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This is the latest cyberattack to hit a French cellular carrier in recent weeks, following an attack on Orange Telecom in July.

Trump’s post comes after Republican Senator Tom Cotton on Wednesday wrote to Intel’s board of directors, asking about Tan’s ties to China, his investments in the country, and raised concerns about his time leading Cadence Design Systems, which had a Chinese military university as a customer.

The U.S. congressional agency confirmed to TechCrunch that the removal of key sections of the Constitution from its website were removed in error. The full text has now been reinstated.

Hubble Network’s satellite-enabled Bluetooth network is getting a boost from Muon’s new XL satellite bus.

The Browser Company has its first paid plan in form of $20 per month Dia Pro.

Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the teenage software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The company will merge Bubty and Ascen with its existing enterprise business to form a separate entity later this year.

Google denies AI is impacting search across the web, saying only “some” sites have suffered.

NHTSA is also closing an investigation into the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company.

To find out whether Alexa is still the best smart assistant for my family, I’m going to test Amazon’s AI-powered devices, experiment with AI queries, and write out my thoughts in a multi-part series.

Google is also offering students in the U.S., Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and Brazil a free one-year subscription to its AI Pro plan.

GSA Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum in a statement encouraged “other American AI technology companies to follow OpenAI’s lead and work with us.”

Google today launched its AI coding agent, Jules, out of beta — just over two months after its public preview debut in May.

Lava is a digital wallet that lets merchants use credits to facilitate transactions.

Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution’s website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.

The one-year-old startup raised a Series A led by Insight Partners.

Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the “dramatic descent into authoritarianism,” but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

This is on top of Apple’s previously announced plan to invest $500 billion into the U.S. over the next four years.

Instagram notes that location sharing is off by default on Instagram Map, and a user’s location only updates when they open the app, meaning it doesn’t provide real-time location updates.

Tinder will redesign and debut college specific features, like searching for people within the college, to appeal to younger users.

Canadian AI firm Cohere is taking aim at alleviating data privacy concerns with its new AI agent platform, North, which can be deployed privately so that enterprises and governments can keep their, and customers’, data safe behind their own firewalls. 

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday that two Chinese nationals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in illegally shipping “tens of millions of dollars” worth of high-performance AI chips to China.

Celebrity Lockets is a new feature where celebrities can engage with their most loyal followers on their home screens.

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Microsoft will bring OpenAI’s new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, its platform that lets users tap AI features, APIs, and popular open-source models on their computers.

Google confirmed that one of its cloud-stored Salesforce databases was breached, exposing its customer data. Google attributed the breach to a hacking group, ShinyHunters, known for breaking into Salesforce databases.

European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, that aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing.

The AI sales automation startup raised fresh funds, led by CapitalG, just months after its last round.

This is a juicy competitive move for both companies after AWS faced an onslaught of criticism over its progress with AI.

Though Yaccarino does not have experience in health tech, eMed said in a press release that they sought her out for her “undeniable ability to negotiate new partnerships.”