HPE shares surged after the company reported stronger-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results, powered by booming demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, networking equipment, and servers. HPE beats Q2 expectations The company reported revenue of $10.7 billion for the quarter ended April 30, a 40% increase from a year earlier and well ahead of Wall Street expectations. Adjusted…
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Microsoft denies legal action against researchers after slamming BlueHammer publisher
The company was criticized after a blog posted that suggested law enforcement involvement.
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Why ‘Nvidia Inside’ Can Work in the PC Market
The world’s only $5 trillion company can sell the concept that AI computing won’t be confined to data centers.
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Google Seeks to Raise $80 Billion for AI Infrastructure
The company says it has reached an agreement to sell $10 billion of stock to Berkshire Hathaway as part of the plan.
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Anthropic Files to Go Public
The $965 billion-valuation artificial intelligence lab filed confidentially, the company said.
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Snowflake Expands AWS Deal as Enterprise AI Demand Grows
Snowflake is committing $6 billion to AWS over multiple years as the cloud data company works to secure the compute capacity needed to support growing enterprise AI workloads. The expanded agreement deepens Snowflake’s long-running relationship with AWS and comes as the company reports stronger revenue growth tied to AI adoption. Revenue outlook improves as AI…
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Hackers are exploiting Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN authentication bypass (CVE-2026-0257)
Authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-0257) in Palo Alto Networks’ firewalls that the company disclosed on May 13 have been targeted in “limited exploit attempts”. “Across multiple customers, Rapid7 observed successful exploitation via authentication probes using forged cookies, but the appliance accepted the cookie without a full VPN session being established in 8 out of 10 impacted…
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The Google Engineer Accused of Risking It All With an Insider Polymarket Bet
Michele Spagnuolo, the Google engineer accused of using company data to bet on Polymarket, had a long list of enviable accomplishments
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Bezos’ Blue Origin Loses Rocket in Huge Explosion on Launchpad
The space company had been preparing New Glenn rocket for a coming mission.
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Amazon Strikes $6 Billion Deal With Snowflake for Its Agentic Computing Chips
The cloud-storage company joins Apple and Meta as one of AWS’s largest customers for CPU-based computing.
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SpaceX Launches 400-Foot Rocket That Will Help Define Its Future
The company blasted off a new version of Starship, the vehicle Elon Musk is counting on for Starlink, AI satellites and more.
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Dutch authorities arrest two in connection with sanctioned web hosting company
The Dutch financial crime investigators (FIOD) arrested a 57-year-old company director and a 39-year-old who headed a separate firm providing internet connectivity.
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Trump Mobile confirms exposure of customer data
Chris Walker, a spokesperson for Trump Mobile, stated that the company is investigating the exposure and has not found evidence of financial information being compromised.
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Meta says goodbye to those who won’t use AI
Meta is the latest company to trim its workforce as a result of the growing use of AI within the industry. The company laid off 8,000 employees earlier this week, while also moving 7,000 more to AI-focused roles. “AI is the most consequential technology of our lifetimes,” Zuckerberg said in a memo that he sent…
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Akamai Joins Growing Chorus of Vendors Betting Big on Secure Enterprise Browsers
When Akamai announced its LayerX acquisition, the company joined a growing list of vendors adding secure enterprise browsers to their product portfolios.
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Former US execs plead guilty to aiding tech support scammers
Two former executives of a call-tracking and analytics company pleaded guilty to concealing a years-long tech support fraud scheme that victimized individuals worldwide. […]
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Trend Micro warns of Apex One zero-day exploited in the wild
Japanese cybersecurity software company Trend Micro has addressed an Apex One zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks targeting Windows systems. […]
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SpaceX Postpones Launch of Newly Redesigned Starship
The company estimates it has spent $15 billion developing its next-generation rocket.
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SpaceX Set to Launch Upgraded Starship on Pre-IPO Test Flight
The company estimates it has spent $15 billion developing its next-generation rocket.
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Workday’s Returning CEO Has a Plan to Survive the AI Era
The software company isn’t an AI native. But Aneel Bhusri has established an AI task force and is launching new agents for IT and corporate travel.
