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Updated  Meta’s flagship service, Facebook, is experiencing an outage.…

Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inference

It's a good time to be an AI chip startup, especially if you happen to specialize in silicon photonics.…

Probably not an isolated incident only as researchers have already found 2,863 live API keys exposed

A developer says their company is on the hook for more than $82,000 in unauthorized charges after a stolen Google Gemini API key racked massive usage costs up in just 48 hours.…

Injected liver cells stayed viable and functional for eight weeks in mice

Can’t keep waiting on the transplant list? How about an injectable “satellite liver” instead? After an MIT research project showed early success, the idea of a mini organ that could be injected into the body to take over for a failing liver doesn’t sound so far-fetched.…

AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details

Your latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling access to sensitive personal data captured during chatbot conversations, despite claims that the data is anonymized and obtained with consent.…

No one can hide from the RAMapocalypse, not even Tim Apple

RAM shortages and faster chips have a big impact on Apple's next-gen laptops. On Tuesday, the iGiant unveiled its M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and M5 Airs alongside steep price hikes across the lineup.…

After DHS’s $2.3M PenLink contract gets ‘shady’ label

A group of 70 US lawmakers has called on Homeland Security's inspector general to investigate whether its agencies - including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - illegally purchased Americans' location data without first obtaining warrants.…

No more hiding in the server closet: Cyber ops mentioned alongside kinetic warfare as critical to conflict

In what may be the most public acknowledgment of its cyber operations capabilities to date, the Pentagon has admitted that cyber soldiers are playing a key role in its attacks on Iran. …

The deal includes all Ookla assets including Speedtest, Ekahau, and RootMetrics

Accenture is going to get a closer look into how web traffic is moving...or not moving. The company has announced plans to buy Downdetector parent company Ookla from Ziff Davis as part of a package deal with other software for $1.2 billion.…

Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that's your sort of thing

BunsenLabs Linux is a lightweight, Debian-based distro forked from CrunchBang, and seven months after Debian 13 "Trixie" arrived, the project has released its latest version, dubbed Carbon.…

Law enforcement data shows profit-driven cybercrime is dominated by 35- to 44-year-olds, not script kiddies

Contrary to what some believe, cybercrime is not a kids' game. Middle-aged adults, not teenagers, now make up the biggest chunk of people getting busted.…

Telecoms coalition wants to avoid another 5G-style vendor scramble with early security guardrails

A group of Western governments has launched a fresh bid to shape 6G before it's even standardized, unveiling a set of security and resilience principles to bake supply chain controls and cyber safeguards into the next generation of mobile networks.…

Risk management? Continuity plan if our provider disappears? We've heard of these things

AI adoption is moving too rapidly say senior tech leaders, as the pressure to deploy clashes with risk management and compliance concerns.…

AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market

The Open VSX registry, used for installing extensions in editors compatible with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), will run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in Europe as part of a "strategic investment" from the cloud giant.…

AI browsing agent left local files open for the taking

If you wanted to steal local files from someone using Perplexity's Comet browser, until last month you could just schedule the theft by sending your victim a calendar event.…

Redmond wants a monthly cut from every digital worker on your payroll. Agents don't need dental, they will need a SKU

Microsoft is reportedly planning to license AI agents like employees – and charge accordingly.…

Deputy governor tells MPs central bank now has in-house skills and IP to maintain revamped RTGS

As the last Accenture employee clocked off from supporting the Bank of England's £431 million Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street was assured it would no longer depend on the global consultancy.…

Heidi Richards paid more than $5M for certificate of authenticity labels in five years

A Florida woman will spend nearly two years behind bars after being found guilty of fraudulently acquiring Microsoft certificate of authenticity (COA) labels and selling them in bulk.…

Third-party software supplier breached leading to leak of notes

Around 15.8 million administrative files were stolen after attackers breached a software supplier to France's health ministry.…

High-severity flaw let malicious add-ons access system via browser's embedded AI feature

Security boffins have discovered a high-severity bug in Google Chrome that allowed malicious extensions to hijack its Gemini Live AI panel and inherit privileges they were never meant to have.…