Category: Biz Tech

Attackers are increasingly abusing legitimate system utilities and widely used administrative tools to deliver malware, move through networks and avoid detection, forcing security teams to rethink defences built mainly around blocking suspicious files.The tactic, commonly described as “living off the land”, relies on trusted tools already present inside corporate environments. PowerShell, Windows Management Instrumentation, certutil, mshta, rundll32, regsvr32, scheduled tasks, remote monitoring software and JavaScript execution frameworks are being used to download payloads, run code in memory, create persistence, steal

Amazon has unveiled an upgraded version of its Proteus warehouse robot that can take plain-language instructions from workers, marking a major step in the company’s push to automate heavier tasks across its European fulfilment network.The next-generation Proteus was shown at Amazon’s Dartford fulfilment centre east of London as part of a wider investment programme of more than €10 billion, equal to about $11.6 billion, aimed at expanding and modernising operations across Europe. The company says the new system will begin

Synology used COMPUTEX 2026 in Taipei to set out a wider enterprise data strategy built around the next generation of DiskStation Manager, AI-assisted administration, expanded backup appliances and a larger surveillance and private cloud portfolio, positioning the company more directly in the market for secure, on-premises data intelligence.The showcase, held at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Centre from June 2 to 5, placed DSM at the centre of Synology’s next phase. The company is presenting the operating system as AI-ready and enterprise-ready,

Block Inc’s Cash App has launched a pearlescent tap-to-pay wand, turning a routine card transaction into a visible accessory play aimed squarely at younger users and the growing market for personalised payment hardware.The Cash App Wand, priced at $25 plus applicable sales tax, is the first product in a new line called Cash App Tags, a set of NFC-enabled physical payment accessories linked to the Cash App Visa Card. The wand works anywhere Visa tap-to-pay is accepted and is available

Microsoft Edge users have been urged to update their browsers after three security flaws tied to the Pwn2Own hacking contest were publicly detailed, including one vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code if a target opens a malicious page or file.The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-45492, CVE-2026-45494 and CVE-2026-45495, affect Chromium-based Microsoft Edge and were credited to Orange Tsai of DEVCORE Research Team, one of the better-known browser and enterprise security researchers in the global vulnerability research community.

MEXC has integrated with TradingView, allowing users to execute crypto trades directly from the charting platform and reducing the gap between market analysis and order placement in one of the fastest-moving areas of digital-asset trading.The Victoria, Seychelles-based exchange said the tie-up gives traders access to TradingView’s charting interface while connecting them to MEXC’s spot and derivatives markets. The move is aimed particularly at active crypto users who rely on technical indicators, alerts and chart-based workflows but previously had to switch

Blockchain users searching for simpler wallet identities have pushed. bit into the wider debate over decentralised naming, digital ownership and cross-chain authentication, as Web3 developers look for alternatives to long alphanumeric addresses that remain difficult for mainstream users to manage.. bit is commonly called a “domain”, but its developers describe it more precisely as a decentralised identity and account system rather than a conventional internet domain. Unlike familiar web addresses governed through the global Domain Name System,. bit operates through

Audible has launched a free loyalty programme that gives paying members discounts, credits and anniversary gifts for listening to audiobooks, marking a broader push by Amazon’s audio unit to make subscription use feel more rewarding beyond monthly credits and catalogue access.The programme, called Audible Rewards, is being rolled out first in the United States for members on Standard and Premium plans. It allows users to earn benefits through daily listening, promotional activities, referrals and title-completion challenges. The company plans to

Anthropic has expanded access to Claude Mythos Preview to about 200 organisations, widening a controlled cybersecurity programme designed to help governments, companies and critical software maintainers find severe vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company is adding around 150 organisations to Project Glasswing, its gated initiative for defensive use of a frontier model that has drawn intense attention from technology companies, banks, public agencies and national security officials. The expansion takes the programme beyond its initial

Snowflake has placed Anthropic’s Claude at the centre of its enterprise artificial intelligence push, using Summit 26 to show rising customer uptake inside Cortex AI while a $6 billion infrastructure commitment to Amazon Web Services reshapes the economics behind its expansion.The data cloud company said enterprises are increasingly deploying Claude through Snowflake Cortex AI to run governed AI agents on business data without moving sensitive information outside existing security controls. The message links two priorities now defining enterprise AI spending:

Gnosis Pay has moved into emergency containment after attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Delay Module used in its smart-contract wallet architecture, forcing an urgent withdrawal warning, a temporary reversal of guidance and a pledge to reimburse affected users in full.The breach, disclosed on 1 June, hit the payment product that connects self-custodial crypto wallets with card spending. The affected component is linked to the Zodiac Delay Module, a mechanism designed to slow certain outgoing transactions from Safe-based accounts before

