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Why Jensen Huang joined Trump’s high-stakes China summit at the last minute

Air Force One touched down in China today as a hastily convened U.S.-China summit begins this week. Alongside President Donald Trump on the flight to Beijing is a cavalcade of Silicon Valley executives.

Fox News AI Newsletter: How Disney fans will experience AI

New Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro outlined a new growth strategy, which includes a focus on investing in content as well as artificial intelligence technology.

AWS hit by US-East-1 outage after data center thermal event

A power outage triggered by a thermal event inside an Amazon Web Services data center in Northern Virginia disrupted Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes in the US-EAST-1 region late on Thursday, the cloud provider confirmed in updates posted to its Health Dash

Five data broker opt-out myths that leave retirees exposed

One-time opt-out forms may not fully protect retirees from data broker exposure and elder fraud scams that exploit decades of personal records online.

The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe

The coffee might be poured by a human hand, but behind the counter something far less traditional is calling the shots at an experimental cafe in Stockholm.

Wi-Fi 8 is closer than you think. Here’s what you need to know

Wi-Fi 8 is still a couple of years away from broad enterprise deployment, but the work underway in the IEEE and silicon ecosystems will shape wireless LAN design for the next decade. For network engineers, Wi-Fi 8 is more than “Wi-Fi 7, but faster.

Windows 11: A guide to the updates

A Windows launch isn’t the end a process — it’s really just the beginning. Microsoft continually works on improving Windows 11 by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new features.

School app Canvas breach hits during finals

Canvas, the school platform used by millions, went down during finals week after Instructure detected unauthorized activity tied to a cybersecurity breach.

Jobs lost to AI could reappear elsewhere

There are conflicting signals about whether AI is creating or destroying jobs, though many companies have blamed the technology for recent cuts.

Hard drive shortage affecting enterprise storage needs

It is no secret that there is a considerable shortage of storage devices, both traditional spinning media and SSDs. It’s always been hard to quantify beyond the “they are out of stock” complaints, but now some companies are getting tangible stats.

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Your AI doesn’t need another database

Every hot, new workload gets its own database. Briefly. You know the drill. From search to JSON (documents) to graph, as an industry we have this weird fixation with building new databases. DB-Engines now tracks 434 of them.

IMF warns of the potential for AI attacks on global financial systems

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that AI could become a growing threat to global financial stability by making cyberattacks faster and more sophisticated.

Windows 10: A guide to the updates

Windows 10 has reached the end of mainstream support, which means most users will no longer receive new features, bug fixes, or security updates. Microsoft encourages businesses and individuals to upgrade to Windows 11. Another option is to purchase extended security updates for Windows 10.

China's Alibaba reports 38% jump in AI and cloud revenue as it races to grow

China's Alibaba has reported accelerating AI and cloud revenue growth driven by the AI boom, which has jumped 38% in the January-March quarter compared to the year before.

Facial recognition jails innocent grandmother, attorney says

Angela Lipps says she was arrested based on a facial recognition match and jailed for months before bank records helped prove she was in Tennessee.

Why Jensen Huang joined Trump’s high-stakes China summit at the last minute

Air Force One touched down in China today as a hastily convened U.S.-China summit begins this week. Alongside President Donald Trump on the flight to Beijing is a cavalcade of Silicon Valley executives.

Fox News AI Newsletter: How Disney fans will experience AI

New Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro outlined a new growth strategy, which includes a focus on investing in content as well as artificial intelligence technology.

AWS hit by US-East-1 outage after data center thermal event

A power outage triggered by a thermal event inside an Amazon Web Services data center in Northern Virginia disrupted Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes in the US-EAST-1 region late on Thursday, the cloud provider confirmed in updates posted to its Health Dash

Five data broker opt-out myths that leave retirees exposed

One-time opt-out forms may not fully protect retirees from data broker exposure and elder fraud scams that exploit decades of personal records online.

The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe

The coffee might be poured by a human hand, but behind the counter something far less traditional is calling the shots at an experimental cafe in Stockholm.

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Wi-Fi 8 is closer than you think. Here’s what you need to know

Wi-Fi 8 is still a couple of years away from broad enterprise deployment, but the work underway in the IEEE and silicon ecosystems will shape wireless LAN design for the next decade. For network engineers, Wi-Fi 8 is more than “Wi-Fi 7, but faster.

Windows 11: A guide to the updates

A Windows launch isn’t the end a process — it’s really just the beginning. Microsoft continually works on improving Windows 11 by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new features.

School app Canvas breach hits during finals

Canvas, the school platform used by millions, went down during finals week after Instructure detected unauthorized activity tied to a cybersecurity breach.

Jobs lost to AI could reappear elsewhere

There are conflicting signals about whether AI is creating or destroying jobs, though many companies have blamed the technology for recent cuts.

Hard drive shortage affecting enterprise storage needs

It is no secret that there is a considerable shortage of storage devices, both traditional spinning media and SSDs. It’s always been hard to quantify beyond the “they are out of stock” complaints, but now some companies are getting tangible stats.

Your AI doesn’t need another database

Every hot, new workload gets its own database. Briefly. You know the drill. From search to JSON (documents) to graph, as an industry we have this weird fixation with building new databases. DB-Engines now tracks 434 of them.

IMF warns of the potential for AI attacks on global financial systems

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that AI could become a growing threat to global financial stability by making cyberattacks faster and more sophisticated.

Windows 10: A guide to the updates

Windows 10 has reached the end of mainstream support, which means most users will no longer receive new features, bug fixes, or security updates. Microsoft encourages businesses and individuals to upgrade to Windows 11. Another option is to purchase extended security updates for Windows 10.

China's Alibaba reports 38% jump in AI and cloud revenue as it races to grow

China's Alibaba has reported accelerating AI and cloud revenue growth driven by the AI boom, which has jumped 38% in the January-March quarter compared to the year before.

Facial recognition jails innocent grandmother, attorney says

Angela Lipps says she was arrested based on a facial recognition match and jailed for months before bank records helped prove she was in Tennessee.