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SK hynix and TetraMem collaborate on experimental chip to bolster energy efficiency for edge AI devices

Anthropic says it can read Claude's 'thoughts,' as detailed in a new research paper

Tencent is reportedly in talks to acquire Manus from Meta, following Beijing intervention

Samsung readies Gaia AI accelerator for PCs — HP and Lenovo are reportedly validating the NPU

Professor suspected AI-powered cheating on take-home midterms, makes finals in-person

China alleges that Claude Code contains backdoors, calls mechanism 'a serious threat'

'Slopfix' software team charges $10,000 a week to delete AI-generated code bloat — ironically, the team uses AI agents to trim messy repositories by up to 65%

Alibaba bans Anthropic's Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered

Blackstone-owned QTS abandons planned world’s largest data center campus after years of lawsuits

Elon Musk receives FTC greenlight to buy Mesh Optical as interconnects emerge as AI's tightest bottleneck

Chinese courts allow heirs to inherit accounts of deceased gamers

Meta pauses mandatory AI training program that tracked employee keystrokes after internal data leak

U.S. gov't asks court to dismiss NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI over use of unpermitted gas turbines

Project Jupiter AI data center build raises concerns about water usage in rural New Mexico desert

Meta data center allegedly muddies Georgia town's drinking water, investigation underway

Samsung reportedly set to distribute up to $26.6 billion to staff in AI-driven semiconductor bonuses after last-minute union deal

Angry tiny Texas town council member proposes total ban on cellular and GPS devices in protest over AI dispute

Samsung narrowly avoids 18-day chip strike after last-minute wage deal with 48,000-worker union

Digital entrepreneur creates humorous 'physical NFT minting device' using a Raspberry Pi in quest for 'infinite money machine'

New AI-compute cryptocurrency Pearl sparks a GPU mining rush but profitability is already sliding

Korean funeral services company loses $33 million in secret crypto bet against Ethereum

Physical attacks against crypto holders, including kidnap and assault, up 75% in 2025

Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after losing wallet password 11 years ago

Tennessee bans crypto ATMs that have become 'payment portal of choice for scammers'

Crypto scam takes advantage of Strait of Hormuz crisis by taking fake payments, leading to two ships being fired upon

Inventor showcases 3D printer filament dryer that mines Bitcoins and dries filament with waste heat, capable of 6 TH/s

British cryptographer Adam Back is the secret creator of Bitcoin, claims new report

Chat Control 1.0 sneaks through the EU Parliament, letting companies scan user data without warrants — legal tactic used to force a majority-required re-vote on eve of Parliament break

New hack exploits AI hallucinations to trick agents into running malicious code

Hidden backdoor found in Tenda routers lets attackers log in as admin without a password

Arrest and extradition of Scattered Spider hacker shines light on how Windows telemetry GDIDs can identify and track users

Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it

Windows Defender 'BlueHammer' vulnerability now exploited as part of malware campaigns

AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via 'clean' GitHub repositories

Frontier Airlines site leaks all personal info with just a glance at a boarding pass, researcher claims

Kaspersky finds malware hidden in Steam Wallpaper Engine that hijacks accounts to spread itself

AI servers will consume more power than all conventional data center hardware combined by 2027

Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3%

UK gives data centers option to apply for 'national importance' status that overrides local regulations, cuts timeline by a year

Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft's 'world's most powerful AI data center' due to data center noise

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium

Startup activates nuclear microreactor live on stage to power an Nvidia RTX Spark desktop PC

Starlink offers 50% discount, free hardware rental for residents surrounding its data centers

Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to save power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes

Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists

Electric drone breaks world air speed record at 434 mph, designed for anti-aircraft interceptor roles

DARPA plans 30-year endurance nuclear waste batteries to power next-gen drones, says report

Acoustic mapping app uses thousands of networked old Android phones to hunt Shahed drones

China unveils man-portable anti-drone laser that can burn through a drone 1,600 feet away in four seconds

Ukraine used 10 AI-controlled ‘Terminator’ drones to kill Russian soldiers two years ago, marking first autonomous killings of humans

Drones to protect undersea cables from Russian sabotage touted in new defense pact

Startup unveils underwater drone designed for protecting undersea cables

Drone breaks world speed record with 453 mph in test run

Researcher develops 'spray-on' stealth coating for drones

SK Hynix raises a record $26.5 billion in historic U.S. IPO

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus to offer lower wafer pricing than TSMC — 2nm class silicon to be priced around $20,000 on 2027 launch

