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Sunken treasure: Historic US ocean liner reborn as artificial reef Russia grateful for US efforts to help resolve Ukraine conflict — senate speaker Newly elected doctors and scientists hope to restore trust in science. It won’t be easy Opinion: I research MAHA and Black Americans. The relationship is complicated — and fascinating Opinion: 3 things new governors must do to lead on health Ukraine hit by ‘significant’ Starshield disruptions as US envoys meet Putin, Zelenskyy says - Europ… Trump’s diesel deal with Putin helped Russia double its exports — but the U.S. has yet to receive a… Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills at least six people, officials say Sunken treasure: Historic US ocean liner reborn as artificial reef Russia grateful for US efforts to help resolve Ukraine conflict — senate speaker Newly elected doctors and scientists hope to restore trust in science. It won’t be easy Opinion: I research MAHA and Black Americans. The relationship is complicated — and fascinating Opinion: 3 things new governors must do to lead on health Ukraine hit by ‘significant’ Starshield disruptions as US envoys meet Putin, Zelenskyy says - Europ… Trump’s diesel deal with Putin helped Russia double its exports — but the U.S. has yet to receive a… Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills at least six people, officials say

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Technology · Hardware & Devices

Threads leans even further into podcasts with transcripts, analytics and more

Meta is making the platform even better for podcast promotion.

Technology · Startups

Veridion’s database has gone from 80 million companies to 642 million in three years. Experian is feeding it into credit models.

Veridion has raised a $20m Series A led by Hoxton Ventures, with its existing backers Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub all returning. The …

Technology · Cybersecurity

Attacker Hijacks AI Coding Assistant Session, Spreads Shai-Hulud Across About 100 Repositories

Mandiant says an attacker hijacked an active AI coding-assistant session at an unnamed software-as-a-service provider and later spread Shai-Hulud across about 100 internal code re…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

SK Hynix reportedly in talks with Intel to build memory chips in US

SK Hynix told TechCrunch the company hasn't finalized any plans or arrangements yet.

Technology · Cybersecurity

Parallels Desktop Flaw Lets Non-Admin Mac Users Gain Root, but Intel Macs Can't Install Fix

Parallels Desktop for Mac has a flaw that lets an ordinary local account run code as root, the highest level of access on a Mac, software company JFrog said this week. The attack …

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years’ worth of nuclear fuel

Fluxnium's fibers can extract uranium directly from seawater, which has enough of the nuclear fuel to power thousands of generations.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Startups

Former Infosys chief’s AI startup nabs another $53M

The Palo Alto startup says it has landed multiple seven-figure enterprise contracts within months of launch.

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Cybersecurity

Microsoft says Copilot buttons still missing in classic Outlook

Microsoft says it's still investigating a known issue that causes the Copilot and Copilot Chat buttons in Classic Outlook to disappear for some Windows users. [...]

Technology · Startups

UK workers spend nearly £1bn a year of their own money on AI tools for work, Deloitte finds

British workers spend about £958 million each year out of pocket on generative AI tools for work, according to a Deloitte UK survey of 25,000 people. Of those using these tools, 1…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Cybersecurity

Webinar: What happens in the first hours of a Google Workspace breach

The first hours after discovering a Google Workspace breach can determine how an incident unfolds. This webinar examines real-world breaches to show which early response decisions…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

The iPhone 18 Pro’s big camera update is all about the small gains

Last week, Apple announced an iPhone unlike any it has made in the past. An iPhone that has seemingly already led several other phone manufacturers to pursue entirely different de…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

Nintendo opens up Fire Emblem with the gigantic Fortune’s Weave

Nintendo has gotten quite good at making open-ended games. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild upended the idea of what a Zelda game could be by giving the player free rein to…

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Hardware & Devices

A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation

Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before we lose control - including O…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

iPhone 18 Pro review: The standard setter

The yardstick that all phones, including the Duo, will be measured by.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Here's how the iPhone 18 Pro's Apple Reference Image tech works

Apple Reference Image is like giving your photos a tamper-proof seal.

Technology · Cybersecurity

N0va Phishkit Targets US and EU Businesses: A New Challenge for Identity Security

N0va is targeting organizations across North America and Europe with phishing campaigns that impersonate trusted services and abuse legitimate authentication flows. Successful att…

Technology · Startups

Hackuity raises $19M to help security teams sort through AI-found vulnerabilities

Hackuity, a Lyon-based cybersecurity company, has raised $19M in a round led by Forgepoint Capital International. Existing investors Bright Pixel, Bpifrance, and Seventure Partner…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Google Patches Pixel Modem Flaw Amid Signs of Limited Targeted Exploitation

Google has disclosed that a high-severity security flaw in its Pixel Cellular Modem has come under exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58704 (CVSS sco…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Threat Intelligence Alone Won't Close the Exploitation Gap

A leaked credential shows up in a criminal marketplace, or a vulnerability gets a disclosure advisory, and either one can be weaponized against a real target before most security …

TECHNOLOGY
Technology · Cybersecurity

Critical ScreenConnect flaw now actively exploited in attacks

Attackers now exploit a critical-severity ConnectWise ScreenConnect vulnerability in the wild, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). [...]

Technology · Cybersecurity

Acronis cPanel Backup Plugin Vulnerability Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Acronis has warned that a high-severity security flaw in its Backup plugin for cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) deployments has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tra…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Breville Eye Q Toaster review: A toaster with a vision

The world's first toaster that works on color instead of time is great. But is it $300 great?

Technology · Startups

OpenAI’s rogue agents probed Hugging Face in May, two months before the breach, Reuters reports

OpenAI’s runaway AI agents took over Hugging Face user accounts and used them to probe the platform for weaknesses as early as 13 May, Reuters reported. The activity began nearly …

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Sony unveils new PlayStation Pulse wireless headsets with 'planar magnetic' sound tech

Sony has introduced the PlayStation Pulse and Pulse Edge headsets, which feature planar magnetic drivers.