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The world of AI tokens — and why they matter
Google has only one way to measure the phenomenal AI growth it’s seen: in tokens. The company processes 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during this week’s I/O keynote, adding, “never imagined I’d say quadrillion…, but here we are.” Basically, tokens are a unit of measure used by large language models…
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The Secrets Revealed in SpaceX’s IPO Filing
Documents related to SpaceX’s initial public offering show the company is unprofitable and CEO Elon Musk controls 85% of the vote.
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SpaceX Fires Starting Gun on Its Blockbuster IPO
The Elon Musk-led company filed an investor prospectus for a stock offering expected to raise potentially tens of billions of dollars as soon as mid-June.
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News alert: Orchid Security study finds invisible identities now outnumber managed accounts
NEW YORK, May 19, 2026, CyberNewswire—Orchid Security, the company solving identity at its core, today released its Identity Gap: 2026 Snapshot report, revealing that the majority of enterprise identity now exists outside the view of identity and access management systems. The report found that invisible identity (“identity dark matter”) now outweighs visible identity across enterprise…
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Google and Blackstone to Create New AI Cloud Company
The duo plans to launch the unnamed U.S. company with $5 billion in equity capital from Blackstone, which will be the majority owner, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Contractor Dies at SpaceX’s Starbase Facility in Texas
Workplace accident came days before the Elon Musk-led company plans to launch a new version of its Starship rocket.
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Cisco Trims Workforce as AI Demand Drives Record Revenue
Even with record quarterly revenue, Cisco is axing jobs again. The company said it will eliminate “fewer than 4,000 roles,” representing less than 5% of its workforce, as it reorganizes around AI. That comes as revenue climbed to $15.8 billion, up 12% year over year and ahead of expectations The timing may feel counterintuitive, but…
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Move Over CoreWeave, Here Comes Nebius
With AI cloud competition heating up, this company that used to own Russia’s biggest search engine is making its case.
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SpaceX Is Aiming to Go Public on June 12 in What Stands to Be Biggest IPO Ever
Elon Musk’s rocket company is expected to make its IPO paperwork public next week.
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Ackman Says Pershing Square Has Taken New Stake in Microsoft
The investor says the tech company is underpriced, and he will disclose the stake in regulatory filings later Friday.
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How Fintech APIs Are Modernizing Business Cash Flow Management
Business cash flow is often harder to manage than revenue. A company can have strong sales and still…
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Cerebras to Kick Off Hotly Anticipated Year for Artificial-Intelligence IPOs
The chip company raised its price target this week after strong demand from investors.
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FamousSparrow targets Azerbaijani energy sector in multi-wave espionage campaign
Chinese-linked FamousSparrow repeatedly targeted an Azerbaijani oil and gas company, reusing the same entry point in three intrusions from Dec 2025 to Feb 2026. Chinese-linked threat actor FamousSparrow has conducted a sustained intrusion campaign against an Azerbaijani oil and gas company, returning to the same compromised entry point three separate times between late December 2025…
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HYCU Launches New Capability for Backup Data Use
HYCU, a SaaS data protection company, is launching aiR (AI Resilience), a new capability inside the HYCU R-Cloud platform. The new capability turns backup data into a live intelligence layer for security, compliance, and risk teams. AI Resilience solution leverages backup records to observe AI use It takes the backup records organizations have of who…
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WhatsApp adds Incognito Chat for private Meta AI conversations
The company launched Incognito Chat with Meta AI, a feature that lets users hold AI conversations the platform itself cannot read. The rollout will reach WhatsApp and the standalone Meta AI app over the coming months. How Incognito Chat works Incognito Chat runs on top of Meta’s Private Processing technology, the same infrastructure the company…
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Chips Startup Fractile Raises $220 Million to Speed Up AI Queries
Factorial Funds, Accel and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund invested in the company.
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Acronis Launches Cyber Frame IaaS Platform for MSPs
The cyber protection company wants to give MSPs and cloud providers a way to run infrastructure on their own terms, without the vendor lock-in hangover. Acronis on Wednesday unveiled Cyber Frame, a new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform built specifically for service providers tired of being squeezed by legacy virtualization costs and hyperscaler…
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UK fines water supplier $1.3M for exposing data of 664k customers
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined South Staffordshire Water Plc and parent company South Staffordshire Plc £963,900 ($1.3 million) over a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 663,887 customers and employees. […]
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Takes Stand in Elon Musk Megatrial
The trial centers around Musk’s donations to the AI lab when it was a non-profit and its conversion to a for-profit company.
