Key Takeaways The Reading Cooperative Bank (RCB) was recently hit by a phishing attack that exposed the personal data of more than 24,041 customers. The attack happened somewhere between August 2024 and January 2025. The exact date remains unknown as of now. According to investigations, the attack originated from a phishing email that was sent …
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Key Takeaways Renowned Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC has promised to invest $100 billion in the US over the next 4 years. This money will be used for the construction of 3 manufacturing units and 2 packaging units in Arizona. The announcement of this investment coincides with Trump’s proposed plan to impose higher tariffs on imported chips. …
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March 5, 2025 9:01 PM Women-led companies are getting a low share of overall deals. Image Credit: PitchBook Data Women founders and investors raised $38.8 billion in funding in the U.S. in 2024, up 27% from the year before, according to PitchBook. The report was created by PitchBook Data’s Nizar Tarhuni, Paul Condra and Garrett …
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March 5, 2025 3:06 PM Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Qwen Team, a division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba developing its growing family of open-source Qwen large language models (LLMs), has introduced QwQ-32B, a new 32-billion-parameter …
Image: Microsoft As announced last week, Microsoft is officially discontinuing the Skype messaging service on May 5, 2025. Apparently, there wasn’t enough user interest to keep the once-iconic video call app alive. If you’re one of the dwindling few who still uses Skype in 2025, you might be wondering what you can do going forward. …
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Image: Matthew Smith / Foundry Samsung’s huge Discover Spring Sale is underway and there are some pretty impressive discounts going on, saving you hundreds on phones, smartwatches, and some of the very best monitors out there, just to name a few. Let’s dive in and see how much you can save during this spring’s Samsung …
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Image: Best Buy If your wallet’s feeling lighter this week, you probably already know why. With President Trump implementing his 25 percent tariff on goods imported from Canada and Mexico, and doubling his existing tariff on Chinese imports to 20 percent, two of the biggest retailers in the US are warning shoppers that prices will …
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In this episode of our predictions series, we consider the evolving nature of Cloud, across architecture, cost management, and, indeed, the lower levels of infrastructure. We asked our analysts Dana Hernandez, Ivan McPhee, Jon Collins, Whit Walters, and William McKnight for their thoughts. Jon: We’re seeing a maturing of thinking around architecture, not just with …
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A three-port public electric-vehicle charging station, such as this one operated by Electrify America, in Nebraska, can cost as much as half a million dollars. If there’s one thing we could do now to hasten the transition to electric vehicles, it’s this: Build a robust public EV-charging infrastructure. While the media has focused on vehicle …
Hard as it may be to imagine, there was a time when Java was brand new and exciting. Long before it became the vast clunky back-end leviathan it is today, it was going to be the ubiquitous graphical platform that would be used on everything from cell phones to supercomputers: write once, run anywhere. Initially …