Ray Dalio, JPMorgan back billion-dollar berry startup Fruitist in new $150 million funding round

Fruitist, the healthy snacking company known for its jumbo blueberries, has raised $150 million in an equity funding round led by new investor J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with billionaire Ray Dalio‘s family office doubling down on its existing investment in the farming startup. The company, valued at over $1 billion, is growing distribution rapidly in […]

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Active Exploits Hit Dassault and XWiki — CISA Confirms Critical Flaws Under Attack

Oct 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Malware Threat actors are actively exploiting multiple security flaws impacting Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso and XWiki, according to alerts issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and VulnCheck. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2025-6204 (CVSS score: 8.0) – A code injection vulnerability in Dassault Systèmes DELMIA […]

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Tata Motors Reportedly Patched E-Dukaan, FleetEdge Flaws After Researcher Discovered AWS Key Leak

Tata Motors’ two consumer-facing platforms, FleetEdge and E-Dukaan, were hacked in 2023 by a cybersecurity researcher, which were reportedly patched by the company in the same year. The flaws gave unauthorised access to bad actors to the platforms’ Amazon Web Service (AWS) keys, allowing them to download Tata Motors’ files, sensitive customer information, and dealer […]

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CNBC Daily Open: It’s a boom, it’s a bubble, it’s still not enough for investors: It’s AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (L) speaks with Microsoft Chief Technology Officer and Executive VP of Artificial Intelligence Kevin Scott during the Microsoft Build conference at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on May 21, 2024.  Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Investors can’t get enough of artificial intelligence, despite worries over the sector’s excessively high […]

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’

Elon Musk‘s Wikipedia rival Grokipedia got off to a “rocky start” in its public debut, but Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales didn’t even have to take a look at the AI’s output to know what he expected. “I’m not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now,” Wales said at the CNBC Technology Executive Council […]

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Microsoft’s Copilot can now build apps and automate your job — here’s how it works

Microsoft is launching a significant expansion of its Copilot AI assistant on Tuesday, introducing tools that let employees build applications, automate workflows, and create specialized AI agents using only conversational prompts — no coding required. The new capabilities, called App Builder and Workflows, mark Microsoft’s most aggressive attempt yet to merge artificial intelligence with software […]

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New TEE.Fail Side-Channel Attack Extracts Secrets from Intel and AMD DDR5 Secure Enclaves

Oct 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Hardware Security A group of academic researchers from Georgia Tech, Purdue University, and Synkhronix have developed a side-channel attack called TEE.Fail that allows for the extraction of secrets from the trusted execution environment (TEE) in a computer’s main processor, including Intel’s Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) and Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) […]

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Why bitcoin miner CleanSpark beat Microsoft for Wyoming AI data center deal, and what it means for crypto mining’s future

CleanSpark, a Las Vegas based bitcoin miner, is moving into artificial intelligence, beginning to develop AI data centers alongside its crypto-mining business. The company’s CEO laid out details of the recently announced strategy on CNBC’s “Crypto World” this week, and why it’s likely to become core to the business models of more crypto mining companies. […]

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