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Hacker 'IntelBroker' charged in US for global data theft breaches

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-26 20:54:22

A British national known online as "IntelBroker" has been charged by the U.S. for stealing and selling sensitive data from victims worldwide, causing an estimated $25 million in damages. The indictment, revealed today by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, accuses Kai West, a 25-year-old British man, of using the handle "IntelBroker" in a years-long campaign to steal and sell data from government agencies and networks, companies, and critical infrastructure. As se

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British hacker 'IntelBroker' charged with $25M in cybercrime damages

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-27 01:54:22

A British national known online as "IntelBroker" has been charged by the U.S. for stealing and selling sensitive data from victims worldwide, causing an estimated $25 million in damages. The indictment, revealed today by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, accuses Kai West, a 25-year-old British man, of using the handle "IntelBroker" in a years-long campaign to steal and sell data from government agencies and networks, companies, and critical infrastructure. As se

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Intel hits the brakes on its automotive business, and layoffs have started

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-08-28 05:26:33

Intel is shuttering its automotive architecture business and laying off most of its staff as part of a broader restructuring at the chipmaker. The news was first reported by The Oregonian/Oregon Live, which cited an internal memo that was shared with employees Tuesday morning. Intel confirmed to TechCrunch that plans to wind down the auto business were communicated internally on Tuesday. “As we have said previously, we are refocusing on our core client and data center portfolio to strengthen o

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BreachForums hacking forum operators reportedly arrested in France

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-28 13:25:46

The French police have reportedly arrested five operators of the BreachForum cybercrime forum, a website used by cybercriminals to leak and sell stolen data that exposed the sensitive information of millions. News of the arrests come from Le Parisien, which claims the law enforcement operation was carried out by the cybercrime unit (BL2C) of the Paris police department on Monday. According to reporters, the police carried out simultaneous raids in the regions of Hauts-de-Seine (Paris), Seine-M

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New data highlights the race to build more empathetic language models

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-08-29 17:03:01

Measuring AI progress has usually meant testing scientific knowledge or logical reasoning – but while the major benchmarks still focus on left-brain logic skills, there’s been a quiet push within AI companies to make models more emotionally intelligent. As foundation models compete on soft measures like user preference and “feeling the AGI,” having a good command of human emotions may be more important than hard analytic skills. One sign of that focus came on Friday, when prominent open-source

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This 15″ 1TB HP Laptop is Almost Free, Amazon Offers 76% Off in Early Prime Day Deal

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-09-01 09:47:54

HP typically retails their laptops between $1,000 to $3,000, unless you are able to snag an unbelievable sale such as the one Amazon is currently running ahead of Prime Day. You can get a 2025 HP (1TB SSD, 32GB GAM, Intel processor, Windows 11 Pro) laptop today for 76% off. Do some arithmetic: the HP laptop in question goes for as little as $479 which is a tremendous $1,500 off from its normal price of $1,999. With this pre-Prime Day discount (also available to non-Prime members), you’re gettin

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Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigation Boosts GPU Compute Performance 20%

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-02 23:01:20

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20% performance boost. Ubuntu maker Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable these security mitigations in the Ubuntu packages in order to recoup this lost performance.I haven't looked at the Intel graphics security mitigation cost

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Intel to outsource marketing to Accenture and AI, cutting in-house staff

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-02 13:52:00

What just happened? Intel is preparing for a major transformation of its marketing operations, marking a significant shift in how the company approaches customer engagement and internal organization. Under the direction of newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan, the technology giant will outsource a substantial portion of its marketing work to Accenture, a global consulting firm, with artificial intelligence playing a central role in the transition. This move is expected to result in significant layoff

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Apple shareholders sue over Apple Intelligence and Siri delays

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-09-03 05:03:26

Apple is continuing to face fallout from its Apple Intelligence rollout. As spotted by Reuters, Apple shareholders have sued Apple in a proposed class action securities fraud case for allegedly “downplaying how long it needed to integrate advanced artificial intelligence into its Siri voice assistant.” The lawsuit alleges that this misrepresentation negatively impacted iPhone sales and Apple’s stock price. In the lawsuit, Apple executives, including CEO Tim Cook, CFO Kevan Parekh, and former C

