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The Chilling Threat: How Smart Supermarket Fridges Became Hackers' New Targets Recent cyberattacks targeting supermarket refrigeration systems across Europe have exposed a dangerous vulnerability in modern retail infrastructure. By hacking internet-connected smart fridges and raising their temperatures, attackers forced stores to discard tons of spoiled food. The incident underscores how IoT integration and poor security design in everyday commercial hardware have turned supermarkets into prime targets for disruptive cyber threats. @techshotsapp @CISAgov @hackinarticles @iotex_io #technews #cybersecurity #hacking #IOT #technology 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/%20/the-chi…

Hired to Hack: Fake Job Interviews Fuel Massive $6B Binance Heist Cryptocurrency exchange Binance revealed that hackers pulled off a staggering $6.3 billion heist by exploiting fake job interviews to infect engineers' computers with malware. The attackers used the compromised devices to abuse internal AI tools and credentials, ultimately breaching wallet-signing services. While the FBI attributed the attack to North Korea, Binance managed to freeze billions in stolen assets and vowed to cover all user losses. @techshotsapp @binance @FBI #technews #crypto #technology #business #Binance 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/business/hi…

Glitch Hits Instinct AI: WhatsApp Disruption Resolved After Billing Snag Personal AI agent Instinct—which lets users delegate daily tasks like schedules, bookings, and messaging via ordinary chat platforms—has restored service following a temporary WhatsApp outage. Founder Noah Shinn clarified that a internal configuration error interrupted payment to a service provider, temporarily blocking outgoing replies. All incoming user messages were preserved, and operations are back to normal. @techshotsapp @Snag_Solutions @WhatsApp #technews #AI #whatsapp #technology 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/technology/…

Personalized Digital Diaries: Google Debuts AI-Powered 'Dreambeans' in India Google has launched Dreambeans in India, an experimental AI app on Android and iOS. Using Personal Intelligence technology, it automatically aggregates user data from connected Google services (like Gmail, Photos, Calendar, and YouTube) overnight without requiring manual prompts. It then generates personalized daily story collections with AI-generated illustrations and animations in 14 languages, offering tailored recommendations and activity ideas. @techshotsapp @Google #technews #Google #AI #india #technology #dreambeans 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/artificial-…

Ballot Box Backlash: Local Resistance Halts Data Center Expansion The recent midterm elections underscored the growing political muscle of local communities opposing massive data center expansions. Driven by concerns over straining local power grids, soaring utility bills, and environmental footprints, grassroots movements successfully turned infrastructure development into a potent ballot-box issue. The electoral fallout signals that tech expansion faces heavy hurdles as voters push back against unchecked resource consumption. @BallotBox @Five9sDigital #technews #AI #technology #datacenter 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/cloud/ballo…

Minor Inconvenience or Free Speech Breach? Australia Fights Social Media Ban Challenge Defending its world-first under-16 social media ban in the High Court, the Australian government argued the law is a "modest" measure. Facing challenges from Reddit and civil rights groups claiming the ban violates implied political speech freedoms, government lawyers maintained the restrictions cause minimal disruption while providing vital protection against mental health and developmental harms. @techshotsapp @socialmedia2day @Australia #technews #socialmedia #technology #australia 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/others/mino…

Software Sovereignty: Helsing Hands Germany Core Combat Code In an unprecedented move for European defense, AI firm Helsing has transferred full source code, documentation, and SDK ownership of its MissionOSBw operating system directly to the German state. Breaking from the traditional defense contractor model, this sovereign open-systems approach ensures Germany avoids vendor lock-in, enabling seamless, independent integration and upgrades across future military air combat platforms. @techshotsapp @Sovereignty @germany #technews #AI #technology #germany 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/artificial-…

Washington Intervenes: Oracle Scraps $7 Billion Tencent AI Chip Deal Oracle has canceled a five-year, $7 billion contract to lease roughly 100,000 advanced AI chips to Chinese tech giant Tencent. The decision follows heavy pressure and regulatory concerns raised by the Trump administration over offshore cloud access. The scrapped arrangement would have allowed Tencent to utilize high-powered infrastructure across Oracle's Southeast Asian data centers. @techshotsapp @washingtonpost @Oracle #technews #AI #technology #oracle #business 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/business/wa…

Powering Up: E2E Networks Scales AI Infrastructure with Blackwell Expansion and Blaze AI E2E Networks is expanding its AI infrastructure by 5.4 megawatts (MW) utilizing NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture, bringing its total capacity to 14.6 MW. Alongside this hardware upgrade, the cloud provider launched Blaze AI, a new pay-per-token inference service designed to support open-source models and meet India's surging demand for high-performance enterprise and foundation model workloads. @techshotsapp @nvidia @e2enetworks #technews #AI #technology #network #E2E 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/artificial-…

Lightning-Fast Logic: Sarvam Debuts Prism with a 44ms Response Time Sarvam has launched Prism, an open-weights enterprise decision model built on its 105B architecture. Unlike text-generating models, Prism outputs calibrated probabilities with a blazing-fast 44-millisecond response time. Released under an Apache 2.0 license, it allows businesses to fine-tune the model on proprietary data for localized infrastructure. @techshotsapp @SarvamAI @cloudbooklet #technews #AI #technology #Sarvam 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/technology/…

