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SpaceX signs multi-year Qualcomm deal for tens of thousands of 5G sites
SpaceX has selected Qualcomm to supply the technology powering the ground-based 5G network behind Starlink Mobile, its planned US mobile service. Qualcomm announced the agreement …
Does opting out of TV tracking work?
The fact our TVs are gathering our information isn't new, but what and how they're tracking - and if we can stop it - is hard to figure out. Researchers at Northeastern University…
Drax plans a £20B AI data centre at Britain’s largest power station
Drax runs Britain’s largest power station, in North Yorkshire. It plans to build an AI data centre there with Brookfield and Radiant, Brookfield’s UK-based AI infrastructure busin…
Elon Musk's millions fail to deliver Texas for the Republicans in fierce midterms
The billionaire's political action committee (Pac) contributed $47m (£35m) to Ken Paxton's campaign.
Google says a certified partner turned 1.3M Android TV boxes into a botnet
Google and its partners have shut down XCPE, a botnet that ran on more than 1.3 million Android TV boxes. Google says the device maker built it in on purpose, its Threat Intellige…
US charges two Canadians accused of hacking US universities
A federal grand jury indicted two Canadians suspected of hacking multiple US universities and using the compromised systems to mine for cryptocurrency. [...]
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Most leaked logins are old, but infostealers reach 72% of firms
Infostealer malware exposed at least one employee or customer login at 72% of the 4,824 companies analysed across the US and Europe over the past year, according to research publi…
South Korea will nearly double AI spending to $16B in a record budget
South Korea will spend 21.3 trillion won (about $16 billion) on AI, chips and AI data centres next year. President Lee Jae Myung set out the plan in his budget speech to the Natio…
Aramco’s profit rises to $31.2B as it takes 49% of Saudi AI firm HUMAIN
Saudi Aramco’s adjusted net income rose to $31.2 billion in the third quarter, from $28.6 billion a year earlier. The state oil company reported the figures in its results on Tues…
India’s EloElo raises $80M from NBCUniversal and Hornbill for Story TV
EloElo Group, the Bengaluru company behind the Indian microdrama app Story TV, has raised $80 million in a Series C round. Hornbill Capital and NBCUniversal co-led it, the company…
CISA flags WordPress RCE flaw as actively exploited in attacks
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies that attackers have started exploiting a recently patched high-severity WordPress vulnerabil…
Emirates SkyCargo launches AI Tech to fly server racks, chips and GPUs
Emirates SkyCargo has a new product for companies building out artificial intelligence. AI Tech is designed to move critical and sensitive AI infrastructure safely and on time, th…
Critical Rails Flaw Lets Attackers Write Server Files via Crafted ImageMagick Uploads
A critical flaw in Ruby on Rails could allow an unauthenticated attacker to write arbitrary files on an app's server by uploading a crafted file if the app processes uploads using…
Bitcoin briefly hits multi-week low as Democrats win Congress
Bitcoin briefly fell to its lowest level in six weeks on Wednesday after Democrats won control of both the US Senate and House of Representatives in the midterm elections. The res…
Google hasn’t figured out how to make AI pay like its search engine
Search queries are growing at their fastest rate in five years, Google parent Alphabet said in its earnings report last week. However, Google's Search revenue growth slowed to 12 …
Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth
Canva is cutting 22% of its staff as it faces its 'hardest year' yet.
Binance says a fake job interview led to its $6.3B hack
Binance says the hackers behind its $6.3bn theft spent five months gaining access to employees’ computers before using an internal AI tool to take control of the exchange’s wallet…
Xen Hypervisor Flaws Let One Malicious VM Read and Write Any Other VM's Memory
Two flaws in the Xen hypervisor allow a malicious guest virtual machine (VM) to read and write the memory of other VMs on the same host, including dom0. Dom0 is the VM that, by de…
bit.bio raises $25M Series D as demand for its human cell models grows
Cambridge-based biotech company bit.bio has raised $25M in a Series D round, ten months after securing its previous investment. The company announced the new funding on Wednesday,…
Canva’s first job cuts affect 22% of staff in its ‘hardest moment’
Canva is restructuring in a way that affects 1,271 people, or 22% of the company. Some staff will lose their jobs, others will change roles and some will be asked to relocate. Co-…
Radio With No Radar: Why Agent Runtime Security Fails Without the Layers Beneath It
Nearly every agent security pitch now ends on the same promise: the product stops the bad action in real time. The promise holds for one kind of agent, the kind whose traffic pass…
Tesla reportedly faces Korean complaint over Full Self-Driving sales
South Korean consumer group plans to accuse Tesla of misleading tens of thousands of buyers over its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software. The group says most of Tesla’s cars in the c…
China-Aligned Hackers Hijack Sogou Input Method DNS Requests to Deploy DarkVigil Backdoor
A China-aligned threat actor known as SlippyNunchucks has been attributed to a Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking operation abusing insecure HTTP communications in Windows version…