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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Google and Microsoft are backing ARD for AI agent discovery. * ARD could help agents find tools, skills, and other agents. * The same discovery layer may also create new security risks. I'm always a
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Cybercriminals linked to the DragonForce ransomware group recently compromised a US services firm and concealed their malicious traffic by abusing Microsoft Teams’ relay infrastructure. According to research from Broadcom’s Symantec and Carbon Black threat hunter teams, the attackers used a newly identified, custom-built backdoor to keep their activity hidden
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The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) will celebrate its 23rd Foundation Day on June 19, 2026, marking over two decades of strengthening India’s internet infrastructure and supporting the nation’s digital transformation journey. Established under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of
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Most digital agencies hit a wall somewhere between their fiftieth and hundredth active client. Sales is fine; the pitch deck still works, the services still convert. The breakdown is on the delivery side. The operation behind the scenes starts to crack under the weight of clients it was never designed
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SpaceX has named its first new board member since going public, and the word doing the heavy lifting in the announcement is “independent.” In a filing on June 17, the company said its board had elected Roelof Botha, the former Sequoia Capital steward, as an independent director and a member
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TL;DR Prem AI is raising $100M at $500M+ valuation. It builds private AI infrastructure for hedge funds and law firms. “Enterprise intelligence must be owned, not rented.” Prem AI, a Swiss startup that helps hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising $100
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Midjourney, the company best known for turning text prompts into images, has announced something it has never made before: hardware. And not a phone case or a pair of glasses, but a full-body medical scanner. At an event in San Francisco on June 17, founder David Holz unveiled “The Midjourney
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TL;DR EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen says AI companies are welcome in Europe only if they commit to the bloc’s climate goals. The warning comes as a planned data centre sustainability label is delayed over a nuclear power dispute, and only 36 per cent of data centres have
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Security researchers have uncovered a sprawling cache of stolen credentials for Fortinet firewalls, exposing login details for tens of thousands of organisations around the world. The dataset, dubbed “FortiBleed,” contains plaintext usernames, emails and passwords for 73,932 unique Fortinet FortiGate firewall and VPN devices across 194 countries, touching more
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TL;DR MIT’s DAAAM gives robots long-term memory by attaching language descriptions to 3D maps. You can ask “where did I leave my wallet?” and it knows. Robots are still surprisingly bad at remembering where things are. You might recall that your keys were on the kitchen counter last
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* An automotive company will have a company-wide shutdown on November 19, 2026, due to employees taking time off for GTA 6 * Burger Motorsports states its normal services may face delays on GTA 6's launch date * There are still no signs of a potential delay from Rockstar Games Rockstar
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Blink makes some of the best home security cameras you can buy right now, but with wide range of models available, working out which one is best for your needs can be difficult. Below, I've pulled together a simple guide to your options — and now's a
