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Nvidia looks to set up an employee-funded political action committee to try and shape US policy in its favor
Nvidia is looking to set up a political action committee (PAC) Many companies have set up PACs to help shape US policy The US mid-term elections have seen a record level of corporate funding Companies using their money to shape policy in the United States is nothing new – in…
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Carhartt data breach exposed information from 12.9 million user accounts
ShinyHunters leaked 12.9 million Carhartt customer records after failed $3.3 million ransom talks Data stolen from Databricks platform included names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses Group now focuses on exfiltration via vishing and SaaS breaches, abandoning encryption Millions of user records belonging to customers of clothing giant Carhartt has been…
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How did the Manchester Airports Group cyberattack take place, and what data was exposed in the 8.7 million customer records? The experts weigh in
As the UK enters one of its busiest periods for travel, some holiday makers will be questioning how hackers managed to get their hands on their personal data. The Manchester Airports Group (MAG), which owns and oversees Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands airports, has revealed that hackers managed to…
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Diamonds, Crescents and Wildcats: Intel shows off its hardware for the next generation of agentic AI workloads
Intel shows three agentic AI architectures at Hot Chips 2026: the 256-core Diamond Rapids Xeon, the Crescent Island inference GPU, and the already-shipping Wildcat Lake client SoC Diamond Rapids matches AMD’s EPYC Venice on cores and bandwidth but arrives in 2027 with half the threads, while Wildcat Lake’s 17 TOPS…
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The US Navy wants its next drone-mounted torpedo to be able to glide silently through the air
This torpedo could glide through the air before quietly entering the ocean Silent Anvil must enter the water at angles between 45 and 90 degrees Its glide phase could extend submarine hunting far beyond torpedo range The US Navy is weighing two paths toward a new class of Silent Anvil…
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‘The best way to predict the future is to invent it’ — quote of the day by physicist Dennis Gabor on the nature of innovation
Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British physicist who’s widely credited with inventing holography, a photographic technique that can record and reconstruct three-dimensional images. This is an invention for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971. But his legacy extends to his philosophy on the nature of innovation “Technological…
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