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New Book Details How Project Maven Accelerated Military Targeting with AI
A new book by journalist Katrina Manson details how Project Maven, a controversial Pentagon AI initiative, has accelerated the pace of warfare by compressing ta...
Sam Altman apologizes for not reporting ChatGPT account of Tumbler Ridge suspect
Two months after the deadly shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has formally apologized for not informing police of a...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologizes to Tumbler Ridge community for failing to alert police about shooting suspect
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologised to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, for the company’s failure to alert law enforcement about a ChatGPT use...
Cohere to acquire Aleph Alpha with $600M backing from Schwarz Group
Canadian AI startup Cohere is taking over Germany-based Aleph Alpha with support from Schwarz Group, the parent company of grocery chain Lidl. The deal includes...
Sam Altman apologizes for OpenAI not reporting mass shooting suspect to law enforcement
OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman has apologized for the company's failure to report a ChatGPT user to law enforcement before she carried out a mass shooting in...
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in API
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, a new frontier model for complex professional work, to the Chat Completions and Responses API. The company also released GPT-5.5 Pr...
Google Plans to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic
Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, according to a Bloomberg report cited by Engadget. Google is c...
ComfyUI raises $30M at $500M valuation for AI media control tools
ComfyUI, a startup that helps creators control image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models with a node-based workflow, has raised a $30 million fundin...
Samsung Labor Protests Threaten to Worsen Global RAM Shortage
The RAM shortage driven by demand from AI datacenters could worsen if Samsung labor protests cut production. Samsung is facing employee protests over demands fo...
Apple CEO transition to John Ternus signals hardware-focused future
Apple announced on Monday that John Ternus will take over as CEO later this year, succeeding Tim Cook. Ternus, a longtime hardware executive who joined Apple in...
Meta sued in class action over scam ads, internal docs cited
A class-action lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C. this week alleges that Meta deceived Facebook users about scam advertisements and profited from them. Tycko an...
Apple Vision Pro faces uncertain path under incoming hardware chief John Ternus
Apple’s Vision Pro headset has struggled to find a clear identity since its launch, and its future may depend on the priorities of incoming CEO John Ternus, who...
Tesla offers one year of free Supercharging with new Model 3 Premium and Performance purchases
Tesla is including one year of free Supercharging for buyers of new Model 3 Premium or Performance vehicles in North America, the automaker said on its website....
Used EV market poised to expand sharply as lease returns surge
A wave of returning leased electric vehicles is expected to flood the used-car market over the next three years, potentially making EVs far more affordable for ...
X launches encrypted messaging app XChat on iOS
X's standalone messaging app XChat launched on the iOS App Store Friday, marking the full rollout of Elon Musk's overhauled direct-message platform. The app had...
Microsoft to let Windows 11 users pause updates indefinitely
Microsoft announced it will allow users to pause updates in Windows 11 indefinitely, marking the first time the company has officially allowed indefinite update...
Meta and Microsoft cut more than 23,000 jobs as AI spending rises
Meta and Microsoft announced workforce reductions on the same day, April 23, affecting up to 23,000 positions combined. Meta told employees it would cut approx...
AMD EXPO 1.2 Arrives on AM5 Motherboards With Support for Faster Memory
AMD has released EXPO 1.2, an updated memory overclocking technology for AM5 motherboards that adds support for faster memory kits, new timing controls, and add...
U.S. Navy Tests Anti-Drone Laser Weapon Aboard Supercarrier
AeroVironment said this week that its LOCUST Laser Weapon System was successfully demonstrated aboard the USS George H.W. Bush in a live-fire event where it tra...
Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal with AWS for tens of millions of Graviton5 cores
Meta has signed a multibillion-dollar, multiyear agreement with Amazon Web Services to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 cores in support of agentic AI workl...
Adyen to acquire loyalty platform Talon.One for $878 million
Adyen plans to acquire Talon.One, a loyalty and incentives platform that serves more than 300 global merchants, for a total consideration of 750 million euros, ...
Samsung mobile division warns of possible first annual loss as RAM costs surge
Samsung co-CEO TM Roh has warned company leaders that the mobile division could report its first annual deficit this year, as rising RAM and storage costs conti...
