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Rob Juncker is chief product and technology officer at Mimecast. Is he a hacker? “Unequivocally yes,” he says. “And I think every security leader should be able to answer ‘yes’ to that question, for so many reasons.” He started early, when his parents brought home an Apple IIc. He was
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Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created a new optical-neural processor that uses light to help identify deepfake videos quickly and accurately. Unlike conventional systems that typically examine videos one after another using digital hardware, the UCLA technology can analyze 15 or more video streams at
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AI is helping us find software vulnerabilities faster than ever. That’s great news for cybersecurity. But, there’s a consequence we don’t talk about nearly enough: More vulnerabilities discovered means more vulnerabilities to fix. More vulnerabilities to fix means more patches. And more patches mean more pressure on
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* Critics claim a competition-winning video was made using AI * They cite unusual movements in the cells shown in the footage * Contest organizer Nikon says it is investigating Last month, a video depicting airway cells in motion in a child’s body wowed the world and took home first prize in
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* New Microsoft report shows cyber activity is increasing around the globe * AI is reducing the timescale of attacks, but its also helping defenders detect intrusions * The UK faces the most state-sponsored cyber activity in Europe As AI becomes more widely available and lowers the barrier of entry into cybercrime, hackers
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The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it held a funeral for the latter — yes, a real funeral in a church, with speeches and everything. Photon, which helps developers build agents that work over iMessage and WhatsApp, now has $4.
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Every engineering leader has had this conversation at least once. A team is scoping a new performance engineering initiative, and someone floats the obvious first option: why not just use an open-source tool? It’s free to download, there’s a big community behind it, and the team already knows
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It’s easy for dust and dirt to build up on a floor when you’ve got pets, toddlers and a husband who loves working in the yard. Before you know it, the floor has a layer of muck on it that makes it look like I’ve never cleaned
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Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into enterprise infrastructure, bringing a broader risk horizon with it. As AI progresses from generating text in isolated environments toward initiating transactions, influencing decisions, and contributing to production code, the consequences of an error may extend across interconnected systems. Splunk’s 2026 research, released by
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DeepSeek has open-sourced a set of programming tools for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips. They include a version of TileLang, a programming language DeepSeek offers as a simpler alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on Wednesday in a post on its WeChat account. The
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Meta tells the IRS that its AI data centres are an experiment that could fail, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. That lets Meta claim a research tax credit on the AI chips it buys. The credit cut almost $4bn off its tax bill last year. Kashmir Hill, Jesse
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A final investment decision on Project Kilby, a huge gas-powered data centre in West Texas, could slip from the end of this year to 2027 because of state politics. Tim McDonnell reported the news for Semafor on Thursday. The project, near Pecos in the Permian Basin, will use about 2.
