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In February, numerous workers from a company that Meta contracted to perform data annotation for Ray-Ban Meta reported viewing sensitive, embarrassing, and seemingly private footage recorded by the smart glasses. About two months later, Meta ended its contract with the firm. Acco

Shares of Blue Owl, the private credit firm at the center of recent jitters over exposure to software companies, jumped 10% in trading Thursday after executives disclosed sizable gains tied to SpaceX. "We made about 10 times our money on that investment," an executive said on the

Security researchers are sounding the alarm on a newly discovered vulnerability in the widely used web server management software cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM). The bug allows hackers to hijack and take full control of the servers running the affected software, which is though

The genetic code is central to life. With minor variations, everything uses the same sets of three DNA bases to encode the same 20 amino acids. We have discovered no major exceptions to this, leading researchers to conclude that this code probably dated back to the last common an

FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control' One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekend China's "hacker-for-hire ecosystem has gotten out of control," according to Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI's cyber division.

After Sam Altman trash-talked Anthropic for gatekeeping its cybersecurity tool Mythos by only releasing it to select users, he confirmed that OpenAI would be doing the same with its competing tool, Cyber. Altman said in a post on X on Thursday that OpenAI will begin rolling out G

Speed to Power: How Developers Are Restructuring for AI Demand Behind-the-meter data center builds, phased energization, and nuclear bets move from edge cases to core strategy. Power constraints are no longer a future risk for data center developers – they are already shaping how

AWS Compute Blog Enhancing network observability with new AWS Outposts racks LAG metrics When you deploy AWS Outposts racks, you can run AWS infrastructure and services in on-premises locations. Maintaining seamless connectivity, both to the AWS Region and your on-premises networ

Earlier this week, Blue Origin posted a job opportunity for a “senior manager” to oversee tank fabrication for “Quattro,” and the description contained some intriguing information. “As part of a hardworking team of specialists, technicians, and engineers you will be the Senior Ma

The Resident Evil film franchise has grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide since the first film debuted in 2002, but an attempt to reboot it a few years ago floundered. Sony Pictures is trying again, this time tapping Zach Cregger—who wrote, produced, and directed last year’s Oscar

Faraday Future paid around $7.5 million to a company controlled by its founder Jia Yueting in 2025, according to a new regulatory filing. The long-struggling electric vehicle startup made the payments in a year when it delivered only four vehicles and lost nearly $400 million. Th

Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average Remember the early days of the smartphone revolution when, even after six months, your phone felt outdated? Not anymore. Smartphone replacement cycl

The GL.iNet GL-RM10 Comet Pro Remote KVM at first seemed expensive in the world of remote KVM solutions. While it may not be the cheapest option, it has worked very well and offers some super features, which have led us to buy a few of them so far. Sometimes having more features

Wall Street analysts estimate total AI capital expenditures could now climb above $1 trillion in 2027, following even bigger spending plans unveiled by the hyperscalers during Wednesday's tech earnings. Both Evercore and Bank of America placed 2027 capex in excess of a $1 trillio

OpenAI is getting serious about account security. The company on Thursday launched Advanced Account Security (AAS), a set of opt-in protections for ChatGPT users designed for high-value individuals — but available to anyone who wants them. As part of that new program, digital sec

Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs If you thought 800 Gbps Ethernet was fast, just wait. Celestica's latest switches cram 64 1.6 Tbps ports int

In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI’s models to improve its own. Elon Musk confirms xAI used OpenAI’s models to train Grok He said it was “partly” true that the company had used model distillation to

OpenAI and Anthropic have been on the warpath lately against third-party efforts to train new AI models by prompting their publicly accessible chatbots and APIs, a process known as “distillation.” That conversation has focused on Chinese firms using distillation to create open-we

Founders building in the healthcare space can’t just build fast and break things. Timelines stretch longer, stakes are higher, and success depends on navigating systems that reward rigor over speed. That’s exactly the reality Robhy Bustami, co-founder and CEO of BioticsAI, has be

China’s new clampdown on drone sales and even the storage of drone components within the capital of Beijing stands out in a country that effectively built the global market for affordable commercial drones. The unprecedented citywide rules taking effect on May 1 come as authoriti

Google announced on Thursday that it will begin rolling out Gemini to cars with Google built-in, marking a significant upgrade from the current Google Assistant. The move signals Google’s push to bring more advanced, conversational AI into the driving experience. The announcement

Prelim Samsung Memory results exceeded by even bigger actuals Samsung’s confirmed first quarter results exceeded its preliminary results as memory pricing punched revenue and profit higher. The initial overall revenues of ₩133 trillion ($88.5 billion) rose to a record high ₩133.9

Druva brings its SaaS protection to Power BI Druva is providing cyber-resilience for Microsoft Power BI with support for Power Apps and Power Automate coming later this year, The no-code, low-code Microsoft Power Platform enables non-programmers to develop applications, websites,

TikTok is launching a new “Campus Hub,” the company told TechCrunch in an email on Thursday. The new hub features dedicated college group chats and personalized feeds designed to help students stay connected with their campus communities, even while they’re away for the summer. T

Shade’s single source of file system truth for creatives Startup Shade has raised $14 million to dominate entertainment and media file sharing, streaming and search Its software lets entertainment and media (E&M) creative workers access all multi-source files in one place with pa

Financial services platform Stripe is introducing a digital wallet specifically built for the AI era, where autonomous agents can perform tasks that include shopping, paying for reservations, buying tickets, and more. At its annual conference this week, the company introduced Lin

Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows If you use Gemini CLI, watch out: Google has patched a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in its command-line AI tool a

Artificial Intelligence AWS Generative AI Model Agility Solution: A comprehensive guide to migrating LLMs for generative AI production Maintaining model agility is crucial for organizations to adapt to technological advancements and optimize their artificial intelligence (AI) sol

Artificial Intelligence Sun Finance automates ID extraction and fraud detection with generative AI on AWS This post was co-authored with Krišjānis Kočāns, Kaspars Magaznieks, Sergei Kiriasov from Sun Finance Group If you process identity documents at scale—loan applications, acco

Today, game developers can begin integrating NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, Multi Frame Generation 6X, and the second-generation transformer model for NVIDIA Super Resolution. In this post, we’ll go over new technologies and resources to share with our game-

Neural network techniques are increasingly used in computer graphics to boost image quality, improve performance, and streamline content creation. Approaches like super resolution, denoising, and neural rendering help real-time engines work more efficiently, offering new creative

Artificial Intelligence Unleashing Agentic AI Analytics on Amazon SageMaker with Amazon Athena and Amazon Quick Modern enterprises face mounting challenges in extracting actionable insights from vast data lakes and lakehouses spanning petabytes of structured and unstructured data

Manus, an AI company Meta acquired for $2 billion last year is running ads promising quick, easy money with AI: Find local businesses without websites or with bad websites, have AI build them one, then call them up and sell it to them. Meta is running get-rich-quick ads for its A

Talent over tokens: AI models are becoming more expensive to run, and productivity gains are limited — efficient workers might be the solution to strained budgets Token costs rise as the industry reckons with AI's impact on the workforce. Earlier this month, it was reported that

French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old on April 25 over the alleged theft of millions of records from