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The US Army soldier suspected of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump's call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent.…

Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity

Updated  Computer scientists have found that fine-tuning notionally safe large language models to do one thing badly can negatively impact the AI’s output across a range of topics.…

Federal agents, open up ... your browsers and see if you recognize any of these wallets

The FBI has officially accused North Korea's Lazarus Group of stealing $1.5 billion in Ethereum from crypto-exchange Bybit earlier this month, and asked for help tracking down the stolen funds.…

Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction

Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced Ocelot, a quantum computing chip based on "cat qubits."…

Is stuck-down memory forgivable if it's for the sake of performance?

Framework's modular mini desktop has received glowing approval from the repair experts at iFixit, despite having non-upgradeable memory because of its Ryzen AI Max processor.…

Yet growth in its AI agent biz not enough to improve numbers

Salesforce will not hire any more engineers this year after investment in AI coding tools provided a 30 percent productivity boost, its CEO claimed as he sought to charm investors.…

Plus: Musk's biz empire reportedly pulled in $6B-plus from Uncle Sam last year

The FAA has confirmed it's trying out three SpaceX Starlink broadband terminals in the United States.…

How to make them, and what to use them for

The US Department of Defense's research arm, DARPA, has put out a Request for Information (RFI) for "large bio-mechanical space structures."…

Chipmaker touts high-core, low-power Altra processors as the future of 5G and AI inferencing

Ampere Computing is looking to target the telecoms market with its Arm-based server chips, hoping to take a slice of the growing compute needs of 5G and edge processing, which it believes Intel is no longer best served to meet.…

It looks like you have died. Would you like help?

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the nod to the Loss of Pulse Detection feature of the Pixel Watch 3.…

Some businesses sticking with Windows 10, AI boxes not reviving demand

President Trump's tariffs on goods imported from China, in addition to faltering consumer purchases, are forecast to result in slower-than-expected global shipments of personal computers, according to IDC.…

More than a dozen women came forward with accusations

Details about the harassment allegations leveled at DEF CON veteran Christopher Hadnagy have now been revealed after a motion for summary judgment was filed over the weekend.…

Plus: Beware of a hotspot called 'spanky'

Computing pioneer Steve Wozniak didn't set out to revolutionize the computer industry. He just wanted the respect of his fellow engineers.…

May we all have problems like annual revenue growth dropping from 126 to 114 percent

Nvidia's astounding recent growth leveled off in the fourth quarter of its 2025 fiscal year, the 12 months to January 26, but the GPU titan is still producing enviable numbers.…

Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that dreams of big-model inference

Arm predicts AI inferencing will soon be ubiquitous. In order to give devices the oomph they need for all that neural-network processing, it is beefing up its embedded platform with the first 64-bit Armv9 CPU core aimed at edge workloads.…

Chat app chaps slapped, rapped for leaving yakkity-yakkers in a flap

Final update  It's not just you. Slack is indeed having a wobbly day, leaving people unable to message each other as usual.…

National intel boss slams naughty nattering on work systems as 'egregious violation of trust'

More than 100 US spies have been fired, and their security clearance revoked, after an internal NSA messaging system was used by staff to chat about their sex lives.…

244M purloined passwords added to Have I Been Pwned thanks to govt tip-off

A tip-off from a government agency has resulted in 284 million unique email addresses and plenty of passwords snarfed by credential-stealing malware being added to privacy-breach-notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).…

Experts warned the UK’s recent 'victory' over Apple would kickstart something of a domino effect

Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker says her company will withdraw from countries that force messaging providers to allow law enforcement officials to access encrypted user data, as Sweden continues to mull such plans.…

Up to $140M in bounty rewards for return of Ethereum allegedly pilfered by hermit nation

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, just days after suspected North Korean operatives stole $1.5 billion in Ethereum from it, has launched a bounty program to help recover its funds.…