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16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows
It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'
YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator
If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have
Trump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon us
Federal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those .si domains
Cisco warns of actively exploited SD-WAN zero-day
Cisco has patched a zero-day vulnerability in its SD-WAN Manager networking software which attackers are already exploiting in the wild.
Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services
Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn’t sure how
WisdomTree launches defined return ETFs
WisdomTree has expanded its push into outcome-based investing with the launch of two actively managed autocallable ETFs, becoming one of the latest asset managers to target growing demand for defined return strategies.
Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners
Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.
Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China
The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says
Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding
Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents
Citi launches multi-market instant payments on Swift scheme
Citi has gone live with multiple markets on the Swift payments scheme, enabling bank clients to access multiple cross-border instant payment markets through a single account structure.
Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon
Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed
One to Watch - Gimlet Labs on multi-silicon clouds and splitting up LLMs
Co-founder Natalie Serrino chats AI model disaggregation, extending the chip lifecycle, and future development.
Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call
MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails
AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit
That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment
Ex-NCA officer ordered to surrender £1.8M for stealing seized Bitcoin
Paul Chowles helped himself to 50 coins while examining devices linked to Silk Road 2.0
OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian
By including Baseten in its marketplace, OpenAI signals it wants its models to win on the merits, not through coercion
Baillie Gifford unveils tokenised fixed income fund
Baillie Gifford has launched a tokenised fixed income fund for professional investors, marking a further step in the evolution of regulated onchain investment products beyond money market funds.
Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*
Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin
Zilch eyes 2027 London IPO
Zilch is in talks with banks as it prepares to go public, with the UK-based buy now, pay later provider reportedly leaning towards a London listing.
Apple Pay arrives in India
Apple Pay is finally launching in India, entering a huge but competitive market via a partnership with Axis Bank.
Capitolis agrees $200m eSecLending acquisition
Capital markets technology provider Capitolis has added securities lending capabilities to its platform through a $200 million all-cash deal to buy eSecLending.
Sibos 2026: How can capital be mobilised into climate impact investments?
In this Sibos Miami 2026 panel, experts discussed the need for funding in sustainable action and how financial institutions can invest in infrastructure and communities at risk.
Bridging the Compliance Screening Decision Gap: What’s Next?
At Sibos 2026, David White, Global Head of Product and Data for Risk Intelligence at LSEG, reveals how LSEG is collaborating with AWS to bridge the compliance screening decision gap using intelligent data and AI agents.
UK competition watchdog raises concerns over Brink's-NCR Atleos deal
The UK's competition watchdog says it will undertake an in-depth investigation into cash management giant Brink's' planned $6.6 billion deal to buy ATM operator NCR Atleos - unless the parties take action to address concerns.
Asics encourages public to move more in new campaign
Asics has unveiled a new campaign issuing a “conservation warning” for movement, ahead of World Mental Health Day. The campaign comes as global research highlights that respondents are spend 86 per cent of their waking day not moving.
Sibos 2026: The quantum tipping point
What does the quantum threat mean for financial services?
Big Banks, Big Tech, Big Networks, Big Water team up on CNI security amid AI concerns
JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon chairs rapidly growing private sector group
