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For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a “residential proxy” provider operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd [NASDAQ: ALAR]. Malicious streaming devices sold online that enroll the user’s home Internet address in a residential proxy service. Image: HUMAN Security. Popa is a massive botnet, but by all accounts it is unlike traditional botnets that enlist compromised…

New research reveals 34% of companies that have experienced grid delays say it stopped company growth entirely, while those yet to face the challenge are dramatically underestimating what lies ahead. The UK’s industrial sector is broadly optimistic about growth, with 28% of organisations expecting to expand by 26-50% within the next three years. But a new report, Powering 2030: Can Great Britain’s Infrastructure Support Industrial Growth and Net Zero?, warns that grid connection challenges have become a serious obstacle standing between that ambition and reality. 60% of senior industrial decision makers who have experienced connection delays reported a direct business…

The construction industry continues to demonstrate resilience amid a rapidly changing economic landscape. While growth remains uneven across market segments, the sector is finding new momentum through public infrastructure investments, digital transformation initiatives, and demand for next-generation facilities such as data centers. But of course, this isn’t anything new. The construction industry has always been cyclical by nature. Let’s consider some recent numbers. National nonresidential construction spending increased 0.1% in April. Spending on data centers, which is included in the office category, increased another 1.9% in April, rising to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $50.7 billion, and is up…

You could be one of the millions of American Android users eligible to receive a payment from Google’s $135 million lawsuit settlement. It affects people who’ve had Android phones going back nearly a decade, but you’ll want to sign up for a claim fast, because payments may not be guaranteed after Tuesday, June 23.This class action lawsuit, Joseph Taylor v. Google (PDF), alleges Google “effectively forces users to subsidize its surveillance by secretly programming Android devices to constantly transmit user information,” which means the Android OS was automatically sending Google user data from their carriers, without users knowing or being able to…

In 2025, Google’s Chrome accounted for 65% of the global web browser market share. And that is no surprise because it offers a fast, convenient, and user-friendly browsing experience. However, for many companies, standard browser functionality is often not enough. As businesses depend on web-based applications, cloud platforms, and remote collaboration tools, employees spend a substantial portion of their workday inside the browser. This creates a growing need for Chrome extensions that can help eliminate redundant tasks, improve communication, and help employees focus on high-value activities. But with thousands of extensions available in the Chrome Web Store, choosing the right…

Vistec Electron Beam GmbH, a global leader in electron-beam (e-beam) lithography systems, will present its latest advancements in e-beam technology at the 41st European Mask and Lithography Conference (EMLC 2026), taking place June 22-24, 2026, at the Volkshaus in Jena, Germany. This year also marks a significant milestone for Vistec, celebrating 30 years as a company, built upon more than 60 years of e-beam technology expertise. Over the past year, Vistec has achieved several key developments, including new customer installations, expanded global presence, and continued innovation in its core lithography technologies. The company’s participation at EMLC highlights its innovative developments…

Equinix, Inc., the world’s digital infrastructure company®, has trialled its first-ever deployment of a Hydrogen Power Unit for data centre critical back-up systems in Ireland. The trial installation is in collaboration with ESB and GeoPura. It marks a significant step in the exploration of hydrogen as a back-up power resource for large energy users (LEUs), which could potentially replace diesel and gas generators in future. The initiative comes at a critical time for Ireland’s economy as ongoing grid capacity constraints in parts of the Dublin metropolitan area continue to challenge digital infrastructure growth. The trial represents a first for Equinix…

As we look at the massive AI boom sweeping across the globe, what does it actually take from a physical standpoint to keep these models running? Why are submarine cable operators building networks just in case a surge of traffic arrives, and how is local power grid availability dictating exactly where the next major hubs are being built? What role are legacy crypto-mining data centers playing now in AI infrastructure? Today we’re joined by a trio of TeleGeography experts to close out our series on the impacts of AI on global telecom. Host Greg Bryan sits down with Alan Mauldin,…

Note: This post is a condensed version of a chapter from part three of the forthcoming book, Deep Learning and Scientific Computing with R torch. Part three is dedicated to scientific computation beyond deep learning. Throughout the book, I focus on the underlying concepts, striving to explain them in as “verbal” a way as I can. This does not mean skipping the equations; it means taking care to explain why they are the way they are. How do you compute linear least-squares regression? In R, using lm(); in torch, there is linalg_lstsq(). Where R, sometimes, hides complexity from the user,…

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7 instances, delivering high performance GPU acceleration for AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads. AWS is the first major cloud provider to support NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7 instances are accelerated by these GPUs with custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, delivering up to 4.6x AI inference performance and up to 2.1x graphics performance compared to G6 instances. G7 instances also deliver faster performance for GPU-accelerated analytics on Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). G7 instances are well suited…