star Brady Tkachuk has said he does not appreciate an AI video released by the White House that shows… Read more: Brady Tkachuk decries White House’s AI video of him insulting Canadians after US gold

Fast food franchises have struggled to reliably replace drive-thru employees with AI chatbots, resulting in abundant corporate frustration. Not only are customers being driven mad by the bots getting orders completely wrong, but even some… Read more: Burger King Adding AI to Employees’ Headsets to Constantly Monitor Whether They’re Being Friendly Enough

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin, a next-gen AI system promising 10x performance per watt, modular design, and liquid cooling to power future data centers. The post Nvidia’s Vera Rubin Promises 10x Efficiency as AI Power Demands… Read more: Nvidia’s Vera Rubin Promises 10x Efficiency as AI Power Demands Surge

President Donald Trump will meet Big Tech leaders on March 4 to sign a “Ratepayer Protection Pledge” aimed at keeping AI data center power costs off households. The post Big Tech to Sign AI Power… Read more: Big Tech to Sign AI Power Cost Pledge at White House Meeting With Trump

The last year has been big for Google’s AI efforts. Its rapid-fire model releases have brought it to parity with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic and, in some cases, pushed it into the lead.… Read more: Google reveals Nano Banana 2 AI image model, coming to Gemini today

OpenAI says scammers are using ChatGPT to commit romance scams and impersonate law firms. Learn the fastest verification steps to avoid AI-assisted fraud. The post ChatGPT Criminals: AI Scams Target Dating and Legal Impersonators appeared… Read more: ChatGPT Criminals: AI Scams Target Dating and Legal Impersonators

Silicon Valley built AI coding agents that can handle most of the grunt work. Now, the most valuable skill in tech is deciding what they should do.

Researchers have discovered new ways to shape quantum light, creating high-dimensional states that can carry much more information per photon. Using advanced tools like on-chip photonics and ultrafast light structuring, they’re pushing quantum communication and… Read more: Researchers unlock hidden dimensions inside a single photon

Sadiq Khan reveals 100 officers will use roaming technology for six months but opponents call its use ‘alarming’ Metropolitan police officers are to start scanning citizens’ faces using automated facial recognition technology to check their… Read more: Met police to pilot facial recognition identity checks, mayor confirms

Last year, Ford set a new industry record: It issued 152 safety recalls, almost twice the previous high set by General Motors back in 2014. More than 24 million vehicles were recalled in the US… Read more: Ford is recalling 4.3 million trucks and SUVs to fix a towing software bug

Tea App Green Flags, a service that claims it can “protect your digital reputation,” will remove negative posts about men from private online groups where women share “red flags” about men they’ve dated in order… Read more: Company Helps Men Scrub Negative Posts About Them from Tea App

The Old Irish Goat isn’t just part of folklore — it’s genetically linked to goats that lived in Ireland 3,000 years ago. Scientists analyzed ancient remains and discovered that today’s rare breed shares its strongest… Read more: Ireland’s Old Irish Goat has survived 3,000 years

Biomolecular condensates were long believed to be simple liquid blobs inside cells. Researchers have now uncovered that some are actually supported by fine protein filaments forming an internal scaffold. When this structure is disrupted, cells… Read more: Hidden architecture inside cellular droplets opens new targets for cancer and ALS

Claude cheat sheet with Claude’s core capabilities, how it works, model lineup, availability, pricing, setup steps, and the main alternatives to watch. The post Claude Cheat Sheet: Features, Access, Pricing, Models appeared first on TechRepublic.

Scientists at the University of Oxford have finally settled a decades-long mystery about the Moon’s magnetic field — and it turns out both sides were right. By reanalyzing Apollo mission rocks, they discovered that the… Read more: Apollo rocks reveal the Moon had brief bursts of super-strong magnetism

The US space agency has released a “pre-solicitation” for what is expected to be a hotly contested contract to develop a spacecraft to orbit Mars and relay communications from the red planet back to Earth.… Read more: A non-public document reveals that science may not be prioritized on next Mars mission

New York state has filed a lawsuit against Valve alleging that randomized loot boxes in games like Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 amount to a form of unregulated gambling, letting users “pay… Read more: New York sues Valve for enabling “illegal gambling” with loot boxes

It’s hard to overstate the role that Wi-Fi plays in virtually every facet of life. The organization that shepherds the wireless protocol says that more than 48 billion Wi-Fi-enabled devices have shipped since it debuted… Read more: New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises