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Nvidia demonstrates AI compression reducing GPU memory usage 85% without quality loss
Nvidia has showcased Neural Texture Compression technology that reduced video memory requirements from 6.5 GB to 970 MB in a demonstration scene while maintaini...
Anthropic ends free OpenClaw access for Claude subscribers in cost-cutting move
Anthropic is eliminating free access to Claude through third-party tools like OpenClaw, requiring subscribers to pay additional fees for external integrations. ...
Meta suspends AI data operations after training secrets exposed in breach
Meta has frozen its AI data collection work following a security breach that put proprietary training methodologies at risk, according to reports from The Next ...
Apple adopts third-party GPU drivers for AI research on Apple Silicon
Apple has reportedly signed an agreement with Tiny Corp, a small software firm, to develop third-party drivers enabling AMD or Nvidia external GPUs on Apple Sil...
Study finds widespread 'cognitive surrender' to AI recommendations
Research involving over 1,300 participants and 9,000 trials reveals a troubling pattern of "cognitive surrender," where humans routinely defer to artificial int...
Russian VPN crackdown triggers widespread banking system outage
Attempts to restrict virtual private network usage in Russia caused a major banking outage across the country, according to Russian media reports and Telegram f...
Gujarat High Court bars AI use in judicial decision-making and judgment drafting
The Gujarat High Court has issued a landmark prohibition on the use of artificial intelligence in judicial decision-making and the drafting of court judgments, ...
Ireland trials digital wallet for social media age verification
Ireland is piloting a government-issued digital wallet that conducts age verification for social media users, with public rollout expected later this year, acco...
Polymarket halts betting on U.S. military rescue operations after lawmaker criticism
Cryptocurrency prediction market Polymarket has removed wagering options on a potential U.S. military rescue mission in Iran following condemnation from Rep. Se...
Tech industry lobbies to weaken Colorado's right-to-repair law
Major technology companies are actively campaigning to dilute Colorado's pioneering right-to-repair legislation, one of the most comprehensive consumer repair l...
Oracle Files Thousands of H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs
Oracle has filed thousands of H-1B visa petitions while simultaneously conducting mass layoffs of its existing US workforce, according to reporting that generat...
Tech industry lobbies to weaken Colorado right-to-repair law
DENVER. Technology companies are mounting a legislative push to dilute Colorado's landmark right-to-repair laws, among the most comprehensive in the United Stat...
Chinese robotics startup Galaxea AI raises $290M at $29 billion valuation
Galaxea AI, a Chinese robotics startup, has secured $290 million in Series B+ funding, achieving a $29 billion valuation that ranks among the largest in the glo...
WHOOP raises $575M at $10.1B valuation, signals IPO plans
Fitness wearable company WHOOP has raised $575 million in Series G funding at a $10.1 billion valuation, according to The Next Web. The financing, among the lar...
VCs bankroll young college dropouts as AI founder age plummets to 29
Venture capital firms are increasingly covering living expenses for college dropouts founding AI startups, as the average age of AI unicorn founders fell from 4...
Y Combinator severs ties with startup Delve amid fraud allegations
Y Combinator has officially ended its relationship with Delve, a compliance startup engulfed in controversy over fraud allegations. The accelerator confirmed th...
Meta suspends Mercor partnership following security breach
Meta has halted its working relationship with Mercor after a security incident at the talent-matching platform, according to Cybernews reporting. The suspension...
European Commission breached in supply chain attack on security tool Trivy
Hackers compromised the European Commission by poisoning Trivy, an open-source security scanning tool used by the institution to protect its systems, according ...
Device code phishing attacks surge 3,700% as criminal kits proliferate
Attacks exploiting the OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant flow have increased more than 37 times this year as automated phishing kits lower barriers to entry ...
Qilin ransomware group claims attack on German political party Die Linke
The Qilin ransomware group has claimed responsibility for hacking Die Linke, a left-wing political party in Germany, according to Security Affairs. The attack r...
LinkedIn scans visitors' browsers for 6,000+ extensions in 'BrowserGate' tracking
LinkedIn has been found injecting JavaScript that stealthily scans visitors' browsers for 6,236 Chrome extensions and collects detailed hardware telemetry, acco...
Hacking group steals 92 GB of EU data in major cyberattack
A hacking group has exfiltrated 92 gigabytes of data from European Union institutions in a significant cyberattack, according to The Daily Star. The breach repr...
Immigration software vendor DocketWise breaches 116,000 records including SSNs
DocketWise, a software provider for immigration attorneys, has disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 116,000 individuals whose personal information in...
Axios npm package compromised in social engineering attack on maintainer
SEATTLE. Maintainers of Axios, one of the most widely used HTTP client libraries in JavaScript development, have published a detailed post-mortem describing a s...
Iranian missile strike cripples AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai
Amazon Web Services has declared multiple availability zones in Bahrain and Dubai as "hard down" following an Iranian missile attack, according to internal comp...
Anduril and Impulse Space develop orbital interceptors for Golden Dome defense system
Defense technology firm Anduril Industries has partnered with satellite startup Impulse Space to develop space-based interceptor capabilities for President Dona...
California Launches Largest Public Broadband Network in the US, Serving Rural and Indigenous Communities First
California Governor Gavin Newsom officially activated the state's new Middle-Mile Broadband Network on April 2, launching what officials describe as the largest...
Musk Wants a Million Data Center Satellites, Bezos Wants 51,600. Scientists Want to Know Why
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a growing field of startups are racing to build orbital data centers, with Elon Musk's vision calling for a constellation of roughly on...