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Musk's rollercoaster year: From boycotts and plunging earnings to a potential trillion-dollar payday

NEW YORK (AP) — If someone left a government job with a black eye, literally, ran a company with shrinking profits, and suddenly had federal investigators crawling over their business, you might say they’re having a bad year. But most people are not Elon Musk.

Florida AG issues subpoena to Roblox for child protection policies

Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena to a popular online gaming platform, Roblox, on Monday, demanding information about how the platform sets age-verification requirements, moderates chat rooms, and markets itself to children.

Google and Apple face extra UK scrutiny over 'strategic' role in mobile platforms

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s antitrust watchdog on Wednesday targeted Google and Apple for their “strategic” roles in mobile ecosystems, opening the door for regulators to impose changes to their business practices to improve competition.

AI’s dark side shows in Gartner’s top predictions for IT orgs

While AI certainly has the potential to change enterprise operations for the better, it also can present a few “insidious” challenges for IT leaders, according to analysts at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo going on this week in Orlando, Fla.

Discord confirms vendor breach exposed user IDs in ransom plot

Third-party security breach at Discord exposes sensitive user information including government IDs, highlighting cybersecurity risks from external service providers.

F5 hack highlights persistent supply chain security concerns

The F5 breach targets a "foundational technology" relied upon by government agencies and critical infrastructure operators. The post F5 hack highlights persistent supply chain security concerns first appeared on Federal News Network.

AI girlfriend apps leak millions of private chats

Chattee Chat and GiMe Chat exposed intimate conversations and photos, revealing users spent up to $18,000 on AI companions before the breach.

Riverbed tackles AI data bottleneck with new Oracle-based service

Riverbed recently unveiled Data Express Service, a SaaS offering the company developed in partnership with Oracle that is designed to address the challenge of securely moving massive datasets quickly.

Visual Studio Code taps AI for merge conflict resolution

Visual Studio Code 1.105, the latest release of Microsoft’s popular Visual Studio Code editor, introduces several new AI coding features, including the ability to resolve merge conflicts with AI assistance, the ability to resume recent chat sessions, and the ability to install Model Context Protocol

China accuses US of cyberattack on national time center

BEIJING (AP) — China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency of carrying out cyberattacks on its national time center, saying any damage to related facilities could have disrupted network communications, financial systems and power supply.

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Unlocking efficiency with AI, commercial software and the cloud

Government agencies are already exploring opportunities to apply artificial intelligence to their operations in ways that increase efficiency and save money. The post Unlocking efficiency with AI, commercial software and the cloud first appeared on Federal News Network.

Teens face new PG-13 limits on Instagram

New Instagram parental controls allow families to manage teen screen time and content limits through the Family Center with stricter safety settings.

OpenAI launches web browser ChatGPT Atlas: How to start using it

OpenAI announced Tuesday it is launching a ChatGPT-powered web browser called Atlas that will compete directly with widely used Google Chrome.

Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — On a scorching hot Saturday in San Antonio, dozens of teachers traded a day off for a glimpse of the future. The topic of the day’s workshop: enhancing instruction with artificial intelligence.

Call to ban AI superintelligence could redraw the global tech race between the US and China

More than 850 prominent figures have called for a prohibition on developing AI superintelligence, a move that could reshape enterprise AI investments and intensify the US-China technology race if adopted.

IBM signs up Groq for speedy AI inferencing option

IBM has teamed up with Groq to offer enterprise customers a reliable, cost-effective way to speed AI inferencing applications.

Netflix blames tax dispute in Brazil for rare quarterly earnings letdown

Netflix missed the earnings target set by stock market analysts during the video streamer’s latest quarter, a letdown that the company blamed on a tax dispute in Brazil. The results announced Tuesday broke Netflix's six-quarter streak of posting a profit that eclipsed analysts' projections.

Storage constraints add to AI data center bottleneck

After GPUs, storage capacity has emerged as the next major constraint for AI data centers. Hard-drive lead times are ballooning to more than a year, and enterprise flash storage is also expected to see shortages and price increases, experts say.

OpenAI’s company knowledge wants access to all of your internal data

OpenAI on Thursday rolled out its latest offering, a comprehensive data collection and analysis capability called “company knowledge”.

OpenAI is connecting all company secrets to ChatGPT - all your work data and apps are now open

Company knowledge, a self-explanatory ChatGPT tool, will cite internal documents for accurate reporting.

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Microsoft debuts Mico, Copilot’s AI alternative to Clippy

Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might have just been ahead of its time.

How to watch Constellation Cup 2025: free streams, fixture list for Australia vs New Zealand netball series

All the ways to watch Constellation Cup live streams online for FREE, with the Diamonds on course to win the title outright for the first time in seven years.

The hot issues for CIOs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

The TechCrunch Disrupt conference has long provided valuable insights to and about startups and their investors — but CIOs can learn by talking with startups too, and there’s plenty to learn about at this year’s event.

AI gold rush sparks backlash against Core Scientific acquisition

CoreWeave’s $9 billion bid for Core Scientific undervalues the data center operator, one of its largest shareholders said Tuesday. It supported the recommendation of investment advisor Institutional Shareholder Services to reject the bid.

Applied Materials to cut more than 1,400 jobs after sales slow

Earlier this month, Applied Materials said an expansion of US export curbs to China would cost the company $600 million in lost revenue in fiscal 2026.

Google TPUs find sweet spot of AI demand, a decade after chip’s debut

In an AI chip industry that's almost entirely commanded by Nvidia Corp., a Google chip first developed more than 10 years ago especially for artificial intelligence tasks is finally gaining momentum outside its home company as a way to train and run complex AI models.

Musk's rollercoaster year: From boycotts and plunging earnings to a potential trillion-dollar payday

NEW YORK (AP) — If someone left a government job with a black eye, literally, ran a company with shrinking profits, and suddenly had federal investigators crawling over their business, you might say they’re having a bad year. But most people are not Elon Musk.

Florida AG issues subpoena to Roblox for child protection policies

Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena to a popular online gaming platform, Roblox, on Monday, demanding information about how the platform sets age-verification requirements, moderates chat rooms, and markets itself to children.

Google and Apple face extra UK scrutiny over 'strategic' role in mobile platforms

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s antitrust watchdog on Wednesday targeted Google and Apple for their “strategic” roles in mobile ecosystems, opening the door for regulators to impose changes to their business practices to improve competition.

AI’s dark side shows in Gartner’s top predictions for IT orgs

While AI certainly has the potential to change enterprise operations for the better, it also can present a few “insidious” challenges for IT leaders, according to analysts at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo going on this week in Orlando, Fla.