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Electronics Weekly ·
Idealab.ai kicked off on Monday with 1.2 ideas for starting up a new tech business. The site was set up by serial entrepreneur Bill Gross (pictured ) the billionaire founder […] The post 1,208,577 ideas for tech startups for free...
The Register ·
Google has fixed the flaws in the Chromium browser engine that saw it poll DNS root servers, but ISPs who seem to have odd views about resilience now emerged as a new source of probably-well-meaning overconsumption of internet...
Silicon Republic ·
The New York-based start-up plans to use the funding to accelerate customer acquisition in the US, grow its go-to-market operation and continue expanding its engineering and product teams. Read more: Irish-founded legal-tech EstateMin...
Tech.eu · · Medium severity
Norwegian AI startup Jenz has raised €540,000 in pre-seed funding from Antler and Ada Ventures . The company has also received a NOK 1 million (€92,000) startup grant from Innovation Norway . Founded by Remi Bjørnestad (CEO), Jo Schou...
The Register · · Medium severity
An automotive tech startup claims that its IT systems were attacked by individuals trying to steal its driving model, and that those attacks came from an IP address associated with a rival in the space. The tech startup, IQ.Lvbs,...
Electronics Weekly ·
SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation) – China’s largest foundry, ~$9.3 billion revenue in 2025. CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) – Leading domestic DRAM maker, revenue surged past $8 billion. […] The post Top...
TNW ·
Shares in Elice, a South Korean AI data centre company, fell 32% on their first day of trading in Seoul on Tuesday. It was the worst debut on record for a Korean IPO of $100m or more, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, as Yoolim...
TNW ·
Thore Graepel, who helped build Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, has launched Metis Reasoning in London. The company’s founding claim is that large language models cannot be trusted to reason. Its founders want to apply the lessons of AlphaGo...
The Register ·
More than 11 percent of the GPUs at Meta’s Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, are either dead or sitting idle waiting to step in when the next drops out, Zuckercorp revealed this week. The massive pool of redundant GPUs is...
TNW ·
Australia expects to take Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google’s YouTube to court over its social media ban for under-16s. Communications Minister Anika Wells told Bloomberg that the eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, is using new powers...
TNW ·
Meta’s Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, already runs hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs across several buildings, and Meta plans to grow it to about 1 million. The company set out the details in an engineering blog post on...
TNW ·
Arda Industries, founded by OpenAI’s former research chief Bob McGrew, has come out of stealth with $232 million in funding, the company announced on Tuesday. Its AI software turns new product designs into working assembly lines. The...
TNW ·
has joined SPECS, Snap’s augmented reality glasses business, as its honorary chief customer experience officer, Snap announced. His job is to show people what the see-through glasses can do. SPECS runs as Specs Inc., a wholly owned Snap...
TNW ·
ASI has raised $325 million in a Series C round that values it at $3 billion, the Boston AI company announced on Tuesday. Its software models air traffic, power grids and military operations hours, days and weeks ahead. The aim is to...
TNW ·
Reliable Robotics has raised $115 million, taking its valuation past $1 billion, the company announced on Tuesday. The Mountain View, California, startup builds systems that let existing aircraft taxi, take off, fly and land on their...
TNW ·
Sierra, the AI customer service startup led by Bret Taylor, has partnered with Stripe so its agents can take card payments during phone calls. Customers type their card number on the keypad and the data goes straight to Stripe....
TNW ·
Joel Kaplan, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, will leave the company in 2027 after more than 15 years, Bloomberg reported. He will stay through the US midterm elections. No successor was named, but president Dina Powell McCormick...
IT Pro ·
Mark Samuels is a freelance writer specializing in business and technology. For the past two decades, he has produced extensive work on subjects such as the adoption of technology by C-suite executives. At ITPro, Mark has provided...
The Register · · High severity
Multiple ransomware groups, including Qilin and Inc, have been exploiting a high-severity authentication bypass bug in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS, with Unit 42 investigating attacks since early June across numerous industries, such as...
IT Pro ·
Mark Samuels is a freelance writer specializing in business and technology. For the past two decades, he has produced extensive work on subjects such as the adoption of technology by C-suite executives. At ITPro, Mark has provided...
