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Apple paid Samsung a 100% premium for LPDDR5X RAM modules

We are currently facing a memory shortage. This is due to the AI boom, leading memory manufacturers to focus more on producing memory for data centers rather than consumer devices. Recently, it was revealed that Apple had managed to secure RAM from Samsung for its iPhone 17 and iPhone 18 series. However, it seems that

Hackers are harnessing AI to exploit security flaws faster than ever

Hackers are getting faster and growing more successful at exploiting vulnerabilities, all thanks to deeper integration of Gen AI tools into everyday operations, experts have warned.These attacks are driven by an increase in vulnerability exploitation which, as per IBM, is to blame for 40% of all cyber-incidents observed in 2025. At the same time, the

NASA astronaut medical evacuation

NASA has shared more details about the astronaut who required a medical evacuation from space, the first such incident recorded by the space agency. Mike Fincke, a 58-year-old astronaut from Pennsylvania, confirmed in a statement yesterday that he was the International Space Station (ISS) passenger who required medical assistance on Earth. A space walk scheduled

Canadian AI to detect Russian Disinformation

A new artificial intelligence (AI) agent could equip Europe to better defend itself against the barrage of Russian disinformation attacks. Cipher is Canadian-developed AI software that has proven to accurately and quickly detect Russian disinformation targeting Canadian networks, on both the far right and the far left of the political spectrum. Cipher is a human-in-the-loop

Russia signals no rush for a deal to end Ukraine war

Russia signaled Thursday that it was in no rush to make a deal to end its war on Ukraine, hours after it attacked the neighboring country with hundreds of drones and missiles and as U.S. and Ukrainian officials met in Geneva to discuss efforts to end the war. Talks between Moscow and Kyiv remain deadlocked

Microsoft 365 Local and enhanced AI support through Foundry Local, aimed at organisations operating under strict regulatory and sovereignty requirements.

With Azure Local disconnected operations, organisations can now run mission-critical infrastructure entirely within their own operational boundary, even with no connection to the public cloud. Governance, policy enforcement and workload management remain inside the customer’s environment, ensuring continuity for classified, isolated or high-security deployments. The goal is to replicate familiar Azure experiences while removing dependency

xAI’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI

OpenAI has successfully convinced the court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s xAI, accusing the company of stealing its trade secrets.OpenAI and xAI have a longstanding feud, and this is just one of the several lawsuits between the two companies. In fact, Musk has an ongoing complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the

End-to-End AI Resolution for Customer Service on Zoom

Zoom’s latest virtual agent release targets organizations ready to move beyond basic chatbot interactions toward fully automated, cross-system customer resolution. Zoom Communications unveiled Zoom Virtual Agent 3.0 on Feb. 24, introducing an execution architecture designed to automate end-to-end customer resolution across enterprise systems. The update builds on Zoom’s AI Companion 3.0 framework. Zoom reported internal

Breaking encryption with a quantum computer

The RSA algorithm is one of the most widely used encryption algorithms, used for things like online banking and secure communication. It is based on the mathematical difficulty of finding which two prime numbers were multiplied together to create a very large number. Since the 1990s researchers have known that this difficulty can be side-stepped

Israel plans to boost US wheat imports

Israel plans to make further trade concessions to the US on food and agricultural goods, as part of efforts to persuade its closest ally to ease tariffs on exports from the Jewish state.Officials hope that boosting the competitiveness of US wheat against Israel’s traditional suppliers — the largest of them being Russia  will help clinch