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Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro pushes laptop pricing to a new extreme
Prepare to cough up around $14,549 if you want the new touchscreen MacBook Pro to have every upgrade.…
TechCrunch · Oct 28, 10:47 pm → Read full article
Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion
Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS.…
TechCrunch · Oct 28, 9:58 pm → Read full article
A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records
A hacker stole a trove of personal information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The breach exposes the names, job titles, phone numbers, email addresses, and office locations of more……
The Verge · Oct 28, 9:57 pm → Read full article
Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows
The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.…
TechCrunch · Oct 28, 9:48 pm → Read full article
Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI
Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous……
TechCrunch · Oct 28, 9:34 pm → Read full article
Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC
The MPC Sample Key isn't even formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is cooking up through vibe coding. Akai has decided to embrace the explosion of……
The Verge · Oct 28, 9:34 pm → Read full article
Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row
Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19%……
TechCrunch · Oct 28, 9:25 pm → Read full article
Readwise is taking on Kindle and Kobo for ebook supremacy
For the last several years, Readwise has been building tools for power readers. There's the eponymous product, Readwise, which stores and categorizes your Kindle highlights to help you remember what……
The Verge · Oct 28, 9:16 pm → Read full article
Google says its investments in AI are driving more searches
Google parent company Alphabet says that its AI investments are leading to a big growth in searches year-over-year, as noted in its Q3 2026 earnings today. "Our AI investments are driving overall……
The Verge · Oct 28, 8:22 pm → Read full article
Microsoft reveals strong cloud growth amid financial reporting overhaul
Microsoft just posted the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $92.3 billion in revenue and a net income of $33.6 billion during Q1. Revenue is up 19 percent,……
The Verge · Oct 28, 8:20 pm → Read full article
Apple charges $14,549 for a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro
With an OLED display and touchscreen capabilities, it's no surprise that the new MacBook Pro Apple announced today is more expensive than the MBP announced earlier this year. But upgrading the base……
The Verge · Oct 28, 8:12 pm → Read full article
Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity
Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's……
The Verge · Oct 28, 8:03 pm → Read full article
Hacker stole personnel data about thousands of Homeland Security employees, including CBP and ICE agents
A hacker obtained personally identifiable information about more than 40,000 Homeland Security staffers, which has since been published online.…
TechCrunch · Oct 28, 8:01 pm → Read full article
Foreign gadget bans: all the news about the FCC’s clampdown on Chinese tech
What do drones, routers, and Roombas have in common? The US government wants to keep Chinese ones from entering the country. They’re the first consumer gadgets that are facing de facto import bans……
The Verge · Oct 28, 7:37 pm → Read full article
Trump admin sues Utah to save Kalshi from the state's total ban on gambling
US agency has sued 10 states for trying to stop gambling on prediction markets.…
Ars Technica · Oct 28, 7:30 pm → Read full article
The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona
It has been nearly a year since any space tourism flights occurred.…
Ars Technica · Oct 28, 7:20 pm → Read full article
Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying
The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.…
TechCrunch · Oct 28, 7:19 pm → Read full article
Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac
It's not as different from the previous model as you might have expected.…
Ars Technica · Oct 28, 7:10 pm → Read full article
Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’
The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to……
TechCrunch · Oct 28, 7:05 pm → Read full article
Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use
Gemini 4 Carbon is essentially a slightly better version of Argon.…
Ars Technica · Oct 28, 6:47 pm → Read full article
Creating AI value with enterprise context
Across a business, any number of AI platforms, systems, and tools may be at work simultaneously—for example, AI-powered customer platforms, conversational assistants, and workflow and process……
MIT Tech Review · Oct 28, 8:32 pm → Read full article
The Download: dead startups fueling AI and interspecies communication
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their……
MIT Tech Review · Oct 28, 12:10 pm → Read full article
Pairing industrial AI autonomy and human control
MIT Tech Review · Oct 28, 12:00 pm → Read full article
Will the real Anthropic please stand up
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its……
