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DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS – Krebs on Security
The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, new evidence suggests. Experts say the heavy concentration of infected devices at U.S. providers is complicating efforts to limit collateral damage from the botnet’s attacks,…
Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch
A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section. The app, Neon Mobile, pitches itself as a moneymaking tool offering “hundreds or even thousands of dollars…
TSMC’s quarterly sales hit a record $30 billion — contract chipmaker plans over 15 new fabs to meet still-growing AI demand
TSMC on Thursday reported its strongest quarter ever, posting a revenue of $30 billion for the second quarter of 2025, citing strong demand for AI processors. The foundry expects demand for AI applications to grow in the coming years, so it is plotting a rather unprecedented expansion plan that involves building 15 new fabs over…
Nvidia’s Arm chips rapidly gain share in server market as AI booms — Nvidia’s Arm-powered GB200 servers surge as market reaches a record $95 billion in the first quarter
The global server market experienced an unprecedented surge to nearly $100 billion in the first quarter as companies heavily invested in AI-related infrastructure, according to IDC, and ‘accelerated’ servers running Arm-based processors comprise one of the most rapidly growing categories, with Arm-powered server shipments rising 70% this year. It appears that the vast majority of…
Astronaut Suni Williams Sets New Record on Spacewalk Outside ISS
NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since June, even though they initially expected to stay for just eight days. They’ll be back on Earth in late March. But because their stay was extended, Williams set a new record on Thursday. She went on a 5…
159-CVE January Patch Tuesday smashes single-month record
Microsoft on Tuesday released 159 patches touching 13 product families. Nine of the addressed issues are considered by Microsoft to be of Critical severity, and 43 have a CVSS base score of 8.0 or higher. Three are under active exploit in the wild. One can best be mitigated by “configur[ing] Microsoft Outlook to read all…