Researchers turn HBM on its side to tackle AI memory’s heat wall

Micron lifts U.S. spending to $250 billion

Rapidus fab roadmap examined

Intel patent reveals new XBM memory architecture that ditches HBM's costly silicon interposer

China’s Huawei to enter South Korean AI chip market with new Atlas SuperPods, clusters pack 8,192 Ascend 950 accelerators per deployment

Intel 18A wafer-to-wafer yield issues fixed, report claims

Intel expands production of photomasks in California: EUV and High-NA EUV in the focal point

Quantum photonics roadmap — how Xanadu and PsiQuantum are looking to transfer qubits through beams of light

Nvidia invests $4 billion into photonics firms in a bid to bolster data center interconnect supply chains

Optical device beams data at speeds up to 25 Gbps via light, up to 25 kilometer range with ultra-low latency

Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck

Bill Gates-backed silicon photonics startup develops optical transistors 10,000x smaller than current tech

Photonic latch memory could enable optical processor caches that run up to 60 GHz, twenty times faster than standard caches

Industry's first TSMC COUPE-based optical connectivity solution for next-gen AI chips displayed — Alchip and Ayar Labs show future silicon photonics device

GlobalFoundries buys silicon photonics firm Advanced Micro Foundry for undisclosed amount

AMD reportedly establishes $280 million silicon photonics hub in Taiwan — new R&D center could accelerate company's co-packaged optics roadmap

Google is getting ready to 'hack back' as US considers shifting from cyber defense to offense

White House reveals nebulous plans to put government data on the blockchain

UK to ban making ransomware payments for some organizations

El Salvador Emerges as Bitcoin’s Savior

China's Ban On Cryptocurrency Mining Expands to Additional Provinces

El Salvador Government to Mine Bitcoin with Volcanic Energy

Biden Administration Upholds Trump-Era Bans on 59 Chinese Tech Companies

Bitcoin's Value Plummets as Biden Mulls Nearly Doubled Capital Gains Tax

Report: China’s Buying Used Chip-Making Equipment to Skirt US Restrictions

Microsoft announces next-gen Majorana 2 quantum computing chip

IBM spins off America's first quantum chip foundry with $2 billion in federal and private funding

China's Hanyuan-2 debuts as 'world's first' dual-core quantum computer

The future of Quantum computing — the tech, companies, and roadmaps that map out a coherent quantum future

Quantum computing firm dangles $22,500 Bitcoin prize

IBM and Cisco agree to lay the foundations for a quantum internet

New Chinese optical quantum chip allegedly 1,000x faster than Nvidia GPUs for processing AI workloads

IBM's boffins run a nifty quantum error-correction algorithm on conventional AMD FPGAs

Trump administration to follow up Intel stake with investment in quantum computing, report claims

Space Force gets first mobile high-powered electromagnetic beam weapon to cripple enemy satellites

SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere

SpaceX admits it can't find enough chips for orbital AI, requires 'significantly more than are currently available to us'

Google is reportedly in talks with SpaceX to launch its orbital data centers

NASA pushes Mars helicopter rotors past the speed of sound

SpaceX files for $55 billion semiconductor fab in rural Texas for Musk's Terafab

The Pentagon announces AI deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and more

SpaceX says it is going to begin manufacturing GPUs

Elon Musk unveils $20 billion ‘TeraFab’ chip project to make chips, memory, and package processors all under one roof

China tops the list of fastest supercomputers with a CPU-only behemoth, ending US champion El Capitan's reign

China's LineShine supercomputer dethrones El Capitan in Top 500 list

First ever Cray T3D Supercomputer goes up for auction with $81,000 reserve

Elon Musk restarts Dojo3 'space' supercomputer project as AI5 chip design gets in 'good shape'

AMD and Eviden unveil Europe's second exascale system

Nvidia to build seven AI supercomputers for the U.S. gov't with over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy and AMD cut a $1 billion deal for two AI supercomputers

China's supercomputer breakthrough uses 37 million processor cores to model complex quantum chemistry at molecular scale

New 3D printing process could improve superconductors

New research shows naturally occurring mineral is an 'unconventional superconductor' when purified

New research reignites the possibility of LK-99 room-temperature superconductivity

U.S. Govt and researchers seemingly discover new type of superconductivity in an exotic, crystal-like material

Nature Retracts Controversial Room Temperature Superconductor Paper (But Not LK-99)

What is a Superconductor?

MIT's Superconducting Qubit Breakthrough Boosts Quantum Performance

LK-99 Research Continues, Paper Says Superconductivity Could be Possible

Is LK-99 a Superconductor After All? New Research and Updated Patent Say So