After alienating many long-time small- to medium-sized business (SMB) customers, Broadcom’s VMware is trying to appeal to its smaller customers. Today, the virtualization company announced vSphere Express, a lower-end virtualization offering for organizations that require “cost-effective essential virtualization.” vSphere Express comes after many customers reported that VMware was pushing them to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF),...
Binance says hackers who stole billions in crypto spent months planning heist
The hackers who stole billions of dollars in cryptocurrency from the Binance exchange spent months working on the theft and used both social engineering and novel malware in the process, the company said Tuesday. The heist, which both the FBI and the TRM Security firm attributed to North Korean actors, initially targeted $6.34 billion in...
Binance Says Hackers Plotted $6.3 Billion Crypto Heist for Months
A report from the cryptocurrency exchange described a monthslong campaign involving fake job interviews that exploited an engineer’s work computer and an internal A.I. tool.
Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I.
Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google’s search engine.
Apple’s Profit Grows 12% Despite Component Price Worries
The company said iPhone sales remained strong, but warned that the cost of memory chips for its devices was going up.
UEFI bootkit infected fully patched Windows machines. Is Microsoft to blame?
In 2023, malware tracked as BlackLotus became the first publicly documented in-the-wild UEFI bootkit capable of bypassing Secure Boot on fully updated Windows 11 systems. With the industry-wide chain-of-trust mechanism subverted, the malware was able to run malicious code before Windows was fully loaded and many security defenses were operational. Microsoft had already patched the...
(BPRW) Kulur Group Reopens “Are You D.O.P.E.?” Applications for Minority and Women-Led Tech Startups
(Black PR Wire) HOUSTON, TX – Kulur Group, the 2026 African-American Marketing Association Agency of the Year, today announced the return of its flagship initiative, the “Are You D.O.P.E.?” program. Applications are open through December 15, 20…
Inside Anthropic’s Hunt for A.I. Computing Power
The company went on a deal spree with tech giants, former crypto miners and others to gain computing power to further its artificial intelligence ambitions.
Anthropic Reveals $17 Billion in Revenue as I.P.O. Approaches
The A.I. company’s quarterly revenue totaled $17 billion, 12 times as high as the same quarter last year, while its net loss totaled $23 billion.
How A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever to Microtarget Voters
Hyper-personalized messages, delivered with A.I.-enabled precision, herald a new frontier for voter outreach (and potential disinformation).