Termite ransomware breaches linked to ClickFix CastleRAT attacks

Ransomware threat actors tracked as Velvet Tempest are using the ClickFix technique and legitimate Windows utilities to deploy the DonutLoader malware and the CastleRAT backdoor.
WinBuzzer

Databricks KARL Agent Tackles All Enterprise Search Types via RL

Databricks has released KARL, an RL-trained RAG agent that it says handles all six enterprise search categories at 33% lower cost than frontier models.
The Next Web

Databricks hits $5.4B revenue run rate and banks a $134B valuation in a rare software surge

Databricks is having one of those years that most enterprise software companies would quietly envy. The data and AI platform says it has reached a $5.4bn annual revenue run rate, growing 65% year over ...
Forbes

Databricks Says AI Agents Now Build 80% Of Enterprise Databases

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Victor Dey is an analyst and writer covering AI and emerging tech. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
University of California

UC Berkeley’s mass timber research is impacting the decarbonization of California’s construction industry

Drawing on research developed by Paul Mayencourt’s team at the UC Berkeley Wood Lab, Mad River Mass Timber has emerged as California’s first producer of dowel-laminated mass timber, which has the ...
Newsweek

Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections

Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser to President Donald Trump, has said agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be at the polls during November's midterm elections. "You ...
The Business Journals

Uber, Databricks in talks to lease most of Bellevue tower

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The deals could largely fill the ...
SiliconANGLE

Report: Databricks raises $1.8B in debt financing

Databricks Inc. has raised $1.8 billion in debt financing from a group of institutional investors, Bloomberg and CNBC reported today. The funds were provided in two tranches. Databricks received the ...
CNBC

Databricks obtains $1.8 billion in additional debt ahead of IPO

Databricks now has access to over $7 billion in debt, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. Investors valued the data analytics software maker at $134 billion in a funding round announced in ...
Education Week

More Teachers Are Using AI in Their Classrooms. Here’s Why

The percentage of teachers who are using artificial intelligence-driven tools in their classrooms nearly doubled between 2023 and 2025, according to data from the EdWeek Research Center. In 2023, a ...
InfoWorld

Databricks says its Instructed Retriever offers better AI answers than RAG in the enterprise

Databricks says Instructed Retriever outperforms RAG and could move AI pilots to production faster, but analysts warn it could expose data, governance, and budget gaps that CIOs can’t ignore.
Pew Research Center

What we know about internet use, smartphone ownership and digital divides in the U.S.

For 25 years, Pew Research Center has tracked some of the biggest technological shifts in history. Note: We conducted polls via phone from 2000 to 2021; via web and mail in 2023; and via web, mail and ...