Media giant Lee Enterprises confirms cyberattack as news outlets report ongoing disruption
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Read MoreMacron unveils $112B AI investment package, France’s answer to US’ Stargate
Late Sunday local time the French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced a total of €109 billion in private investments in the AI ecosystem — or around $112 billion at current exchange rates. Paris is hosting the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit this week — the third international summit focused on AI after
Read MoreKaspersky Highlights Online Dangers for Kids on Popular Gaming Platform
Kaspersky experts have highlighted the growing risks children face online by analyzing threats associated with one of the most popular gaming platforms—Roblox. Roblox: Founded in 2006, Roblox is an online virtual universe game platform that allows users to play a wide range of games created by other players or create
Read MoreJSE Launches ‘Claim It’ Campaign with Lucas Radabe as Ambassador
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) launches its “Claim It” campaign, pushing South Africans to determine whether they are potential shareholders entitled a portion of the R4.5 billion in unclaimed dividends. The “Claim It” initiative is a collaborative effort between the JSE and some of its largest listed companies, aiming to
Read MoreSaudi’s BRKZ closes $17M Series A for its construction tech platform
Construction procurement is highly fragmented, manual, and opaque, forcing contractors to juggle multiple suppliers, endure lengthy negotiations, and deal with delayed payments. In Saudi Arabia, where trillion-dollar infrastructure and real estate projects are underway, these inefficiencies are even more pronounced. To address this, BRKZ, a Riyadh-based construction tech startup, offers
Read MoreOpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed
In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and ensure the benefits of the technology are widely distributed. “The historical impact of
Read MoreDeepSeek’s R1 reportedly ‘more vulnerable’ to jailbreaking than other AI models
The latest model from DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that’s shaken up Silicon Valley and Wall Street, can be manipulated to produce harmful content such as plans for a bioweapon attack and a campaign to promote self-harm among teens, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sam Rubin, senior vice president
Read MoreHow close is Elon Musk to controlling a nuclear weapon?
What was once ridiculous is now possible. Elon Musk, the richest person in the history of the world, has become President Donald Trumpâs attack dog. Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have unprecedented access to the governmentâs data and computer system. Earlier this week, that came to include
Read MoreApple could launch a new iPhone SE and PowerBeats Pro 2 on February 11
Apple could launch a new iPhone SE and PowerBeats Pro headphones as early as February 11, according to reporting from Bloomberg. The announcement is likely to be on the smaller side, given that the company has not yet issued invites for either an in-person or virtual event. A new iPhone
Read MoreSony says PlayStation Plus members will get five-day extension after outage
After the PlayStation Network experienced a global outage that lasted for nearly a day, Sony says it will compensate PlayStation Plus subscribers by giving them an extra five days of service. The outage seems to have lasted from Friday evening until Saturday evening in the United States, with many PlayStation
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