2026-06-18
What to know about budgeting for pentesting: tools vs services
Budgeting for pentesting is no longer a simple choice between buying a tool or hiring an outside firm once a year. Pentesting, or searching for vulnerabilities in one’s cybersecurity defenses by launching a mock cyberattack against it, has become a fundamental method of improving an organization’s security posture. Budgeting for it can present some unique challenges, however, as […]<br [...]
2026-06-18
Dream raises $260m at $3bn, tripling its value in 16 months
Sixteen months ago, Dream was a billion-dollar company. This week it is worth three. The Israeli AI and cybersecurity firm has raised $260m in a round that valued it at $3bn, nearly tripling the $1.1bn it commanded in February 2025, a pace of revaluation that says as much about the market for defensive AI as […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-18
China’s 618 festival is all-in on AI. Its shoppers are not.
China’s ‘618’ shopping festival, the mid-year sales event named for 18 June and now stretched across several weeks, has become two things at once this year: a showcase for how thoroughly AI has been threaded through online retail, and a reminder of how cautious the Chinese consumer still is. The technology is everywhere. The demand […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-18
Clarkson's Farm season 5 fans left reeling after 'brutal to watch' final episodes — and they're not just saying that for the obvious reason
If you haven't streamed Clarkson's Farm season 5 episodes 7 and 8 yet, do so at your own risk — as fans are still reeling after one 'brutal to watch' event after another. [...]
2026-06-17
Why Weibo’s tiny VibeThinker-3B has the AI world arguing over benchmarks again
On Sunday, a team of nine researchers at Sina Weibo — the Chinese social media giant better known for its microblogging platform than for cutting-edge artificial intelligence — quietly posted a 14-page technical report to arXiv that sent shockwaves through the AI research community. Their claim: a language model with just 3 billion parameters can match or exceed the reasoning performance of fl [...]
2026-06-17
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. [...]
2026-06-17
Avatar, Interstellar, The Rolling Stones and Breakfast at Tiffany’s: I took a look at the Blu-ray reference library used by the world’s biggest AVR maker to develop its home theater gear
From Avatar to The Creator to Bon Jovi to… uh, Pixels. Twice. These are the 130 movies and concert films on the shelves of a 9.4.6-channel Dolby Atmos test room. [...]