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Executives are losing faith in AI initiatives despite rising investment, according to a study conducted by consultancy Akkodis.…

An Iranian ransomware-as-a-service operation with ties to a government-backed cyber crew has reemerged after a nearly five-year hiatus, and is offering would-be cybercriminals cash to infect organizations in the US and Israel.…

GlobalFoundries has acquired chip design firm MIPS, creating a company that both designs and creates semiconductors.…

Samsung has acquired US company Xealth to combine data drawn from its wearable devices and hospital records.…

Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is stepping down from his role next month and leaving the company later this year to spend more time with friends and family.…

For the first time this year, Microsoft has released a Patch Tuesday bundle with no exploited security problems, although one has been made public already, and there are ten critical flaws to fix.…

In case you'd forgotten, IBM is still blazing its own trail with regard to silicon. And in terms of speeds and feeds, Big Blue's latest crop of Power chips boasts up to 55 percent faster cores than its Power9 chips.…

Serial entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter and currently acts as CEO of payments company Block, has released the source code for a peer-to-peer messaging app called bitchat that relies on Bluetooth for network connectivity.…

A bipartisan pair of Senators is so happy with the US Army's right to repair policy that they want to enshrine it in federal law as the standard across military branches. …

A Chrome and Edge extension with more than 100,000 downloads that displays Google's verified badge does what it purports to do: It delivers a color picker to users. Unfortunately, it also hijacks every browser session, tracks activities across websites, and backdoors victims' web browsers, according to Koi Security researchers.…

updated A provision in the new US budget bill opens a wide swath of spectrum for sale, including some that overlaps with frequencies currently allotted for private mobile networks and Wi-Fi 6E. …

Climate change could pose a threat to the technology industry as copper production is vulnerable to drought, while demand may grow to outstrip supply anyway.…

The US Congress has passed President Donald Trump's budget bill. In addition to the possibility of a Space Shuttle move, significant changes are on the way for NASA.…

Senior Post Office staff – and those working for suppliers Fujitsu and ICL – knew or should have known about the defects causing errors in the Horizon system that contributed to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of branch workers, 13 of whom committed suicide, most probably as a result, according to the first volume of a government report into the computer scandal.…

Partner content Every organization is investing in cyberresilience tools, training, and processes. Unfortunately, only some of them will be able to successfully respond and recover from an attack. Regardless of how hard they work, many IT and security teams are constrained by legacy technology architectures that were built for the challenges of 2015, not 2025.…

The Georgia Court of Appeals has tossed a state trial court's order because it relied on court cases that do not exist, presumably generated by an AI model.…

Linux veteran SUSE has unveiled a new support package aimed at customers concerned about data sovereignty.…

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has announced an agreement with Oracle it claims offers a 75 percent discount on the vendor's license-based technology.…

A man who US authorities allege is a member of Chinese state-sponsored cyberespionage outfit Silk Typhoon was arrested in Milan last week following a tipoff from the US embassy.…

The UK's 5G networks are among the worst in Europe when it comes to measurements such as download speed, upload speed, latency, and packet loss, according to a report published today.…