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Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales
Samsung and Micron say they’ve started shipping HBM4 memory, the faster and denser RAM needed to power the next generation of AI acceleration hardware.…
Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents
Cloudflare has turned its attention from erecting bot barriers to dangling bot bait.…
AI to make call center agents 'superheroes,' not unemployed, says industry CEO
ai-pocalypse AI will not replace the people in the call center, but it will rejigger the software stack to make agents more capable of solving customer issues without the need to swivel-chair into multiple systems or escalate complaints, said Vasili Triant, CEO of UJET.…
30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users' API keys, emails, other sensitive data
More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users' API keys, email messages, and other personal data. Even worse: many of these are still available on the Chrome Web Store as of this writing.…
OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon
Nvidia and AMD can take a seat. On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first model that will run on Cerebras Systems' dinner-place-sized AI accelerators, which feature some of the world's fastest on-chip memory.…
Waymo launching China-made van that won't fail in rain, snow, or gloom of night
Waymo is rolling out its sixth-generation autonomous driving system, saying it's designed to avoid a repeat of past weather-related snafus. It's also causing controversy by putting the new kit on vehicles built by a Chinese automaker. …
AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request
Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library Matplotlib, rejected an AI bot's code submission, citing a requirement that contributions come from people. But that bot wasn't done with him.…
Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too
Your supervisor may like using employee monitoring apps to keep tabs on you, but crims like the snooping software even more. Threat actors are now using legit bossware to blend into corporate networks and attempt ransomware deployment.…
Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract
Oracle has picked up an $88 million contract with the US Air Force to provide cloud infrastructure services for the department's Cloud One program.…
$8K laundry bot knows when to hold ’em, knows when to fold ’em, and knows it has help standing by
Nobody likes folding laundry, but you really have to hate it to spend $7,999 on a robot that'll fold it for you with a whole heap of limitations – including company employees getting the occasional peep at your tough-to-fold unmentionables.…
Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution'
Elon Musk has framed the recent exodus of talent from his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, as a necessary growing pain, saying the company's evolution "required parting ways with some people."…
'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation
Microsoft has abruptly announced the deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks with less than two months' notice, throwing the future of the .NET Interactive project into doubt.…
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability affecting every iOS version since 1.0, used in what the company calls an "extremely sophisticated attack" against targeted individuals.…
Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree
Exploding memory prices are pushing corporate buyers to fast-track PC purchases before costs climb further.…
NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission
NASA has ended most science operations on its Swift observatory to keep the spacecraft in orbit a little longer.…
Supply chain attacks now fuel a 'self-reinforcing' cybercrime economy
Cybercriminals are turning supply chain attacks into an industrial-scale operation, linking breaches, credential theft, and ransomware into a "self-reinforcing" ecosystem, researchers say.…
The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware
Open Source Policy Summit 2026 SUSE recommends that companies should run on FOSS – but an accidental revelation from a company exec, live on stage, reveals it doesn't practice what it preaches. It's not alone.…
UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks
The UK government claims a new Telecoms Consumer Charter will stop customers being hit by unexpected bill increases and offer clearer pricing when signing up to deals.…
Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is offering between £270,000 to £300,000 for a senior digital leader who will oversee more than £4.6 billion in spending and more than 3,000 specialist staff.…
The UK government isn't spending much taxpayer cash on X
Most UK government departments have spent little or nothing with social media platform X since July 2024 following an unpublished 2023 evaluation by the Cabinet Office. But the Department for Education has bucked the trend, spending £27,118.…