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The Register · · Medium severity
Make sure you don’t say anything mean or secret after hanging up a call on Signal, as a bug in the encrypted messaging app’s calling library could prevent a call from ending properly, potentially leaving audio and possibly video active....
The Register ·
More than half of CIOs are likely to miss their AI-related ROI targets next year, according to Forrester. The analyst's State Of AI Survey 2026 found that 45 percent of AI decision-makers need positive ROI within a year to consider...
TNW ·
Eindhoven-based Photon Bridge has raised €10M, co-led by the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital, to build laser light sources for the optical links inside AI data centres. It plans first samples in 2027 and volume production...
TNW ·
Sydney-based Mary Technology has connected its litigation tool to Harvey, the $15.6B legal AI company. Lawyers drafting in Harvey can now draw on the facts, evidence and reviews their team has built up in Mary, including conflicting...
TNW ·
A German court has told Google it cannot keep showing people’s homes from above without their permission. The Frankfurt Regional Court ruled on Tuesday that the aerial and satellite views on Google Earth and Google Maps break Germany’s...
TNW ·
eBay will cut about 9% of its workforce, around 1,000 jobs, according to an internal memo from CEO Jamie Iannone first reported by Reuters. It follows 800 job cuts in February. eBay says it wants to focus on its fastest-growing areas.
TNW ·
The PHP Foundation has given an unusually frank account of the emergency behind this week’s patches. It said it had found one of the two critical flaws two years ago, in 2024. Then it spent months unable to agree on how to repair it.
TNW ·
Government, hospital and university websites across Europe went dark on Wednesday. Operators pulled them offline to guard against two critical flaws in PHP, the programming language that runs a large share of the web. They judged a few...
TNW ·
Intel has started installing equipment at Fab 62, its new chip plant near Phoenix, which is due to open in early 2028. It has also put up the first major roof truss at its long-delayed Ohio site. The progress comes as demand for its...
TNW ·
Anthropic pointed its Claude models at 25 widely used open-source projects and set them a different task: not finding individual bugs, but finding code that attackers can reach when they should not be able to. Claude flagged 493 such...
The Register ·
OpenBSD 8.0 brings bigger virtual machines, graphics improvements, and another helping of AI mockery. The round version number doesn't signal a radical break with its predecessors. OpenBSD 8.0 is the 61st release of the project.
TNW ·
PHP shipped emergency security updates on Wednesday. They fix two critical flaws that let an unauthenticated attacker run code on almost any server running the language. The release capped a frantic two days that pulled websites offline...
The Register · · Critical severity
PHP developers have released emergency updates for two critical vulnerabilities after cybersecurity authorities warned organizations to patch immediately or consider taking exposed applications offline. PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and...
IT Pro · · Critical severity
Nikkei admits millions of records stolen after reporting third breach in a month
The Register ·
Cute robots stole the show at Nvidia's GTC keynote in Berlin, where Jensen Huang pitched a future powered by AI agents – and, naturally, plenty of his company's hardware. The Nvidia chief remained his usual ebullient self despite...
Electronics Weekly ·
Littelfuse is launching its TP7.0SMD-XC series of automotive TVS (transient voltage suppression) diodes. The surface-mount parts delivers 7000 W peak pulse power and a low, flat-clamping voltage to protect sensitive […] The post...
IT Security Guru ·
Salt Security has won three categories at Cyber Defense Magazine’s 2026 Top InfoSec Innovators awards, recognising its work in agentic AI and API security. The company received the Most Promising Agentic AI Security Solution,...
Silicon Republic ·
Go Eve's technology was developed by a team of researchers led by Prof Robert Shorten at UCD’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Read more: UCD joint spin-out Go Eve taps £750,000 for advanced EV charging tech
Tech.eu ·
Swedish legal AI outfit Legora today said it has raised $550 million at an $8.8bn valuation, just six months after completing its last funding round. The Series E funding round was led by Boston-based investment firm Atreides...
TNW ·
Two OpenAI coding agents weakened the company’s misalignment monitoring while doing routine internal tasks, and one then told a user it had not done so. OpenAI disclosed the incidents in a misalignment report on its alignment blog on...
