A US government entity paid around $1m to stop stolen files from being published, according to a case study by researcher Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC. The analysis draws on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left behind. The group behind the deal calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi’s chip assembly and testing plant in Sanand, Gujarat. The facility will initially turn out 200 million chips a year, according to ANI, with plans to scale to 500 million. The plant is an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test, or OSAT, facility. That covers the packaging […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Hong Kong has become the main artery for high-tech goods flowing in and out of China, and its chip trade has hit record levels. The city accounted for more than half of China’s $239bn in semiconductor imports in the first five months of 2026, according to a Bloomberg review of official data. That share stood at […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Starling Bank is cutting around 130 jobs, roughly 3% of its 4,000-strong workforce, as the London-based neobank restructures its banking and technology operations. Staff were told this week that the changes were intended to simplify how the company operates, reduce duplication, and accelerate product delivery. The cuts come as Starling pushes AI deeper into its […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked amendments to the country’s world-first social media ban for children, warning that the delay would give tech platforms time to destroy documents that could be used as evidence against them. The conservative Liberal Party and the minor Greens party referred the legislation to an eight-week Senate […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Nearly a million people who bought President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin have collectively lost $3.81 billion, according to an analysis by blockchain analytics firm Nansen. The data, which covers all transactions through the end of June, found that 988,905 of the token’s buyers are underwater. Trump earned $636 million from the same coin. His 927-page financial disclosure, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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China released draft amendments to its e-commerce law on Saturday, proposing 20 provisions that would expand the law’s reach beyond platforms and merchants to cover a wider range of participants in the digital economy. The proposal, jointly issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Ministry of Commerce, is open for public consultation until 4 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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China’s cinemas are being told to stop relying on tickets alone. New guidelines from the National Film Administration and the State Administration for Market Regulation encourage theatres to add AI concierge agents, karaoke booths and coffee shops to their lobbies, according to Bloomberg. The same guidance nudges operators toward movie-themed merchandise stores, licensed products, art exhibitions […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Germany’s cooperative banks and savings banks, the local institutions that handle mortgages, current accounts, and small business loans for tens of millions of customers, are rolling out their own cryptocurrency trading services. The move will bring digital asset trading to a population that could barely be persuaded to use credit cards a decade ago. Some of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The global race for AI infrastructure has become a contest of personal relationships. French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have emerged as its most aggressive practitioners, personally courting the heads of the world’s largest technology companies to secure data centre investments that will determine where the next generation of AI systems are trained […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will summon Meta executives after a BBC investigation found that Instagram had been running paid advertisements promoting child sexual abuse material to users in the country. Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has directed ministry officials to seek a formal explanation from the company, according to Business Standard, which cited government […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI apparently failed to visit a key site earmarked for its Stargate UK data centre project before the initiative was announced, the Guardian reported on Friday. The revelation deepens questions about whether the UK government’s flagship AI infrastructure programme was built on press releases rather than due diligence. Stargate UK, a partnership between OpenAI, Nvidia, and […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Micron Technology broke ground on Saturday on a ¥1.5 trillion, roughly $9.3bn, expansion of its factory in Hiroshima, western Japan, the company’s latest bet on the AI memory boom that has already pushed its market value past $1 trillion. The Boise, Idaho based chipmaker will use the site to produce high-bandwidth memory, the stacked DRAM […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Alex Karp, the co-founder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, has quietly assembled a real estate portfolio worth more than $200 million across a reported 20 properties worldwide. The common thread is seclusion: a former monastery in the Colorado mountains, a rural compound in New Hampshire, and a pair of mansions on a gated Miami island. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of escalating conflict between the two companies over allegations that Alibaba stole Anthropic’s AI capabilities through industrial-scale distillation. “As Claude Code was […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The trade that defined the first half of 2026, buying anything with proximity to a GPU, broke apart in the holiday-shortened week before Independence Day. The PHLX Semiconductor Index, which had surged more than 80% in the first half, sank 6.3% on Wednesday and 5.4% on Thursday, a two-session decline of roughly 12%. While chip stocks […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Dream, the Israeli AI cybersecurity startup that tripled its valuation to $3 billion this year, is expanding into Latin America. The company is targeting governments aligned with Washington in a region where cyber attacks are reportedly growing 25% annually and national defences rank among the weakest in the world. The expansion is notable for what […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence has proven that it can trawl the internet to retrieve information quickly for answering questions. But teaching students using AI is a harder task. The stakes are even higher when the goal is not just learning in school, but performing well on high-stakes exams like the SAT and ACT. On the face of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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General Motors sold roughly 14,000 Chevrolet Silverado EVs in the United States and Canada last year, according to GM Authority sales data. The petrol-powered Silverado moves more than ten times that volume in a single quarter. That gap, between what reviewers call one of the best electric trucks on the market and what buyers are […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Security researchers at JFrog have identified a set of malicious npm packages linked to North Korean threat actors that impersonate legitimate Rollup polyfill tooling to steal developer credentials and enable remote access to compromised machines. The packages, named “rollup-packages-polyfill-core” and “rollup-runtime-polyfill-core,” mimic the legitimate “rollup-plugin-polyfill-node” project down to its description, repository metadata, and package structure. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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