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AMD puts $250 million into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs
AMD has struck another chips’n’stock deal, this time with software-defined datacenter player Nutanix.…
Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe
Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe Looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play Microsoft is “fully cooperating” with a probe by Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, which wants to know if the software giant has violated the nation’s anti-monopoly laws.…
Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse
Even by the somewhat offbeat standards of the Salesforce Ohana, the CRM giant just delivered a strange earnings announcement.…
Nvidia hasn't made a cent in China lately - and might not need to given $120 billion profit
Nearly three months after the Trump administration allowed Nvidia to sell its H200 accelerator in China, the GPU giant is still waiting for Beijing to allow them in and for any revenue to materialize.…
Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution
Security vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API keys by injecting malicious configurations into repositories, and then waiting for a developer to clone and open an untrustworthy project.…
LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far
Add privacy to the list of potential casualties caused by the proliferation of AI, because researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) can be used to deanonymize internet users – even those who use pseudonyms – more efficiently than human sleuths.…
AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios
Today's hottest bots have yet to learn that, when it comes to global thermonuclear war, the only way to win is not to play. So please don't hand them the codes. …
Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents
A China-linked crew found a unique formula for attacking telcos and government orgs across the Americas, Asia, and Africa in its latest round of intrusions. Google's threat intelligence, along with unnamed industry partners, disrupted the gang, which used the Chocolate Factory's own spreadsheet tools as part of its exploits.…
Hide from Meta's spyglasses with this new Android app
Worried that someone wearing Meta's snooping spyware goggles could be creeping up on you? Android users now have access to an app that can warn them if someone is wearing such smart glasses in their vicinity by using Bluetooth.…
AMD challenges Intel with an 84-core Epyc processor aimed at telcos, edge
AMD's edgiest Epyc chips are officially getting a Zen 5 refresh with the introduction of its 8005-series processors codenamed Sorano.…
OpenAI asks its friends to tell their friends about Frontier
OpenAI has managed to make a name for itself with ChatGPT. But if it wants its new enterprise AI product Frontier to succeed, it's going to need help. According to an analyst, the company is smart to partner with the world's biggest consultants to push Frontier, which can create and control role-based AI agents throughout an organization.…
All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made Anthropic an offer it may not be able to refuse. The Defense Department and the AI firm held a meeting at the Pentagon on Tuesday, where the government tried to compel the house of Claude to lift some restrictions on military use of its tech. However, recent changes to the company's safety policy suggest it may be willing to be more flexible than it's letting on. …
Hardly anybody bought Samsung's last smartphones for AI. It hopes this year's models change that
Just 20 percent of punters who bought Samsung's 2025 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, cited AI as the main reason for their purchase. With this year's S26 models, the Korean giant hopes to improve that number.…
Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware
Next.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed malicious repositories disguised as legitimate projects, according to Microsoft, which said a limited set of those repos were directly tied to observed compromises.…
Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy'
Is it OK to say "slop" again? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella took to the stage on the London leg of the company's AI tour and said the words that many an IT pro has uttered when faced with a Copilot rollout: "Nobody wants anything that is sloppy in terms of AI creation."…
Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI
A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.…
Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother
It's not the only new feature in Firefox 148 yet one thing is very definitely the big news: the global off switch for its AI features that the company announced earlier this month is now included.…
Execs love AI, just not enough to pay for user training
Just 4 percent of businesses achieved a return on their AI investments, yet rather than admit AI isn't living up to early expectations, a newly published study is blaming the users for not doing enough.…
Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia
The former general manager of L3Harris's cyber arm will spend the next seven years behind bars for selling trade secrets to Russia.…
Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost
A newly released plot of the Hubble Space Telescope's altitude shows just how quickly the observatory has descended in recent years.…