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Hotmail turned 30 years old this month, and the estimated 400 million @hotmail.com addresses created over its lifetime still work, even if most of them have not been logged into in years. The service launched on July 4, 1996, founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. The name was a play on the acronym HTML […]

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday announced an 800 trillion won ($520 billion) public-private investment plan alongside Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, aiming to cement the country’s dominance in memory chip manufacturing as AI-driven demand continues to outpace supply. The plan calls for each company to commit approximately 400 trillion won ($260 billion) […]

Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI has disclosed a major data breach potentially affecting up to 14.22 million email accounts across six internet service providers, making it one of the largest cybersecurity incidents in Japan this year. KDDI said it detected unauthorized access to its managed email system on June 17, 2026, and contained the intrusion the […]

WhatsApp has started letting users reserve usernames, ahead of a broader rollout planned for later this year that will allow people to message and call each other without sharing phone numbers. Users can now secure their preferred username through the Profile section in WhatsApp settings. The reservation system is designed to prevent username squatting and […]

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday that geofence search warrants are subject to the Fourth Amendment, requiring law enforcement to establish probable cause before demanding location data from technology companies. The decision in Chatrie v. United States marks the first time the Supreme Court has addressed the constitutionality of geofence warrants, a law […]

Loongson Technology has announced the Loongson 3C3000, a 16-core server processor built on the company’s homegrown LoongArch instruction set architecture, targeting low-cost small and medium business servers for file storage, databases, and web hosting. The 3C3000 uses Loongson’s LA364E core design running at 1.5 GHz to 1.8 GHz with 16 physical cores and 16 threads. […]

Chinese researchers have set a new world record for data transmission over hollow-core fiber, achieving 51.3 terabits per second across a single 206.5-kilometer (approximately 128-mile) unrepeatered span using only standard erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) amplification. The trial was conducted by China Telecom, Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable (YOFC), and Dekoli under a national research initiative […]

Meta has built a custom Compute Express Link (CXL) ASIC called Vistara that rescues DDR4 memory from retiring servers and puts it back to work in new machines, a practical response to both hardware waste and the soaring cost of DRAM. The problem is structural. About 40 per cent of Meta’s vast server fleet cannot […]

Instagram is testing new ways for users to interact with “Your Algorithm”, a feature that lets people specify which topics and content types they want to see more or less of. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri previewed the upcoming changes in a recent post, saying the company wants to “evolve Your Algorithm from a setting […]

The security industry is facing what some are calling a “vulnpocalypse.” Frontier AI models, including Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber, are discovering vulnerabilities in open-source software at a rate and depth that human auditors could never match, collapsing the time between discovery and exploitation to near zero. “It’s looking like a hot, messy summer for […]