A suspected Chinese espionage group has been breaking into university mail servers across the United States and Canada. It has stolen credentials from staff in physics, engineering, and national security research. Security firm Proofpoint disclosed the campaign this week, tracking the crew as UNK_MassTraction and dating it to at least May. The Register reported further […]

Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute have shown that GitHub Copilot will produce harmful content it would normally refuse. The trick is to spread the request across an ordinary coding workflow. They call it a workflow-level jailbreak, and The Register reported the finding. The gap between the two settings is stark. In direct chat, the […]

Meta is updating its smart glasses to shut off the camera if the recording light has been physically tampered with or destroyed. The change, announced in a 7 July blog post, closes a loophole that let modders turn the glasses into covert recorders. A white LED lights up whenever the glasses capture photos or video, signalling […]

Britain’s public sector has become deeply reliant on a small number of US cloud giants, and analysts warn the concentration is now a strategic risk. Nearly all UK government organisations spend on hyperscale cloud, with the dependency running into billions of pounds a year. Some 95% of central and local public-sector bodies spent on hyperscale […]

Databento has raised $97M in Series B funding to build what it calls the market data platform for modern finance. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, with DRW, Redpoint Ventures, and Tribe Capital joining. The company announced the raise on Thursday. Demand ran well past the target. The round was oversubscribed, drawing more […]

A serve flashes on the Wimbledon scoreboard before the ball stops bouncing. That number comes from a partnership older than most players on court. IBM has been Wimbledon’s technology partner for 36 years, since it planted serve-speed radar behind the baselines in 1991. This year the two extended their deal to 2030, Fortune reported. The […]

Microsoft president Brad Smith says the US is now regulating AI without a clear set of rules. The uncertainty, he warns, is a problem for the whole industry. He made the case to Fortune on the sidelines of the AI for Good Global Summit. “What we really have right now is regulation without transparent or […]

A startup that builds artificial-intelligence agents for large companies has turned that software on itself, using one of its own agents to help run a $100 million fundraise. Lyzr, an enterprise AI agents firm backed by Accenture, says the agent handled much of the investor legwork for a Series B round that would value the company […]

Meta plans to put its own artificial intelligence chip into production in September and is aiming to roughly double the computing capacity across its data centres, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The chip belongs to Meta’s in-house silicon line, the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, or MTIA, which the company […]

SK Hynix’s American listing has been more than seven times oversubscribed, according to people familiar with the deal, a sign of heavy demand for one of the largest share sales Wall Street has fielded from a foreign company. The South Korean memory-chip maker was due to price its offering of American depositary receipts on Thursday, […]