SMBs are acting on financial advice from AI chatbots — before talking to their accountant, as experts warn ‘that pressure is only going to grow’

70% of UK SMEs consult AI for financial advice before their accountants – professionals now need to offer higher-value, proactive business advice.

Holiday season is here — but watch out, hackers are launching more phishing scams and attacks than ever before

Firms in hospitality are hit with more than 2,000 attacks every week now, while consumers are being served fake accommodation sites.

China wants to spend nearly $300 billion on a national data center grid — all powered by domestically made silicon and looking to outperform the US

China plans a $295 billion AI data center grid relying heavily on domestic chips, telecom operators, and government-backed financing structures.

GM is getting in on the data center game — auto giant will start building huge sodium-ion batteries to help with energy storage

GM and Peak Energy will develop sodium-ion batteries for utilities and data centers, aiming to lower power storage costs.

Quote of the day by former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: ‘Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution’ — commentary on society’s relationship with programming

The late technology executive Susan Wojcicki drew strong parallels between the rise of coding and the engineering bloom in the 1800s

Nvidia desperately wants to sell its latest Vera CPU to China after its market share ‘effectively fallen to zero’ but can it beat AMD, Intel, and Huawei?

Nvidia has begun pitching its Vera CPUs to clients in the Chinese mainland even as it contends with direct and indirect state pressure that has seen its GPU sales to China virtually collapse.

‘These attacks don’t look like break-ins’ — HP warns hackers are turning popular remote access tools into dangerous, stealthy backdoors

HP’s latest threat report reveals hackers are abusing legitimate remote access tools and fake downloads to silently compromise corporate devices.

‘You can’t hide the sound of an engine’ — Inside the revolutionary Czech AI acoustic shield designed to hunt low-flying drones, which could soon come to a street near you

Modern drones have evolved from a nuisance factor to a key weapon in conflicts – could an acoustic shield be the answer?

Maine takes down its data breach notification portal after it is flooded by fake claims

Someone has been posting fake data breach notifications, forcing the Maine Attorney General’s Office to act.