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Technology - Recent Headlines

Rush is on to patch a software vulnerability that could impact 70% of websites worldwide

One America News Network - 4 days ago

Quest Diagnostics reports cyber breach affecting 'certain patient records'

Toronto Star - 4 days ago

Jensen Huang sees no sign of 2029 memory glut: 'You can always use more'

CNBC - 4 days ago

AI Agents Are Accessing U.S. Bank Accounts Without Their Approval. Lenders Are Pushing Back.

International Business Times - 4 days ago

More than 30 Government services offline due to security flaw

Evening Standard - 4 days ago

AI AND ML -- Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models -- New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows

Register UK - 4 days ago

Up to 70% of world's websites at risk after AI discovers critical security flaw

Washington Examiner - 4 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI will eat a fifth of tech budgets in 2027, but don't expect it to pay for itself -- Forrester says only isolated wins are likely, while 'good enough' open-weight models soak up the tokens

Register UK - 4 days ago

Singapore boffins weave a GUI into fabric, and it's machine washable too

Register UK - 4 days ago

Singapore boffins weave a GUI into fabric, and it's machine washable too -- For those who find taking a phone out of their pocket just so last century

Register UK - 4 days ago

GovTech retrenches 38 employees in second wave of layoffs

The Straits Times - 4 days ago

Why governments pulled websites offline over a decades-old programming language

CNBC - 4 days ago

OpenAI engineer accused of planting listening device -- An engineer at OpenAI is in federal custody after allegedly planting a recording device inside the company's San Francisco headquarters

ABC News - 4 days ago

Türkiye to invest about $2B in space, aviation in next 3 years

Daily Sabah - 4 days ago

New Insta360 Mic confirmed that makes your videos sound as good as they look

Daily Express - 4 days ago

Report warns that AI worms could soon overtake smart appliances in your home -- ABC News' Trevor Ault speaks with ABC contributor Mike Muse on the latest AI news and how consumers can protect themselves.

ABC News - 4 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- OpenBSD 8.0 beefs up virtual machines and gets a taste of Wine -- Proposed port brings 64-bit Windows apps within reach

Register UK - 4 days ago

OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian -- Corey Quinn

Register UK - 4 days ago

Governments, companies rush to fix PHP-related flaws

Daily Sabah - 4 days ago

Firms here should 'act now' to fix critical PHP vulnerabilities: Singapore's cybersecurity chief

The Straits Times - 4 days ago

AI Chatbots Are Building an 'Algorithmic Self-Portrait' of You -- Ece Yildirim

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

ai and ml - Reach new heights of laziness by burning tokens to let an AI tap your smartphone screen for you - UPDATED - Nothing will ruin your faith in humanity like an AI that operates your smartphone slowly, struggles with basic tasks, and can charge you for it

Register UK - 4 days ago

Artificial Intelligence -- A superconducting 'brain' chip races to keep up with fusion's unruly plasma

Scientific American - 4 days ago

Elon Musk's Mars colonization dream faces reality check from Nobel laureate

International The News - 4 days ago

Are strict screen-time limits the right approach? Here's what Star readers think

Toronto Star - 4 days ago

'Limited' Government services temporarily offline amid PHP cybersecurity issue

Evening Standard - 4 days ago

Interactive map: How far do you live from the nearest data center?

NBC News - 4 days ago

Microsoft still committed to £22bn UK investment despite data centre withdrawal

Evening Standard - 4 days ago

AI Could Bring Clinical Trials to Rural America

Newsweek - 4 days ago

AI AND ML -- Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision -- Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all feature in Berlin keynote interrupted by environmental protesters

Register UK - 4 days ago

2 in 3 Americans Disapprove of How Trump is Handling AI. Most Believe it Will Likely Eliminate Many Jobs.

