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Technology - Recent Headlines

AI kill switch: Businesses need more than a stop button -- m read

123 Reg discloses 'AI cyberattack' on customer data, suspects China nexus -- Company chiefs believe the attackers could be the same as those who used ARTEX to breach South Korea's financial giants

SECURITY -- AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours -- One critical, three high-severity EPICS bugs could disrupt research experiments

Google stock's historically bad day raises fears of AI bubble popping

NBC News - 3 days ago

U.S. Military Thinks Hackers Defrosted All Its Ice Cream -- Tom McKay

Gizmodo - 3 days ago

AI discovery prompts cyber emergency: What you need to know -- ABC News' Andrew Dymburt spoke with cybersecurity expert Sherrod DeGrippo, who explains how researchers, with the assistance of AI, found website flaws targeting users' private information.

ABC News - 3 days ago

Utah charges Kalshi's founders, escalating a war over who can regulate prediction markets

New York Post - 3 days ago

The 'Chinese spy' who sparked panic inside Trump's White House

Sydney Morning Herald - 4 days ago

Portable phone charger explodes on camera inside California home

NBC News - 4 days ago

AI 'nudify' apps put children at risk, Sharjah warns -- m read

Gulf News - 4 days ago

Ottawa to invest up to $1.6-billion in Cohere as AI firm's valuation soars to $35.7-billion

The Globe and Mail - 4 days ago

High-flying past of alleged 'spy' with 'close relationship' to Nvidia tycoon Jensen Huang: TV, banking and billions

New York Post - 4 days ago

Binance founder says crypto exchange may have been hacked — leading to firms freezing over $2B

New York Post - 4 days ago

Court orders closure of one of Egypt's last independent media outlets

NBC News - 4 days ago

Polymarket Temporarily Froze Trading After Hackers Reportedly Stole Millions Via Third-Party Service -- Tom McKay

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

Reddit is moving to "a logged-in-only experience," CEO says

Ars Technica - 4 days ago

West Virginia sues TikTok, citing safety concerns for children

Washington Examiner - 4 days ago

Trump calls Brazil's election 'rigged' as allies stoke fraud fears ahead of midterms

NBC News - 4 days ago

Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro can cost up to a whopping $15K, infuriating fans

New York Post - 4 days ago

AI Company's Stock Craters After Admitting Its Bitcoin Is Stuck on an Exchange Nobody's Heard of -- Kyle Torpey

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

Connecticut leaders tout efforts to train workforce in AI

Toronto Star - 4 days ago

Luxury dealers are salivating at the Anthropic IPO and bracing for 'tidal wave' of cash to hit their coffers

New York Post - 4 days ago

Quebec's Coveo buys Silicon Valley startup to help retailers sell to AI agents

The Globe and Mail - 4 days ago

Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines

Ars Technica - 4 days ago

Dartmouth provost resigns following accusations he used artificial intelligence for writing

Toronto Star - 4 days ago

El Niño Is Already Flooding California's Coasts—and the Year's Highest Tides Haven't Arrived

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

Hacker Leaks Data of 40,000+ Homeland Security Employees Including ICE Agents

Breitbart - 4 days ago

Howler will have AI answer your questions, then burn the chat -- Ask AI dumb things and leave no local chat history, all with the style of a kids' fantasy novel – or rather, one of its magical letters

STORAGE -- Tape is so not dead that Fujifilm will increase production capacity 5x -- Because, sigh, AI

Nvidia defends CEO's ties to executive accused of aiding Chinese intelligence

Washington Examiner - 4 days ago

Trump declares robot imports a national security threat

Ars Technica - 4 days ago

Day 2 of canceled classes at University of New Mexico after Health Sciences Center cyberattack -- University hospitals once again accepting patients after initial ambulance diversion, but recovery to continue in phases

Türkiye's annualized exports hit record $409.1B as economy transforms

Daily Sabah - 4 days ago

AI AND ML -- Google's Gemini 4 Carbon looks like a diamond in the rough -- Undercutting Claude on price ahead of Anthropic's IPO

Apple's first foldable phone broke within hours, some owners say -- "I didn't even make it through setup," one consumer said after his new iPhone Duo cracked shortly after he bought it. -- Oct 28

CBS News - 4 days ago

Meta super PAC pours $1M into Xavier Becerra's Calif. gov campaign: 'Straight out of the Zuckerberg playbook'

New York Post - 4 days ago

America's Productivity Is Growing At Its Fastest Pace In Decades. AI May Not Be The Main Reason.