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After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-04 01:32:28

In Brief Mark Zuckerberg’s AI talent hiring spree continues. In recent months, Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI startup co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, according to a report from CNBC on Thursday. Sutskever ultimately turned Meta down, according to CNBC, but the company is now in talks to hire Safe Superintelligence’s co-founder and CEO, Daniel Gross. Earlier this week, The Information reported that Meta was in talks to hire Gross,

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Acer Swift 14 AI review: give it up for the ports

theverge.com Antonio G. Di Benedetto 2025-09-04 08:00:00

is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. The Acer Swift 14 is all over AI the place. It has powerful chip options, exceptional battery life, and loads of ports for such a portable laptop. The keyboard and trackpad are solid, which is not always a given at any price. But the screen and webcam are mediocre, and the speakers are outright terrible. Battery life, performance, and

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Neural Texture Compression demo shows it can do wonders for VRAM usage

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-09-05 21:35:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In context: Modern game engines can put severe strain on today's hardware. However, Nvidia's business decisions have left many GPUs with less VRAM than they should. Fortunately, improved texture compression in games helps make the most of what's available. Neural Texture Compression (NTC) is a new technique that improves texture quality while reducing VRAM usage. It relies on a specialized neural n

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This Lenovo laptop helped clean up my messy photo library - and it's on sale

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-09-07 03:00:15

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is available now for $1,299 for the 16GB of RAM, 1TB SSD configuration. It pairs a ton of customizable features with a nice display, surprisingly beefy speakers, and a marathon battery. A few physical design choices might be of concern for some users, and I wish it had an OLED. View now at Best Buy View now at Lenovo more buying choices At Best Buy, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is on sale for $1,100, a $300 discount. Lenovo a

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8 AI features coming to iOS 26 that actually excite me (and how to try them now)

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-08 13:17:00

Apple iOS 26 with Liquid Glass (from the Developer Beta). Jason Hiner/ZDNET Apple Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWDC) was expected to have little AI news -- but Apple proved everyone wrong. Even though Apple has not yet launched the highly anticipated Siri upgrade -- the company said we will hear more about it in the coming year -- when it came to event time last week, Apple unveiled a slew of AI features across its devices and operating systems, including iOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and iPadOS.

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Intel to cut as many as 10,000 factory jobs, one of its largest-ever layoffs

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-09 05:02:00

What just happened? Intel is preparing to lay off as much as one-fifth of its factory workforce in a move that will reshape one of the company's core business units. The layoffs, set to begin in July, are expected to affect more than 10,000 employees worldwide, marking one of the largest workforce reductions in Intel's history. In a memo to employees, Intel Manufacturing Vice President Naga Chandrasekaran acknowledged the gravity of the decision. "These are difficult actions but essential to me

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Intel to lay off up to 20% of Intel Foundry workers

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-10 17:50:32

In Brief Intel will begin a new round of layoffs next month. The semiconductor giant plans to lay off 15% to 20% of workers in its Intel Foundry division starting in July, according to an internal memo originally reported on by The Oregonian. Intel Foundry designs, manufactures, and packages semiconductors for external clients. It’s unclear how many workers this will directly impact. Intel’s total workforce was 108,900 people as of December 2024, according to the company’s annual regulatory f

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The MacBook Air is the obvious loser as the sun sets on the Intel Mac era

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-11 09:36:28

For the last three years, we've engaged in some in-depth data analysis and tea-leaf reading to answer two questions about Apple's support for older Macs that still use Intel chips. First, was Apple providing fewer updates and fewer years of software support to Macs based on Intel chips as it worked to transition the entire lineup to its internally developed Apple Silicon? And second, how long could Intel Mac owners reasonably expect to keep getting updates? The answer to the first question has

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Top AI Researchers Meet to Discuss What Comes After Humanity