TNW ·
OpenAI is bringing its frontier models and its Codex coding agent to Google Cloud, the two companies said on Wednesday. GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out now in private preview in Google Cloud’s Model Garden,...
TNW ·
A new draft of Anthropic’s S-1, the prospectus for its IPO, puts its possible computing spend at $750bn over the coming years. That includes deals it is still negotiating. Anissa Gardizy reported the figures for The Wall Street Journal,...
TNW ·
OpenAI is bringing ads in ChatGPT to 26 more countries, taking the total to 89. More than 100,000 advertisers have now run campaigns on the platform, the company said. It launched ChatGPT ads just over eight months ago.
IT Pro ·
Ross Kelly is ITPro's News & Analysis Editor, with a keen interest in cyber security, business leadership and emerging technologies. He graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 2016 with a BA (Hons) in Journalism, and joined ITPro...
Tech.eu ·
Mika Games , a gaming investment company founded by Wargaming co-founder Nick Katselapov, has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Flint Capital , with participation from several new and existing investors. Early-stage mobile...
TNW ·
Swedish legal AI startup Legora has raised $550 million in a Series E funding round, bringing its valuation to $8.8 billion. US investment firm Atreides Management led the round, with several new and existing investors participating....
IT Pro ·
Bobby Hellard is ITPro's Reviews Editor and has worked on CloudPro and ChannelPro since 2018. In his time at ITPro, Bobby has covered stories for all the major technology companies, such as Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook, and...
TNW ·
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has defended the company’s “race to the top” strategy in a long post on X. He was replying to Nathan Calvin, chief strategy officer at the advocacy group Encode AI. Amodei listed nine decisions he...
The Register · · Unconfirmed
Microsoft is raising OneDrive's supported macOS sync limit to one million items, matching Windows, alongside new Copilot features, sharing controls, and an admin command-line tool. The macOS preview is scheduled for the Insiders ring...
Silicon Republic ·
Representatives from Magnet Plus and Culligan Water discuss the challenges and benefits of adapting internet connectivity for a business’s needs. Read more: The importance of adaption in business internet connectivity
The Register ·
Generative AI is saving open source developers time while giving maintainers more rubbish to sift through, according to a Linux Foundation survey. Respondents estimated that a quarter of incoming pull requests – proposed code changes –...
TNW ·
European infrastructure companies are building AI data centres on Nvidia DSX, Nvidia said on Wednesday at its GTC Berlin conference. The chipmaker says the blueprint can cut cooling water use to almost zero. The news came a day after...
TNW ·
The European Commission has opened an investigation into Booking.com over concerns that the platform is not doing enough to protect users from fake listings and phishing scams. Announced Wednesday, the probe will examine whether the...
Tech.eu ·
Opply , a company developing an AI-powered operating platform for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, has raised $7.5 million in a funding round led by Chalfen Ventures , with participation from Index Ventures, Anthemis, Entrepreneurs...
The Register · · Critical severity
When it comes to cyberattacks that shut down power grids, drinking-water systems, and other critical infrastructure, AI doesn’t – yet – turn script kiddies into sophisticated, nation-state attackers. But “the potential is there,”...
TNW ·
OpenAI president Greg Brockman has joined calls for AI safety rules in the US. At the same time, a political group he helped fund is spending millions to elect candidates who oppose strict rules, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Brockman...
TNW ·
Pigment, a Paris-based AI software maker for business planning, announced on Wednesday that it raised $250M in a Series E round, valuing the company at $2.3B. Nvidia also plans to invest, adding to its recent European bets. The Scaleup...
Silicon Republic ·
Yvonne Coppinger discusses the skills she learned in the early days of her career, the joy of never knowing what skills will be needed next and mentoring the future leaders of the industry. Read more: The engineer who didn’t write a...
TNW ·
Nvidia has released a design for running AI agents inside fixed limits, from enterprise infrastructure to edge machines. Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Google Cloud and AWS are among the companies working with it, Nvidia said....
The Register ·
The European Commission has opened an investigation under the Digital Services Act into whether Booking.com is doing enough to stop fraudsters running scams, phishing and smishing on its platform. Officials told The Register the probe,...
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