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Australian airline Qantas reveals data theft impacting six million customers
Australian airline Qantas on Wednesday revealed it fell victim to a cyberattack that saw information describing six million customers stolen.…
Figma files for an (A)IPO with prospectus that mentions AI 150+ times
Web design tools developer Figma on Tuesday filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to propose an initial public offering of company shares.…
With OpenAI, there are no allegiances - just compute at all costs
Analysis No longer bound to Microsoft's infrastructure, OpenAI is looking to expand its network of compute providers to the likes of Oracle, CoreWeave, and apparently even rival model builder Google.…
Microsoft pulls plug on generous Azure credit program for startups
Microsoft has retired its program that granted incorporated AI startups with a validated business plan up to $150,000 in Azure credits and replaced it with a two-track system.…
Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers
ai-pocalypse Cloudflare has started blocking AI web crawlers by default in a bid to become the internet's gatekeeper.…
Microsoft admits to Intune forgetfulness
Microsoft Intune administrators may face a few days of stress after Redmond acknowledged a problem with security baseline customizations.…
Senate decides free rein for AI companies isn't such a good thing
It took a tie-breaking vote from the Vice President JD Vance to pass Trump's budget reconciliation bill through the Senate on Tuesday, but a controversial section that would have barred states from regulating AI was struck down in a much clearer fashion. …
Chip design is a RISC-y business: Codasip puts itself up for sale
European RISC-V biz Codasip has put itself up for sale, citing an expression of interest during a recent funding round, and is now openly touting for buyers.…
Apple accuses former engineer of taking Vision Pro secrets to Snap
An ex-Apple employee who allegedly thought he was clever enough to sneak out the back door to a job at Snap loaded up with Cupertino's secrets has instead found himself on the receiving end of a lawsuit. …
International Criminal Court swats away 'sophisticated and targeted' cyberattack
The International Criminal Court (ICC) says a "sophisticated" cyberattack targeted the institution, the second such incident in two years.…
Fedora 43 won't drop 32-bit app support – or adopt Xlibre
The Fedora community has quickly dropped a couple of recent proposed changes – one highly controversial, the other rather less so.…
NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone
NASA has extended recovery efforts for its stricken Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft to mid-July, but is warning that if the probe remains silent, the mission could end.…
EU rattles its purse and AI datacenter builders come running
It's pork barrel time in Europe for Nvidia (and possibly AMD) as corporations bid for a slice of the €20 billion ($23.6 billion) fund to build proposed AI Gigafactories to advance the EU's AI credentials.…
Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess
Not content with humiliating ChatGPT at the hands of Video Chess on an Atari 2600 emulator, Robert Caruso has tried again, this time with Microsoft's Copilot.…
Folks aren’t buying the PCs that US vendors stockpiled to dodge tariffs
World War Fee Total PC shipments in the US will increase by just 2 percent this year, thanks to Trump's tariffs and little appetite from consumers for spending on "big-ticket" items, despite the looming end of Windows 10 support.…
Linus Torvalds hints Bcachefs may get dropped from the Linux kernel
The geek titans are clashing once again, and Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has warned: "I think we'll be parting ways" as of kernel 6.17.…
People have empathy with AI… as long as they think it's human
A study of AI chat sessions has shown people tend to have more empathy with a chatbot if they think it is human.…
Terrible tales of opsec oversights: How cybercrooks get themselves caught
They say that success breeds complacency, and complacency leads to failure. For cybercriminals, taking too many shortcuts when it comes to opsec delivers a little more than that. …
Critics blast Microsoft's limited reprieve for those stuck on Windows 10
Microsoft's latest attempts to ease the transition to Windows 11 for Windows 10 users "don't go far enough," according to privacy campaigners that worry about the prospect of millions of PCs going to landfill.…
A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws
A year after the Right to Repair laws passed in California and Minnesota, many product makers still aren't doing much to help consumers fix the gear they bought.…