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If you can truly appreciate an old book—and maybe even marvel at how its fragile, yellowing pages contain some of the earliest ways that people tried to make sense of the world around them—then headlines about tech companies that are destroying books to train AI likely torture a

A security researcher has published details of a new vulnerability in the latest versions of Windows that allows hackers to gain system-wide access to the user’s device and data, despite facing a legal threat from Microsoft weeks earlier over the release of previously unknown sof

The Road to Battlefield competition, organized by Silkroad Innovation Hub in partnership with TechCrunch, Freedom Holding, Astana Hub, IT Park Uzbekistan, is now in its second year. Its purpose hasn’t changed since it launched: Give founders across Central Eurasia a direct route

Suspected China-linked hackers used AI to run the first-ever end-to-end autonomous cyberattack on Taiwan's government, Israeli firm says — open-source-built tool continuously devised effective hack strategies in real-time Experts warn that every government should now assume it is

Adding to its India push, US-based AI coding major Cursor is reportedly set to open its first office in India by the end of this calendar year. “Over the course of the next five months, you will see us make some fairly significant go-to-market efforts in India,” Cursor’s Asia-Pac

Office space provider DevX (Dev Accelerator) reported a consolidated net profit of ₹1.50 Cr in Q1 FY27, more than 10X of the ₹14 Lakh profit it registered in the year-ago period. However, on a sequential basis, net profit slipped by 81% from ₹8 Cr. Operating revenue in the quarte

Dive Brief: - Target appointed Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, the company said Tuesday. Nair will join the company Aug. 24 after spending more than six years at Lowe’s, most recently as senior vice president of stores, data, AI and innovation. - The retailer also pro

A key inflation reading Wednesday showed prices moderating across a range of goods and services, possibly taking the urgency out of an imminent interest rate hike. The consumer price index, part of the Federal Reserve's inflation dashboard, showed a seasonally adjusted increase o

What It Takes to Get Paid How to ask for the money you're owed America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts The contract was signed, the price was agreed, the product was delivered, the work was done, the customer is happy. The only question left is when the money actually arrives

Google is holding its Made by Google 2026 event on Wednesday, unveiling the Pixel 11 series, the Pixel Watch 5, and even a competitor to Apple’s AirTag. The tech giant also used the event to show off new Gemini-powered features across its devices. Gemini gets more useful on Pixel

Last month, American tech giants came together to urge policymakers not to place "premature restrictions" on open-weight AI models, even if they're from China. Now, two of those companies are making a concerted effort to compete by introducing their own open offerings. Meta and N

Managed workspace solutions provider IndiQube reported a 36.9% year-on-year increase in revenue from operations in Q1 FY27, while its losses narrowed 35% during the quarter. IndiQube’s revenue from operations rose to Rs 423 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 309 crore in Q1 FY26, according

Alongside its Pixel 11 product launches on Wednesday, Google announced it is making fast sharing between its devices easier, with an improved version of Google’s Quick Share feature (similar to Apple’s AirDrop), rolling out now. The feature will now allow Android users to send th

So I wrote a version of this post a while back, and it struck a chord. A lot of founders reached out and said some version of “I just hired one of these.” Or worse, “I’ve hired three.” But I’m updating it now because I’m watching this trend actually accelerate in the Age of AI. A

Tom's Hardware Verdict QIDI Plus5 is a great machine for large-scale prints in high-temperature filaments. Its heated chamber lets you tackle ABS, PC, and Nylon without worry. We only wish the QIDI Box, the multimaterial handler introduced last year, had also been improved. Right

Update| August 12, 17:31 IST Shiprocket’s public issue was subscribed 97% on the first day of bidding, receiving bids for 9.15 Cr equity shares against 9.44 Cr shares on offer. Up until now, retail investors have been the most bullish on the IPO. These investors have placed bids

Google has revealed its Pixel phone hardware for 2026, and you won’t be surprised. The Pixel 11 series looks a lot like last year’s lineup, featuring an evolution of the design Google adopted with the Pixel 9. There are some minor tweaks, a few new hardware goodies, and yes, even

