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Ransomware Topples 158-Year-Old Company, Nuclear Agency Hacked, and Breaches Expose Millions – Cybersecurity Roundup (July 21–28, 2025)

UK Co-op confirmed a data breach affecting 6.5 million members, with attackers stealing an Active Directory database after a social‑engineering password reset on April 22 and deploying the DragonForce ransomware. KNP Logistics, a British transport firm founded in 1865, collapsed

28 July 2025

See Your House from Space? Inside the World of Live Satellite Maps and Weather from Orbit

Google Earth was downloaded over one billion times in its first six years. Google Earth’s Time Machine covers 1984 to 2022 in a 4D interactive map built from millions of satellite photos. The Landsat program began in 1972 and offers

28 July 2025

Maps · Satellites · Space · Technology · Weather

From the Original iPhone to iPhone 17: The Epic Evolution of Apple’s Iconic Smartphone (2007–2025)

The original iPhone, released June 29, 2007, featured a 3.5″ multitouch display, 2G EDGE data, a 2 MP camera, iPhone OS 1.0, and no App Store, selling roughly 300,000 units in its first weekend. iPhone 3G arrived July 11, 2008,

28 July 2025

Apple · Historia · iPhone · Smartphones · Tecnología

Quantum Leap: Inside SuperQ’s Mission to Be the “ChatGPT of Quantum Computing”

From March 21, 2025 to July 10, 2025, Atco Mining pivoted to quantum computing by acquiring Staque’s Super platform, rebranding as SuperQ Quantum Computing Inc., completing a 10-for-1 share consolidation, and listing on the CSE as QBTQ with Staque owning

28 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Innovation · Quantum Computing · Startups · Technology

Lasers vs Radio: Inside the Laser Satellite Communication Revolution (2025)

NASA’s TBIRD CubeSat achieved a 200 Gbps laser downlink in 2023, transmitting 4.8 terabytes in under five minutes. SpaceX’s Starlink had over 4,000 satellites in orbit by early 2024, with inter-satellite laser links moving about 42 petabytes per day (roughly

28 July 2025

Communication · Innovation · Lasers · Satellites · Technology

The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

ELIZA (1966) pioneered chatbot pattern matching, followed by PARRY (1972) which mimicked a paranoid patient. The 2010s saw a shift from rule-based chatbots to learning-based ones with neural networks and transformers, highlighted by Google’s BERT (2018) and OpenAI’s GPT series

28 July 2025

AI · Chatbots · Future Trends · NASDAQ:AAPL · NASDAQ:AMZN · NASDAQ:BIDU · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NASDAQ:META · NASDAQ:MSFT · Society · Technology

AI in Business: How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing Every Industry

78% of companies now use AI in at least one business function, and 83% say AI is a top strategic priority. The global AI market is about $390 billion today and is forecast to reach $1.8 trillion by 2030. By

28 July 2025

AI in Business · Artificial Intelligence · Digital Transformation · Industry Innovation · Technology Trends

AI vs. the Fakes: Inside the 2025 Race to Spot ChatGPT, Deepfakes and More

GPTZero, created by a Princeton student in early 2023, was among the first famous AI text detectors and highlights AI-written sentences with color-coding and an “AI probability” score. OpenAI discontinued its AI-written text detector in 2023 after finding a low

27 July 2025

2025 Trends · AI Detection · ChatGPT · Cybersecurity · Deepfakes · NASDAQ:ADBE · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NASDAQ:META

Ultimate AI Showdown: Best Tools, Apps, and Websites of 2025 Revealed

ChatGPT Enterprise offers unlimited, faster GPT-4 access, a 32K-token context window, and data-privacy controls for organizations. Claude 2 can ingest up to 100,000 tokens in context; Claude Pro costs $20/month; Claude API pricing is $0.008 per 1K input tokens and

27 July 2025

2025 Guide · AI Tools · Best Apps · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NASDAQ:MSFT · Technology Review · Top Websites

AI Assistant Showdown: ChatGPT vs Siri vs Alexa – Inside the 2025 Personal AI Revolution

Siri debuted in 2011 on the iPhone 4S as the first widely used voice assistant. Alexa launched in 2014 with the Echo, popularizing voice-controlled smart home devices. ChatGPT, built on GPT-4, launched in late 2022 and reached 100 million users

27 July 2025

2025 Trends · AI Assistants · Alexa · ChatGPT · Siri

Minecraft’s AI Revolution: From Smart Creepers to GPT-4 Agents

In 2016, Microsoft Research launched Project Malmo, an open-source AI experimentation platform built on top of Minecraft. Around NeurIPS 2019, MineRL released an OpenAI Gym interface for Minecraft with a large dataset of human gameplay and the flagship ‘Obtain Diamond’

27 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Game Innovation · Gaming Technology · GPT-4 · Minecraft

Augmented AI Revolution: How Human-AI Collaboration is Reshaping 2025

1955: John McCarthy coined “artificial intelligence” as a term while early thinkers debated augmenting human intelligence. 1960: J.C.R. Licklider outlined “man-computer symbiosis” in which humans and computers cooperate to solve problems. 1962: Douglas Engelbart published a framework for augmenting human

27 July 2025

2025 Innovation · Artificial Intelligence · Future of Work · Human-AI Collaboration · Technology Trends