Zoom has launched ZoomMate, an agentic AI work surface designed to convert meeting conversations into completed tasks, documents and workflows, marking a deeper push by the video communications company into enterprise automation.The product, announced on June 1, is aimed at reducing the gap between workplace discussion and follow-through. It combines enterprise search, AI-generated content, workflow orchestration and automated execution across applications such as Salesforce, Jira, Slack, ServiceNow, Workday, Google Workspace and Microsoft tools.ZoomMate will initially be available to online and

Qatar Investment Authority has raised its exposure to Anthropic by joining the artificial intelligence company’s $65 billion Series H financing, marking its third consecutive investment in the Claude maker and signalling a deeper Gulf move into frontier AI infrastructure, enterprise software and advanced computing.The Series H round values Anthropic at $965 billion post-money, placing the San Francisco-based company among the most highly valued private technology groups globally. The financing was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital, with

Meta Platforms is preparing an AI-powered pendant and a broader line-up of smart glasses as it tries to turn wearable hardware from a costly experiment into a larger business focused on consumers and corporate users.The plan, outlined in internal discussions reported by technology industry outlets, centres on a small AI pendant that could be tested within the next year, alongside new smart glasses and a business service called Wearables for Work. The initiative marks a sharper push by Meta to

Nvidia and Microsoft have introduced RTX Spark-powered Windows PCs designed to run personal AI agents locally, marking a major escalation in the race to make artificial intelligence a core feature of everyday computing rather than a cloud-based add-on.The systems, unveiled around Computex and Nvidia GTC Taipei, are expected to arrive this autumn from major PC makers including Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface and MSI, with Acer and Gigabyte models to follow. The launch positions Nvidia not only as the

BrainCo expects a sharp rise in sales of its robotic hands this year as China’s humanoid robotics industry pushes beyond laboratory demonstrations into factory trials, logistics pilots and commercial component sourcing.The Hangzhou-based prosthetics and neurotechnology developer, founded in 2015, is seeing demand broaden from medical bionic hands to dexterous hands designed for humanoid robots. Its latest Revo hand models place the company in a fast-growing supply chain where five-fingered manipulation, tactile sensing and lightweight actuator design are becoming central to

GoPro has warned that rising memory component costs, weaker camera demand and tight debt covenants have cast substantial doubt over its ability to continue as a going concern, marking a sharp escalation in the financial strain facing one of the best-known names in action cameras.San Mateo-based GoPro, founded by Nicholas Woodman, updated its 2025 financial statements to include the warning after developments that followed its annual report filing in March. The disclosure adds to concerns already visible in its first-quarter

OpenPayd has agreed to merge with Titan Acquisition Corp in a deal that would take the London-based financial infrastructure company public on Nasdaq at a pro-forma equity value of $1.145 billion, giving the payments group fresh capital to expand across the United States and deepen its stablecoin-linked services.The proposed combination with Titan, a Nasdaq-listed special purpose acquisition company, has been approved by both boards and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to Titan shareholder approval,

Positron AI has opened its first office outside the United States at Dubai International Financial Centre, placing the AI infrastructure developer inside one of the region’s fastest-growing technology and financial ecosystems.The move gives the US-based company a licensed presence in DIFC as it seeks to expand demand for AI inference systems across the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Positron AI has raised more than $300 million, including a $230 million Series B round completed this year at a valuation

Amazon Web Services has begun replacing parts of its data centre networking system with a flatter, quasi-random architecture aimed at moving cloud traffic faster while reducing the amount of equipment, electricity and physical cabling needed inside its facilities.The shift marks a notable change in the way one of the world’s largest cloud operators builds the internal networks that connect servers, storage systems and routers across its data centres. The new design, called Resilient Network Graphs, moves away from the conventional

Nvidia is moving into the Windows laptop processor market with a new chip designed to challenge Intel and AMD at the centre of personal computing, extending its reach beyond graphics processors and data-centre AI accelerators into one of the industry’s most contested hardware segments.The move marks a direct attempt to reshape the premium PC market around artificial intelligence, battery efficiency and on-device processing. Nvidia’s planned Windows machines are expected to use Arm-based technology, placing the company in competition not only

Samsung Electronics has begun shipping samples of its HBM4E memory chips to global customers, moving faster than rivals in the race to supply the next generation of high-bandwidth memory for artificial intelligence servers.The 12-layer HBM4E product delivers bandwidth of up to 3.6 terabytes per second per stack, with stable pin speeds of 14 gigabits per second and scalability to 16 gigabits per second. The chip is built using Samsung’s sixth-generation 10-nanometre-class DRAM process, known as 1c, and a 4-nanometre logic