TNW ·
“Blackwall has built something rare: a security company that grows with the internet itself,” said Warda Shaheen, a general partner at AVP. “It is already the layer in front of millions of websites, and as more of the web’s traffic...
TNW ·
Homebase, which makes scheduling and payroll software for hourly teams, has launched Homebase Assistant. The AI tool finds and contacts staff to cover missed shifts, builds schedules, screens job candidates and flags timecard errors...
TNW ·
New York startup Asymptote Labs has raised a $5.5M seed round led by Tower Research Ventures. It makes Beacon, a free open-source tool that records what AI agents do, and sells a paid platform that can block risky agent actions. The...
IT Pro ·
Angus Ward is CEO of Beyond Now and a technology leader with more than 30 years of consulting experience across multiple industries. Since becoming CEO in 2017, he has led Beyond Now’s transformation from a services business into an...
The Register · · Medium severity
An "avalanche of vulnerability reports" is forcing curl to move lower-severity cases into public view, reserving private handling for high and critical flaws. From October 26, low and medium-severity reports should be filed in the open...
TNW ·
Spotify says it has taken more than 50 million AI-generated “slop” and spam tracks out of its recommendations this year, on top of 75 million spam tracks it has deleted. It found these were the tracks listeners skipped or rejected most....
The Register ·
Microsoft is pruning OneDrive's Copilot options from File Explorer's right-click menu, though the AI assistant isn't being shown the door entirely. The Windows giant will remove shortcuts for summarizing documents, generating FAQs,...
TNW ·
Amazon plans to hire more than 300,000 US workers for the holiday season, up 20% from last year, with seasonal staff paid an average of $20 an hour. It is adding health cover for seasonal workers who stay into January. Overall US...
TNW ·
Inception, the Redwood City AI lab, released Mercury 3 on Monday. It is the newest version of what the company calls a diffusion LLM, a design that differs from the systems behind most chatbots. Most language models are autoregressive.
TNW ·
OpenAI has stopped pushing for strict US limits on selling advanced chips to China, according to Politico. For much of last year the company openly called for such limits. Capitol Hill aides and lobbyists with direct knowledge of its...
TNW ·
In August, researchers at MIT dropped a society of AI agents into a shared world with no instructions. They showed it could invent, build and maintain technology better than the same number of agents working alone. The study ran on a...
The Register ·
Surprisingly few organizations were promoting Linux distros at Open Source Summit Europe. The only dedicated stands we found belonged to two Chinese projects, with openEuler occupying the larger booth. For users accustomed to Western...
TNW · · Medium severity
A cyberattack that once might have taken weeks or months to unfold can now go from initial access to a complete system takeover in minutes. That was the lesson CJ Moses, CISO of Amazon, shared with Shahar Peled. Peled is CEO and...
The Register ·
Seasoned techies recall with nostalgia a simpler time when the “single-stack” model of enterprise computing held as the default approach to solving interoperability headaches. Back then IT decision-makers were prepared to forfeit some...
Silicon Republic ·
Currently the live commerce platform employs roughly 130 people across Ireland, with plans to add across a number of its teams. Read more: Whatnot to double Irish workforce as it launches new European HQ
TNW ·
Anthropic has told US lawmakers it will rewrite part of its own draft AI safety bill. The leaked text drew days of criticism from the AI safety community. The confidential draft was published by Politico on Friday.
The Register ·
Enterprises say nearly a third of their software budgets goes on upgrades, migrations, and licensing changes they wouldn't have chosen, according to research suggesting that keeping vendors happy has become an expensive business. The...
TNW ·
DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the software it uses to run its AI models in production. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on X on Tuesday and published the code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence. For now, it supports...
IT Pro · · Medium severity
Nicole Kobie first started writing for ITPro in 2007. As a freelance journalist covering technology and business, Nicole's work includes bylines in New Scientist, Wired, PC Pro and many more. Nicole the author of a book about the...
IT Security Guru · · Medium severity
The best cybersecurity thought leadership agencies help organisations turn expert insight into credible executive content, original research and influential industry commentary. For technical, practitioner-led thought leadership: Bora...
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