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But may face competition in its core smartphone segment as Samsung says it’s found a premium handset-maker who wants its Exynos SoCs

Chip design firm Qualcomm says it’s in “advanced discussions” with a hyperscale customer who wants its silicon to use in datacenters but may lose a major mobile customer to Samsung.…

Infosec issues spill into the real world and regional politics

Analysis  Thai and Cambodian tensions relating to issues including cybersecurity concerns boiled over into a kinetic skirmish at the border last week.…

Apple, Google, AI biggies, and for-profit insurance all eagerly rubbing their hands

The Trump administration and the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced plans to begin building a new digital health information system, in collaboration with a growing list of private-sector companies. Dubbed the CMS Digital Health Ecosystem, the new program aims to make it easier for patients to access their own medical records and health data.…

Few passengers are told they can opt out, and when they do, airport staff may push back

US lawmakers are trying to extend the use of facial recognition at airports, despite many airline passengers objecting to the practice.…

Chinese e-commerce giant is going back to dedicated instruct and thinking-tuned models as they prioritize quality over convenience

One of the headline features of Alibaba's Qwen 3 family of models when they launched back in April was the ability to toggle between "thinking" and "non-thinking" modes on the fly.…

Azure numbers shared for the first time. No details about AI, however.

Microsoft on Wednesday reported better than expected revenue for the fourth quarter of its 2025 fiscal year, thanks to the company's booming cloud business and, allegedly, to AI.…

The lure? Identity security and privileged access management tools to verify humans and... machines

Palo Alto Networks will buy Israeli security biz CyberArk in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal confirmed today.…

The latest kerfuffle to stall flights in and out of Heathrow

Airlines canceled more than 100 flights across the UK on Wednesday after a "technical issue" with radar systems left air traffic controllers flummoxed.…

The US president also hints at an extra penalty for New Delhi over trade with Russia

world war fee  Just as signs pointed to a slight easing in global trade tensions, US President Donald Trump opened a new front in his trade offensive, this time with a 25 percent tariff on goods from India.…

You get a superintelligence and you get a superintelligence. Everybody gets a superintelligence

Meta is plowing tens of billions of dollars into GPU bit barns the size of Manhattan Island, and yet The Social Network has struggled to upstage rivals like OpenAI or Anthropic.…

IBM report shows a rush to embrace technology without safeguarding it, and as for governance...

Organizations rushing to implement AI are neglecting security and governance, IBM claims, with attackers already taking advantage of lax protocols to target models and applications.…

Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround

The US Navy has announced plans to continue distributing satellite data needed for hurricane forecasting, months after authorities said the data stream was to be turned off.…

Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months

Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service.…

Competiton regulator smells abuse of a dominant market position, Zuckercorp claims all is well

Meta's addition of AI services to encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp has Italian officials suspecting the Silicon Valley giant may be abusing its dominant market position to push unwanted features on users.…

If at first you succeed, have some more money

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace $176.7 million to deliver a pair of rovers and a trio of scientific instruments to the Moon as part of the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.…

Brazil is the latest browser battlefield

Veteran browser maker Opera has filed a complaint with Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) against Microsoft over alleged anti-competitive practices in Windows that favor Edge.…

Distie insists global operations restored despite some websites only now coming back online

The cybercriminals claiming responsibility for Ingram Micro's ransomware attack put a deadline on leaking its data nearly a month after the raid.…

Gigaclear slapped by watchdog for failings, admits 'seriousness of the error'

Ofcom is to impose a £122,500 fine (about $164,000) on UK broadband provider Gigaclear for failing to deliver accurate caller location information when customers called the emergency services.…

Java-like move could land those expecting free trial with a new bill

Oracle has introduced new licensing terms that some users may see as hidden within the terms for VirtualBox, the general-purpose virtualization software for x86_64 hardware.…

Birdsong stores 176 KB, but can it run Doom?

Forget flash storage – flock storage is here after it was demonstrated that data can be saved to a bird.…