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Instructure took a risky approach to recover stolen Canvas data
Instructure, the company behind the online learning platform Canvas, said it reached an agreement with the extortion group ShinyHunters to prevent data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online. According to the company’s website, Canvas has more than 30 million active users worldwide and serves more than 8,000 institutions. Although Instructure did not…
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Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65TB Canvas Leak
American educational technology company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said it reached an “agreement” with a decentralized cybercrime extortion group after it breached its network and threatened to leak stolen information from thousands of schools and universities. In an update shared on Monday, the Utah-based firm said it “reached an agreement with the unauthorized…
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Pressure mounts on Canvas as data leak extortion deadline looms
Pressure is mounting on Instructure, the company behind Canvas, as cybercriminals threaten to leak a trove of sensitive data they claim was stolen during a prolonged cyberattack on the widely used education tech platform. Widespread outages left schools, students and teachers temporarily unable to access critical data late last week after the company took Canvas…
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Identity security firm SailPoint discloses GitHub repository breach
SailPoint disclosed a GitHub repository breach on April 20. The company contained the incident and said no customer data was affected. SailPoint is a cybersecurity company that provides identity security and identity governance solutions for enterprises. Its products help organizations manage and control user access to systems, applications, and sensitive data. SailPoint revealed a cybersecurity…
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Apple needs to fix admin authentication in ABM
Apple’s platforms are secure by design, but when it comes to authentication, the company seems to be protecting employees more than it protects IT admins. It’s an attack vector just waiting to be exploited — if it hasn’t been already. As noted first by Six Colors, the problem is that administrator and People Manager accounts on Apple Business…
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Lyrie.ai Deploys Real-Time Zero-Day Tracking Across Global Enterprise Infrastructure
OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company behind Lyrie.ai, today announced several milestones that together position the company as foundational security infrastructure for the agentic AI era: the deployment of a real-time zero-day tracking and disclosure system designed to notify affected organizations of active exploit activity; acceptance into Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program (CVP); and the public release…
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How a Job at OpenAI Became the Greatest Lottery Ticket of the AI Boom
Employees waited two years to sell their shares. Then, the company let them unload $30 million.
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Weekly Update 503
Well, it’s the day before the Instructure “pay or leak” deadline (at least by my Aussie watch), and the company remains removed from the ShinyHunters website. In its place sits a press statement that amounts to “we’re not making any statements”. So did they pay? And if so, what lofty figure would an incident of…
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ShinyHunters Claims Second Attack Against Instructure
The edtech company is struggling to wrest control from its hackers. PII belonging to hundreds of millions of people is on the line.
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One in eight UK workers has sold their company passwords, and bosses think it’s fine
One in eight UK workers admits to selling their company login credentials – or knowing someone who has – in the past 12 months. The really alarming bit? Their bosses are even more relaxed about it. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.
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AI Software Leak Lets Scammers Add Malware and Steal Data and Your Money
AI Leak Fuels Malware Scams. Company source code is proprietary and typically held as top secret. However, a recent software leak accident by Anthropic has led to a cascade of nefarious behaviours by hackers. Anthropic is the well-known creator of Claude AI, and the accidental leak of the source code has allowed scammers to create…
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A DOD contractor’s API flaw exposed military course data and service member records
A defense technology company with Department of Defense contracts exposed user records and military training materials through API endpoints that lacked meaningful authorization checks, according to an account published by Strix, an open-source autonomous security testing project. The issue affected Schemata, an AI-powered virtual training platform used in military and defense settings. According to Strix,…
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One in Eight Workers Has Sold Their Corporate Logins
Cifas says that 13% of employees admit selling company credentials to a former colleague
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AI Is Forcing CEOs to Make a Stark Choice: Lay Off Workers or Make Them Do More
Company bosses are splitting into two camps over what the technology’s best, immediate benefits are. Neither calls for more hiring anytime soon.
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Anthropic Releases New AI Agents for Financial Services Firms
The AI company is pushing further into a sector critical to its enterprise business as it targets revenue growth and barrels toward an IPO.
