A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay a $25B civil penalty for misleading Facebook users about privacy and hate speech, Bloomberg reported. A jury found more than 43 million violations of state law in September. The state wanted up to $40B, and Me…
The PHP Foundation has given an unusually frank account of the emergency behind this week’s patches. It said it had found one of the two critical flaws two years ago, in 2024. Then it spent months unable to agree on how to repair it. The admission came…
Government, hospital and university websites across Europe went dark on Wednesday. Operators pulled them offline to guard against two critical flaws in PHP, the programming language that runs a large share of the web. They judged a few hours of downtim…
PHP shipped emergency security updates on Wednesday. They fix two critical flaws that let an unauthenticated attacker run code on almost any server running the language. The release capped a frantic two days that pulled websites offline across the inte…
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has defended the company’s “race to the top” strategy in a long post on X. He was replying to Nathan Calvin, chief strategy officer at the advocacy group Encode AI. Amodei listed nine decisions he said cost Anthro…
Protesters interrupted Jensen Huang’s keynote at Nvidia’s GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday, asking what the company is doing about Nvidia chips reported in Russian drones. Security staff led them out, and Nvidia’s chief executive carried on with his …
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that companies building data centres should pay a dividend to the surrounding communities. He said the money could go to the town as a whole or to local residents and would help win support for the projects. Tru…
Australia expects to take Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google’s YouTube to court over its social media ban for under-16s. Communications Minister Anika Wells told Bloomberg that the eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, is using new powers to build the ca…
The US Federal Trade Commission will let Publicis Groupe buy LiveRamp for $2.2bn, but only if the data company keeps serving the agency’s rivals on equal terms. The proposed consent order, announced on Monday, binds both companies for five years. Publi…
ASI has raised $325 million in a Series C round that values it at $3 billion, the Boston AI company announced on Tuesday. Its software models air traffic, power grids and military operations hours, days and weeks ahead. The aim is to let operators act …