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Microsoft, Google DeepMind and Elon Musk’s xAI have offered to let the U.S. government access new AI models ahead of their general release, which sets up a new phase in Silicon Valley’s often fractious relationship with the US government’s fear of AI threats, based on the latest report of AI companies offering models to U.S. officials in the name of security review, in the hopes that government analysts can vet frontier AI systems for security threats like cyberattacks and military use before it is exposed for public consumption by developers and users, and, inevitably, those who should have no business…
It’s a fascinating display of leverage: the ShinyHunters folks, with very limited resources and experience (their demographic will be teenagers to their early 20s), consistently gaining access to the data of massive brands. Not through technical ingenuity alone (although I’m sure there’s a portion of that), but primarily through good ol’ social engineering. That’s coming through in the disclosure notices from the impacted companies, and Mandiant has a good write-up of it too:These operations primarily leverage sophisticated voice phishing (vishing) and victim-branded credential harvesting sites to gain initial access to corporate environments by obtaining single sign-on (SSO) credentials and multi-factor…
“5G” is an umbrella term that encompasses the current fifth-generation cellular wireless network technologies. All the major carriers and phones support 5G connections, which can offer faster data speeds than older technologies such as 4G LTE or 3G.Essentially there are three types of 5G: Millimeter-wave (mmWave), which can be fast but has limited range; low-band 5G, which has slower speeds but works on a broader range; and midband, which is a balance between the two that’s faster than low-band but also covers a larger range than millimeter-wave. Midband also incorporates C-band, a batch of spectrum auctioned off by the Federal Communications Commission in 2021.Your phone’s 5G connection…
Compare Indoor CamerasBest MicroSD CardsCourtesy of SamsungMany security cameras support local storage, enabling you to record videos on the camera or a linked hub. A few hubs have built-in storage, and some provide slots for hard drives, but most rely on microSD cards. Here are some details on what to look for, and a few recommendations. (Check out our buying guide to the Best MicroSD Cards for more.)The microSD card you choose should have fast read and write speeds so that you can record high-quality video and play it back without delay. We recommend going for Class 10 microSD cards…
Gabriele Farina grew up in a small town in a hilly winemaking region of northern Italy. Neither of his parents had college degrees, and although both were convinced they “didn’t understand math,” Farina says, they bought him the technical books he wanted and didn’t discourage him from attending the science-oriented, rather than the classical, high school.By around age 14, Farina had focused on an idea that would prove foundational to his career.“I was fascinated very early by the idea that a machine could make predictions or decisions so much better than humans,” he says. “The fact that human-made mathematics and…
Ravie LakshmananMay 06, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Palo Alto Networks has released an advisory warning that a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in its PAN-OS software has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, has been described as a case of unauthenticated remote code execution. It carries a CVSS score of 9.3 if the User-ID Authentication Portal is configured to enable access from the internet or any untrusted network. The severity comes down to 8.7 if access to the portal is restricted to only trusted internal IP addresses. “A buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication Portal (aka…
Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and xAI have agreed to share unreleased versions of their artificial intelligence models with the U.S. Department of Commerce to ensure the technologies do not pose a threat. Today, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, CAISI, part of the Commerce Department, announced it will take charge of testing the models in an effort to protect U.S. national security, with the onus on cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical weapons. While the current administration has appeared to embrace a laissez-faire approach to powerful AI systems and their development, safety concerns have mounted since the partial release of Anthropic…
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. In an increasingly familiar pattern, Grab has just posted strong Q1 results for 2026, seeing its revenue grow by 24% compared to 2025. The results beat analyst expectations, and turned last year’s US$21 million loss into a US$22 million profit—but you would struggle to see it reflected in the company’s stock performance. This is despite having hit its first profitable year since inception, earning US$200 million in 2025. Instead of a rally, following the transition from a money-burning startup into a mature, self-sustainable business, Grab has lost…
B2B businesses in 2026 are struggling with whether their CRM data is trustworthy enough to act on. RevOps was built to fix exactly that- and AI just raised the stakes. B2B businesses in 2026 face a serious dilemma regarding their data. Leaders constantly wonder if their CRM information is reliable enough to support big decisions. RevOps means to solve this specific problem, and the advent has only increased the pressure to get it right. Most companies approach RevOps incorrectly from the start. They often hire one person, hand them the keys to Salesforce, and assume the job is complete. That…
For decades, the technology industry lived and breathed by the cadence of a few select “can’t-miss” events. We remember the peak of COMDEX, the frenzy of early Macworlds, and, most importantly for the silicon world, the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). But as we move deeper into the era of Agentic AI and sovereign high-performance computing, the center of gravity is shifting. AMD recently announced its flagship global AI event for this coming July. For those of us who track the strategic maneuvers of the semiconductor giants, the timing and tone of this announcement aren’t just marketing – they are a…