OKLAHOMA CITY – Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had just received the NBA Most Valuable Player award when he noticed something suspicious. There was a man sitting courtside next to his wife, Hailey, who he had never seen sitting in his courtside seats at a Thunder game before. Before the Oklahoma City Thunder guard could raise his eyebrow,...
By Iyana Moore (Black PR Wire) Each May, we celebrate the students who beat the odds: those who pushed through systemic barriers, financial strain, and personal hardships to earn their degrees. But amid the pomp and circumstance, we must also confront a h…
Researchers have found malicious software that received more than 6,000 downloads from the NPM repository over a two-year span, in yet another discovery showing the hidden threats users of such open source archives face. Eight packages using names that closely mimicked those of widely used legitimate packages contained destructive payloads designed to corrupt or delete...
On Thursday, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, marking the company’s return to larger model releases after primarily focusing on mid-range Sonnet variants since June of last year. The new models represent what the company calls its most capable coding models yet, with Opus 4 designed for complex, long-running tasks that can...
As part of a new partnership, G42, an Emirati A.I. firm, will also help fund OpenAI’s new computer facilities in the United States.
A consortium of global law enforcement agencies and tech companies announced on Wednesday that they have disrupted the infostealer malware known as Lumma. One of the most popular infostealers worldwide, Lumma has been used by hundreds of what Microsoft calls “cyber threat actors” to steal passwords, credit card and banking information, and cryptocurrency wallet details....
VMware’s business model under Broadcom is “legally and ethically flawed,” a group of cloud service provider (CSP) customers and partners alleged in a report released today. The report (PDF) comes from the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO), which describes itself as “independent monitoring body” composed of members of the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe...
South Africa has made an exceptional regulatory decision allowing Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service to operate without meeting the country’s post-apartheid Black ownership requirements. This unusual exemption comes during a period of strained relations between South Africa and the United States, highlighting the complex intersection of business, politics, and historical context. Understanding the 30%...
RABAT, Morocco – The game of basketball has taken NBA champion Sam Vincent all over the world. Now the former NBA journeyman is trying to coach his South African team to a championship in Africa. The former guard won a championship with Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics and shared the backcourt with Michael Jordan...