International Business Times - 4 days ago

The U.S. Department of Education Posted an Incel Meme. It Gets Worse From There. -- Steffi Cao

Slate - 4 days ago

Microsoft plans to raise $25-billion in U.S. bond sale, source says

The Globe and Mail - 4 days ago

Türkiye's MKE completes ammunition assembly facility in Jordan

Daily Sabah - 4 days ago

Report: China Used Female Agent to Spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Breitbart - 4 days ago

Majority of AI users trust chatbots over doctor advice, new survey suggests

New York Post - 4 days ago

Pangram: Can we trust AI detectors? -- Feature -- The tool can be helpful and harmful -- The Week US

The Week - 4 days ago

BattMan aims to turbocharge US batteries without robbin' critical minerals

Jury selection begins in Meta, Snap social media addiction case -- The plaintiffs allege that features on the companies' social media platforms, like endless scrolling, kept them hooked and harmed their mental health. -- Oct 28

CBS News - 4 days ago

Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang: report

New York Post - 4 days ago

UT San Antonio Student Reads Vile Poem Celebrating Charlie Kirk Assassination, Threatens TPUSA Event Speaker

Breitbart - 4 days ago

Türkiye signs $15B in new defense contracts in 2026 so far

Daily Sabah - 4 days ago

Google Stock Craters 12% on Disappointing Earnings, Wiping Out $500 Billion in Shareholder Value

Breitbart - 4 days ago

Google admits AI search makes less money, but it's fixing that with more ads

Ars Technica - 4 days ago

Men are using AI more than women, but gap shrinking, research finds -- Women generally hold a more negative view of artificial intelligence than men, according to new findings from the Pew Research Center. The study reports that 27% of men say they use a chatbot on a daily basis, compared to 20% of women.

ABC News - 4 days ago

Conservative groups warn letting AI giants 'recklessly crawl the internet' would jeopardize news outlets, national security: court

New York Post - 4 days ago

Pentagon Investigates Military Base Freezer Failures as Cyberattack

Breitbart - 4 days ago

Putin calls Elon Musk 'truly a genius' as Russia eyes its own version of Starlink

Fox News - 4 days ago

AI AND ML -- Amazon tells tokenmaxxing devs to slow their AI roll -- Focus more on what matters, please, like creating useful software and accomplishing company goals

Freezers At U.S. Military Bases Kept Malfunctioning. Officials Believe It Could Have Been a Cyberattack

International Business Times - 4 days ago

Scientists Sound Alarm as Antarctica's Ocean Grows Saltier for the First Time in 130,000 Years

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

Dana Carvey, David Spade Say Hollywood Should Quit Its Obsession with Race and Gender

Breitbart - 4 days ago

SECURITY -- We shouldn't be surprised about the PHPocalypse, as the internet is built on sticks and glue -- What better way to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month than warning that three-quarters of the web is about to be set on fire?

Alphabet sinks 10%, Microsoft gains 4% after earnings -- m read

Gulf News - 4 days ago

Aaron Sorkin Admits He Sucks as a Director After Latest Box Office Bomb

Breitbart - 4 days ago

Anthropic Announced New Achievements in Drug Research and Lab Work. An Expert Says AI is 'Changing the Medical Field.'

