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Samsung Electronics guided to second-quarter operating profit of about 89.4 trillion won ($58.4bn) on Tuesday, roughly 19 times what it made in the same period a year earlier and, by most counts, the largest quarterly operating profit any technology company has ever reported. It is Samsung’s third
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A federal defender is reportedly pointing a private, offensive-grade AI model at the government’s own software, though almost nothing about the work is on the record. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is using Anthropic’s AI model Mythos to hunt for bugs in government software, according to
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Munich-based Proxima Fusion has raised €411mn ($468mn), the largest private fusion round Europe has ever seen and a rare vote of confidence in a technology that has yet to produce a watt of commercial power. The deal values the stellarator company at €2.4bn and brings in Google and German
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Synopsys, the US chip design software giant, is preparing to walk away from the manufacturing control software that helps run the world’s semiconductor fabs, and to redirect the engineers behind it towards the far more lucrative business of AI chip design. The plan, reported by Reuters and attributed to
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Nscale has closed a $900m revolving credit facility, a standing pool of borrowing it will draw on to speed up its data-centre build-out across the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, the company said on Tuesday. The London firm, which raised $2bn in a Series C at a $14.6bn valuation in
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Richard White, the billionaire co-founder of WiseTech Global, has stepped down as executive chair of the Australian logistics-software company, effective immediately, capping a fortnight of intensifying scrutiny. He is not, however, leaving the building. White will stay on the ASX-listed group’s board as an executive director and keep his
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* NordPass study claims older generations are more likely to change passwords than younger generations * But younger users are more in tune with password storage services, preferring to use password managers over memory and writing them down * All generations are failing to adhere to the best practices when it comes to
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* A developer has created an AI reader tool that replicates Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter * It uses an image-input LLM that reads your handwritten messages as PNGs * The creator keeps the tool's interface simple, but it's not the easiest to install Harry Potter
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Alex Hibbitt spends his days trying to prevent a certain kind of heartbreak. Someone sits down to build a photo book – a wedding, a new baby, a parent's 70th – puts 16 hours into it, and then the checkout fails. The moment is gone, the milestone missed. Hibbitt is
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When Nothing released its flagship $179 Nothing Ear (3) noise-canceling earbuds last year, it added a unique feature: a "super" microphone integrated into its charging case, which was supposed to improve voice-calling performance. That feature isn't available in its new, more affordable Nothing Ear (3a) buds.
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DXC Technology, a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced the opening of its new Customer Experience Center in Bengaluru. The new facility is one of DXC’s largest global delivery hubs and reinforces its role in helping organizations move from AI experimentation to scaled deployment, expanding the company’
