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A former IBM cybersecurity executive accused the company of getting hacked three times in the previous decade by foreign governments and then covering up the breaches.  In a lawsuit unsealed this week but filed in 2020, William Barlow, who was IBM’s vice president of threat intelligence until August 2019, said IBM concluded Chinese hackers breached its core network between 2013 and 2016 but that the company then covered up the breaches and never disclosed them. Barlow also said at least two IBM subsidiaries were also breached, and that IBM covered up those breaches as well. Barlow alleged in his complaint…

Image Credit: AcerIf you’ve spent the last few months watching component prices climb and wondering whether you should just skip your PC build, I see you. Memory has gotten brutal, GPUs aren’t getting cheaper, and every time I open a shopping cart I feel like I need to apologize to my bank account. So I went into COMPUTEX 2026 half-expecting another year of “cool, but who can afford that?”I’m happy to report I was wrong. Taipei showed up swinging this year, and a lot of what came out of the show is aimed at people like us, enthusiasts who want…

Samsung is rumored to be launching the Galaxy S27 Pro alongside the Galaxy S27, Galaxy S27+, and Galaxy S27 Ultra in January. The Pro will apparently be a smaller Ultra, without an S Pen. It’s allegedly going to have a 6.47-inch screen, and the same main camera and ultrawide as the Ultra (but a different telephoto). If you’ve been wondering what to expect from the Pro in terms of battery capacity, you probably assumed it would be lesser in this area than the Ultra considering its slightly smaller size. But the removal of the S Pen can work wonders, as…

The new model shows leaps in open-source agentic capabilities, delivering 91% of frontier-model performance on key metrics like completeness MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 4, 2026 — Glean today announced support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, expanding the set of models available in Glean’s platform and giving customers a new open model option for cost-effective agentic work. The Nemotron 3 Ultra open model gives customers strong agentic capabilities for everyday enterprise work, delivering 91% of frontier LLM completeness with the cost profile of an open model. With Nemotron 3 Ultra available in Glean, customers have more flexibility in how they deploy…

Asking venture capitalists for investment is a rite of passage for tech founders. This has led to another universal experience: the VC pitching horror story. A massive conversation sharing such stories has taken place all week on X, with the comments both funny and infuriating. We read through them all to find the most interesting ones so you don’t have to. Greg Isenberg, a startup podcaster, newsletter writer, and founder of Late Checkout Studio — a holding company whose previous ventures include a company acquired by WeWork — got the conversation started with a story about a VC falling asleep…

MotorolaIn my opinion, AI wearables launched way too early (remember the failed Humane AI Pin?). Those first devices were full of promise, but their clunky designs and half-baked AI meant none of them really caught on. But with smarter AI models and more capable chips, Motorola is giving it another go with its Motorola Project Maxwell—and I’m optimistic.Motorola showed off its AI pendant at MWC 2026 in Barcelona last week. Pebble-shaped and palm-sized, this AI pendant isn’t trying to replace your phone but make it easier to use. As Motorola puts it, the project is “to make AI hands-free, in-the-moment,…

Summarize This Article:ChatGPTPerplexityGrokGoogle AIFollowing the launch of the One UI 9 Beta program for the Galaxy S26 series, Samsung is now expected to expand the beta program to additional Galaxy devices over the coming weeks. Recent reports suggest that the One UI 9 test firmware for Galaxy S25 has been spotted on Samsung’s servers, indicating that internal testing for the device is underway.Earlier, a One UI 9 build was also spotted for the Galaxy S26 FE, which is expected to launch later this year after Samsung’s next-generation foldable devices. This suggests that the Galaxy S26 FE will ship with One…

Meta has been quietly stashing dormant face recognition code on more than 50 million phones, WIRED reported this week, tucked inside the companion app that pairs with its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses. If activated, the feature—known internally as NameTag—would let wearers identify people in front of them by matching captured faces against a biometric gallery sitting on the user’s device. It’s the same kind of technology Meta said it walked away from in 2021, after paying out billions of dollars to settle biometric privacy lawsuits in Texas and Illinois.Meanwhile, xAI is asking a federal judge to force four people…

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After a very profitable decade on Microsoft’s board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down, the company announced Thursday. Hoffman joined the board after Microsoft bought his company LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in 2016. Hoffman was on Microsoft’s board when it invested its first $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019. Hoffman was one of OpenAI’s original investors and served on the model maker’s board until he stepped down in 2023, citing too many potential conflicts of interest to continue. He was also on Microsoft’s board when the tech giant entered into one of those non-acquisition, acqui-hire deals for $650 million with his…