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-12 07:34:44

A group of the top minds in AI gathered over the weekend to discuss the "posthuman transition" — a mind-bending exercise in imagining a future in which humanity willfully hands over power, or perhaps bequeaths existence entirely, to some sort of superhuman intelligence. As Wired reports, the lavish party was organized by generative AI entrepreneur Daniel Faggella. Attendees included "AI founders from $100 million to $5 billion valuations" and "most of the important philosophical thinkers on AGI

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Shortcuts app has chatbot-like Apple Intelligence powers in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-12 21:29:33

Apple Intelligence doesn’t (yet) offer an official chatbot mode, but in iOS 26 Apple will let power users get a chatbot-style experience via the Shortcuts app. Here’s how it works. New Shortcuts feature gives you chatbot-like responses from Apple Intelligence iOS 26 has a new feature in the Shortcuts app that lets you tap directly into Apple Intelligence’s LLMs with any custom query. One surprise benefit of this feature, as highlighted by AppleInsider, is that Shortcuts’ responses sound a lot

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Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-13 05:23:15

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Reddit is launching a new feature for advertisers that slots positive posts from Reddit users right under their ads. The new alpha feature, called Conversation Summary Add-ons, “dynamically integrates positive content from Reddit users directly below an advertiser’s creative, putting community conversations front-and-center in the user experience and blending AI-driven effici

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Laptop Buying Guide (2025): How to Choose the Right PC (Step-by-Step Guide)

wired.com Luke Larsen 2025-09-14 01:00:00

For some people, however, it might be helpful to think through what software you need to run and which operating systems it runs best on will help you determine the hardware you need. And let's not forget: ChromeOS and Linux are still alternative options. So, here's how the four available operating systems break down. Windows: Windows is the stalwart default OS. Windows is the broadest and most widely used operating system, supporting the largest number of applications and hardware. It may be r

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'No Kings’ Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-09-14 08:45:13

As protests continue to swell across the United States in response to aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, civilians are turning to homebrew digital tools to track ICE arrests and raids in real time. But restricted government documents, obtained by the nonprofit watchdog Property of the People, show that US intelligence agencies are now eyeing the same tools as potential threats. A law enforcement investigation involving the maps is also apparently underway. Details about Sat

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Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-09-17 09:14:38

NurPhoto/Contributor/Getty In his 2005 book "The Singularity is Near," the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that the Singularity -- the moment in which machine intelligence surpasses our own -- would occur around the year 2045. Sam Altman believes it's much closer. In a blog post published Tuesday, the OpenAI CEO delivered a homily devoted to what he views as the imminent arrival of artificial "superintelligence." Whereas artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is usually defined as a computer

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Here are Apple’s top AI announcements from WWDC 2025

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-09-17 09:53:12

Last year, Apple’s WWDC keynote highlighted the company’s ambitious strides in AI. This year, the company toned down its emphasis on Apple Intelligence and concentrated on updates to its operating systems, services, and software, introducing a new aesthetic it calls “Liquid Glass” along with a new naming convention. Nevertheless, Apple still attempted to appease the crowd with a few AI-related announcements, such as an image analysis tool, a workout coach, a live translation feature, and more.

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Apple Intelligence announcements at WWDC: Everything Apple revealed for iOS, macOS and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-17 17:27:43

Apple Intelligence hasn't landed in the way Apple likely hoped it would, but that's not stopping the company from continuing to iterate on its suite of AI tools. During its WWDC 2025 conference on Monday, Apple announced a collection of new features for Apple Intelligence, starting with upgrades to Genmoji and Image Playground that will arrive alongside iOS 26 and the company's other updated operating systems. In Messages, you'll be able to use Image Playground to generate colorful backgrounds

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iOS 26 screenshots could be an intriguing preview of Apple's delayed Siri rework

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-17 21:30:05

When it launched, Apple 's Visual Intelligence feature allowed you to point your compatible phone's camera at things around you and either perform a Google Image Search or ask questions via ChatGPT. At WWDC 2025, the company showed off updates to broaden the usefulness of Visual Intelligence, largely by embedding it into the screenshots system. To quote the company's press release, "Visual intelligence already helps users learn about objects and places around them using their iPhone camera, and

