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A joint advisory from five countries' cyber agencies details how the SafePay group has used VPN brute-forcing and stolen credentials to breach victims since 2024.
Elon Musk confirmed both boards set up independent-director panels to review combining the two companies, though he says no terms have been agreed.
Perplexity's AI agent for Mac can plan tasks, use tools, and process files entirely on-device without sending data to the cloud, though full local operation requires at least 36GB of unified memory.
Zoom unveiled a suite of AI management features including real-time deepfake risk detection, centralized AI activity controls, and custom guardrails for AI-generated meeting content, announced today at its annual Zoomtopia conference.
General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund will give the AI meeting-notes company repayable capital instead of shares, letting CEO Sam Liang fund an enterprise sales push without diluting existing investors.
Kosmos 2612 spent weeks maneuvering to match the orbit of ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar satellite, before closing to a distance orbital trackers call the first unsanctioned rendezvous of its kind in low-Earth orbit.
The Department of Homeland Security published a sweeping order excluding DeepSeek from federal procurement and requiring its removal from existing government IT systems, citing data-transfer and malware risks.
NorForge researchers caught a Chinese-speaking hacker running an autonomous AI agent campaign that broke into over 100 corporate websites, including John Deere and SharkNinja, spending just $5,000 total.
AWS released TorchNeuron, a native PyTorch backend that lets developers run existing AI code on Amazon's Trainium chips with a one-line config change — a direct challenge to the software compatibility that has kept Nvidia's CUDA platform the default choice.
Google and Mandiant disclosed a supply-chain campaign that tampered with AOMEI Backupper's unsigned update files for just minutes at a time between May and July, planting a backdoor on machines across 11 countries without exploiting any software vulnerability.
Amazon, AEP, and X-energy signed a deal to study a 960-megawatt small modular reactor project on the site of a shuttered Indiana coal plant — the second grid-scale step in a plan to add 5 gigawatts of nuclear capacity for AI data centers by 2039.
Microsoft has walked away as anchor customer for Nscale's flagship AI data center in Essex after grid operators said a power connection might not arrive until the 2030s, a blow that lands just as the neocloud operator prepares to go public.