Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government
A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more.
AWS warns of “unpredictable” Middle East operations after drones “directly struck” two UAE facilities and a drone strike near one of its Bahrain facilities
Amazon Web Services said late Monday two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a facility in Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes, taking the facilities offline.
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says the startup will void certain bets related to Iran's Ali Khamenei and claims it doesn't “list markets directly tied to death”
Users say rules barring ‘profiting from death’ are unclear. … In a statement on X, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour …
AWS says its facilities in the Middle East are facing power and connectivity issues after unidentified “objects” struck its data center in the UAE
Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut down temporarily …
Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect
Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging …
Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect
Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging …
IBM shares closed down 13.15% after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization
International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology …
Ireland's DPC launches a “large-scale inquiry” into X over Grok's creation and publication of “potentially harmful” sexualized images, the latest European probe
‘Large-scale’ inquiry is latest sign of how regulators are scrutinising the group's Grok chatbot
Russia confirms it has blocked WhatsApp, citing Meta's “unwillingness to comply with Russian law”, and proposes that Russians switch to the state-owned Max app
U.S. messenger app WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms (META.O), has been completely blocked in Russia for failing …
The US imposes visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints
The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
Sources: China built a working prototype of an EUV machine in early 2025 with a team of former ASML engineers who reverse-engineered the company's EUV machines
In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent …
Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data
Immediate software change on ‘significant number’ of jets to result in disruption to half the worldwide fleet
The EU unveils proposed updates to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and plans to water down the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure
The EU folds under Big Tech's pressure. … After years of staring down the world's biggest tech companies and setting the bar …
Europol and Eurojust disrupt pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) that has claimed responsibility for 1,000+ DDoS attacks since 2022, and make two arrests
- Europol, Eurojust say more than 100 attack servers disrupted — Two arrested in France and Spain, warrants out for 6 Russians
Google says its Big Sleep AI agent for finding unknown software vulnerabilities recently discovered a critical SQLite flaw that “was at risk of being exploited”
Google said a large language model it developed to find vulnerabilities recently discovered a bug that hackers were preparing to use.
WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and Meta will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats
here's where you'll see them (and where you won't) Capital Brief : Meta to roll out ads on WhatsApp and offer paid subscriptions Katie Hicks / Marketing Brew : Ads are coming to Wh...
D-Wave claims it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with its quantum annealing processors; some physicists say classical computers can achieve comparable results
The company said classical computers can't beat its quantum computer in magnetic materials simulation. Some physicists disagree.
Meta plans to test Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US from March 18; Joel Kaplan says notes will not have “distribution penalties”
Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan says in exclusive interview community notes won't penalize users
Meta says contributors will not be able to submit Community Notes on ads “to start with”, but they can submit them on posts by politicians and public figures
https://about.fb.com/wp-content/ uploads/2025/03/Community-Notes-Launch- Date-Announcement_Header.mp4 — Takeaways
OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its “most knowledgeable model yet” in research preview, initially warning it's not a frontier model and may perform below o1 or o3-mini
GPT-4.5 rollout delayed due to lack of processing power Gerui Wang / Forbes : Open AI's GPT-4.5 Drops As AI Race Escalates Nathan Lambert / Interconnects : GPT-4.5: “Not a frontier...