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Federal prosecutors have revealed that Peter Williams, the former general manager of U.S. defense contractor L3Harris's hacking tools division Trenchant, sold eight stolen software exploits to a Russian broker whose customers -- including the Russian government -- could have used them to access "millions of computers and devices around the world."
Williams, a 39-year-old Australian national, pleaded guilty in October and admitted to earning more than $1.3 million in cryptocurrency from the sales between 2
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It sounds like PlayStation is putting its focus back on console exclusives. According to a report in Bloomberg, Sony's gaming division is moving away from porting PS5 games to PC, which reportedly includes cancelling plans for a PC port of Ghost of Yōtei. It's a big change from a few years ago, when Sony said […] Read more ›
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As Samsung gears up to release its 2026 TVs, you can find record-low prices on its existing models, including up to $1,300 off Samsung 4K, QLED, and OLED TVs. Read more ›
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The UK government has committed up to £40m to discover the UK’s AI “breakthroughs” of tomorrow, as it looks to rev up its sovereign AI credentials.A UK government-backed lab will support the effort, b... Read more ›
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Nvidia has invested a combined $4 billion USD in photonics and networking companies Lumentum and Coherent in a deal that will see both building U.S. facilities, while locking down access rights and capacity for future technologies. Read more ›
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The most impactful grandparents don't buy love with toys or treats — they master nine subtle arts that shape their grandchildren forever, yet the one memory that endures into adulthood is often just two minutes long and costs absolutely nothing. Read more ›
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It’s Wednesday, March 4, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today. Global tech is moving quickly today as AI, infrastructure, and geopolitics continue to collide across the industry. From OpenAI navigating defense contracts and NATO discussions to ... Read more ›
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OpenClaw mania has swept across China. Last month, at a five-day online hackathon organized by a Hangzhou-based AI startup, one contestant developed the equivalent of Tinder for AI agents seeking love interests on behalf of their human owners. Another created a recruiting site where job seekers’ AI agents talk to employers’ AI agents. A third created a gamelike app where the users’ AI alter egos travel virtually around the world,... Read more ›
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Irish drivers continue to show interest in electric (EV) and hybrid vehicles, while carefully weighing cost, charging confidence and real-world ownership considerations, according to new findings from the Carzone 2026 Motoring Report. The latest national survey shows that a third (32%) of drivers plan to purchase a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric vehicle next. Hybrids […] Read more ›
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The federal directive ordering all U.S. government agencies to cease using Anthropic technology comes with a six-month phaseout window. That timeline assumes agencies already know where Anthropic’s models sit inside their workflows. Most don’t today.Most enterprises wouldn’t, either. The gap between what enterprises think they’ve approved and what’s actually running in production is wider than most security leaders realize.AI vendor dependencies don't stop at the contract you signed; they cascade... Read more ›
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Plans for a Sui Dollar, which is issued by stablecoin firm Bridge, were introduced toward the end of last year. Read more ›
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The G90 looks and drives great, with its e-supercharger and new Prestige Black trim, but is the driver's seat actually the least appealing? Read more ›
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Brad Jaffe, the former global communications leader at Binance, becomes chief communications officer at KAST. Read more ›
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The third day of MWC 2026 featured outdoor-focused gadgets, strange smartphone ideas, and experimental tech hinting at where mobile devices are headed. Read more ›
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At a time of intense geopolitical tension, any reliance on foreign imports exposes a country to some risk. But as the British government attempts to use advanced technology to lift the country out of its economic slump, its longstanding dependence on overseas suppliers for battery materials could become one of its most dangerous positions. Required ... Read more ›
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Anthropic, the AI company that has long positioned itself as the industry's most safety-conscious research lab, is dropping the central commitment of its Responsible Scaling Policy -- a 2023 pledge to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee beforehand that its safety measures were adequate. "We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments ... if competitors... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Uber is one step closer to going airborne. On Wednesday, the company previewed its air taxi booking service ahead of an expected launch in Dubai later this year. The inaugural Uber Air program will let travelers book Joby Aviation's electric air taxis through a familiar process in the Uber app. The experience of booking an air taxi will be much like reserving a four-wheeled... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Japan's Fair Trade Commission raided Microsoft Japan's offices on Wednesday as part of an investigation into whether it improperly restricted customers of its Azure platform from using rival cloud services, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The source said Japan's antitrust authorities would also be seeking clarification from Microsoft's parent company in the United States. Microsoft Japan is suspected of... Read more ›
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The screeching sound that Scotch tape makes when you rip it off a surface -- that fingernails-on-a-chalkboard noise most people try not to think about -- is produced by shock waves from micro-cracks that travel across the peeling tape at supersonic speeds, according to a new paper published in Physical Review E. Researchers led by Sigurdur Thoroddsen of King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia used simultaneous high-speed imaging and synchronized... Read more ›
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DVD and Blu-ray sales have been in freefall for years, but the decline is slowing considerably as Gen Z buyers turn to physical media and drive a measurable uptick at video rental stores and retailers across the U.S. Overall disc sales fell just 9% last year after dropping more than 20% in both 2023 and 2024, according to the Digital Entertainment Group, and U.S. consumers spent 12% more on 4K... Read more ›
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A hacker exploited Anthropic's AI chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and voter information, according to cybersecurity researchers. From a report: The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and determining ways to automate... Read more ›
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Seamus Blackley, one of the original founders of Xbox who helped convince Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer to back a console project more than 26 years ago, told GamesBeat in an interview that he believes Microsoft is quietly sunsetting the platform under the guise of an AI-driven leadership transition. Microsoft recently announced that Asha Sharma, whose career has focused on AI and software as a service, will replace Phil Spencer... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license plate readers aid U.S. immigration authorities and deportations. Flock is the Atlanta-based surveillance startup valued at $7.5 billion a year ago and a maker of license plate readers. It has faced criticism for allowing federal... Read more ›
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Tech companies ranging from 300-person startups to giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Salesforce have moved beyond encouraging employees to use AI tools and are now actively tracking adoption and, in several cases, tying it to performance reviews. Google is factoring AI use into some software engineer reviews for the first time this year, and Meta's new performance review system will do the same -- it can track how... Read more ›
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Kalshi, the prediction market platform regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has for the first time publicly disclosed the results of an insider trading investigation, naming an editor for YouTube's biggest creator as the offender. The company identified Artem Kaptur, an editor for MrBeast, who it says traded around $4,000 on markets tied to the streamer and achieved "near-perfect trading success" on low-odds bets -- a pattern investigators flagged... Read more ›
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