Don't click on that Facebook ad for a text-to-AI-video tool
A group of miscreants tracked as UNC6032 is exploiting interest in AI video generators by planting malicious ads on social media platforms to steal credentials, credit card details, and other sensitive info, according to Mandiant.…
From Russia with chokehold: Putin says foreign IT firms still in Russia should be 'strangled'
Russian President Vladimir Putin said foreign tech providers still operating in Russia should be "strangled" as the country develops domestic alternatives.…
Oracle's $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI's Abilene, Texas DC to handle
Oracle will reportedly shell out around $40 billion on Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to provide compute power to OpenAI from the first US Stargate datacenter in Abilene, Texas, assuming the site can deliver enough electricity to handle the load.…
Arc put on ice as The Browser Company bets big on AI-powered Dia
AI is rapidly reshaping how we use the web, or so The Browser Company founder Josh Miller argues. That belief helped drive his team's decision to stop building new features for its Arc browser and shift focus to an "AI browser" dubbed Dia.…
AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads
As software agents powered by foundation models become more commonplace, marketers need to revisit their assumptions about website design and advertising.…
New Russian cyber-spy crew Laundry Bear joins the email-stealing pack
A previously unknown Kremlin-linked group has conducted cyber-espionage operations against Dutch police, NATO member states, Western tech companies, and other organizations of interest to the Russian government since at least April 2024, according to Dutch intelligence services and Microsoft.…
Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates
Despite high-profile calls for employees to get their butts back behind their desks in a traditional workplace setting, more people - at least in the UK - are ignoring return-to-office mandates, a study has found.…
Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz
Former British deputy PM and Meta apologist Sir Nick Clegg says that forcing AI companies to ask for the permission of copyright holders before using their content would destroy the AI industry overnight.…
Trump can bluster and bluff all he wants, but iPhone manufacturing isn't coming to the US
US President Donald Trump can huff, puff, and threaten to blow Tim Cook's house down with a 25 percent iPhone import tariff, but analysts say even that threat is unlikely to bring Apple's manufacturing home.…
Adidas confirms criminals stole data from customer service provider
Adidas is warning customers some of their data was stolen after an "unauthorized" person lifted it from a "third-party customer service provider."…
Salesforce takeover of Informatica is on for $8 billion
Salesforce is to buy Informatica, the enterprise data management and analytics biz, for around $8 billion.…
Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down
Software biz MathWorks is cleaning up a ransomware attack more than a week after it took down MATLAB, its flagship product used by more than five million people worldwide.…
UK tax collector puts half a billion on table for call center services
The UK's tax collector has confirmed plans to contract out call center services with an associated price tag of £500 million ($677 million).…
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
Opinion I use AI a lot, but not to write stories. I use AI for search. When it comes to search, AI, especially Perplexity, is simply better than Google.…
The elusive goal of Unix – or Linux – simplicity
Comment Linux distro wars are nothing new. "Advocacy" (a euphemism for angry argument) about hardware, OSes, programming languages and editors goes back as long as different computers have existed. Computers appeal to geeky folks, and geeky folks readily get a little too attached to things — and then become possessive and defensive about them.…
AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking
Opinion How much harm does AI cause the environment? As a report from the MIT Technology Review just confirmed, nobody knows, and almost nobody cares enough to try and find out. Even if lots of people did care a lot, it wouldn’t change things. The driver of AI’s insane energy addiction is no more amenable to argument than a labrador in possession of an entire roast chicken.…
Europe warns giant e-tailer to stop cheating consumers or face its wrath
The European Commission has warned Chinese e-tailer SHEIN to clean up its act, after finding several practices on its website breach local consumer law.…
Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'
World War Fee US president Donald Trump has threatened a tariff that would apply only to Apple, and appears to have referred to the European Union’s treatment of American tech companies as part of a threat to slap the bloc with higher tariffs.…
China spawns an x86 supercomputing monster, with an AMD connection
China has spawned a supercomputing contender.…
Get a custom paint job for earbuds at a nail salon, type on a baguette, then build a fountain for your PC
Computex Taiwan’s Computex conference sprawls across four exhibition halls in which almost 1,500 exhibitors jostle for attention.…
