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A leak of 190,000 chat messages traded among members of the Black Basta ransomware group shows that it’s a highly structured and mostly efficient organization staffed by personnel with expertise in various specialities, including exploit development, infrastructure optimization, social engineering, and more. The trove of records was first posted to file-sharing site MEGA. The messages,...

On Monday, John Carmack, co-creator of id Software’s Quake franchise, defended Microsoft’s recent AI-generated Quake II demo against criticism from a fan about the technology’s impact on industry jobs, calling it “impressive research work.” Last Friday, Microsoft released a new playable tech demo of a generative AI game engine called WHAMM (World and Human Action...

The social media platform has experienced a return in advertisers and new exposure as an official source of government news.

On Saturday, Meta released its newest Llama 4 multimodal AI models in a surprise weekend move that caught some AI experts off guard. The announcement touted Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick as major advancements, with Meta claiming top performance in their categories and an enormous 10 million token context window for Scout. But...

Minimalist gadgets like the new Light Phone III, a smartphone that barely does anything, promise to help us focus. The trade-offs are big.

These businesses, including e-commerce platforms and payment processors, are pulling back on public offering plans and bracing for pain.

The app was facing a Saturday deadline to change its ownership or face a ban in the United States.

Dozens of companies are building robots that look like humans. One of them is training a machine to be a butler and will soon test them in homes.

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, would not seem to be in the line of fire from tariffs. But President Trump’s trade actions are hitting even social networking businesses.

What do Trump’s tariffs mean for tech consumers and the future of AI?