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Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute
Silicon Data, a startup aiming to create a reference price for AI compute, has closed a $30 million Series A funding round. The company wants to establish an index for GPU rental costs that could serve as the settlement benchmark for a Wall Street futures contract, addressing a gap in the booming AI industry where,…
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T-Mobile ‘chopped a cable’ to expel Chinese hackers from its network
Bloomberg reporting reveals how T-Mobile’s cybersecurity team detected and expelled Chinese state-backed hackers from its network in 2024, during a wider espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon that hit numerous US telecoms and infrastructure firms. The hackers, working for the Chinese government, sought to harvest phone records and information on senior US officials, including presidential…
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‘Huge human error’ caused ‘biggest ever’ cyber attack on charity sector with millions warned their data may have been stolen
A cyber attack described as the “biggest ever” to hit the UK charity sector has been attributed to a “huge human error”, with millions of people warned that their personal data may have been stolen. The scale of the breach has raised serious concerns about data security practices across charitable organisations, which routinely hold sensitive…
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‘Good American Family’ Renewed at Hulu, With Season 2 Tackling Lorena Bobbitt
Hulu has renewed “Good American Family” for a second season, transforming the drama into an anthology series that will move away from its first-season subject to dramatise the story of Lorena Bobbitt. Creator Katie Robbins and executive producer Ellen Pompeo are both returning, with the new instalment exploring the media frenzy that followed the 1993…
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US Air Force plane turns back from Antarctica after Russian missile threat
A U.S. Air Force plane heading from New Zealand to Antarctica was forced to turn around Tuesday due to a “potentially hazardous” space activity warning. The American C-17 Globemaster aircraft, using call sign ICE28, initially took off from Christchurch, New Zealand, around 9:00 a.m. local time but returned back to Christchurch less than three hours…
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Meta AI now has a dedicated desktop app for Mac
Meta has launched a standalone desktop app for Meta AI on Mac, part of a broader effort to make its AI tools more useful for business owners and creators who rely on Facebook and Instagram. The app adds capabilities not found in the existing website or mobile version, including screen-sharing so the assistant can view…
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OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?
OpenAI has paused parts of its AI development, including a two-week halt to reinforcement learning training on models nearing deployment and an ongoing delay to its largest planned frontier training run, while it strengthens security and safety monitoring. The move tests a long-standing idea from AI safety advocates that companies should be willing to slow…
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US marshals survive deck collapse while serving warrant at sex offender’s home
Video captures members of a U.S. Marshals task force plunging to the ground when a deck collapsed as they served a warrant at the Missouri home of a sex offender.
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The ‘toxic’ issue that could tank a Republican in crucial Senate race is setting off internal alarm bells
An internal memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee has warned that public anger over AI data centres could cost Senator Jon Husted his seat in Ohio’s closely watched Senate race against Democrat Sherrod Brown, a contest that could help determine control of the chamber. Husted, previously a vocal champion of Ohio’s push to attract…
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Billboard Style – “Meloxicam”
Billboard Style, the duo of Ben Guterl (Forth Wanderers) and Dan Howard (Victoryland), have released “Meloxicam”, the second single from their upcoming debut album Pull Of The Moon. The song follows their well-received self-titled debut single and offers further insight into the pair’s songwriting, drawing on Guterl’s own experience of a long-distance relationship. The two-minute…