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Meta invests $14.8 billion in Scale AI to accelerate superintelligence ambitions

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-18 14:19:00

Editor's take: Big tech companies are locked in a fierce race to develop artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence – a breakthrough with the power to transform industries and society. Meta's new partnership with Scale AI underscores just how urgent and high-stakes this competition has become, as the company commits to unprecedented investments to keep pace. Insider sources told The Information that Meta is making a bold move to reshape its artificial intelligence ambiti

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Meta forming new AI lab helmed by Scale AI CEO Alex Wang, report says

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-09-17 11:20:54

Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, arrives for a meeting with international investors in IA at the Elysee Palace as part of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, France, Feb. 10, 2025. Meta is forming a new artificial intelligence research lab and bringing on Alexandr Wang, founder and CEO of the startup Scale AI, according to The New York Times. The research lab is going to pursue a concept known as "superintelligence," which is an AI system that surpasses human intelligence,

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Apple unveils iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign, CarPlay updates, Games app, much more

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-09-16 11:11:34

Apple has officially announced iOS 26, the successor to iOS 18. The renamed software update starts with a new design. iOS 26 follows iOS 18 as Apple shifts its version naming scheme to reflect the year ahead. This puts iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS on version 26. The most obvious update is a change to the design. During the keynote, Apple called back to iOS 7 in 2013 when it last released a major redesign to the iPhone software. iOS 26 replaces the look with what Apple calls

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Apple will end support for Intel Macs next year, macOS 27 will require Apple Silicon

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-16 15:04:28

During the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC, Apple just announced that macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last release of macOS that supports Intel. That means from next year, major new versions of Apple’s desktop operating system will only run on Apple Silicon Macs (that is, 2020 M1 models and newer). Of course, Intel Macs will continue to get critical security updates for some time thereafter. But users should not expect to be able to update to get new features from macOS 27 onwards, as no Intel

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Latest Tech News

Hacker 'IntelBroker' charged in US for global data theft breaches

British hacker 'IntelBroker' charged with $25M in cybercrime damages

Intel hits the brakes on its automotive business, and layoffs have started

BreachForums hacking forum operators reportedly arrested in France

New data highlights the race to build more empathetic language models

This 15″ 1TB HP Laptop is Almost Free, Amazon Offers 76% Off in Early Prime Day Deal

Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigation Boosts GPU Compute Performance 20%

Intel to outsource marketing to Accenture and AI, cutting in-house staff

Apple shareholders sue over Apple Intelligence and Siri delays

After trying to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32B AI startup, Meta looks to hire its CEO

Acer Swift 14 AI review: give it up for the ports

Neural Texture Compression demo shows it can do wonders for VRAM usage

This Lenovo laptop helped clean up my messy photo library - and it's on sale

8 AI features coming to iOS 26 that actually excite me (and how to try them now)

Intel to cut as many as 10,000 factory jobs, one of its largest-ever layoffs

Intel to lay off up to 20% of Intel Foundry workers

The MacBook Air is the obvious loser as the sun sets on the Intel Mac era

Top AI Researchers Meet to Discuss What Comes After Humanity

Shortcuts app has chatbot-like Apple Intelligence powers in iOS 26

Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads

Laptop Buying Guide (2025): How to Choose the Right PC (Step-by-Step Guide)

'No Kings’ Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings

Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why

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Apple Intelligence announcements at WWDC: Everything Apple revealed for iOS, macOS and more

iOS 26 screenshots could be an intriguing preview of Apple's delayed Siri rework

Meta invests $14.8 billion in Scale AI to accelerate superintelligence ambitions

Meta forming new AI lab helmed by Scale AI CEO Alex Wang, report says

Apple unveils iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign, CarPlay updates, Games app, much more

Apple will end support for Intel Macs next year, macOS 27 will require Apple Silicon

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