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WWT to acquire Softchoice in $1.25B technology services deal
World Wide Technology Holding Co. Ltd today announced plans to acquire rival Softchoice Corp. for $1.8 billion Canadian dollars, or about $1.25 billion. The all-cash offer values Toronto-based Softchoice at C$24.5 per share. That’s a premium of more than 10% to the company’s Monday close and 62% higher than the price at which it went ...
US Army soldier arrested in connection with AT&T, Verizon data breaches
Federal authorities have reportedly arrested a U.S. Army soldier in connection with a series of cyberattacks that compromised AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. customers’ data. Prominent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs broke the news on Monday. Cameron Wagenius was reportedly apprehended on Dec. 20 near a U.S. Army base in Texas. According to Krebs, Wagenius ...
Location data from 800,000 Volkswagen vehicles exposed by cloud misconfiguration
A misconfiguration in a cloud environment made data from hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen AG vehicles available online, multiple publications reported today. The issue was brought to the attention of German newspaper Der Spiegel by a whistleblower. Researchers from Chaos Computer Club, a cybersecurity association, also played a role in uncovering the data leak. The ...
UK launches antitrust review of IBM’s proposed HashiCorp acquisition
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has launched an inquiry into IBM Corp.’s proposed acquisition of HashiCorp Inc. for $6.4 billion. The Competition and Markets Authority, or, CMA, announced the move today. The investigation comes about eight months after IBM first revealed its plans to buy HashiCorp. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched a probe of ...
Nvidia completes $700M Run:ai acquisition following antitrust scrutiny
Nvidia Corp. has completed its acquisition of Run:ai, a startup with software that helps enterprises run their artificial intelligence workloads using less hardware. The deal drew scrutiny from antitrust regulators in both the U.S. and the European Union. Nvidia announced plans to acquire Run:ai, officially Runai Labs Ltd, in April. TechCrunch reported at the time ...
Hackers compromise Chrome extensions with 400,000+ users
Hackers have compromised several popular Chrome extensions with hundreds of thousands of users, TechCrunch reported today. One of the affected extensions is developed by Cyberhaven Inc., a venture-backed cybersecurity provider. The company confirmed the incident in a statement. San Jose, California-based Cyberhaven helps enterprises prevent workers from using business data in an unauthorized manner. Its ...
TSMC begins mass-producing chips at newly opened fab in Japan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has begun mass-producing chips at its new fab in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, news agency Kyodo News Plus reported today. TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, launched a semiconductor manufacturing business called JASM Inc. in Japan three years ago. It’s a joint venture with Sony Group Corp. and Denso Corp., a major auto ...
Confirming reports, OpenAI details plans to turn into a for-profit company
OpenAI today detailed plans to turn its for-profit arm, which oversees its artificial intelligence development efforts, into a standalone company. The move is not unexpected. Reports that OpenAI plans to spin off its for-profit arm have been swirling since August. The restructuring was reportedly a condition of the ChatGPT developer’s recently closed $6.6 billion funding ...
DeepSeek open-sources new AI model with 671B parameters
Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek today open-sourced DeepSeek-V3, a new large language model with 671 billion parameters. The LLM can generate text, craft software code and perform related tasks. DeepSeek says it outperforms two of the most advanced open-source LLMs on the market across more than a half-dozen benchmark tests. DeepSeek-V3 is based on a ...
Outage takes ChatGPT, Sora and OpenAI’s APIs offline for many users
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora video generator are currently experiencing an outage that has made them inaccessible for many users. The issue also affects the application programming interfaces that developers use to integrate the company’s technology into their software. According to the outage tracking service Down Detector, the issue emerged around 1:30 p.m. ET. The Verge ...