U.S. government's Intel stake surges to $36B after Q1 earnings beat
The United States government owns approximately 433 million shares of Intel, acquired last August for $8.9 billion at $20.47 per share. After Intel's stock surg...
China warns US chip export legislation would severely disrupt global semiconductor supply chains
China’s Ministry of Commerce warned that US legislation advancing through Congress would “severely disrupt the international economic and trade order and seriou...
FCC expands router ban to include portable hotspots and mobile devices
The Federal Communications Commission has expanded its ban on foreign-made routers to include portable hotspots and mobile Wi-Fi devices. The commission added ...
FCC clarifies foreign router ban applies to portable Wi-Fi hotspots
The Federal Communications Commission has clarified that its sweeping ban on foreign-made consumer routers also covers portable hotspot devices. The agency adde...
Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against Sam Altman Heads to Trial
Jury selection is set to begin in the fraud lawsuit Elon Musk filed against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. The trial will take place in an Oakland federal court...
India's Snabbit seeks funding at $400M valuation
Snabbit, an Indian instant house-help startup, is close to raising fresh funding at a valuation of around $400 million in a round led by Susquehanna Venture Cap...
Quay brings one-click Git sync to the macOS menu bar
A new macOS utility called Quay aims to simplify Git workflows by letting users sync local folders with GitHub repositories directly from the menu bar. After p...
Developer builds deterministic 10,000-node VRP solver on a $100 Android phone
A developer with no formal computer science background says he built a deterministic vehicle routing problem solver capable of handling 10,000-node instances us...
Lachy Groom to Lead Funding Round for Indian Startup Pronto at $200M Valuation
Pronto, an Indian startup that connects households with on-demand domestic help, is finalizing a funding round led by investor Lachy Groom that would value the ...
CISA Discloses FIRESTARTER Backdoor on Federal Cisco Firepower Device
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency's Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive ...
Threat group deploys Snow malware via Microsoft Teams, says Mandiant
A threat group tracked as UNC6692 is using social engineering to deploy a new malware suite named Snow, according to Google's Mandiant researchers. The suite in...
Report: Safari is a major shadow IT blind spot in enterprise Apple environments
A new report commissioned by Parallels and conducted by Omdia warns that Safari may be the most significant shadow IT blind spot in enterprises running Apple de...
Citizen Lab details telecom spying campaigns exploiting SS7 and Diameter
Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that abuse weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people's locations. Citi...
Researchers Uncover Pre-Stuxnet Malware That Tampered With Engineering Calculations
Cybersecurity researchers at SentinelOne have discovered a previously undocumented malware framework that predates the notorious Stuxnet worm by at least five y...
Discord Users Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Restricted Mythos AI Model
A group of amateur investigators on Discord obtained unauthorized access to Anthropic’s Mythos Preview, an AI model the company has tightly restricted because o...
Microsoft to roll out Entra passkeys on Windows starting late April
Microsoft will begin rolling out passkey support for phishing-resistant passwordless authentication to Microsoft Entra-protected resources from Windows devices ...
CISA adds four actively exploited vulnerabilities to catalog, sets May deadline
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Friday added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, citing evidence o...
UK Data Center Planning Delayed by Inadequate Community Engagement, Report Finds
Data center planning in the UK is being delayed by inadequate community engagement, according to a report by British engineering consultancy firm Hoare Lea. Th...
Oracle closes $16.3 billion data centre financing, largest single-facility tech debt package ever
Oracle has closed a $16.3 billion financing package for a single data centre campus in Saline Township, Michigan, the largest single-facility technology debt pa...
NASA reports Artemis II heat shield and rocket performed as expected
NASA has begun its post-flight performance analyses of the systems that carried four astronauts around the moon and back earlier this month on the Artemis II mi...
US Space Force Names Companies Developing Golden Dome Orbital Interceptors
The US Space Force has named 12 companies that will develop Space-Based Interceptors for the Pentagon's Golden Dome initiative, a multilayer defense system desi...
SoftBank to build battery factory at former Sharp plant for AI data centres
SoftBank Corp. plans to convert part of the former Sharp LCD factory in Sakai, Osaka into one of Japan's largest battery production lines for AI data centres. B...