One of the world’s most ruthless and advanced hacking groups, the Russian state-controlled Sandworm, launched a series of destructive cyberattacks in the country’s ongoing war against neighboring Ukraine, researchers reported Thursday. In April, the group targeted a Ukrainian university with two wipers, a form of malware that aims to... Read more

The Northern Ireland Assembly’s All-Party Group on Reducing Harm Related to Gambling has called on the Chancellor to increase gambling taxes. The group has written an open letter to the Chancellor calling for higher taxes on online gambling to raise funds to reduce gambling-related harm. It’s estimated that a... Read more

For decades now, the Mario Party franchise has dominated the niche of the best multiplayer party games you can play with friends on your couch — or now, online. Despite challenges from games like Fuzion Frenzy, Super Monkey Ball, Rayman Raving Rabbids and more, none have stolen Nintendo’s crown. ... Read more

On Thursday, Tesla shareholders approved an unprecedented $1 trillion pay package for CEO Elon Musk. The full compensation plan will go into effect by 2035—assuming Musk and the company successfully hit ambitious financial and production targets. If that happens, Musk will also get control of some 25 percent of... Read more

Even as concern and skepticism grows over U.S. AI startup OpenAI's buildout strategy and high spending commitments, Chinese open source AI providers are escalating their competition and one has even caught up to OpenAI's flagship, paid proprietary model GPT-5 in key third-party performance benchmarks with a new, free model.... Read more

Christmas Island Shire President Steve Pereira told Reuters that the council is examining community impacts before approving construction. “There is support for it, providing this data center actually does put back into the community with infrastructure, employment, and adding economic value to the island,” Pereira said. That’s great, but... Read more

Hong Kong and Singapore Police have announced the seizure of luxury and cash assets linked to a cryptocurrency, gambling, and money laundering scheme involving Prince Holding Group’s founder, Chen Zhi. Both police operations relate to the Department of Justice (DoJ) case centering around Zi, and the allegations of money... Read more

As CNET’s reviewer for AI image and video generators, one of the job’s greatest perks is cracking up at the hilariously bad, wildly bizarre and occasionally creepy images these generator tools spit out. Don’t get me wrong, AI creative software has come a long way in a short amount of time.... Read more

It is impossible to overstate just how big an impact Star Trek: The Next Generation had on an entire generation of kids growing up in the 1990s. I watched every episode with my mom. When I walked into my friend’s house after school, a gigantic cardboard cutout of virile,... Read more

Google Cloud is introducing what it calls its most powerful artificial intelligence infrastructure to date, unveiling a seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit and expanded Arm-based computing options designed to meet surging demand for AI model deployment — what the company characterizes as a fundamental industry shift from training models to... Read more