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* Zscaler uncovered “Edgecution,” a malicious Edge extension deployed via fake Outlook update sites shared in Teams phishing * Attack uses ZIP archives with Python runtime to escape browser sandbox, creating a backdoor capable of shell/PowerShell execution and system data theft * Believed linked to Initial Access Brokers tied to ransomware group
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Steve Jarrett, Orange’s chief AI officer since 2019, will join the Claude maker in Paris in late August to adapt its products for European and African markets. The head of artificial intelligence at the French telecoms group Orange is leaving to join Anthropic, a hire that lands squarely inside
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The European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that it takes the preliminary view that their cloud arms, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. The wording matters more than it looks. Neither service meets the DMA’s quantitative thresholds. Brussels wants
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The partnership will fund EU AI hardware and data centres, and launch aiUSX, a yield asset that puts companies’ idle AI cash to work as infrastructure lending. Building sovereign AI in Europe takes chips, and chips take capital. TensorX and Solstice said they would supply the second to help buy
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Banks aren’t short on AI ambition. Across the industry, there are almost weekly announcements about new deployments, new partnerships, and new capabilities. But amidst the lofty pronouncements, not enough attention is given to building the underlying architecture that makes any of it sustainable. The UK Treasury Committee has already
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PAAS AND IAAS Mumbai and Hyderabad datacenter expansion forms part of broader $48B five-year investment pledge Amazon has promised a $13 billion chunk of its mammoth capex plans to build AI and cloud infrastructure in India. The cloud services and software giant has said it expects $200 billion capex for
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6:30 AM PDT · June 25, 2026 Adobe on Thursday said it is acquiring Topaz Labs, which offers AI models for video and image enhancement, and that will make it a part of its creative business. Topaz Labs, which won an Emmy last year for its production tech, has existed
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Prime Day is in full swing, but Amazon isn't the only shop with deals. Walmart has a competing sale it calls, in a burst of creativity, “Walmart Deals.” Like Prime Day, Walmart's sale features a range of deals on headphones, tablets, kitchen gear, and other tech.
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Preliminary position calls for designation under the Digital Markets Act The European Commission has reached the preliminary position that Azure and AWS should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The gatekeeper designation would mean requirements imposed on the cloud giants, with fines of up to 10
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In the desert outside Zhongwei, in the northwestern region of Ningxia, four dedicated power lines now run from a field of solar panels to a cluster of computers. They do not pass through the public grid. That detail, dull as it sounds, is the whole point. China is encouraging its
