CVSS scored these two Palo Alto CVEs as manageable. Chained, they gave attackers root access to 13,000 devices.

During Operation Lunar Peek in November 2024, attackers gained unauthenticated remote admin access — and eventual root — across more than 13,000 exposed Palo Alto Networks management interfaces. P [...]

Sony Begins Age Verification for PlayStation Users in the UK and Ireland

Those who don't verify their age will lose access to voice chat, messaging and other social features. [...]

AI synthetic audiences are already here and poised to upend the consulting industry

There is a war brewing between AI and consulting. Akin to an armies slow march towards the castle, a new technology is coming to dethrone the expert guessers of Mckinsey, Nielsen, Gartner, Publicis an [...]

New AI framework autonomously optimizes training data, architectures and algorithms — outperforming human baselines

AI R&D runs on a cycle of hypothesis, experiment, and analysis — each step demanding substantial manual engineering effort. A new framework from researchers at SII-GAIR aims to close that bottle [...]

You're Using Your Exercise Bike Wrong if You Do These 9 Things

We asked the cycling experts to weigh in on how you could unknowingly be sabotaging your own exercise bike workouts. [...]

Would You Trust This Companion Robot With Your Grandma? CNET Families Gave It a Try

We had our parents and grandparents live with and review ElliQ, a multipurpose robot that serves as a digital assistant, social companion and health advocate. [...]

The UAE’s AI champion just leased a converted Minneapolis office. The irony writes itself.

The building at 1001 Third Avenue South in downtown Minneapolis used to be an office. Now it is a data centre, and its anchor tenant is not a Silicon Valley hyperscaler but Core42, the cloud and AI in [...]

Google is not building a consultancy. It is writing a licensing agreement. That may be the smarter play.

OpenAI built a ten billion dollar consulting company. Anthropic built a 1.5 billion dollar consulting company. Google is writing a licensing agreement. The difference in approach may determine which A [...]

Snap lost a 400 million dollar AI deal, 20 million dollars a month to the Iran war, and 24 per cent of its stock price. The AR glasses had better work.

Snap reported first-quarter earnings on Tuesday that should have been unremarkable: revenue up 12 per cent to 1.53 billion dollars, adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to 233 million dollars, free cash [...]