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Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes devices and components for Apple, Google, Nvidia, and Sony, among other tech giants, confirmed on Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack that may have affected some of its factories. In a statement sent to media outlets, Foxco

Tom's Hardware Verdict A solid board for the price, the Asus Prime Z890-P offers users a well-rounded, inexpensive access to the Z890 platform. It offers enough connectivity for most users, ample storage options, and plenty of AI and EZ DIY features to make building and overclock

Japanese chemical giant JSR expands to Taiwan for EUV photoresist production near TSMC — plant to fill missing chemical link to scale EUV materials The last of Japan's big three EUV resist suppliers closes a gap its rivals filled years ago. As chipmakers push EUV lithography towa

$1,260 off a Sandisk 8TB external SSD is a deal you can't ignore at 11 cents per gigabyte — pro storage at blistering 1GB/s speeds for $739 Normally retailing for $1,999.99, Sandisk’s spacious and lightning-fast external SSD is currently available for just $739.99, letting you sa

Live GPU Rental Listings Point to Early Price Compression New marketplace data suggests AI compute pricing is becoming increasingly transparent, fragmented, and volatile as neocloud capacity expands. The AI infrastructure boom has spawned a parallel market that most data center o

Alibaba shares jumped on Wednesday as investors liked the e-commerce giant's bullish tone on AI, even as it reported a plunge in its core profit for the March quarter. Following the release of Alibaba's earnings, the stock fell by as much as 4% in pre-market trade. But it rallied

Maybe I’m just punch-drunk in my third week attending Musk v. Altman, but I have become very, very fond of Microsoft during the course of this trial. They don’t want to be here any more than I do. Microsoft doesn’t want any of this At Musk v. Altman, the software giant is trying

Defense tech startup Anduril on Wednesday said it raised $5 billion, doubling its valuation to $61 billion in a funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. CEO Brian Schimpf said in a release that the company will "aggressively" invest in manufacturing, research

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Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor Also, it's a twofer with the GreenPlasma zero-day local privilege escalation. There's nothing more dangerous than a bored engi

In today’s data-driven world, organizations increasingly rely on video to capture critical information, yet extracting meaningful, real-time insights from massive amounts of footage remains a challenge. NVIDIA Metropolis Blueprint for video search and summarization (VSS) overcome

Whether you like it or not, Amazon continues to put AI at the center of the shopping journey. The company announced Wednesday “Alexa for Shopping,” its new personalized AI shopping assistant, powered by Alexa+. Notably, the experience will replace Rufus, its generative AI shoppin

Another year, another massive influx of capital for Anduril: The funding round that was rumored to be in process in March has officially closed. Anduril has raised a $5 billion Series H round at a $61 billion valuation, led by returning investors Thrive Capital and Andreessen Hor

The Securities and Exchange Commission officially proposed last week to weaken the quarterly reporting standards for publicly traded companies. So far, public comments submitted to the financial regulator about the idea are overwhelmingly negative. But the best objection was file

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified in the Musk v. Altman trial on Tuesday, where he tried to make his central claim clear to the jury: He didn't steal a charity, but Elon Musk abandoned one. Altman, wearing a blue suit and tie, spoke from the witness stand in federal court in Oaklan

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U.S. House lawmakers are demanding representatives from Instructure, the twice-hacked education software maker, testify about the company’s response to cyberattacks that allowed hackers to steal the personal data of millions of students worldwide. The House Homeland Security Comm

Blue Origin is weighing its first external fundraising as part of a push by Jeff Bezos’ rocket venture to hit ambitious launch targets and tap investor appetite boosted by SpaceX’s upcoming initial public offering. Chief Executive Dave Limp told employees at a recent all-hands me

The biggest risk for founders and investors right now isn’t moving too slowly. It’s reacting too late to where the market already shifted. The new stages at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 help founders and investors make faster, more informed decisions in today’s highly complex, volatil

For the first time, Anthropic has more verified business customers than OpenAI, according to this month’s AI Index from the fintech firm Ramp. The survey, compiled from Ramp’s clients’ expense data, shows 34.4% of participating businesses are paying for Anthropic services, more t

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Data Protection NetApp claims faster backup and recovery for Red Hat OpenShift VMs NetApp claims backup and recovery operations complete faster on Red Hat's OpenShift container and virtual machine platform when carried out by NetApp arrays. OpenShift virtualized environments are

Flash Kioxia launches XG10 PCIe 5.0 client SSD Kioxia has followed its PCIe 4.0 XG8 client SSD with the XG10, a PCIe 5.0 M.2 drive for high-performance PCs – though its headline speeds still trail the fastest gumsticks on the market. These internal drives typically range in capac

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AMD expands its Ryzen 9000 PRO lineup with six new SKUs, now featuring 3D V-Cache for the first time — new workstation CPUs have up to 170W TDPs, available with OEMs later this year Ryzen PRO series gets a major upgrade. AMD has just launched six new Ryzen PRO series CPUs as part

We loved the first season of Daredevil: Born Again, Marvel’s hotly anticipated revival of the popular series in the Netflix Defenders universe, and its sophomore outing did not disappoint. The show just wrapped its critically acclaimed second season, with a third already well und

Amazon is axing its Rufus chatbot and making its Alexa assistant the centerpiece of its artificial intelligence shopping strategy. The company on Wednesday launched Alexa for Shopping, an e-commerce bot that can answer queries and take actions on behalf of users. Amazon said the

MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence

Reinforcement-learning agents — AI systems that learn by trial and error — can convert computation into new knowledge. That’s the focus of a new engineering-level collaboration between NVIDIA and Ineffable Intelligence, the London-based AI lab founded by AlphaGo architect David S

On its face the new Friend Bubbles feature looks simple enough. It highlights Reels your friends have watched and reacted to. But sometimes the features that seem the most straightforward require the deepest engineering work. On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Harti

Agentic AI is changing the way users get work done. Following the success of OpenClaw, the community is embracing new open source agentic frameworks. The latest is Hermes Agent, which crossed 140,000 GitHub stars in under three months and, as of last week, is the most used agent

Nvidia has announced a partnership with an AI startup, just months after it was founded by a former top scientist at Google DeepMind. Ineffable Intelligence, which is pursuing superintelligence and was founded in late 2025 by UCL professor and former lead of DeepMind's reinforcem

Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company’s shopping experience. Alexa is moving into Amazon․com The company is giving its AI-powered assistant special shopping skills on its website and app. The company is giv

MOST POPULAR EVENTS - Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision. - The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence