U.S. telecommunications and internet provider Brightspeed is investigating claims of the cyberattack after the Crimson Collective hacking group claimed to have breached the company’s systems and exfiltrated sensitive customer information. Crimson Collective claimed in late December that it had obtained the personal information of more than 1 million Brightspeed customers. The stolen data allegedly includes ...

Robotics startup Lyte AI Inc. launched today as it announced that it has raised $107 million in funding. Founded in 2021 by former top members of the team behind Apple Inc.’s Face ID, Lyte is trying to solve the problem of how robots perceive and understand their environment. The company is creating a unified perception platform ...

A new report out today from cybersecurity company Securonix Inc. is warning of an ongoing malware campaign targeting the hospitality sector, using psychological manipulation and trusted Windows tools to evade detection and establish long-term system access. The “PHALT#BLYX” campaign combines phishing, fake system errors and living-off-the-land techniques to deliver a customized version of the DCRat remote ...

Cyberdefense firm Resecurity Inc. has denied a claim from infamous hacking group ShinyHunters that it had been hacked, instead saying that the attackers were fooled by a deliberately deployed honeypot filled with synthetic data. The drama over the alleged hack began after a Telegram account from “Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters,” an umbrella alias reportedly linked to ...

Cisco Systems Inc. is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity asset management startup Axonius Inc. According to Ctech by Calcalist, the price Cisco is looking to pay for Axonius is $2 billion. However, a deal is not a forgone conclusion as Axonius has denied any talks are taking place. When asked, the company said that ...

Palo Alto Networks Inc. is reportedly in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi Security Inc. for an estimated $400 million. According to Ctech by Calcalist today, Palo Alto Chief Executive Nikesh Arora visited Israel last month and evaluated local startups for potential deals. He reportedly emphasized that the rapid changes artificial intelligence is bringing ...

Google LLC’s Gemini 3.0 Pro large language model has delivered a notable advance in multimodal reasoning by helping decode a long-unexplained handwritten annotation in a 500-year-old copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle. The Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493, is considered one of the most important illustrated books of the early modern period. A particular surviving leaf ...

Apple Inc. is reportedly planning to delay the release of the iPhone 18 until 2027 as it deals with manufacturing complexity and longer production development cycles. According to MacRumors, the iPhone 18 is not expected to arrive until the spring of 2027, leaving the iPhone 17 lineup as the latest standard model for more than ...

Though 2025 may be remembered for the artificial intelligence boom, not far behind has been the emergence of advanced humanoid robotics. And while the U.S. and the West more broadly have somewhat lagged in robotics, China enters the new year arguably well ahead in the robotics game. According to a report Tuesday from Chia-focused tech site Pandaily ...

The European Space Agency has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen and then offered for sale a large volume of internal data claimed to be from the ESA. In a statement on X Inc., the ESA said the incident involved a “very small number” of external ...