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The U.S. government and its allies said hackers have been exploiting the newly identified bug in Cisco networking gear around the world for years, and urged organizations to patch.
A group of well-known open source programmers and a VC have launched the Open Source Endowment. They hope this new method will provide funding for good.
Google is making Nano Banana 2 a default model in Gemini app and in AI mode
A Greek court on Thursday sentenced the founder of Intellexa, a collective of spyware makers, to eight years in prison for illegal wiretapping and privacy violations, according to several reports. Tal Dilian and three other Intellexa executives were tried for their role in a scandal dubbed “Greek Watergate,” which dates back to 2022. The Greek […]
X has launched an expanded set of aspect ratio support for both image and video ads, so advertisers can now reuse assets they've created for other platforms.
The latest round of layoffs marks eBay’s third workforce reduction in the past three years.
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Jest, a marketplace for messaging games, emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding.
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Figma is integrating OpenAI's coding assistant Codex a week after it announced a similar integration with Anthropic's Claude Code.
Trace is launching with $3 million in seed funding, including investment from Y Combinator, Zeno Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, Goodwater Capital, Formosa Capital, and WeFunder.
Lucena got the idea for Mappa after trying to build a marketing team but continually feeling like she had made the wrong hires.
Samsung's new privacy screen feature on Galaxy S26 Ultra was the most notable feature of the event.
Parents will be informed if their teen searches for suicide or self-harm content and offered resources.
• Not all hard problems need ML—validate that adaptive learning actually solves your business problem before building. • Start with simple models (logistic regression, XGBoost) over cutting-edge architectures; prove concept viability first. • Data infrastructure matters as much as the model; invest in sourcing, labeling, and validation before training. • Build feedback loops and track real-world metrics from day one; plan for retraining and model iteration. • Calculate unit economics upfront—inference, training, and infrastructure costs must align with your business model to scale.
Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of its business to AI.
Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT.
Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would.
"The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company's earnings.
The AI bellwether reported $68 billion revenue last quarter, expecting it to grow to $78 billion next quarter.
Many hyperscalers have already made public commitments to cover electricity cost increases.
Under the first year of the Trump administration, the U.S. cyber agency CISA has faced cuts, layoffs, and furloughs, as bipartisan lawmakers and cybersecurity industry sources say the agency is unprepared to handle a crisis.
The U.S. has been Zimbabwe’s largest bilateral health donor for years, providing nearly $2 billion in assistance since 2006.
General Galactic, cofounded by a former SpaceX engineer, plans to test its water-based propellant this fall. If successful, it could help usher in a new era of space travel. That's a big “if.”
The glory days of venture capital are winding down, leaving in their wake a host of overstuffed tech firms and a bear market ready to maul.
