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Ahold Delhaize: Cyberattack affects services across US and Europe
Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains, confirmed that last week's cyberattack disrupted services at stores across Europe and the United States. [...]
Russian APT28 Breaches NATO Naval Shipbuilder in NATO Country, Deploys New Reflective Loader
The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT28 (aka BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, and Forest Blizzard) has been attributed to attacks targeting two member states of the …
Visiting Slate’s first showroom as its $25,000 electric truck nears production
Slate's first showroom sells the promise. Mass production will determine the rest.
Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool
Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups withou…
Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant
Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember you…
ConnectWise Resets Credentials as Cloud Backup Remains Offline After Security Incident
ConnectWise on Monday said it has taken remediation measures, including strengthening administrative-access protections and resetting accounts and replacing application credential…
AstraZeneca and Oracle team up on AI to find patients for drug trials
AstraZeneca and Oracle will use AI and real patient health data to find people for drug trials faster, the two firms announced. The deal adds to a long list of AI health tie-ups b…
Google Cloud outage hits London region as Revolut also goes down
Dozens of Google Cloud services failed in the company’s London data centre region on Tuesday morning, and hit firms that run their systems there. The same morning, customers of fi…
Some Google Home Speakers caught downloading hundreds of gigs of data
Some Google Home Speaker owners are currently experiencing an issue in which hundreds of gigabytes of data are being continuously downloaded to their device in the background. The…
Amazon plans to make a €16bn investment in Germany in 2027
Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, expanding its cloud computing, AI, logistics, satellite internet, and TV production businesses. The …
Revolut outage disrupts online banking operations worldwide
Fintech company Revolut is working to resolve a massive outage that disrupted most of its services worldwide earlier today. [...]
Nscale and Anthropic reportedly in talks over second $45bn deal
Nscale is negotiating to sell Anthropic about $45bn more in AI computing capacity, two months after the two companies agreed to a deal of the same size. Bloomberg reported the tal…
Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin says it grows 51% a month with no salespeople
Daytona runs sandboxes for AI agents, co-founder and chief executive Ivan Burazin told TNW. Its users include Meta, Cohere and Handshake, and the company has about 30 employees. B…
OpenAI reportedly races to close $30bn round before Anthropic’s IPO
OpenAI is trying to speed up a funding round of about $30bn to secure investor commitments before Anthropic lists its shares in mid-November. The round could value the ChatGPT mak…
The Apple Store will only let you check out two iPhone Duos
Apple is limiting iPhone Duo purchases to two per customers around the world.
Revolut outage leaves customers unable to use app or cards
Revolut customers across Europe were unable to open the fintech’s app or pay with their cards on Tuesday morning, after a service disruption hit several of its features. Outage tr…
Revolut outage hits 'multiple services' as thousands of users report app issues
Some users of the British neobank reported being unable to make some payments or access funds in its app on Tuesday.
Micron workers in Taiwan to strike as bonus talks with chipmaker fail
Micron workers in Taoyuan, Taiwan, are set to go on strike on Thursday, 22 October, after months of failed negotiations over how the US chipmaker shares its profits with employees…
Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware
An attacker used a contributor's GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases of OVHcloud's command-line tool on Monday, October 19. The account had b…
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic ahead of its IPO
Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, owns about 1% of Anthropic, according to Bloomberg. If the AI company goes public at the valuations now being discussed, the stake could be wort…
Germany signs AI partnership with Nvidia at Berlin investment summit
At the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin, the German government entered into an agreement with Nvidia on Monday, when Chancellor Friedrich Merz opened the two-day event by addres…
ClickFix Attackers Exploit Siemens Software Center Flaw to Deploy Remote Access Trojan
Siemens has addressed a DLL sideloading vulnerability impacting Siemens Software Center that it said has been exploited in ClickFix attacks. The high-severity vulnerability, track…
Blackwall quadruples valuation to $2.2B as websites wrangle an increasingly crowded internet
Blackwall has raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to continue building security and filtering tools that help websites grapple with growing bot and AI traffic.
Exclusive: Coherence Quantum raises €2.78M to cut the heat inside quantum computers
Think of a quantum computer as a very delicate machine that needs to operate in extreme cold. The processor is the part that does the actual computing, but it needs a lot of suppo…