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Hours after a series of outages Monday that left X unavailable to thousands of users, Elon Musk claimed that the social media platform was being targeted in a “massive cyberattack.” “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk claimed in a post. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …” Complaints about outages spiked Monday at 6 a.m. Eastern and again at 10 a.m, with more than 40,000 users reporting no access to the platform, according to the tracking website Downdetector.com. By afternoon, the reports had dropped to the…

In a grandmaster-level chess move, OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion agreement with the GPU-heavy cloud service provider CoreWeave, according to Reuters, which cites people close to the deal. The deal involves OpenAI receiving $350 million worth of equity in CoreWeave, the sources told Reuters. The private placement is said to be separate from CoreWeave’s planned IPO. CoreWeave filed to become a public company last week, but it has not yet priced or scheduled its debut. It’s a win for both companies. One reason this agreement is so eye-popping (besides the billions involved) is that before this deal, CoreWeave’s…

The administration of President Donald Trump has revealed it has overhauled the online application known as CBP One, which was formerly used to process asylum claims at the southern border of the United States. Now, the app has been reimagined as a platform for “self-deportation”. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem made the announcement on Monday in a statement outlining the changes. “The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream,” Noem said. “If they don’t, we will…

PARIS (AP) — Just days after an unexploded World War II bomb near Paris’ Gare du Nord briefly stole headlines, a different kind of spectacle unfolded across the street: Louis Vuitton’s fashion show extravaganza Monday evening.The only explosions here at Paris Fashion Week were in fabric, form and a frenetic imagination. When designer Nicolas Ghesquière emerged for his bow, the audience’s adulation reached a fever pitch, so much so that French first lady Brigitte Macron, in a rarely seen display of exuberance, leapt to her feet to plant a kiss on him. A station steeped in mysteryThe setting, according to…

Poolside co-founder and CEO Jason Warner didn’t mince words: He thinks that most companies looking to build foundation AI models should instead focus on building applications. Poolside is an AI-powered software development platform. Warner told the audience at the HumanX AI conference in Las Vegas on Monday that he thinks intelligence is the most important commodity in the world — on par with electricity — and anyone who doesn’t believe this should not be building a foundation model. “If you’re one of those people, if you want to take one side of the fence, you’re a printing press for cash unlike anything…

DeepSeek’s founder Liang Wenfeng is in no hurry to get investment from outsiders, the WSJ reported Monday. DeepSeek is one of the hottest AI startups in the world right now after the Chinese AI company took Silicon Valley by storm with its latest model earlier this year. Unlike DeepSeek’s AI model provider counterparts, who regularly announce mega-rounds filled with prominent investors, Liang hasn’t announced any fundraises, despite lots of VC interest. Rumors about its supposed investors have even fueled (baseless) rallies in some Chinese stocks. DeepSeek’s founder doesn’t want to lose control  An analysis of Chinese corporate records done by…

MADRID (AP) — The fate of a French impressionist painting once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman is in question once again after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived a case that could decide its ownership. At issue is whether the painting, Camille Pissarro’s “Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain,” should remain in the hands of a prominent Spanish museum where it now hangs — or with the descendants of the woman.On Monday, the Supreme Court said the case should be reconsidered under a California law passed last year that aims to strengthen the claims…

Binance is being spoofed in an email campaign that uses ‘up to 2000’ free TRUMP Coins as a lure leading to the installation of the ConnectWise RAT, and remote takeover of the victim’s computer, according to a Flash Alert issued by Cofense Intelligence. Targets are sent an email purporting to be from Binance and incorporating an accurate Binance logo. The email offers free Trump Coins on completion of a series of ‘special trading tasks’. The mail also includes a series of warnings designed to increase the readers’ trust in the content: an offer to help prevent phishing, a warning on…

Palo Alto Networks has disclosed the details of five high-severity vulnerabilities affecting Iconics and Mitsubishi Electric supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) products. Impacted products include Genesis64 and MC Works64. The same vulnerabilities affect both Iconics and Mitsubishi Electric products because the former is part of the latter.  The SCADA vulnerabilities include DLL hijacking (CVE-2024-1182), incorrect default permission (CVE-2024-7587), uncontrolled search path element (CVE-2024-8299 and CVE-2024-9852), and dead code (CVE-2024-8300) issues. Exploitation of all these security holes requires authentication, but they can allow attackers who have already gained access to the targeted organization’s systems to execute arbitrary code, elevate privileges,…

The Trump administration has targeted USAID as part of his efforts to trim government spending and reduce ‘waste’.The United States has cancelled 83 percent of all the programmes at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) following a six-week review, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “The 5,200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States,” Rubio wrote in a post on the social media platform X. Rubio did not specify exactly which programmes were being…