North Koreans Steal $1.5bn From Crypto Exchange Bybit

North Korea's Lazarus Group identified as attackers behind theft of $1.46bn in Ethereum tokens from Bybit in biggest-ever crypto heist

2 months ago

Apple Withdraws Advanced Data Protection For UK, After Government Order

Apple removes advanced data protection tool from the UK, after British government order to provide backdoor encryption access

2 months ago

Sweden Investigates Another Baltic Sea Cable Damage Incident

Authorities in Sweden on Friday confirm investigation after fresh damage discovered on undersea cable in Baltic Sea

2 months ago

OpenAI’s ‘Operator’ AI Agent Starts Rollout In Select Countries

Subscribers of ChatGPT Pro in the UK, Australia, Japan, India and a few other countries can now access OpenAI's first…

2 months ago

Brazilian Judge Who Clashed With Elon Musk, Sued By Trump Firm

Crossing borders. President Donald Trump’s media company sues a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice in Florida courtroom

2 months ago

Nigeria Sues Binance For $81.5bn For Economic Losses, Back Tax

Binance's troubles in Nigeria continue after that country filed a lawsuit seeking nearly $82 billion from the crypto exchange

2 months ago

EU Approves Germany’s €920m Aid For Infineon Plant

European Commission approves German €920m state aid measure for Infineon to construct chip factory in Dresden

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Google Debuts AI Agent To Aid Scientists, Researchers

Google develops an AI agent, AI co-scientist, to act as virtual scientific collaborator to help scientists uncover new discoveries

2 months ago

Microsoft’s Quantum Chip Utilises New Matter State

Creation of quantum computers is years away, not decades, says Microsoft, as it unveils quantum chip called Majorana 1

2 months ago

Apple Touts ‘Most Affordable’ iPhone 16e

Replacement for the 2022 iPhone SE, the budget iPhone 16e costs from £599 and signals end of home button after…

2 months ago

Most Children Bypass Social Media Age Restrictions – Australian Regulator

Research from Australia's online safety regulator reveal most children aged 8 to 12 used social media or messaging services in…

2 months ago

Mira Murati AI Startup Launches With Some Familiar Faces

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati launches her AI startup, 'Thinking Machines Lab', with poached researchers, engineers

2 months ago

Elon Musk’s xAI Introduces Grok-3 AI Chatbot

Latest iteration of Musk's chatbot, Grok-3, is now available to Premium+ subscribers of X (formerly Twitter)

2 months ago

Google Warned Of Lawsuit Over ‘Gulf of Mexico’ Name Change

Google threatened with a lawsuit from Mexico, after it changed the Gulf of Mexico name after Trump executive order

2 months ago

Google To Pay $340m To Settle Tax Probe In Italy

Ouch. Italian prosecutors to drop tax case against Google, after tech giant agreed to pay a hefty settlement figure

2 months ago

UK Rejects Chinese Plea Over Divest Order For Scottish Chip Firm

High Court in the UK rules that Chinese owner must sell stake in Scottish chip design business without delay

2 months ago

Amazon Workers In North Carolina Reject Unionisation

Workers at Amazon warehouse near Raleigh vote against joining union, as company continues to challenge North American organisation efforts

2 months ago

China President Xi Meets With Top Tech Leaders

High-profile meeting with tech leaders seen as signal China is boosting tech sector after years of disruption from regulatory pressure

2 months ago

South Korea To Buy 10,000 GPUs For National AI Hub

South Korea hopes to gain leg up in international AI race with infusion of private investment for national AI computing…

2 months ago

BYD, Geely, Great Wall Add DeepSeek AI To EVs

Chinese electric vehicle giants rush to incorporate DeepSeek AI tech to cars after it creates worldwide sensation

2 months ago

South Korea Suspends DeepSeek From App Stores

South Korean data authority suspends Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek from Apple, Google app stores while it addresses privacy issues

2 months ago

Google Puts ‘Profits Over Privacy’ With Tracking Change

Privacy advocates criticise Google over decision to allow companies to track users via digital fingerprints, which takes effect this week

2 months ago

Meta To Build World’s Longest Subsea Fibre Cable

Meta Platforms announces plan to build Project Waterworth, a 50,000 km cable linking five continents as it ramps infrastructure investments

2 months ago

Romance Scams, AI Fuel Record Crypto Fraud Revenues In 2024

Scammers take in record crypto revenues in 2024 driven by romance scams, generative AI, growing organisation, finds Chainalysis

2 months ago

TSMC In Talks To Take Over Intel Chip Factories

TSMC considers taking controlling stake in Intel's US factories under Trump administration proposal to safeguard US tech manufacturing

2 months ago

Meta Looks To Develop AI-Powered Humanoid Robots

Meta to invest heavily in consumer humanoid robots to carry out tasks within users' homes, as it aims to create…

2 months ago

Nokia’s $2.3bn Infinera Deal Set For ‘Unconditional’ EU Approval

Nokia's $2.3bn Infinera buy set to make company world's second-biggest vendor of optical networking gear for data centres

2 months ago

US To Renegotiate Chips Act Awards

New US administration seeks to renegotiate some existing Chips Act contracts over companies' links to China, social requirements

2 months ago

Baidu Shifts Ernie AI Model To Open Source

Chinese tech giant Baidu to switch Ernie LLM to open source, make it chatbot for free as start-up DeepSeek reshapes…

2 months ago

US Lawmakers Blast UK’s Demand For Encrypted Apple Data

Two US lawmakers urge US national intelligence director to demand UK to back down or face restrictions on intelligence sharing

2 months ago