International Business Times - 4 days ago

Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are promising hosts more money and fewer secrets

Toronto Star - 4 days ago

NASA competition model 2.0 cuts mission selection by 45%

International The News - 4 days ago

Auto tech startup claims it traced hack attempt back to rival's IP address -- IQ.Lvbs implies that rival Comma.ai isn't playing fair

Register UK - 4 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap -- Maintainers reckon a quarter of incoming pull requests are slop, rising to 31% on larger projects

Register UK - 4 days ago

Insiders Reportedly Say Tesla-SpaceX Merger Must Close Before Trump Leaves Office -- Mike Pearl

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

See how Big Tech is transforming Spain's landscape

NPR - 4 days ago

Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are promising hosts more money and fewer secrets

ABC News - 4 days ago

Vendors asking forward deployed engineers to make good on trillion-dollar AI bet -- They might earn more than $200k but who do they work for? Tech buyers need to put some checks in place on FDEs

Register UK - 4 days ago

Meta sued in Australia over addictive features, harming children

Daily Sabah - 4 days ago

OpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million in tokens last month

Register UK - 4 days ago

Palo Alto's firewall OS has been under attack from multiple ransomware groups since June -- Unit 42 investigates network compromises across numerous industries

Register UK - 4 days ago

Websites down: what is PHP and how has it raised AI hacking fears?

Peninsula Qatar - 4 days ago

One Tech Tip: As Apple's Duo phone is released, here are dos and don'ts for folding phones

Toronto Star - 4 days ago

IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem -- 90 percent of the performance at ten percent of the price, in just two or three racks, is hard to beat

Register UK - 4 days ago

Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched

Wired News - 4 days ago

Using AI to clone and bank people's voices who are losing them because of diseases like ALS

NBC News - 4 days ago

Elon Musk Claims His Terafab Will Produce Its First Chip By Mid-2027 -- Ece Yildirim

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

SECURITY -- Swamped curl maintainers take low-level flaws public to survive vulnerability 'avalanche' -- From October 26, only high and critical cases stay private as project seeks help sharing the workload

Register UK - 4 days ago

Government scrambles to fix websites after AI discovers flaw could affect 70% of the internet

Sydney Morning Herald - 4 days ago

Mark Zuckerberg threatened to dump $110M California home over billionaire tax, Meta reveals in filing

New York Post - 4 days ago

Australia enters the agentic AI era

Sydney Morning Herald - 4 days ago

Meta hit with $25 billion penalty over Cambridge Analytica data privacy violations

Washington Examiner - 4 days ago

Ottawa expands military space ambitions with launch, satellite funding

The Globe and Mail - 4 days ago

Breitbart Business Digest: Don't Want AI in Your Backyard? Musk Will Put It in Orbit

Breitbart - 4 days ago

Meta hit with $25-billion penalty for misleading Facebook users about data privacy

Los Angeles Times - 4 days ago

Türkiye launches nationwide cyber alert over critical PHP flaws

Daily Sabah - 4 days ago

The US Has Retreated From Climate Action. A New Report Reveals the Global Consequences

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

Loudoun County scraps plans for new Amazon data center amid community pushback

Washington Examiner - 4 days ago

Trump Orders Data Centers to Generate Their Own Power, Provide 'Dividend' to Communities

Breitbart - 4 days ago

Meta ordered to pay $25B over Facebook privacy deception

Daily Sabah - 4 days ago

Canadian organizations urged to address web programming vulnerability

The Globe and Mail - 4 days ago

Anthropic says it will commit small percentage of stock to 'public benefit' fund

Washington Examiner - 4 days ago

EBay to cut 1,000 jobs in new round of layoffs

Los Angeles Times - 4 days ago

CYBER-CRIME -- 'Password1' and a forgotten test account land Welsh outfits in hot water -- ICO reprimands Ogi Networks and Data Cymru after ransomware breach exposes info of 3,300 people, mostly children

Register UK - 4 days ago

Trump Calls for Data Center to Give 'Dividends' to Communities as Backlash Threatens AI Expansion

International Business Times - 4 days ago

Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds "suspicious" traffic.