Traffic to DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search page has more than tripled after Google outlined a broader artificial intelligence overhaul of Search, signalling a sharp user reaction against answer-first search tools and strengthening the appeal of services that promise more control over automated summaries.The privacy-focused search company said visits to its No AI page crossed three times their pre-announcement level after Google set out plans to expand AI-powered search features at its developer conference. The page, which operates separately from DuckDuckGo’s main

Huawei has appointed GAPP as its official cloud solutions distributor in Saudi Arabia, widening access to cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence tools and disaster recovery services as the kingdom intensifies its push to build a locally anchored digital economy.The strategic partnership gives GAPP’s network of enterprise clients and secondary distributors a formal channel to Huawei Cloud’s portfolio, including cloud-native systems, AI platforms, backup services and business continuity tools. The arrangement is designed around local regulatory and operational requirements, an increasingly important

OpenRouter has raised $113 million in Series B funding, marking one of the strongest investor endorsements yet for the fast-growing layer of artificial intelligence infrastructure that helps developers and companies route work across competing AI models rather than rely on a single provider.CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund, led the round, with participation from NVentures, the venture capital arm of NVIDIA, as well as ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, AMP PBC and Pace Capital. Existing backers Andreessen Horowitz

Paris-based Mistral AI has struck partnerships with BMW and Airbus, marking a significant move by Europe’s best-known artificial intelligence start-up into industrial engineering, aerospace, defence and automotive safety systems.The agreements place Mistral at the centre of a widening European effort to build AI capability around strategic industries rather than relying mainly on US and Chinese technology providers. The company, founded in 2023, is seeking to turn its large language models and industrial AI tools into practical systems for manufacturers, aerospace

Spotify has expanded its mobile app with playlist folders, bulk editing, queue management, reshuffle controls and background downloads, marking one of its most practical upgrades for listeners who organise large music, podcast and audiobook libraries on phones.The update brings several desktop-style controls to iOS and Android, with playlist folders and in-playlist bulk actions being rolled out globally to all users. Premium subscribers gain additional tools, including queue bulk editing, one-tap reshuffling and background downloads on iOS, a change aimed at

Meta Platforms has launched paid “Plus” subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, marking a wider shift by the social media group towards recurring consumer revenue while keeping the core versions of its apps free.The new plans, announced by Meta head of product Naomi Gleit, add optional premium features across the company’s three biggest consumer services. Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus are priced at $3.99 a month, while WhatsApp Plus costs $2.99 a month. The rollout is global, though feature availability

Google Cloud has moved deeper into AI-native cybersecurity with Google AI Threat Defence, an autonomous security platform aimed at helping enterprises detect, prioritise and remediate attacks at machine speed as rivals Anthropic and OpenAI push frontier models into vulnerability discovery and code defence.The launch marks a sharper contest in enterprise security, where artificial intelligence is shifting the centre of gravity from manual patching and alert handling to continuous analysis, contextual triage and automated response. Google Cloud is positioning its platform

ByteDance is weighing capital expenditure of as much as $70 billion this year as the TikTok owner accelerates an artificial intelligence push aimed at strengthening its position in China’s intensifying technology contest.The Beijing-based group is discussing one of the largest spending programmes by a private technology company outside the United States, with funds expected to go into data centres, AI chips, networking equipment and model development. The scale under review would mark a sharp escalation from earlier plans that placed

Microsoft is preparing to scale back internal use of Anthropic’s Claude Code and move thousands of developers towards GitHub Copilot CLI, marking a sharper push to consolidate AI coding work around tools it owns and governs more directly.The reported shift affects the company’s Experiences and Devices division, which covers major product groups including Windows, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams and Surface. Engineers using Claude Code have been given a June 30 deadline to move their workflows to Copilot CLI, aligning the

Qualcomm has secured a major opening in artificial intelligence infrastructure through a deal to supply ByteDance with chips for AI data centres, giving the San Diego-based group a high-profile customer as it pushes beyond its traditional smartphone processor business.The agreement covers application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, designed to support AI workloads in ByteDance’s expanding data-centre operations. The chips are expected to be used for AI agent software, a fast-growing area in which companies are racing to lower inference costs while

Qualcomm has secured a major opening in artificial intelligence infrastructure through a deal to supply ByteDance with chips for AI data centres, giving the San Diego-based group a high-profile customer as it pushes beyond its traditional smartphone processor business.The agreement covers application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, designed to support AI workloads in ByteDance’s expanding data-centre operations. The chips are expected to be used for AI agent software, a fast-growing area in which companies are racing to lower inference costs while

Microsoft has opened a clearer path for Windows 11 users and administrators to remove Copilot, marking a notable shift in its handling of artificial intelligence features that have become increasingly visible across the operating system.The change means Copilot can be removed like a conventional app on many devices, while IT administrators managing business PCs now have policy tools to uninstall or prevent the Microsoft Copilot app across fleets. The move forms part of a wider Windows 11 clean-up effort aimed