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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.

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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.

Valve practically just flipped a switch to give gamers the ability to read optical drives directly from the Steam Frame.

Texas has suspended 17 data center construction permits and shut down the automated portal used to approve them

The Filin missile, which was deployed between late September and early October of this year, reportedly used 3D-printed and commercial parts to save on cost.

Fascinating footage captured inside a busy CompUSA retail store in Y2K lets you relive the PC era when translucent acrylic Presarios and iMacs roamed the Earth.

Micron's G11 3D NAND promises 42 Gb/mm2 and 5,400 MT/s interface speed, enabling SSDs with extreme capacity and performance.

SK hynix abandons IPO plans for Solidigm, confirms plans to build a Solidigm 3D NAND fab in the U.S.

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Amazon has ditched its plans to build four new data centers in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, following an outcry from local residents and officials. The land will now be repurposed for mixed and residential use.

China has stretched older DUV lithography far further than expected, using multiple patterning to approach 5nm-class without EUV. But experts say the trade-offs in cost, yield, and die size mean further advancements are unlikely to be economically viable.

A security firm has been able to identify 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 AI chips running inside a China Telecom network, but it's unclear where the export-barred components are physically located.

Deepseek 4.1 Flash 1017 drives cost-per-task further down still - open-weight model is fit for agentic workloads and exceedingly cheap to run

The UK government has outlined plans for new powers and criminal offenses to help protect undersea cables in UK waters amid fears of Russian interference.

Several U.S. banks are blocking AI agents from making transactions on their platforms. They fear that those agents could go rogue and there's no way to tell if the moves they make are legitimate or not.

The user said that they only wanted to alert others about the importance of the upcoming CVE releases and weren't told about the embargo.

Claude and Grok are among the AI agents that are being used to automate attacks on Latin American institutions, including banks and payment apps, by a group calling themselves CyberCartel.

Microsoft says China-aligned Storm-0940 used the ARTEX AI agent framework in the ConnectWise Cloud Backup supply chain attack.

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