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Japan’s National Police Agency confirmed 123 ransomware cases in the first six months of 2026, the highest half-year total since the agency began compiling this data in 2020. The figure, released Thursday and first reported by The Japan Times, is up by seven cases from the same period a year earlier. It lands during a…
osquery turns every laptop, server, and container host into a queryable SQL database. Instead of grepping log files or SSHing into a box to check what processes are running, you write a SELECT statement. Meta built it internally, open-sourced it in 2014, and it now sits under the osquery Foundation inside the Linux Foundation, licensed…
AWS Security Hub turned into a genuinely different product this year. What used to be a finding aggregator that dumped GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, and Config alerts into one dashboard is now billed as an “AI and multicloud security control plane,” according to reporting from SiliconANGLE in July 2026. The pricing model changed, the partner ecosystem…
A three-year-old graphics card just got a free upgrade it was never supposed to receive. On September 8, 2026, Wccftech reported that the community modding team behind OptiScaler has packaged AMD’s newest FSR 4.1.1b upscaling model into a single DLL file that owners of Radeon RX 6000 GPUs can drop straight into a game folder.…
Venture capital’s center of gravity today isn’t in one neat category called AI. It is moving toward companies that control high-value workflows: legal work, sales, wealth management, cybersecurity, industrial production and even weather-risk operations. The ten most consequential rounds verified […] The post Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, September 9, 2026: Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz,…
Silver Lake is merging two of Europe’s largest business software companies in an $11.6 billion deal, as AI forces the software industry to rethink what scale looks like. CNBC first reported the deal. The private equity firm plans to merge […] The post Silver Lake to merge Cegid and Silae in $11.6 billion software deal…
An Erik Prince-backed defense technology firm scooped up a Ukrainian maker of unmanned ground vehicles in a tie-up worth $224 million.
Three revelations from our columnist’s hands-on experience with the hybrid phone and tablet.
A growing chorus of AI researchers say the technology could wipe out humans—even if all the bots want to do is make paper clips.
Andrew Tulloch departs Meta less than a year after he was offered a billion-dollar pay package.