The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn’t about the hardware. Sure, there’s a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition. Under the hood, there’s a slightly faster Qualcomm processor and an itty-bitty battery bump. There’s a $50 price hike f

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor’s Best CEOs list for 2026. In the just-released ranking, recognition is earned directly from the people who know their leadership the best — employees. Huang topped the list, with 99% of employees approving of the j

It's been a wild summer for stocks, even if it may not feel like it at surface level: the S&P 500 is back at an all-time high, and volatility measured by the Cboe VIX Index is near year-to-date lows. Small-caps are the quietest relative to big-caps in at least a year. What the ca

3.8 GW Load Drop Prompts Potential PJM Data Center Rules PJM is weighing ride-through rules for data centers after nearly 3,800 MW of Northern Virginia load transferred to onsite generation during the grid event. PJM Interconnection is considering new requirements for data center

Base Power Company: Chapter 3 Manufacturing the Capability Cannon Welcome to the 2,538 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since our last essay! Join 275,867 smart, curious folks by subscribing here: Hi friends 👋 , There are only two companies on which I’ve written multip

Rhone on Tuesday launched a new campaign, “A Love Letter to NYC,” that looks to connect the energy of New York with the apparel brand’s ambition and progress, per details shared with sister publication Marketing Dive. Founded in 2014, Rhone has a flagship store in the Flatiron Di

DapuStor used FMS 2026 to show what it calls an industry-first 512TB SSD: a new top capacity for the R6060 PCIe 5.0 QLC line that doubles the company’s previous 245TB design and puts a full petabyte of flash in just two drives. The drive was demonstrated on the show floor through

Artificial Intelligence How OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS This post is co-authored with OneAdvanced team Deploying AI agents on a United Kingdom (UK)-sovereign AWS architecture requires careful decisions about model hosting, data residency, and agent

Artificial Intelligence Pay with confidence: How Solv Labs built verifiable, auditable agent payments on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments This post is co-written with Patrick Duffy from Solv Labs and Houman Shadab from ICME Labs Solv Labs built an AI agent-payments workflow usin

Artificial Intelligence Tiered KV cache for large LLMs on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with Curvine Running large language model (LLM) inference at scale typically forces a KV cache trade-off: you either pay for oversized GPU instances to accommodate a growing KV cache, or you accep

Nova Lake CPUs with cut-down E-core clusters may still retain full cache pool, says new leak — 8P+12E config predictions revised from 33MB to 36MB, 4P+4E config from 15MB to 18MB Not all SKUs are affected, however. Intel's upcoming Nova Lake CPUs have been a part of the rumor mil

As AI models gain advanced capabilities to find vulnerabilities in software, develop ways to exploit them, and even carry out autonomous hacking sprees, researchers offered a sobering new example on Tuesday, disclosing vulnerabilities in the video conferencing platform Zoom that

Formula E is set to make a big change in terms of visibility when season 12 gets underway this December. It has signed a new multiyear deal to broadcast the sport on Disney+ and ESPN+ in 144 countries, with live coverage of each entire ePrix, from practice through qualifying to t

Tencent on Wednesday posted a surge in spending in the second quarter, with executives touting the potential of "superior" returns on the company's investment in China's cut-throat AI market. The company said capital expenditures for the June quarter rose 65% to 52.8 billion yuan

A new African sovereign bond exchange-traded fund has launched with up to $250 million in commitments. Its backers are betting it can help unlock a much bigger market for African sovereign debt and help reduce borrowing costs. Managed by Legal & General, the ETF tracks an African

China's homegrown C919 passenger jet departed on its first scheduled international commercial flight Wednesday, marking a milestone in Beijing's push to develop an alternative to Boeing and Airbus. The Air China-operated jet took off from Beijing Capital International Airport bou

The African Growth and Opportunity Act, the US-Africa trade preference pact, is on the path for a two-year renewal after the Senate passed a government funding bill over the weekend that included an extension for the program. But there’s no guarantee that the bill will pass the H

The Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 2,000 people began three months before it was officially declared in mid-May, the World Health Organization said, raising the likelihood that its true scale is far larger than previously thought. The outbreak, centered in eastern DR Co