Belfast’s Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure the AI-generated software supply chain
TCV led the Series B one year ago and now doubles down on the Series C. Insight Partners also returns. The thesis: AI coding agents
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Tim Cook’s legacy: a successful CEO who stumbled over AI
Apple’s Tim Cook was viewed as a worthy successor to Steve Jobs when he took over as CEO in August 2011, two months before Jobs’
Windows 11 Insider Previews: What’s in the latest build?
Windows 11 25H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls
Our newsroom AI policy
Earlier this year, we committed to publishing a reader-facing explanation of how Ars Technica uses, and doesn’t use, generative AI. Translating our internal policy into
You’re Invited! (No, You’re Not.) It’s the Latest Phishing Scam.
Hackers are spoofing Paperless Post, Evite and Punchbowl to creep into your hard drive.
Lawsuit: Nintendo is getting tariff refunds—its customers should get them instead
Two gamers who want tariff refunds sued Nintendo of America yesterday, alleging that the company intends to pocket refunds received from the government instead of
Microsoft commits A$25 billion to Australia by 2029
The investment is Microsoft’s largest-ever in Australia and builds on an A$5 billion commitment from October 2023. It includes expanding Azure AI supercomputing capacity by
Bain Capital seeks buyer for stake in Bridge Data Centres at $5 billion valuation
Sources tell Reuters that Bain is looking to sell a stake in BDC, Singapore-headquartered, with nine data centres across Malaysia, Thailand, and India, at a
Google splits its next TPU in two, and the AI chip war just became a design philosophy fight
Summary: Google made Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU, generally available at Cloud Next 2026 while previewing its eighth-generation architecture: TPU 8t (Sunfish), a Broadcom-designed training chip
Claude Mythos signals a new era in AI-driven security, finding 271 flaws in Firefox
The Claude Mythos Preview appears to be living up to the hype, at least from a cybersecurity standpoint. The model, which Anthropic rolled out to
Microsoft trims cloud desktop pricing, even as it boosts AI costs
For years now, Microsoft has been doing its level best to move you from desktop Office and Windows to Microsoft 365, Windows 365, and Azure
Mozilla patched 271 Firefox bugs found by Anthropic’s Mythos, and says the zero-day era has an expiration date
Summary: Mozilla released Firefox 150 with fixes for 271 security vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier AI model distributed under the
Pichai opens Cloud Next 2026 with $240B backlog, 750M Gemini users, and a plan to turn Search into an agent manager
Summary: Sundar Pichai opened Cloud Next 2026 with Google Cloud at $70 billion in annual revenue, 48% growth, a $240 billion backlog that doubled in
Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage
Crypto scammers are targeting the thousands of ships stranded near the Strait of Hormuz—and at least one ship that faced Iranian gunfire may have been