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Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter’s chamber of ads
Microsoft has pumped ads into the Windows Start menu and pushed users through setup screens promoting its services. Now it's bringing advertising to the Windows…
DeepSeek is hiring 150 engineers, and none of them will touch a model
Hundreds of thousands of AI agent sandboxes can already run concurrently on a single DeepSeek cluster.
Automatic Key Exchange: faster, post-quantum secure origin handshakes for 45 billion daily connections (and counting)
Every time Cloudflare opens a new TLS 1.3 connection to an origin server, we have to make a guess: the protocol requires us to commit…
How DiDi built intelligent contact center QA with Amazon Bedrock
DiDi partnered with AWS to build an intelligent contact center quality assurance (QA) system on Amazon Bedrock for its International Business Group’s Customer Experience (CX)…
How HPE Zerto built an agentic troubleshooting system with Amazon Bedrock
This post was co-written by AWS and the HPE Zerto team. If you manage hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, you may already be turning to AI…
UK energy operator sticks with Palantir in £21M direct award
Britain's publicly owned energy system operator has awarded Palantir a £21.2 million contract without competition, extending a relationship that began under private ownership three years…
BigBear phishing crew nets thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials
A Microsoft 365 phishing operation targeting hundreds of organizations captured thousands of passwords and session cookies, including hundreds of authenticated sessions that could be hijacked…
Mistral bags €3B to build Europe’s sovereign AI champion
Paris-based AI darling Mistral has raised €3 billion in Series D funding, giving it a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
LG accused of ‘egregious invasion of privacy’ over TV data collection
LG is once again fending off allegations that its expensive consumer hardware gathers extensive information about users and their surroundings for the benefit of its…
How to secure hybrid meeting rooms without sacrificing user experience
Secure by design videoconferencing products may be vital for customer trust and operational resilience, but if they aren't usable, organizations are on a hiding to…
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