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Jarmo Piironen/Getty Images August 14, 2026 06:31 PM ET Recently proposals look, in part, to deploy artificial intelligence solutions to prevent natural disasters from impeding U.S. military operations and evaluate China’s AI chip manufacturing sector. * Tech Bills of the Week Using AI for environmental evaluations near
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Since the end of last month, several water utilities in the United States have been hit by cyberattacks, causing alarm in the country. For years, water utilities and other critical infrastructure facilities in the power sector, for example, have been targeted by hackers, whether government-backed or individuals. What makes this
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Amazon's Twitch streaming service is dealing with unhappy users after the company's latest policy change, which automatically enables AI training for Amazon's models using whatever content a user generates. While many have been angered by this move, it's at least possible to
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* Researchers uncovered “Download more RAM” flaw in consumer DDR4/DDR5 memory * Attack bypassed Windows VBS and HVCI, disabling antivirus and protections * Microsoft patched CVE‑2026‑23670; tools now help enable memory write protection Microsoft has recently fixed a vulnerability that allowed threat actors to bypass advanced security measures, disable antivirus
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* The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has released security requirements for VPNs under the Cyber Resilience Act * NordVPN and Surfshark are among the industry players collaborating to help shape these security baselines * The new rules ensure that all VPNs sold in Europe adhere to auditable standards for encryption, authentication, and
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* Huntress uncovers Shopify refund scam using fake orders and app notifications * Attackers embed contact details in shipping addresses to trick victims into paying * Users advised to ignore suspicious info, verify refunds, and report fake stores Hackers are targeting businesses and individuals running Shopify stores with a highly sophisticated fake refund
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Tim O’Reilly’s yardstick for measuring the worth of a company, person, or society has long been create more value than you capture. It’s no surprise that O’Reilly—publisher, internet pioneer, VC, conference organizer, and dispenser of tech wisdom—is applying that metric to the way people
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The race for faster AI inference is on, and markets gave Cerebras and its purpose-built chips a warm welcome in its IPO debut in May. But French startup Kog is betting that there’s a lot more power to be squeezed out of conventional GPUs. The startup hit the front
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Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage France's tax authority has confirmed that an intruder accessed its systems and extracted data in June after an alleged cybercriminal advertised a purported database of 2 million taxpayers. Using the alias "ZeroBytes," the alleged crook behind
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In a major escalation of efforts to insulate critical technologies and reshore high-tech manufacturing, President Donald J. Trump signed a presidential proclamation imposing tariffs of up to 100% on imported foreign quadcopters and their critical components. This is excluding the latest sweeping ban being proposed by the FCC. Issued under
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For years, many assumed that buying an Apple device guaranteed out-of-the-box privacy protection. However, this reputation is beginning to unravel. Last week, researchers found that Apple’s iCloud Private Relay tool — a paid add-on feature that encrypts Safari browser traffic to hide a user's IP address — could leak
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The FBI has been using hacking techniques and tools, such as spyware, since at least 1998, but to date there is no public data counting how often the feds were deploying them. That’s about to change — at least for the use of spyware for tapping into someone’s real-time
