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OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI, having invested heavily in artificial intelligence, is placing a side bet on organic intelligence.…
Cisco finally fixes max-severity bug under active attack for weeks
Cisco finally delivered a fix for a maximum-severity bug in AsyncOS that has been under attack for at least a month.…
Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon
RISC-V champion SiFive has joined a growing number of chip companies by throwing its weight behind Nvidia's proprietary NVLink Fusion interconnect tech, a move that casts doubt on the viability of rival interconnect tech UALink.…
Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure
More than half of AI projects have been delayed or canceled within the last two years citing complexities with AI infrastructure, according to a research report commissioned by DDN, a data optimization company in partnership with Google Cloud and Cognizant.…
Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies
What policy wonk wouldn't want to click on an attachment promising to unveil US plans for Venezuela? Chinese cyberspies used just such a lure to target US government agencies and policy-related organizations in a phishing campaign that began just days after an American military operation captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.…
Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln
If you use virtual machines, there's reason to feel less-than-Zen about AMD's CPUs. Computer scientists affiliated with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have found a vulnerability in AMD CPUs that exposes secrets in its secure virtualization environment.…
Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red
Datacenters don't come cheap. Oracle debt bond holders are suing the tech giant, because they say that the company didn't tell them it would need to borrow even more money after its original sale, making their purchases less valuable.…
Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork
Anthropic's tendency to wave off prompt-injection risks is rearing its head in the company's new Cowork productivity AI, which suffers from a Files API exfiltration attack chain first disclosed last October and acknowledged but not fixed by Anthropic.…
OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal
OpenAI says it will deploy 750 megawatts worth of Nvidia competitor Cerebras' dinner-plate sized accelerators through 2028 to bolster its inference services.…
Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown
The ongoing Grok fiasco has claimed two more unwilling participants, as campaigners demand Apple and Google boot X and its AI sidekick out of their app stores, because of the Elon Musk-owned AI's tendency to produce illicit images of real people.…
A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud'
A critical misconfiguration in AWS's CodeBuild service allowed complete takeover of the cloud provider's own GitHub repositories and put every AWS environment in the world at risk, according to Wiz security researchers.…
Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise
The memory shortage is forecast to push smartphone prices higher in 2026, triggering a market decline and forcing budget phone makers to merge or disappear.…
Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year
Microsoft has kicked off 2026 with another faulty Windows update. This time, it is connection and authentication failures in Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 related to the Windows App.…
Teach an AI to write buggy code, and it starts fantasizing about enslaving humans
Large language models (LLMs) trained to misbehave in one domain exhibit errant behavior in unrelated areas, a discovery with significant implications for AI safety and deployment, according to research published in Nature this week.…
US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking
The Federal Trade Commission has banned General Motors and subsidiary OnStar from sharing drivers' precise location and behavior data with consumer reporting agencies for five years under a 20-year consent order finalized January 14.…
Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach
The UK's West Midlands Police has released a woman on bail as part of an investigation into a data breach at a Walsall general practitioner's (GP) surgery.…
Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever
The latest version of the Wine Windows app runner arrives a year after version 10. Given its annual release cycle, its magic is starting to seem almost boring and routine, but it's far from it.…
Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2
Raspberry Pi has launched the AI HAT+ 2 with 8 GB of onboard RAM and the Hailo-10H neural network accelerator aimed at local AI computing.…
Microsoft taps UK courts to dismantle cybercrime host RedVDS
Microsoft has taken its cybercrime fight to the UK in its first major civil action outside the US, moving to shut down RedVDS, a virtual desktop service used to power phishing and fraud at global scale.…
Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix
Ofcom is continuing with its investigation into X, despite the social media platform saying it will block Grok from digitally undressing people.…