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Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper

Amazon Web Services has let AI agents loose in its cloudy WorkSpaces virtual PCs.…

Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks

India’s Securities and Exchange Board has advised participants in the nation’s equities industry to immediately revisit their information security systems and practices, in case Anthropic’s Mythos bug-finding AI sparks a cyberattack spree.…

Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks

There’s gold in midmarket IT spend, and Anthropic - backed by private equity and banking heavyweights and tapping its Claude Partner Network - is coming for it.…

If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math

An executive for ChatGPT maker OpenAI said in court testimony on Tuesday that the AI model developer expects to burn $50 billion on computing power before the end of the year.…

GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them

A LinkedIn feature the average non-paying user likely only glances past could end up setting a legal precedent in the EU regarding how companies treat customer data that they've processed. …

High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage

Astera Labs unveiled an alternative to Nvidia's NVSwitch for building rack-scale AI systems on Tuesday, claiming it will work with nearly any accelerator.…

Always bet on backpropagation

If you've ever read Anthropic's disclaimer that responses generated by Claude may contain mistakes and thought, "That's what I need to spice up financial operations," you're in luck.…

With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2

IBM has added support for Google Vertex AI and Intel Gaudi to boost the AI-based management of its stalwart Db2 database.…

ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows

ServiceNow announced an expansion of its AI Control Tower, transforming what began last year as a governance dashboard into what the company now describes as a command center for managing AI assets across an entire enterprise, including those running outside ServiceNow's own platform.…

A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not

Shortwave radio enthusiasts are sure to know the problem: You're trying to tune in to your favorite global broadcast only to find that the signal is fuzzy. Is it you? Your equipment? It might just be the conditions in the ionosphere, which you'd know if you built this DIY device. …

Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long

CISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed "CopyFail" is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit.…

Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time

OPINION  NASA's budget and its new administrator's statements are evoking a ghost from the agency's past: Faster, better, cheaper.…

Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future

Bun creator Jarred Sumner has posted a Zig-to-Rust porting guide, igniting speculation that the project may migrate away from Zig, though Sumner said there is no commitment to rewriting, only that he is "curious to see what a working version of this looks like."…

Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats

Real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield has confirmed a data breach after two cybercrime groups, ShinyHunters and Qilin, separately claimed responsibility for attacks on the company.…

ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration

SAP has snapped up Dremio, a data integration and analytics provider, to extend the reach of its data analytics and AI agent-building tools into external data sources.…

Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock

VMware has announced an update to its flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite and tried to make it fit the times by adding features that allow users to run with less hardware.…

Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched

More than 119,000 Vimeo users's email addresses were extracted in a breach traced to a third-party analytics vendor, according to Have I Been Pwned.…

Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech

British mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry's team gave it "to show us what it could do."…

Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories

Romance fraudsters scammed Britons out of £102 million ($138 million) last year, according to the latest police figures.…

CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule

Vodafone has struck a deal to take full ownership of VodafoneThree, the mobile network formed from last year's merger of its British operations with Three, in a move designed to accelerate its UK ambitions.…