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In brief Bank of America maintains its “buy” recommendation on Nvidia and increases its price target to $350 following a record-breaking Q1 revenue of $81.6 billion. BofA projects the AI market will exceed $3 trillion by 2030, with an additional $200 billion CPU opportunity and $145 billion in confirmed customer orders. BofA identifies Nvidia’s primary risk as its massive scale: The company now represents 8.3% of the S&P 500. Nvidia just posted the largest quarterly revenue in its entire history. Yet the stock dropped anyway. This has become a recurring trend—the chipmaker’s shares have fallen following three of its last…

On Wednesday, Canadian officials arrested a 23-year-old man from Ottawa for allegedly creating and running Kimwolf, a rapidly expanding Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet that hijacked millions of devices to carry out a wave of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past six months. In February 2026, KrebsOnSecurity publicly identified the suspect after he launched a series of DDoS attacks, doxing attempts, and swatting incidents targeting this reporter and a security researcher. He now faces criminal hacking charges in both Canada and the United States. A criminal complaint unsealed today in an Alaska district court charges Jacob Butler, also known as…

U.S. national laboratories tackle some of the nation’s most demanding—though often underappreciated—high-stakes innovation projects. This work demands intense concentration from scientists, researchers, and specialists who are developing breakthroughs and solutions to the most pressing threats we face now and in the future. In these high-pressure environments, every team member contributes to accelerating progress, no matter their specific role. This critical work requires robust support systems. Idaho National Lab’s CIO Mark Holterman is fully committed, as are his IT team and their partners. “The key is building strong partnerships with mission teams, making sure they have all the resources they need…

Glass processing equipment is among the most significant capital investments a manufacturer can undertake. A single CNC grinding center, fusion splicing platform, precision molding system, or connected industrial automation platform can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the components processed on these machines often carry tolerances measured in nanometers. In modern industrial IoT environments, these systems are increasingly connected to monitoring platforms, predictive maintenance tools and production analytics infrastructure. When equipment performance drifts or fails, the cost shows up immediately in the form of scrapped parts, missed deadlines, unplanned downtime and disrupted production data flows.The good news is that…

  # Introduction  Here is something that should shift how you think about AI model size: a 4-billion-parameter model released in early 2025 is now outscoring models that were 7x larger on standard reasoning benchmarks. Google’s Gemma 3 4B posts an 89.2% on GSM8K math reasoning. Microsoft’s Phi-4-mini at 3.8B hits 83.7% on ARC-C, the highest score in its entire size class. These numbers used to belong to 30B+ models. So the question “do I really need a 70B model for this?” deserves a second look. For the purposes of this article, “small” means under 7 billion parameters — models that…

Back in 2022, the landscape looked completely different. Younger folks today have no idea what that era was like. I’d pour countless hours into: Manually crafting Python and SQL code, line after line Committing to memory which libraries to bring in and the specific functions within them (like from sklearn.metrics import r2_score) Tracking down and fixing code bugs Creating documentation to explain my code Assembling dashboards to examine massive datasets Even within just the past 12 months, as AI-powered tools have grown more and more sophisticated, my role as a data scientist has shifted. I’ve moved away from being purely…

Posted on May 21, 2026 by Yash Pimple & Rohit Ghumare, CNCF Ambassadors Welcome to Mumbai KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India lands in Mumbai on 18-19 June 2026, at the Jio World Convention Centre in BKC. Thousands of cloud native engineers are flying in, many of you for the first time, and you’re landing in the middle of monsoon season. Both of us were born and brought up in Mumbai. Yash still lives here. Rohit moved to London and goes back and forth. The bigger reason we wrote it: in 2022, Rohit started Cloud Native Thane (@cncfthane) to bring the CNCF…

Summer sales events like Amazon Prime Day are just around the corner. But before those arrive, Memorial Day sales are already underway. For many people, the holiday weekend signals the unofficial beginning of summer, and major retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and others are still marking the season with discounts on home goods, outdoor equipment, tech, clothing, and much more.Also: How to get Amazon Prime for half off: Two ways to qualify in 2026As ZDNET’s deals and shopping editor, I track sales around the clock, and I’ve picked up plenty of tips on spotting the best bargains…

Last week, Nvidia’s stock soared to a new record high, surpassing $236 and bringing its market value close to $5.7 trillion. The shares jumped 3.7% in one day and have been on a steady upward run, signaling growing investor optimism as the company approaches its earnings report. The outlook for Nvidia’s stock is shaped by two opposing factors: surging worldwide demand for AI technology, especially from China, and increasing geopolitical tensions along with concerns about the stock’s high valuation. With NVDA holding above important technical benchmarks but showing signs of being overbought in the short term, the stock’s next direction…

Cybersecurity experts have revealed details about a new Linux-based malware called Showboat, which has been actively used in attacks against a Middle Eastern telecom company since at least mid-2022. According to a report from Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs, shared with The Hacker News, Showboat is a flexible post-exploitation tool built for Linux environments. It can create remote shells, move files between systems, and act as a SOCKS5 proxy for network traffic. Researchers believe the malware has been used by one or more threat groups linked to China. Connections were found between the command-and-control (C2) servers and IP addresses traced…