Ars Technica - 4 days ago

Meta ordered to pay $25 billion for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook

ABC News - 4 days ago

Meta hit with $25-billion penalty for misleading consumers in New Mexico over Cambridge Analytica case

The Globe and Mail - 4 days ago

Major websites go offline worldwide over critical PHP flaws

Daily Sabah - 5 days ago

New Mexico awarded $25 billion civil penalty against Meta

NBC News - 5 days ago

Trump Says 'No Money' Going to Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Victims' Claims if GOP Loses Midterm Elections

Military.com - 5 days ago

SECURITY -- Bullhorn sees red after cyberattack knocks recruitment platform offline -- Staffing software giant calls in CrowdStrike as customers face login headaches and questions remain over possible data theft

Register UK - 5 days ago

WSJ: Anthropic Lost $80 Billion in First Half of Year, Has $600 Billion in Infrastructure Commitments

Breitbart - 5 days ago

Elon Musk Says Tesla, SpaceX Form Committees to Weigh Merger

Breitbart - 5 days ago

OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their own safety monitors

Peninsula Qatar - 5 days ago

Urgent security fix issued for code vital to estimated 70% of all websites

ABC News - 5 days ago

Elon Musk's SpaceX reports a profit and he hints at a possible merger with Tesla

One America News Network - 5 days ago

iPhone Duo review: Is Apple's first foldable smartphone too expensive?

NBC News - 5 days ago

on-prem - Japanese consortium bets on building bobbing bit barns

Register UK - 5 days ago

The battle to delete your embarrassing online history

BBC News - 5 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Whitehall shuts the front door on digital ID but leaves the back open -- Ministers may have scrapped the national scheme, but One Login, digital wallets and 80-plus planned credentials are still very much alive

Register UK - 5 days ago

OpenAI's Most Powerful AI Models Disabled Their Own Safety Monitoring. One Then Lied About It.

International Business Times - 5 days ago

iPhone Duo Review: Waiting to Refine Foldables Was the Right Move - Apple has solved the most notable flaws on Android foldables. Smartphones - Raymond Wong - Oct 21

Gizmodo - 5 days ago

Nolte: Netflix Hit with Four Quarters of Declining Growth

Breitbart - 5 days ago

'This Is Not a Drill': Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire

Wired News - 5 days ago

Nolte: Axios Uses Fake AI Image to Run Damage Control for Somali Politician Who Spoke Next to Upside-Down Flag

Breitbart - 5 days ago

AI Guardrails Aren't Stopping Criminal Hackers

Wired News - 5 days ago

An AI model's false tip to Philadelphia police reveals how digital agents can do as they're told and still cause trouble -- Anat Lior, Drexel University

The Conversation - 5 days ago

What it takes to make your life sciences data queryable, governed and ready to share -- The demand for life sciences data has never been higher, and neither has the bar for delivering it.

Register UK - 5 days ago

A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users' Personal Conversations With Meta's Muse

Wired News - 5 days ago

How to Score Tickets to Shop TODAY's Immersive Holiday House

NBC News - 5 days ago

Earth's Core Has Been Quietly Leaking Water for Billions of Years

Gizmodo - 5 days ago

AI AND ML -- UK finance watchdog wants firms to report AI failures and close calls -- FCA seeks clear accountability as financial services embrace increasingly autonomous agents

Register UK - 5 days ago

I love Apple's iPhone Duo. But here's why you shouldn't buy one

Sydney Morning Herald - 5 days ago

DeepSeek deep-sixed at all US federal civilian agencies -- Order disallowing use of Chinese AI service is unhelpfully vague and broad

Register UK - 5 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft admits that Always On VPN problems were not fixed in the October Security Update -- Let they who are without sin throw a stone and miss the greenhouse entirely

Register UK - 5 days ago

Iran unveils advanced quantum labs. at 3 academic centers

Mehr News Agency - 5 days ago

The spec is the new code, so brush up on your prose, says Kaseya CTO -- Domain expertise and clear writing will matter more than syntax, and yes, that means documentation

Register UK - 5 days ago

App to help diners with visual impairment at hawker centres among ideas at inaugural challenge

The Straits Times - 5 days ago