MIT Tech Review · Oct 26, 5:45 pm → Read full article
The Download: everyday AI harms and the race to nuclear spaceflight
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Opinion: The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday……
MIT Tech Review · Oct 26, 12:40 pm → Read full article
The Download: Anthropic’s IPO, smarter power grids, and exercise pills
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Will the real Anthropic please stand up? After weeks of……
MIT Tech Review → Read full article
Industrial Intelligence: The next growth opportunity for manufacturing
Every manufacturer has its own industrial intelligence. Some is documented, and some resides in the knowledge of experienced workers. Consider an experienced operator preparing to restart a line……
MIT Tech Review → Read full article
How solid-state transformers could help power the AI boom
Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply. And given that their……
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Police seize Virtualine bulletproof service tied to ransowmare, cybercrime
U.S. law enforcement has seized the primary domain of Virtualine, a bulletproof hosting service advertised on cybercrime forums for facilitating illegal activities. [...]…
BleepingComputer · Oct 28, 8:47 pm → Read full article
Discord to let search engines index public server messages
Discord will allow search engines to index discussions in Discoverable Servers and make them accessible on the web to users outside the platform without an account or invitation. [...]…
BleepingComputer · Oct 28, 6:44 pm → Read full article
Sony ISP subsidiary data breach exposes 2.5 million customer records
Sony Network Communications has confirmed a data breach that compromised approximately 2.5 million records containing current and former customers' personal information. [...]…
BleepingComputer · Oct 28, 4:45 pm → Read full article
Volt Typhoon hides zero-day attacks using 'Silent Train' framework
Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Volt Typhoon has been using a framework that relies on rotating chains of connected devices compromised on demand, including for zero-day attacks targeting……
BleepingComputer · Oct 28, 4:00 pm → Read full article
Microsoft urges Entra ID admins to migrate users to passkeys
Microsoft again asked Entra ID administrators to migrate users to phishing-resistant methods to avoid sign-in disruptions before it retires SMS and voice authentication in February 2027. [...]…
BleepingComputer · Oct 28, 2:48 pm → Read full article
InfraTrust report warns of exploited flaws in critical network infrastructure
Attackers are actively exploiting vulnerabilities across critical network infrastructure, and PHP flaws known as "PHP2Shell" put the web management interfaces of firewalls, VPNs, application delivery……
BleepingComputer · Oct 28, 2:00 pm → Read full article
Even after PHP2Shell, blast radius matters more than a CVSS score
PHP2Shell shows how quickly attackers can exploit critical vulnerabilities, often before organizations have time to patch. Token Security explains why limiting the access of service accounts, API……
BleepingComputer · Oct 28, 1:50 pm → Read full article
Hackers now scanning systems for recently-patched Oracle flaw
Attackers have begun probing the Internet for systems unpatched against a recently disclosed critical Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) vulnerability. [...]…
BleepingComputer · Oct 28, 12:19 pm → Read full article
CISA Unveils New Strategy to Strengthen National Cyber Defense and Critical Infrastructure Security
CISA Alerts · Oct 26, 12:00 pm → Read full article
Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today
Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an……
Krebs on Security · Oct 21, 3:26 pm → Read full article
CISA, FBI and Partners Warn Organizations of SafePay Ransomware Actors Targeting Multiple Critical Infrastructure Sectors
CISA Alerts · Oct 21, 12:00 pm → Read full article
Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who……
Krebs on Security · Oct 19, 1:48 pm → Read full article
U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering
The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics,……
Krebs on Security · Oct 14, 2:22 pm → Read full article
FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that……
Krebs on Security · Oct 10, 12:17 am → Read full article
ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests
A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of……
Krebs on Security · Oct 7, 1:48 pm → Read full article
Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days……
Krebs on Security · Sep 28, 3:08 pm → Read full article
U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions
A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced……
Krebs on Security · Sep 25, 9:44 pm → Read full article
CISA Whitepaper Charts Path to Establishing and Maturing CVE Program Quality
CISA Alerts · Sep 23, 12:00 pm → Read full article
CISA Hosts Cyber Storm X, Nationwide Cybersecurity Exercise to Strengthen Resilience
CISA Alerts · Sep 18, 12:00 pm → Read full article
New CISA Guidance Helps Critical Infrastructure Detect, Observe and Impede Malicious Cyber Activity
CISA Alerts · Sep 16, 12:00 pm → Read full article

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