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Fake PS5 emulators are being used to steal gamers' passwords — two well-known GitHub repos, including popular AnyPS5, get hit, infecting gamers' computers with password-scraping malware

By Oliver Haslam Published

Malware disguised as two popular PS5 game emulators, distributed via GitHub, has been identified as stealing passwords from unsuspecting gamers.

Cybersecurity
a person with their mind tied to an AI on a laptop
Man granted first-of-its-kind religious exemption against mandatory AI use at work — Humanist argues that offloading his thinking to LLMs violates his beliefs, Title VII accommodation protects employee

By Jowi Morales Published

A research administrator at the University of Kentucky was granted a Title VII exemption, allowing them to not use AI tools as it goes against their moral beliefs.

Artificial Intelligence
GitHub says massive influx of AI-generated code required extra 4 million CPU cores and 160 petabytes of storage to manage — a sixfold increase to 7.4 billion monthly commits in one year

By Bruno Ferreira Published

Agentic AI led to a sixfold year-on-year influx of new code at GitHub, leading the company to add 4 million CPU cores and 160PB of storage to its datacenters

Software
Flock ignores Minnesota city’s orders not to reinstall AI surveillance cameras — citizens complain after spotting two cameras despite the city canceling its contract

By Jhet Borja Published

Dayton, MN's city council removed Flock cameras and canceled its contract in August, but Flock reinstalled cameras anyway, almost a month after the program's suspension.

Big Tech
Apple launches new MacBook Pro with touchscreen and OLED — starts at $2,899

By Andrew E. Freedman Published

The computer is also lighter and has an updated speaker system.

Laptops
Nvidia server GPUs
Malaysia seizes $12 million worth of advanced AI chips hidden inside 30 servers

By Etiido Uko Published

Authorities have seized $25 million worth of chips in cases linked to syndicate

Policy
AI component hikes force the world's largest PC makers to return manufacturing capacity to China

By Jowi Morales Published

Smaller Chinese contractors are raking in orders as traditional suppliers focus on AI servers.

Manufacturing
Amazon tells engineers to stop ‘tokenmaxxing’ to look productive

By Newton Gitonga Published

Amazon still expects AI to sit at the center of software engineering, but says usage alone is not proof of productivity

Artificial Intelligence
US Marines join NATO mission in the Baltic Sea to protect undersea cables from sabotage as Russia continues to lurk

By Ben Stockton Published

50 U.S. marines are joining a NATO mission to help protect and monitor undersea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.

Tech Industry
SK hynix-owned Solidigm is plotting a new $45 billion flash memory factory for the US, report claims

By Oliver Haslam Published

Solidigm, an American subsidiary of SK hynix, is in discussions about potentially investing $45 billion in a new flash chip factory that would be built in the United States.

Manufacturing
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