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JumpCloud Report Finds AI Agent Security Gaps Widening
JumpCloud, the IT management platform company, released its Agentic IAM Pulse Report on Tuesday, drawing on responses from 261 IT, security, and identity decision-makers at organizations with 200-2,500 employees across the United States and the United Kingdom. The findings reveal a widening gap between how aggressively companies are deploying AI agents and how little governance…
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Maker of AI Targeting System for Drones Faces Protests for Shipments to Israeli Military
A company in Portland, Oregon, that specializes in AI targeting for drones has made significant shipments of materials to military contractors in Israel, according to cargo data reviewed by The Intercept. The shipments raise the possibility thaat a boutique Pacific Northwest tech firm has helped the Israeli military attack people in places like Gaza, Lebanon,…
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SAS’ John Carey on Partnerships and Human-Centric AI
As data and AI company SAS hits its 50th anniversary, the organization is meeting the moment by continuing to strengthen partnerships while positioning itself around human-centric, responsible AI. During SAS Innovate 2026, Channel Insider sat down with John Carey, VP, Global Channels, SAS, to discuss partnerships, lessons learned, and the future of AI adoption. How…
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Ahead of Race to IPO, OpenAI Discussed Spinning Out Robotics, Hardware Divisions
The company is considering an Alphabet-like structure for its portfolio of products, though no discussions are currently active.
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Microsoft now has more than 20M paying Copilot users
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella last week announced that the company now has more than 20 million enterprise users paying for Microsoft Copilot, according to TechCrunch. That’s up 33% from the 15 million paying customers Microsoft claimed in January. The AI assistant is now directly integrated in programs such as Word, Excel, and Outlook and Microsoft…
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Trellix Confirms Source Code Breach With Unauthorized Repository Access
Cybersecurity company Trellix has announced that it suffered a breach that enabled unauthorized access to a “portion” of its source code. It said it “recently identified” the compromise of its source code repository and that it began working with “leading forensic experts” to resolve the matter immediately. It also said it has notified law enforcement…
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You Have No Idea How Much You Still Use BlackBerry
Once left for dead, the company is making money again with hidden software in 275 million cars. You use it every day without knowing it.
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Edu tech firm Instructure discloses cyber incident, probes impact
Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning platform, has disclosed that it recently suffered a cybersecurity incident and is now investigating its impact. […]
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ChatGPT Became So Obsessed With Goblins That OpenAI Had to Intervene
The company says attempts to make a ‘nerdy’ personality for the bot led to odd word choices.
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Edtech firm Instructure confirms data breach after Salesforce instance hack
Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning platform, has disclosed a security incident after a social engineering attack allowed hackers to access data in its Salesforce instance. […]
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Apple breaks records, admits it can’t make Macs fast enough
Outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook’s swan song sings of success as the company on Thursday announced record revenue in its second quarter, while admitting demand for some products — including the new MacBook Neo — has wildly exceeded expectations. The company reported a March quarter record of $111.2 billion revenue, up 17% from last year. This follows another strong Q1…
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Securonix Partners with AI SPERA for Criminal IP in ThreatQ
Cybersecurity provider Securonix has announced a new partnership with AI SPERA, the company behind Criminal IP, to deliver integrated threat intelligence enrichment through the ThreatQ Platform. The integration combines ThreatQ data-driven orchestration and investigation capabilities with Criminal IP’s real-time IP threat intelligence, providing security teams with deeper context to prioritize and respond to threats faster. …
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Elon Musk’s Tesla Compensation Last Year Surpassed $158 Billion
Shareholders approved the compensation last year to encourage Musk to spend time at the company.
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SonicWall patches three SonicOS flaws in Gen 6, 7 and 8 firewalls. Patch them now
SonicWall patches three SonicOS flaws in Gen 6, 7 and 8 firewalls. The company released firmware updates to block bypass attacks and unauthorized access. SonicWall released urgent firmware updates to fix three SonicOS vulnerabilities affecting Gen 6, Gen 7, and Gen 8 firewalls. The flaws could allow attackers to bypass security controls, access restricted services,…
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Apple Sales Top $111 Billion in Second Quarter, Powered by iPhone 17
The company, which reported strong sales in China for a second quarter in a row, said iPhone revenue rose nearly 22%.
