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US appears open to reversing some China tech bans
Asia In Brief The United States may be about to change its policies regarding Chinese technology companies.…
OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents
Peter Steinberger, the creator of the tantalizing-but-risky personal AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI.…
Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ
Infosec in Brief The former General Manager of defense contractor L3Harris’s cyber subsidiary Trenchant sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, according to a court filing last week.…
GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down
ai-pocalypse Legal scholars have found that OpenAI's GPT-5 follows the law better than human judges, but they leave open the question of whether AI is right for the job.…
Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station
Bork!Bork!Bork! Just picture it. You're at a Swiss train station, looking for information on your connecting line. You peer up at the platform sign hoping to find out how long you'll be waiting and whether you're standing in the right place. But instead of helpful info, you see "* Installation log files are stored in /tmp." Gee, thanks a lot!…
If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?
In the Venn diagram of car owners whose vehicles have a certain amount of "character" and individuals who use Microsoft's applications, there is an intersection of people who accept a quirk or two but not an unexpected explosion.…
Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows
Hands-on Run real Windows in an automatically managed virtual machine, and mix Windows apps in their own windows on your Linux desktop.…
How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them
Two of the world's biggest AI companies, Google and OpenAI, both warned this week that competitors including China's DeepSeek are probing their models to steal the underlying reasoning, and then copy these capabilities in their own AI systems.…
Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them
APRICOT 2026 For almost 30 years, the PingER project at the USA’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used ping thousands of time each day to measure the time a packet of data required to make a round trip between two nodes on the internet.…
Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production
Amazon inched closer to its atomic datacenter dream on Friday after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed its small modular reactor partner X-energy to make nuclear fuel for advanced reactors at a facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.…
ServiceNow can't seem to keep its wallet closed, snaps up small AI analytics company
Despite its CEO's insistence that it wasn't doing any "large scale" deals soon, ServiceNow has acquired yet another company. This time, the software firm has scooped up Pyramid Analytics, an Israeli corporation with data science and preparation expertise. The goal is to build additional context and semantics into its software stack.…
Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college
Can using AI teach you to code more quickly than traditional methods? Anthropic certainly thinks so. The AI outfit has partnered with computer science education org CodePath to get Claude and Claude Code into the hands of students, a time-tested strategy for seeding product interest and building brand loyalty.…
Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM
Remember that giant green rack-sized blade server Oxide Computer showed off a couple of years back? Well, the startup is still at it, having raked in $200 million in Series-C funding this week as it prepares to bring a bevy of new hardware to market with updated processing power, memory, and networking.…
Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024
Ignore patches at your own risk. According to Uncle Sam, a SQL injection flaw in Microsoft Configuration Manager patched in October 2024 is now being actively exploited, exposing unpatched businesses and government agencies to attack.…
Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives
The Trump administration has outlined the first 26 goals for its project to inject AI into the government's scientific research, and everything from securing critical minerals to discovering a unified theory of physics is on the table. …
AMD climbs in desktop and server CPUs while Intel battles supply squeeze
Intel continues to lose market share to rival AMD across server, desktop, and mobile processors, and this has been noticeable in PCs thanks to supply constraints on Chipzilla's processors.…
Broadband rollouts feel the burn from AI memory frenzy
Prices for memory used in routers and set-top boxes are surging nearly sevenfold thanks to AI, raising fresh fears that the industry's silicon binge could leave telcos scrambling to get customers online.…
Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown
The next blackout to plunge a G20 nation into chaos might not come courtesy of cybercriminals or bad weather, but from an AI system tripping over its own shoelaces.…
US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters
Nuclear-powered datacenters in the US are moving closer as a consortium prepares to build proposed facilities for the Department of Energy (DoE) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).…
Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny
Ring has cut ties with Flock, citing resource constraints, mere months after the pair announced a partnership.…