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Cisco Talos says the VOLTA infostealer sends stolen victim data to Claude Opus 4.6 to rank assets by monetization value.

The lawyers of a plaintiff in a labor case attempted to use prompt injection to influence the court's AI but were caught. They won the case anyway, as the defendant did not respond, making the move totally unnecessary.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with around 50 Samsung executives in South Korea on October 31 to discuss AI's future, business opportunities and the technology's impact on corporate operations. The meeting comes as demand for memory chips grows alongside AI infrastructure spending, putting pressure on global DRAM supplies. Samsung and SK hynix together accounted for approximately 83% of global high-bandwidth memory revenue in the second quarter of 2026, highlighting South Korea's central role in supplying the hardware behind the AI expansion.

An open-source UEFI tool, nv-uefi-unlocker, lifts Nvidia's tensor rate cap on RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs under Windows.

The Plymouth City Council was left with no choice but to physically disconnect the cameras after Flock failed to respond to its demands.

Lenovo's ThinkPlus FU100 fingerprint USB drive held an unencrypted SD card, and Codex found fixed keys in other secure' USB products.

These Seneca drones should help the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District achieve its goal of stopping 90% of fires before they grow larger than 10 square feet.

It took the space probe nearly 50 years to get to one light-day, with NASA scientists and engineers going through lengths to ensure that it could keep operating for as long as possible.

The Rocket Cargo capability should allow U.S. forces to resupply quickly without risking aircrews and equipment, especially in contested areas.

An undergraduate student from Georgia Tech is trying his hand at an $800k prize for the fastest jet-powered RC aircraft, achieving 790 km/h (491 mph) and breaking the previous world record.

French lawmakers have approved an amendment proposing a 0.055-per-gigabyte tax on digital content delivered to internet subscribers in France. The measure could generate an estimated 10 billion annually, with companies including Google, Meta, Netflix and potentially TikTok among those affected. However, the proposal still faces further parliamentary scrutiny, while government officials have raised concerns about its implementation, measurement requirements and potential impact on smaller providers.

Fraudsters are using the identities of high school graduates who skipped college to apply for student loans and steal the excess proceeds that do not go to schools. They use AI to keep the charade going and make it seem like the fake student is actually going to class.

Pick up a bargain 3D printer, thanks to these big discounts on resin and filament 3DP models from big names like Creality, Elegoo, Prusa and more.

Mac users sharing their compute for AI inference are seeing declining revenues as token prices continue to drop, with Anthropic token falling 77% in under five months.

Intel is expanding chipmaking and advanced packaging capacity across the U.S., Ireland, and Malaysia to meet surging AI-driven demand for data center CPUs amid shrinking PC market and persistent supply constraints.

A developer has created a full Intel 486 PC system, using 100% pure-JavaScript, in a browser.

Anthropic's Opus 5.5 model blocking attempts at videogame recreation - users also claim their non-malicious generic reverse-engineering tasks are block

The team had to use Sonnet after Opus 5.5 outright refused to run the experiment, while Opus 5 warned that it could stop working in the midst of the operation.

TrashBench repurposes a trash AC radiator for his test bench to see how well it can cool a PC - RTX 3080 didn't run much above ambient temperature

Researchers from Curtin University in Australia have come up with a way to potentially track down seized 3D-printed guns to their source by identifying differences in material properties in various PLA products.

PsiQuantum's eight-port optical switch typically loses 1.2 dB, under a quarter of its light, where data centers allow up to 3 dB.

An investigation revealed that thousands of drives have been lost, with officials having no idea where they could be.

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop processors will be the first client product to use Intel's enhanced 18A-P node, CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed in the company's Q3 2026 earnings call.

The properties will supposedly house SpaceXSI staff while also giving a chance to those who don't want to live near the data center to sell their homes.

The Sierra Club, one of the oldest environmental preservation organizations in the U.S., has now put forth an estimate that by 2030, U.S. data center buildouts will be outputting as much carbon dioxide as the entirety of Mexico.

It costs just as much to buy an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 right now as the launch price for the RTX 5090, with prices now at least two times higher for this high spec GPU.

Sources say that Alice Huang, a senior executive at an Nvidia cloud partner who has close ties with Jensen Huang, is suspected of passing information to Beijing.

Nvidia's near $13 billion buyout of Hugging Face has come under scrutiny over concerns that it will impact competition in the AI space.

Tech whizz' internet-accessible Synology NAS gets bit by transomware attack - security updates 18 months out of date in a series of catastrophic errors