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Police take down dangerous KillSec ransomware gang — and find out it's being run by a teenager
Operation KillSwitch dismantled KillSec, seizing infrastructure, cryptocurrency, and 110TB dataInvestigation identified core members; several arrests made, including key operators
In Rare Move, Iranian Hacker Accused of Working for IRGC Extradited to US
Amir Barati, an alleged member of the Mabna Institute, was indicted for targeting universities, private organizations, and government entities in the US and abroad.
Where every US governor stands on AI and the data-center boom
Some state governors are bigger advocates for AI and data centers than others.Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images Midterm elections are right around the corner, with Election Day on Novem
'The hottest skill on Wall Street’: Demand for this AI ability jumped 1,721% as banks embrace agents
A person walks around the JPMorgan Chase & Co. headquarters in New York, Feb. 17, 2026. Before artificial intelligence can take Wall Street jobs, it is first creating them. Posts for AI-related
How American Political Campaigns Are Using AI—and What They’re Spending on the Tools
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian. New campaign finance disclosure data shines a light on which US political campaigns are using AI tools and how much they are spending on them. Candidates’, parties’ and committees’ spending reve
Decades of DIY best-of-breed give way to pretested stacks as AI raises integration risk
As enterprises push AI out of pilots and into production, FlexPod, the converged infrastructure franchise built by NetApp Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc., is being recast as a pretested answer to AI’s complexity. Customers want a trusted platform, not a pile of p
Winning the AI race means beating China on innovation, cost and trust
Because we operate at the intersection of AI, national security, and cyber, I often get asked the question, "Are we winning the AI race with China?" My answer is still yes. At the highest level, we
Google has been playing catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic. Does its new flagship model really compete at the frontier?
This report is from this week's The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. 2026 has been a turbulent year for Google's AI hopes and dreams. Things started well. Gemin
Capitalism may be reinventing socialism — and probably not how you think
Capitalism has been central to Americas remarkable 250-year adventure in self-government. It has transformed material life, brought mass prosperity and reduced extreme deprivation to a fraction of wh
Health In Tech to Attend the 17th Annual Craig-Hallum Alpha Select Conference
STUART, Fla., Oct. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Health In Tech, Inc. (Nasdaq: HIT), an AI-enabled InsurTech platform company ("Health In Tech" or the "Company"), today announced that representatives from the Company's management and investor relations teams will p
Quantum coming ‘like a freight train,’ IonQ CEO says in Chattanooga | Chattanooga Times Free Press
In a speech in Chattanooga, IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi said quantum computing is developing faster than the industry expected, echoing executives of artificial intelligence companies. "It's gonna fran
Chinese spies impersonate White House, Anthropic figures to phish AI policy experts
A China-aligned espionage group has been posing as a former White House official and a prominent economist to get into the cloud accounts of AI policy experts in the US, Proofpoint have found. The group, which the researchers track as TA419, ran several crede