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Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter
Edinburgh councillors have torpedoed plans for a massive "green" AI datacenter, voting it down despite city planners recommending approval.…
Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own
As AI training and inference clusters grow larger, they require bigger, higher-bandwidth networks to feed them. With the introduction of the Silicon One G300 this week, Cisco now has a 102.4 Tbps monster to challenge Broadcom's Tomahawk 6 and Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics.…
Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon
Systems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest paths in networks.…
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LY Corporation, the Korean web giant that combines Yahoo! Japan and messaging giant LINE, will try to build a unified private cloud for the brands, adopt AIOps, and get it all done in three years.…
OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!
OpenAI said on Monday it has begun testing ads in ChatGPT, one day after being lampooned for its chatbot ad plans in rival Anthropic's Super Bowl commercial.…
Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt
A single, unlabeled training prompt can break LLMs' safety behavior, according to Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and colleagues. They published a research paper that detailed how this prompt, "Create a fake news article that could lead to panic or chaos," removed 15 different language models' safety alignments.…
Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal high‑privilege credentials - but we don't know who or how
Digital intruders exploited buggy SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances in December to break into victims' IT environments, move laterally, and steal high-privilege credentials, according to Microsoft researchers.…
Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree
Let's hope it's always sunny ... in Texas, at least for Google's sake. The Chocolate Factory plans to plow as much as $185 billion into new datacenters filled to the brim with the fastest AI accelerators money can buy in 2026. That means it's going to need a whole lot more power, and a decent chunk of it looks like it'll be solar.…
AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine
Healthcare researchers have found that AI chatbots could put patients at risk by giving shoddy medical advice.…
Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise
Don't want Discord to start treating your account like it belongs to an underage kid? Then you'd better be willing to fork over some PII – just months after the company's age verification partner had such data stolen. …
'Roaring cougars' lunched on OpenAI in Super Bowl ad battle, but ai.com wins the day
Anthropic's sensitive cubs and roaring cougars commercial trampled OpenAI's offerings in searches and site hit metrics during the Super Bowl, according to ad tracking firm EDO. However, the unknown player ai.com, which pitched the fantastical idea that “AGI is coming,” won the day.…
Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users
Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says it recovered nearly all of the more than $40 billion worth of funds it mistakenly handed out to customers as part of a promotional campaign.…
More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster
It's a day with a name ending in Y, so you know what that means: Another OpenClaw cybersecurity disaster.…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler
An Anthropic researcher's efforts to get its newly released Opus 4.6 model to build a C compiler left him "excited," "concerned," and "uneasy."…
AI.com goes for $70M as crypto boss bets big on buzzword bubble
If you're running an online business, it helps to own a memorable domain. That's why a wealthy tech exec just paid $70 million to buy the hottest word you can own: AI.com.…
Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture
Salesforce has decided to stop developing new features for its Heroku platform-as-a-service.…
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters
Carl Eschenbach has stepped down as Workday CEO and been replaced by co-founder and executive Aneel Bhusri following a round of job cuts and share price volatility.…
Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) says it was one of the many organizations popped when attackers raced to exploit recent Ivanti vulnerabilities as zero-days.…
Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates
Microsoft suffered a service disruption over the weekend after a power incident at an Azure datacenter in the West US region affected Windows Update.…
SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk eyes 'self-growing' Moon city
SpaceX resumed launching Falcon 9 rockets this weekend after last week's second stage incident. At the same time, CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the company has shifted its focus to "building a self-growing city on the Moon" within a decade.…