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Sage Acquires Doyen AI to Speed Finance Implementations
Sage, an accounting, financial, and HR technology provider, has acquired Doyen AI, an AI-focused company that aims to make customer onboarding and implementation faster, simpler, and more accurate for finance teams. The deal expands Sage’s AI strategy with tools designed to automate and streamline implementation workflows, helping customers reduce onboarding complexity and accelerate deployment timelines.…
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SAS Continues AI Investment, Introduces Quantum AI Lab
During the SAS Innovate 2026 conference, the data and AI company introduced new platforms to manage next-generation innovation and investments in industry accelerators, as well as an update on its digital twin technology. Managing the supply chain: AI tailored to real-world use cases Among the announcements SAS made are continued investments in industry accelerators and…
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Azure SQL vs SQL Server: Which One Should You Choose for Your Next Project?
Company News: Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service.
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White House Opposes Anthropic’s Plan to Expand Access to Mythos Model
The relationship between the administration and the company is still complicated despite efforts from both sides to ease tensions.
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Meta Will Run Some Servers Longer in Response to Memory Shortage
The company is extending the useful life of some of its data center servers from six to seven years as it grapples with a “significant server supply deficit” due to the shortage of memory chips, according to two internal memos viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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Dreame Launches More Than 20 Smart Home Products at DREAME NEXT Living Next Showcase, Highlighting Bionic Robotic Arm Platform Expansion
Dreame Technology, a global high-end technology company, today launched more than 20 smart home products and dozens of industry-first technologies at the Living Next segment of DREAME NEXT in San Francisco. The centerpiece of the showcase is the expansion of Dreame’s bionic robotic arm technology into air conditioners, range hoods, steam ovens, and dishwashers, demonstrating how a core capability continuously evolves and compounds across product categories. Dreame first introduced bionic robotic arm technology in 2023. The technology has since been continuously refined…
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Pernod Ricard and Brown-Forman End Deal Talks
The French spirits company and the Jack Daniel’s maker announced in March that they were discussing a potential combination
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Checkmarx confirms LAPSUS$ hackers leaked its stolen GitHub data
Application security company Checkmarx has confirmed that the LAPSUS$ threat group leaked data stolen from its private GitHub repository. […]
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LogicMonitor defines the autonomous IT era with AI that sees, reasons, and acts
COMPANY NEWS: Unified platform delivers complete visibility, contextual AI, and governed action across the digital environment.
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Ping Identity Warns of Emerging Authorisation Risks as AI Agents Scale Across Enterprises
COMPANY NEWS: New KuppingerCole Analysts research, commissioned by Ping Identity, defines how enterprises can govern AI agents at runtime to close emerging authorization gaps
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GitLab Deepens Integration with Anthropic’s Claude Models to Accelerate Secure Software Development
COMPANY NEWS: AI agents in GitLab Duo Agent Platform can now call Anthropic’s newest Claude models, with every action governed by GitLab’s existing compliance, audit, and policy framework; no separate governance layer required. Enterprises can access Claude models, including the newly released Claude Opus 4.7, through GitLab via Google Cloud and AWS Bedrock to route…
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Manhattan Associates and Genuine Parts Company Go Live with Next-Generation Warehouse Management System in Brisbane
Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) and Genuine Parts Company (GPC) have announced the successful go-live of Manhattan Active® Warehouse Management at GPC’s Brisbane distribution centre. The go-live represents the culmination of a large-scale program to modernise GPC’s DC operations, replacing different legacy systems and manual processes with a unified, cloud-native platform designed to improve visibility,…
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LogicMonitor Adds AI-Driven Remediation to IT Platform
LogicMonitor is moving past the era of simple alerts. The tech company announced a massive expansion to its unified platform today, aiming to solve the “noise” problem that has plagued IT departments for years. By combining visibility, AI reasoning, and automated action, the company is pitching a new operating model where the system doesn’t just…
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Senators seek answers about hackers obtaining sensitive student data from ostensibly anonymous tip line
A bipartisan pair of senators want a company that operates a tip line for anonymously reporting school safety concerns to answer questions about hackers compromising sensitive student information. Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Jim Banks, R-Ind., announced on Monday they’d sent a letter to the firm, Navigate360, about last month’s incident. “We write to express…
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Genetec Honours Oceania 2025 Partner Success with Regional Awards Announced at Vietnam Elevate ‘26 Conference
COMPANY NEWS: Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), the global leader in enterprise physical security software, has announced the winners of its 2025 ANZ channel partner awards at the company’s regional Elevate ’26 Asia-Pacific conference held in Da Nang, Vietnam.
