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Gainsight CEO downplays breach, says only a 'handful' of customers had data stolen
Gainsight CEO Chuck Ganapathi downplayed the victim count related to his company's recent breach, saying he's only aware of "a handful of customers" who had their data affected after Salesforce flagged unusual activity involving Gainsight's connected app.…
Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon
This week the Norwegian scientific community celebrated the completion of the Olivia supercomputer, which combines AMD CPUs with Nvidia Superchips to deliver a 16-fold boost to the nation's computing capacity – and eventually put fresh fish on the table.…
Botnet takes advantage of AWS outage to smack 28 countries
A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October's widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a "test run" for future attacks, according to Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.…
Mobile industry warns patchwork cyber regs are driving up costs
Mobile operators' core cybersecurity spending is projected to more than double by 2030 as threats evolve, while poorly designed and fragmented policy frameworks add extra compliance costs, according to industry group the GSMA.…
Doom hits KiCad as PCB traces become demons and doors
There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an oscilloscope.…
CodeRED emergency alert system CodeDEAD after INC ransomware attack
Towns and cities across the US are without access to their CodeRED emergency alert system following a cyberattack on vendor Crisis24.…
US Navy scuttles Constellation frigate program for being too slow for tomorrow's threats
The US Navy is scrapping an entire shipbuilding program in an effort to find alternatives that can be delivered faster to counter expected threats.…
Workday confronts existential threat as customers freeze hiring
Workday is confronting a troubling reality. Customers aren't hiring much and some are actively cutting staff. The solution? Cross-selling to squeeze more revenue per user out of its installed base.…
HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals
OpenAI needs to secure $207 billion in new financing by 2030 to fulfill its expansion plans, according to HSBC Global Investment Research – a challenge that could ripple across Big Tech.…
Crocs get the Xbox treatment with sole-crushing price of $80
If Xbox console prices are going to leave Santa short this year, fear not as an alternative is at hand - Xbox Crocs are here for $80.…
The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC
Feature A silent arms race is accelerating in the world's most advanced laboratories. While headlines focus on chatbots and consumer AI, the United States is orchestrating something far more consequential: a massive expansion of supercomputing power that may reshape the future of science, security, and technological supremacy.…
London councils probe cyber incident as shared IT systems knocked offline
Two London councils are scrambling for answers after declaring a cybersecurity issue that began on Monday.…
Tuxedo Computers slams lid on Arm Linux laptop after 18 months of pain
German Linux box vendor Tuxedo Computers has canned its long-planned Qualcomm device, citing numerous problems with the state of the Linux-on-Arm art.…
Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit
Exclusive Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn't completed the switch.…
Dell says Windows 11 transition is far slower than Win 10 shift, yet PC sales have stalled
Dell has predicted PC sales will be flat next year, despite the potential of the AI PC and the slow replacement of Windows 10.…
India has satisfied its supercomputing needs, but not its ambitions
Supercomputing Month In the decade since India launched its National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), the nation has commissioned 37 machines with a combined power of 39 petaFLOPS, with another 35-petaFLOPS hybrid due to come online later this year. But while plenty of those machines use locally developed technology, India is yet to deliver on its ambition to become a leader or major semiconductor player.…
HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting
HP Inc will sack between 4,000 and 6,000 workers under a plan that calls for the PCs-and-printers prodigy to use AI to improve its operations.…
Alibaba Cloud can’t deploy servers fast enough to satisfy demand for AI
China’s Alibaba Cloud can’t deploy servers fast enough to keep up with demand for AI, so is rationing access to GPUs so that customers who use all of its services enjoy priority access.…
Lifetime access to AI-for-evil WormGPT 4 costs just $220
Attackers don't need to trick ChatGPT or Claude Code into writing malware or stealing data. There's a whole class of LLMs built especially for the job.…
Nvidia scoffs at threat from Google TPUs after rumored Meta tie-up
Growing demand for Google's homegrown AI accelerators appears to have gotten under Nvidia's skin amid reports that one of the GPU giant's most loyal customers may adopt the Chocolate Factory's tensor processing units (TPUs).…

