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A massive wave of cyberattacks has hit more than 100 organisations globally, and universities are the main targets. Security researchers at Mandiant and the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) were notified about the threat through public reports. Further probing revealed that 68% of the victims were colleges and universities. And,
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SpaceX is now a publicly traded company. In one of the most highly anticipated and controversial public offerings of all time, the rocket venture helmed by Elon Musk started trading on Nasdaq on June 12th at the take-it-or-leave-it price of $135-per-share — though most retail investors will likely pay far more.
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* Alien: Isolation 2 will take place months after the events of the first game * Creative Director Al Hope says the sequel is still inspired by the first Alien movie * Hope adds, "Our goal is to stay really true in spirit to that first movie" Creative Assembly has confirmed
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June is shaping up to be a fantastic month for the best streaming services, with plenty to keep us entertained across all genres. Whatever you're in the mood for, we're sure you'll find it here. Some of our highlights this week include a Jemaine
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As foundation models continue to improve, the lack of relevant context often limits what they can do, especially as they are used to build agentic systems. While these models can help you write code, summarize documents, or analyze a dataset, they still need the right information to produce accurate and
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The Current Series E is in. The New York neobank raised $80m, led by Springcoast Partners, at a $1.5bn valuation. That headline hides the real story. In 2021, Andreessen Horowitz valued Current at $2.2bn. The new round sits about a third below that peak. So this is a
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Founders Fund’s SpaceX bet has become one of the great venture trades. Peter Thiel’s firm put around $600m into the rocket company. At the IPO price, that stake is worth more than $50bn. That is roughly an 80-fold return. Few venture bets have ever paid out on this
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A SpaceX-Tesla merger has moved from rumour toward roadmap. On the day SpaceX began trading, the people around Elon Musk stopped waving the idea away. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell did the floating. Asked about merger chatter by CNBC, she said a tie-up “might make Elon’s life a little easier.
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Nvidia has started pitching its Vera CPU to Chinese customers. Orders can begin now, and deliveries could start as soon as August, Reuters reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with the talks. It is a workaround dressed as a product launch. Nvidia’s China business has collapsed under US
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OpenAI acquires Ona, the company once known as Gitpod, in its latest enterprise play. The deal, announced on Thursday, folds Ona’s secure cloud platform into Codex, OpenAI’s coding agent. Terms were not disclosed. Codex is on a tear. OpenAI says more than 5 million people now use it
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Security researchers have found a way to hijack AI coding agents with nothing but a fake bug report. They call it Agentjacking. It needs no malware, no stolen password, and no breach of the target. The attack, disclosed by Tenet Security, turns the coding agent into the weapon. When a
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