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Award-winning mathematician Richard Brocherds says that it's a waste of time and money to grade AI answers, so he now only uses in-person exams to see how well his students are doing in his classes.

The defense contractor aims to fully bring back laptop manufacturing on U.S. shores, with its first BlueChip laptop prototypes having 90% procurement cost coming from suppliers in the U.S. and other allied countries.

Citizen Lab and Confiant linked Israeli firm Discover-Tech to suspected surveillance through online advertising. Researchers said its ads appeared across nearly 200,000 websites and mobile apps. TrendAI separately identified related activity under the codename SHADOW-EARTH-79." The findings raise concerns about ad auctions being exploited to track users across sensitive networks, though ad impressions alone do not confirm spyware infections.

TSMC is reportedly weighing a price increase of up to 20% for its CoWoS advanced packaging technology as Nvidia's Blackwell and upcoming Rubin chips intensify pressure on capacity. Equipment deliveries now reportedly take up to eight months, while separate wafer-price increases of 5% to 10% are expected in 2027, with some customers potentially facing total cost increases of up to 25%.

An ACLU report claims police are increasingly using AI to analyze license plate-reader data and flag motorists based on travel patterns, raising concerns that innocent drivers could be pulled over because an algorithm deemed their movements suspicious.

The modular Keybytes project combines a Keyword hub that is magnetically connected to Keybit keys, with each key having its own microcontroller.

Independent 3D modeling community Open3DLab has publicly claimed that a web crawler, attributed to Roblox, downloaded 145.5GB of its data, for what it assumes is for AI training purposes.

Microsoft has begun testing the option to enable Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions, or APX, which will bring a performance boost to some apps - although no chips with APX support are available as yet.

Grab the 9800X3D with a matching Gigabyte motherboard, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD, all for just $1,180.99, giving you a $358.98 discount that makes the equivalent RAM price just $151.

Nvidia is committing billions to expand substrate, co-packaged optics, advanced packaging, and chip-testing capacity through 2028, reserving capacity at nearly every stage of its AI accelerator supply chain.

Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 members of its workforce as it looks to balance the books amid a ramp-up in AI data center spending.

Anthropic has filed to go public as it pursues a potential multitrillion-dollar valuation, reporting $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026. The company's filing also warns that its AI safety measures may not prevent catastrophic risks. OpenAI and AI chipmaker Cerebras have also pursued public-market listings

Data center gear is being stolen in transit to the tune of hundreds of millions - grand-theft-GPU thieves hack accounts, perform hit-and-runs, and spoof GPS signals

SpaceX expects fourth-quarter capital expenditure of $35 billion to $40 billion, CFO Bret Johnsen said, as Elon Musk pushes to expand the company's AI computing infrastructure.

A benchmark leak and a direct clock-matched comparison from an enthusiast seed the idea that Zen 6 may come with a decent IPC bump as well as increased clocks.

Micron rejects 4F2, intends to use wafer bonding and High-NA EUV before going 3D NAND over the next few years.

Cadence unveiled Maestro, domain-specialized AI models for its chip design agents, with early access for select customers in Q4 2026.

Chinese vessels are spending more time near undersea cables in the Pacific than nearly 50 other nations, according to a new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has reportedly discussed potential areas of cooperation with AMD chief Lisa Su as Intel works to rebuild its CPU business and expand its foundry operations. The companies have already collaborated on x86 standards and CPU software, including AMD's integration of its ZenDNN optimizations into Intel's oneDNN library. Neither executive has publicly detailed the reported discussions or confirmed a new agreement.

Newegg have cut this Alienware Aurora gaming PC by over $1,000, netting yo ua 4K-ready machine with an RTX 5070 and 32GB of DDR5 RAM for $2,199.99.

Lack of funding likely led to the recent PHP security snafu, but that's just the tip of the iceberg - dreary situation caused by services running old versions with no support

Linux kernel modules lift Nvidia's half-rate AI tensor limit on GeForce RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs.

The Steal My Bitcoin" challenge offers a bounty to anyone who can breach a deliberately vulnerable PHP website using the recently disclosed PHP2Shell flaws. The challenge follows previous recoveries of locked Bitcoin fortunes through software vulnerabilities and AI-assisted investigation, but no successful claim has been confirmed.

Reddit's r/opensource has barred AI-built, AI-focused, and AI-using projects under new rules announced October 24. The crackdown also imposes strict requirements on project age and contributors, while restrictions on non-English speakers have sparked further backlash. The debate puts the subreddit's policy at odds with Linux's acceptance of disclosed AI-assisted code contributions.

The Danish digitization ministry experimented with Collabora as an alternative to Microsoft Office, but employees who used them were frequently frustrated with style and paragraph formatting challenges, among other complaints.

Revenue per employee at the Magnificent Seven has outpaced the S&P 493, and a new comparison highlights the growing divide in fortunes between America's largest technology companies and the rest of the S&P 500.

Reports say that this is one of three data centers that the Russian finance ministry operated.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is reportedly weighing annual software fees of around $2,000 per GPU for enterprise AI, a model that could generate $10 billion a year if five million licenses were sold. The pricing and launch timeline remain unconfirmed, while Nvidia continues to expand its AI software and security tools for enterprise customers.

OpenAI's red-team agents passed hidden messages through the CPU cache, a covert trick already shown to move data between cloud VMs.

AMD Director Travis Kirsch confirmed the rationale for relaunching the first X3D chip and explained why the company no longer offers many Ryzen 3 SKUs.

Nvidia and PreussenElektra are studying whether decommissioned sites of German nuclear power plants can be repurposed as AI data centers, potentially cutting development time by reusing existing grid connections, land, and industrial infrastructure.

A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices' microphones to listen to users.

Privacy-focused firm Proton AG just decided to host the Flock camera map that a security researcher published last month.