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OpenAI expects AI to become a major issue in the 2028 presidential election and is preparing a policy and public relations push after the U.S. midterm elections. The company is also promoting the term AI compute campuses" for its data centers as it seeks to address concerns over electricity demand, water consumption, pollution and rising utility bills

Tachyum files for bankruptcy, the court in Bratislava initiates bankruptcy proceedings.

President Putin has told non-state Russian data centers that they must set aside 10% of their total capacity for use by the country's own IT infrastructure.

The Raspberry Pi 16GB has gone up in price by $80 to $385. It now costs more than triple its January 2025 launch price.

A new website seeks to distill over 10,000 public comments about data centers in the community across more than 410 local governments, and the consensus is that people don't like them one bit.

Nvidia is investigating a security incident involving its Brev cloud development platform after detecting unauthorized activity between October 4 and October 20. The incident may have exposed SSH keys used to access customer virtual machines. Nvidia has rotated the affected keys and updated customer instances, but says it is unaware of any improper use

Qwenputer is an experimental blend of the stock Qwen 3.5 4B LLM with a 32-bit RISC-V CPU compiled and inserted directly into its weights.

Google's proposed Hermantown data center has cleared a major approval hurdle after the city council unanimously backed the project on October 30.

Russia's Rosstat admitted that its servers were attacked by hackers but denies data leaks which appear to show as many as 50,000 military deaths per month.

Anthropic employee confirms that Claude Code now has orders not to reproduce game IP - company "iterating to ensure [...] the right balance"

This ABS Stratos II Aqua gaming PC has dropped to $2,549.99 at Newegg right now, giving you a rig with a 24-core Intel Core i9-14900KF CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, a 2TB SSD, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM.

Sony may be preparing to abandon the standalone 4K Blu-ray player market after retailers in Japan reportedly stopped expecting new shipments of its final remaining model, the UBP-X700K. The company has not confirmed a worldwide withdrawal, and the player remains listed in the U.S. However, Sony's retreat from other physical media products, alongside exits by Oppo, Samsung, LG, and Reavon, raises further questions about the future of dedicated disc players.

A second cyberattack has struck supermarket freezers across Europe.

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.