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Macquarie Government Strengthens Azure and Security Push with Appointment of Dr Chris Peiris
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Dr Peiris to drive world-class Microsoft Azure and Security push, combining proven cloud capabilities with long-standing sector expertise to deliver resilient, future-ready environments.
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Semperis Expands Purple Knight to Strengthen Identity Security in Line with Five Eyes Guidance
Semperis, the identity-driven cyber resilience and crisis response company, today announced expanded capabilities for Purple Knight, its free, community-driven Active Directory and Entra ID security assessment tool helping organisations strengthen identity security in line with guidance from the Five Eyes Alliance, of which Australia is a key member.
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Meta’s compute grab continues with agreement to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores
Meta is continuing its compute grab as the agentic AI race accelerates to a sprint. Today, the company announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will bring “tens of millions” of AWS Graviton5 cores (one chip contains 192 cores) into its compute portfolio, with the option to expand as its AI capabilities grow.…
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Behind Meta’s Huge Layoffs Is a Relentless Shift Toward AI
As the company envisions smaller teams and supersmart agents, some employees are wondering how they fit in.
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Apple may be the only laptop vendor to grow in 2026
Chinese market research firm Sigmaintell expects Apple to be the only company to see growth in the laptop market this year. Overall, Sigmaintel predicts global notebook shipments will reach 181.1 million units this year, a decline of 8%. That drop will, in part, be caused by memory and component shortages and also by slowing market demand. That’s…
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Meta Will Lay Off 8,000 Employees in May: Memo
The company said the 10% workforce cut is needed to run more efficiently and offset other investments. It will also cancel plans to hire for 6,000 open roles.
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Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 7% of Workforce
The company is also changing how it awards bonuses and stock options as it reorganizes workforce around AI efforts.
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The 2026 Edition of PepsiCo’s APAC Greenhouse Program Shifts Beyond Pilots to Fast-Track Startups into its Supply Chain
COMPANY NEWS: The IMPACT Edition introduces a more structured integration model, bringing proven alumni solutions into PepsiCo’s operations through coordinated execution, commercial pathways, and an expanded partner ecosystem. Two Australian start-ups, Adiona and X-Centric, will join three other finalists to take part in the IMPACT edition.
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ClickHouse Expands Strategic Collaboration With Google Cloud, Bringing Deeper Integration, Cloud Flexibility, and Next-Generation Performance
COMPANY NEWS: ClickHouse, a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, has announced a significant expansion of its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud.
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GapMaps Names Peter Holmes CEO to Lead Global Expansion
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: GapMaps, the leading location intelligence platform powering physical network expansion, today announced the appointment of Peter Holmes as Chief Executive Officer.
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Saviynt Appoints Tim Wedande as Field CTO for Asia Pacific and Japan
COMPANY ANNOUNEMENT: APJ appointment strengthens regional customer engagement and technical strategy leadership
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Getac redefines rugged mobility with launch of G140 Copilot+ PC, powered by AMD Technology in Australia and New Zealand
COMPANY NEWS: The new G140 tablet blends AI-powered performance with MIL-STD fully rugged protection in a lightweight, field-friendly design.
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Scale Computing Execs on Unified Edge, Partner-First Strategy
Scale Computing, an edge-first platform company, is positioning itself as a platform that spans everything outside traditional data centers and cloud environments, from localized infrastructure to device-level deployments. Executives point to unique challenges in modern infrastructure needs Craig Theriac, VP of Product Management at Scale Computing, told Channel Insider that this spectrum introduces real-world challenges…
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Smashing Security podcast #464: Rockstar got hacked. The data was junk. The secrets it revealed were not
A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools – handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm – boasted on its website that it had suffered zero security breaches in over 20 years. A hacker called Internet Yiff Machine thought that sounded like a challenge, with predictable results… Meanwhile, Rockstar Games gets hacked…
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Exabeam Extends Agent Behaviour Analytics to the Google Cloud Agent Ecosystem
COMPANY NEWS: Comprehensive visibility and anomaly detection now available for agents built with Google Cloud’s Agent Development Kit and multi-agent workflows via the upcoming Google Agent Gateway
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VAST Data Valued at $30 Billion as AI Drives a New Infrastructure Stack
COMPANY NEWS: New funding reflects VAST’s rare combination of growth and profitability, driven by its central role in powering AI infrastructure at global scale