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Oracle lays off 30,000 employees to fund its AI infrastructure bet
Oracle is laying off somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 employees worldwide, making it the largest single tech layoff in the past year. The cuts hit on March 31, with many employees in India reportedly receiving termination notices in a 6 AM email. Oracle employs roughly 162,000 people globally, so this would represent up to 18% of its workforce. The stated reason is straightforward: Oracle is redirecting spending toward AI infrastructure. The company has been pouring capital into data center b
Lire l'articleNebius drops $10 billion on a 310 MW AI factory in Finland
Nebius, the Dutch AI cloud company that used to be part of Yandex, announced today that it is building a 310-megawatt AI data center in Lappeenranta, Finland. The project carries a price tag north of $10 billion, making it one of the largest dedicated AI compute facilities in Europe. The first capacity is expected to come online in 2027. The facility will host NVIDIA GPU clusters and serve as Nebius’s largest non-US site, designed for large-scale AI training and inference workloads. Lappeenranta
Lire l'articleShinyHunters breach the European Commission
The European Commission confirmed today that its cloud infrastructure hosting the Europa.eu platform was breached on March 24, with the ShinyHunters extortion group claiming responsibility and dumping over 350GB of stolen data. The attack targeted at least one of the Commission’s AWS accounts, hitting the cloud environment that serves websites for the Commission, European Parliament, European Council, and other EU institutions. The Commission says its internal systems were not affected and that
Lire l'articleAnthropic accidentally leaks Claude Mythos, its most powerful model yet
Anthropic left nearly 3,000 unpublished assets sitting in a publicly accessible content management system. The cache included draft blog posts, internal images, PDFs, employee details, and plans for an invite-only CEO retreat in the UK. Most notably, it contained details about an unreleased AI model called Claude Mythos. The leak was discovered by Alexandre Pauwels, a cybersecurity researcher at the University of Cambridge, who flagged it to Fortune. Anthropic secured the data after being notifi
Lire l'articleA Dutch Court Just Told Grok to Stop Making Non-Consensual Nudes or Pay 100K a Day
On March 26, an Amsterdam district court issued a preliminary injunction against xAI and its chatbot Grok, ordering the company to stop generating and distributing non-consensual sexual imagery and child sexual abuse material in the Netherlands. The penalty for non-compliance is 100,000 euros per day per defendant, capped at 10 million euros. This is the first European court ruling to impose a binding injunction on an AI image generator over this type of content. The case was brought by Offlimit
Lire l'articleTLS 1.3 vs TLS 1.2: The Overhaul the Internet Desperately Needed
For nearly a decade, the secure internet was held together by a single workhorse: TLS 1.2. Released in 2008, it did its job well, securing everything from credit card transactions to login pages. But as the years passed, cracks began to show. It was becoming too slow for the modern mobile web and too cluttered with cryptographic relics that kept security researchers up at night. Then came TLS 1.3. It would be a mistake to think of TLS 1.3 as just a “patch” or a minor version update. It was a com
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