Sovereign Spark: IndiaAI Rolls Out Three Homegrown Models The IndiaAI Mission has launched three indigenous foundation models—Soket AI's EKA-1 and ZenteiQ's Dhīr 2B and Dhīr 5B. Built to bolster national technological autonomy, these models support multiple Indian languages and are optimized for secure, offline, and document-grounded tasks across governance, defense, and enterprise sectors without relying on foreign cloud infrastructure. @techshotsapp @sovereign @indiaAI #technews #AI #technology #IndiaAI 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/artificial-…

Taming Autonomous Tech: CrowdStrike Launches Enterprise ‘AI Kill Switch’ CrowdStrike has introduced an AI Kill Switch inside its Falcon Guardian platform, giving IT administrators direct control over rogue or compromised AI agents. If an agent misbehaves, security teams can instantly terminate its process, cut off its enterprise network access, and prevent it from relaunching across targeted host environments—ensuring human oversight over increasingly autonomous enterprise systems. @techshotsapp @CrowdStrike #technews #AI #technology #crowdstrike 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/business/ta…

Post-iPhone Era: Cyclon Debuts OS That Replaces Apps with AI Agents Y Combinator-backed startup Cyclon has unveiled an AI-native operating system designed to replace traditional app interfaces with autonomous agents. Built by former Google and Oracle engineers, Cyclon OS navigates existing apps, executes background tasks, and even dynamically builds custom apps on demand through natural language prompts. Pre-orders are open at $699, shipping initially on Pixel 8a hardware. @techshotsapp @cloudbooklet @cyclon @iphone #technews #AI #iphone #Ycombinator #cyclon 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/artificial-…

AI on the Wrist and in Your Apps: Apple Rollout Expands Siri and Watch Recaps Apple’s latest 27.3 beta updates bring deeper AI integrations across its ecosystem. iOS 27.3 expands Siri AI to execute complex in-app tasks like playlist creation, message scheduling, and file management across native apps such as Calendar, Safari, and Photos. Meanwhile, watchOS introduces "Siri Recap" and "Live Rewind," generating ambient conversation summaries and short text rewinds directly on Apple Watch using secure, on-device processing. @techshotsapp @Apple @siri @IOS #technews #Apple #siri #IOS #technology 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/artificial-…

One-Click Defense: Standardized Tokens Give Publishers Control Over AI Scraping Major AI developers—including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic—are backing a unified policy token standard that streamlines how web publishers restrict AI model training. Rather than managing complex, provider-specific configurations in robots.txt, publishers can use a single shared signal to block unauthorized content scraping without sacrificing their search engine visibility or traffic. @Google @OpenAI @microsoft #technews #Google #microsoft #openai #Anthropic 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/artificial-…

The Cyber Blind Spot: Most Face Breaches While Preparedness Lags A recent McKinsey report reveals that 87% of organizations have experienced threat-related incidents, yet critical preparedness gaps continue to persist. Despite rising security investments, companies struggle with workforce shortages, legacy infrastructure, and slow response times. The study underscores an urgent need for businesses to move past reactive compliance and adopt holistic, AI-driven resilience frameworks to protect digital assets. @McKinsey @CISAgov #technews #cybersecurity #technology #business 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/%20/the-cyb…

Tech War Catch-22: SK Hynix’s $45B New York Plant Stalls Over China Rules SK Hynix’s plans for a $45 billion semiconductor expansion in New York through its subsidiary Solidigm have hit a roadblock. US officials are withholding export approvals for chipmaking equipment needed to upgrade the company’s Dalian plant in China. Because SK Hynix relies on revenue from its Chinese facility to finance the American project, strict export controls threaten both operations. @semiconductor @SKHynix #technews #AI #technology #business #SKHynix 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/business/te…

The AI Paradox: Catching Criminals Who Look Like Us As cybercriminals weaponize artificial intelligence to craft hyper-realistic, seemingly legitimate scams, traditional security measures are falling short. To counter this, organizations are deploying advanced AI-driven behavioral analytics and real-time monitoring systems. By analyzing micro-patterns and contextual anomalies that human eyes miss, these intelligent defenses help distinguish authentic interactions from sophisticated digital deception. @AIParadox @CISAgov #technews #AI #cybersecurity #technology 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/%20/the-ai-…

Refounding the Giant: Canva Cuts 22% of Workforce Amid First Growth Slowdown Australian design software giant Canva is cutting 1,271 jobs—about 22% of its global workforce—in a sweeping structural overhaul. Labeling it the hardest moment in the company's 13-year history, CEO Melanie Perkins cited a decade-first slowdown in growth and rapid industry shifts driven by AI. The restructuring will consolidate product teams, alter roles, and shift operations back toward streamlined, localized hubs. @techshotsapp @canva @_Software_Giant @cloudbooklet #technews #employment #jobs #technology #Canva 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/others/refo…

Ignoring the Alarms: OpenAI Leaders Blamed for Years of Lapsed Security Current and former OpenAI employees repeatedly warned leadership that lax operational security, broad internal code access, and weak reviews left the company vulnerable to insider threats and foreign adversaries. Sources indicate that intense competitive pressure to move fast continually pushed security infrastructure to the backseat, leaving the AI pioneer exposed long before recent high-profile internal security incidents. @techshotsapp @cloudbooklet @OpenAI #technews #AI #openai #technology 🌐 For more latest updates, follow and visit the link 🚀: techshotsapp.com/others/igno…