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Despite all odds, the AI boom is increasing relevance of tape storage as technology enables cheap storage with zero power consumption in idle and ultimate security with air gap.

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OpenAI says researchers using GPT-5.6 Sol uncovered two critical PHP vulnerabilities with severity scores of 9.2 and demonstrated working exploits, after which the company coordinated fixes.

Google's TPUs now serve AI in production at Meta, through new open-source engines that run PyTorch models natively on the chips.

Almost 500,000 phishing emails were sent from a PC hidden behind a fridge in a Kobe, Japan, hotel room.

Intel makes progress on its manufacturing expansion in Arizona and Ohio as it continues to expand advanced semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the U.S.

The 4TB Samsung 990 Pro has its astronomical AI-driven high price slashed by 27%.

Elon Musk says ASML and other semiconductor equipment suppliers are expediting deliveries for Terafab, as Tesla and SpaceX target volume chip production in Texas by late 2028 alongside a massive expansion in AI compute capacity.

Trump's latest post on Truth Social announces his plans to make data centers more popular among local communities.

Qualcomm will begin performance-based layoffs worldwide in November as the chipmaker reallocates resources toward AI infrastructure, data centers, automotive, PCs, and edge computing, amid weaker consumer electronics demand.

FADU's FS-SSD carries NFSv3 file operations inside NVMe commands, letting GPUs, DPUs, and NICs read files without a host file system.

AMD and Intel are working together to bring CPU inference optimizations for PyTorch under the unified oneDNN library.

Iran could attack seven undersea cables that run through the Strait of Hormuz, describing them as "legitimate new targets" in a potential "third phase" of further conflict with the United States.

Samsung and SK Hynix are reportedly upgrading their factories to produce more advanced RAM chips designed for AI data centers in an attempt to fend off competition from Chinese companies.

Micron's Taiwan union is set to conduct a one-day strike at the company's Taoyuan DRAM facility as workers demand bonuses for this year and transparent terms of bonuses for upcoming years.

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HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 will ride Astrolab's FLIP rover to the Moon's south pole to run HPL, HPCG, and AI tests.

Three contract workers died, and one is in intensive care after a fall at TSMC's Fab 22 construction site in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Jensen Huang's Nvidia GTC keynote speech in Berlin was disrupted by a Greenpeace protest on Wednesday.

AMD has released a version of its cutting-edge FSR 4.1 upscaler that now works on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 chips.

TP-Link is at the mercy of the FCC regarding its ready-to-go Wi-Fi 8 routers, so it has a sweetener in mind to move things along.

The U.S. Army is developing a program to deploy autonomous AI agents that can navigate digital and network infrastructures, identify targets, and neutralize" them.

The new Oblivion Remastered Performance Fix mod is a pure code fix, with no changes to game assets or the game's visuals, yet it offers massive gains.

$35 billion worth of Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 GPUs have been bought by Chinese trio Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance, with demand far exceeding Nvidia's planned production, according to report.

Modern computing remains vulnerable to the low bus factor of many open-source projects - continued lack of funding and manpower for voluntary-maintained infrastructure makes for a perennial threat

VR rendering technique of foveated imaging gets integrated into DLSS 5, making it much easier to run

A hobbyist converted a SK hynix 2x 16GB DDR5-5600 SODIMM kit they got off Facebook Marketplace for $120 into a DDR5-7800 desktop kit.

Over $5 million worth of gift cards for retailers like Target and Sephora were stolen from Staples when thieves gained access to an internal system.

The TP-Link Archer BE9700 Wi-Fi 7 router is on sale for a limited-time only, down to $189.98, with six external antennas, a 10G WAN port, and four 2.5G Ethernet ports.

Google DeepMind researchers say four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours, writing 2,783 programs with no human help.

A Chinese hacker reportedly used a fleet of AI agents to break into more than 100 company websites, including farm equipment maker Deers and appliance outfit SharkNinja.

Norway's Bulk Infrastructure Group AS is looking for a partner to build transatlantic undersea cabling to connect Canada with Europe to bypass the United States.

A developer using Claude Code to help build a temperature monitor app was warned by the coding agent about a hidden crypto miner running on their system.

Arm claims its AGI CPU delivers nearly 2X the modeled rack performance of AMD's EPYC 9755 across seven agentic AI workloads, using a new evaluation methodology developed with Fujitsu, Meta, and OpenAI

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