International Business Times - 4 days ago

AI AND ML -- GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down -- Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse

An inside look at the massive data center tearing a Wisconsin community apart

NPR - 4 days ago

Critical launch for Vulcan as ULA targets Friday the 13th -- Hopefully without disintegrating SRB nozzles

Earwax is both slippery and sticky – this weird combo might lead to safer insect repellents -- David Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology

The Conversation - 4 days ago

Why everyone is talking about neoclouds — the canaries of the AI boom

NBC News - 4 days ago

NASA and CSA astronauts set for historic US spacewalk today to boost ISS power

International The News - 4 days ago

Could Earth survive the Sun's death? Discovery of 3 planets raises new questions

International The News - 4 days ago

Attack on email hosting provider for German far right party AfD exposed 345k accounts -- Alternative für Deutschland swats away scandals as reporters swarm leaked email tranche

Ottawa-based AI video-surveillance company Solink raises $100-million in growth capital

The Globe and Mail - 4 days ago

PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk -- 'Coordinated vulnerability disclosure, unless there's evidence of active exploits in the wild,' Chainguard CEO tells The Reg

Scientists Thought Comets Seeded Life on Earth. The Physics Says Otherwise

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

applications - Apple App Store review process hits a traffic jam

Plusnet beats Sky with 'lowest price' broadband and pre-Black Friday giveaway -- BT-owned broadband provider Plusnet is giving 100 customers free broadband for a year to...

Daily Express - 4 days ago

A Hacker Targeted High-Stakes Poker Players With Malware That Exposed Their Cards

Wired News - 4 days ago

SECURITY -- Japanese virtual desktop cloud hacked so hard it asks to be banned -- CEO admits service used for foreign exchange trading had holes company was slow to fix

SpaceX to attempt historic double rocket catch on Starship Flight 15: 'Prophecy foretold'

International The News - 4 days ago

AI personal assistants force Canadian companies to weigh customer access against security

The Globe and Mail - 4 days ago

Data center group jumps into the Kansas governor's race to boost Republicans

NBC News - 4 days ago

The Darkest Web

BBC News - 4 days ago

How Google fumbled the frontend with Angular 2 -- All Things Open Talk provided lessons in how not to upgrade a software package

LiteLLM supply chain attack hoovers up passwords and secrets -- Plus a RAT for good measure - get threat hunting now

NCS to grow pool of forward-deployed engineers to boost clients' AI deployments

The Straits Times - 4 days ago

Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon with 'top AI score' -- m read

Gulf News - 4 days ago

Google launches Gemini 4 carbon to enhance cybersecurity

Peninsula Qatar - 4 days ago

Urgent PS5 console warning issued to millions of PlayStation users

Daily Express - 4 days ago

Boffin's software found a possible dwarf planet - a result so rare he thought it must be a bug

The big-name companies already replacing staff with AI -- m read

Gulf News - 4 days ago

Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records

Wired News - 4 days ago

PHP devs publish critical bug fix as site owners warned: Pull 'em offline if you're unpatched -- Websites down as precaution as exploits have already been published

CRM Agentforce Voice Solutions: Integrating Artificial Intelligence to Transform Customer Interaction in the Technology Industry

International Business Times - 4 days ago

Meta and Snap Face Another High-Stakes Trial Over Alleged Harm to Young Users

International Business Times - 5 days ago

Google parent Alphabet tumbles after profit disappoints, warns AI is battering its cash flow

New York Post - 5 days ago

As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland

Ars Technica - 5 days ago

Man spends 35 years collecting corporatespeak, turns it into an app -- Why waste time thinking of something useful to say when an app can leverage synergies for you?

Army expands test range initiative with two Indiana sites, boosting commercial drone testing options

Washington Examiner - 5 days ago

New York enacts ban on 'unsafe' chatbot behavior with kids

ABC News - 5 days ago

AI AND ML -- Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute -- Meet CLAUDE_CODE_EVEN_MORE_DANGEROUSLY_SKIP_PERMISSIONS

OpenAI starts election 'war room' to monitor its products during midterm races

Washington Examiner - 5 days ago