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Even before the Trump administration went to war against DEI and attempts to address historical discrimination, diversity efforts in the US were controversial. A pivotal moment came in 2023, when the Supreme Court ruled that race-based affirmative action programs violated the Con

CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool GrassMarlin leaks sensitive information, provided your targeting phishing skills are sharp enough The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning anyone who uses GrassMarlin, a tool developed by the

Roku’s latest streaming bet is off to a solid start. Its affordable subscription service, Howdy, has now passed 1 million subscribers, according to data from research firm Antenna. This is a notable milestone for a platform that’s still pretty new, and suggests that it’s striking

Uber customers in the United States can now book hotels directly through the app, one of several new features announced Wednesday that pushes far beyond the company’s original ride-hailing purpose and even deeper into its users’ lives. Uber announced the new hotel-booking feature

On Tuesday in San Francisco at an event called "What's Next with AWS," CEO Matt Garman took the stage to announce that AWS is (for what, depending on how you count, is the seventh, eighth, or ninth time) moving up the stack and entering the applications business. The batting line

Tom's Hardware Verdict Colorful’s iGame X870E Vulcan OC V14 is a well-built, overclocking-focused motherboard with robust hardware, thoughtful overclocking features, and a premium design that pushes the brand closer to true high-end territory. But stiff competition at this price

Google signs classified Pentagon AI deal but exits $100 million drone swarm program — report claims employees revolted over ethical fears, delivered letter to CEO Pichai The company will sell the military unrestricted Gemini access, but won't build autonomous weapons technology.

Seven families of victims injured or killed in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company and its leadership of negligence after they failed to alert police to the suspected shooter’s ChatGPT activity. T

ChatGPT is struggling to keep up its once-explosive growth as users uninstall the app or opt for rival chatbots instead. According to data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, ChatGPT experienced a 132 percent increase in uninstalls year over year in April. Its uninstall r

Epic Games has scored another procedural win in its fight with Apple over App Store fees, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has now granted the Fortnite maker’s latest motion. The decision means Apple must continue to allow developers to link to external payment

A controversial bill in Colorado that would have undone some repair protections in the state has failed. The bill had been the target of right-to-repair advocates, who saw it as a bellwether for how tech companies might try to undo repair legislation more broadly in the US. Color

A model is only as good as its data, and for Roman Teslyuk, the data wasn’t coming fast enough. “I hate delays,” Teslyuk, founder and CEO of Earth AI, told TechCrunch. For the last few years, Earth AI has been searching for critical minerals like copper, platinum, and palladium i

If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there’s only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. Larry’s risky business Oracle’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble? If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn

Spinning disks generating massive revenue for Seagate Customers scrambled to buy Seagate’s nearline disk drives as it reported massive third quarter earnings driven by pricier mass-capacity drives. Its revenues of $3.11 billion beat its high-end $3 billion guidance and were up 44

Commvault beats guidance as revenue growth slows Commvault beat its revenue guidance in its latest quarterly results but profitability was down due to restructuring costs, and revenue growth is deccelerating. Revenues in the fourth quarter ended March 31, were $312 million, up 13

Lenovo abandons separate magnesium frame for latest P16 Gen 3 laptop after 20 years — robust feature introduced in ThinkPad T60 in 2006, company now integrates material into outer shell for a thinner design This will make the ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 lighter and thinner. But at what co

TSMC SoIC 3D stacking roadmap outlines path from 6-micron pitches today to 4.5-micron in 2029 — Fujitsu's Monaka CPU to benefit from face-to-face chiplet stacking Chips are set to grow taller with next-gen SoIC. TSMC's chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging technology has b

Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that a payment of about $625,000 (about 199.7 million Sri Lankan rupees) to the U.S. Postal Service has been missing for several weeks, after U.S. officials reported that the payment had failed to arrive, reports local media. Authorities detected the inc

GitHub: Zounds, a genuinely helpful AI-assisted bug report that isn't total slop! Here, Wiz, take this wad of cash Claude ploughs through months of work in rapid time, helps Wiz researchers nab lucrative award Wiz researchers are set for a tidy payday thanks to their discovery of

Scammers are using AI-generated videos of celebrities including Taylor Swift and Rihanna to promote shady services on TikTok, according to authentication company Copyleaks. Taylor Swift deepfakes are pushing scams on TikTok Copyleaks says scammers are using AI to impersonate cele

Oracle’s Project Jupiter Ditches Gas Turbines for Bloom Fuel Cells The Bloom Energy deal shifts planned New Mexico AI campus to on-site generation. Oracle plans to replace gas turbines and diesel backup with a fuel-cell-based microgrid at its planned Project Jupiter data center c

AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developers Interview Steve Tarcza, director of Amazon Stores, says his team — StoreGen — exists to help the retail giant's de

Astronomers say the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that launched in early 2025 will strike the Moon later this summer, likely on the near side of the Moon. Bill Gray, who writes the widely used Project Pluto software to track near-Earth objects, has published a comprehensive re

Framework's new RTX 5070 12GB graphics module costs a whopping $1,199 — 72% more expensive than $699 8GB version, says pricing is beyond its control Even the 8GB variant might get more expensive soon. Nvidia silently launched a new 12GB version of its RTX 5070 mobile GPU yesterda

Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00 Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes Antiques code show Microsoft has released the source for another of its relics. This time, it's 86-DOS 1.00 getting the

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. I couldn't help but feel a pang of déjà vu reading about Jimmy Kimmel's return to the White House's crosshairs. S&P 500 futures are little changed this morning. All

EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online 'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses' The European Commission has recommended EU member states adopt an age verification app designed to protect children from harmful

OpenAI could have prevented one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada’s history, a string of seven lawsuits filed Wednesday in a California court alleged. Ultimately, the AI company overruled recommendations from its internal safety team. More than eight months prior to the s

With the four tech hyperscalers — Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft — set to report quarterly earnings after the close, hovering over their results is a single company that doesn't even release its financials to the public: OpenAI. The ChatGPT creator, now valued at more than