New phone designs, coupled with robust holiday spending, continued to lift iPhone sales in the quarter and drove the company to record profits.
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County pays $600,000 to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county courthouse in Iowa will receive $600,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging wrongful arrest and defamation. The case was brought by Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn, two penetration testers who at the time were employed by Colorado-based...
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How the A.I. Boom Could Push Up the Price of Your Next PC
A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.
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John Wall’s Wizards retirement celebration honors his deeper impact beyond basketball
A reputation has a way of sticking with you, no matter how much time and circumstances have changed. You never get a second chance at a first impression, sure, but at some point you should be allowed the grace of maturation. When it comes to former NBA guard John Wall, many things are true. The...
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Steven Adams’ Season-Ending Injury Deals Major Blow to Rockets’ Contender Push
The Houston Rockets have weathered injuries all season, but losing Steven Adams for the remainder of the year represents one of the most significant setbacks yet for a team firmly entrenched in the Western Conference race. Adams has undergone season-ending surgery on his left ankle, a development first reported by ESPN’s Shams Charania and later...
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Site catering to online criminals has been seized by the FBI
RAMP—the predominantly Russian-language online bazaar that billed itself as the “only place ransomware allowed”—had its dark web and clear web sites seized by the FBI as the agency tries to combat the growing scourge threatening critical infrastructure and organizations around the world. Visits to both sites on Wednesday returned pages that said the FBI had...
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With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint
AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery.
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Microsoft Continues to Spend Big on A.I. While Profit Jumps 60%
The company said on Wednesday that revenue in the most recent quarter was $81.3 billion, but its share price dropped more than 7 percent in after-hours trading.
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Meta Forecasts Spending of at Least $115 Billion This Year
That would be a major jump from $72 billion last year, as the tech giant aims to compete in the artificial intelligence race.