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Bank of America announced on Thursday that it plans to acquire UK-based information security consultancy MDSec Consulting Limited. The transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals. Financial terms were not disclosed. Headquartered in Macclesfield, England, MDSec provides technical information security consulting services
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Missing laptops are no longer an IT headache; they’re a board-level risk. Last year alone, EU watchdogs issued €1.2 billion in GDPR fines, showing how quickly an untracked asset drains budgets. Meanwhile, nearly half the workforce now toils from kitchen tables, cafés, and co-working hubs, turning every device
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In an escalating effort to give the federal government power over the AI industry, some members of the Trump administration have reportedly tried to implement a “de facto ban” on foreign-made open-source AI models. This ban would apply to any non-US-made AI model, but the goal seems to be to
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I am not by any means an expert at finance but I think I do now have some advice for people who are: Do not name your hedge fund anything that will be hilarious if it blows up. Don’t use a name like “Long-Term Capital Management,” or “Amaranth Advisors”
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple’s iPhone and Mac sales are on the rise even as a global memory shortage squeezes device makers. In its third-quarter
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The lucky dip of stumbling on a cheap seat on a popular flight is starting to disappear. Airlines are handing their pricing to artificial intelligence, and on busy routes that mostly means one thing: higher fares. Carriers have long priced seats with analysts and rules of thumb, such as bumping
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The US wanted to keep Chinese robots out. Beijing’s answer: do this, and we will hit back where it hurts. China has threatened “resolute” retaliation after Washington moved to bar imports of Chinese-made humanoid robots. Its commerce ministry called the measure discriminatory and warned it “severely” damages trade relations,
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Microsoft has a fix for the growing pile of Copilots you are meant to use. It wants to stuff them all into a single app. On its earnings call this week, chief executive Satya Nadella confirmed Microsoft is building a Copilot “super app.” It merges chat, coding, the Cowork research
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BYD sells more electric cars than anyone. Next month, it wants to sell you one using a robot. China’s biggest EV maker will unveil its first humanoid robot in August, at its Di Space experience centres in Zhengzhou, the company told the South China Morning Post. It will be
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Virtually every high-end GPU and AI accelerator relies on high bandwidth memory (HBM), which can shuffle data around at multiple terabytes a second but can only reach into the gigabytes, with models often needing to be shared across multiple processors. However, an emerging storage technology could change that, boosting accelerator
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AI AND ML Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party Oracle plans to add Google's Gemini models to AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, expanding its partnership with Google Cloud and giving customers another option for building AI agents. Big Red also intends to
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ai and ml AI-riddled social network adds button to report sloppy posts, ditches AI rewrite tools, and promises more to come LinkedIn has been drenching its users in AI-powered slop posts, going so far as to encourage writers to trade their own voices for a bot's by hitting
