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800,000 tons of mud probably just made electronics more expensive
In recent years technology buyers have endured hardware price rises due to a pandemic and its impact on supply chains, the global wave of inflation that followed, tariffs, and surging demand for AI technologies that allowed vendors to charge higher prices. Now, 800,000 tons of mud has pushed copper prices higher.…
Intel reportedly wants TSMC's help to end its reliance on ...TSMC
Intel has reportedly sought an investment from rival chipmaker TSMC.…
Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI
Video Google has confirmed it will merge its ChromeOS and Android operating systems, and that the mobile OS will emerge triumphant.…
Microsoft cuts off Azure phone surveillance support for Israeli military
The president of Microsoft has said it's cutting parts of the Israeli military off from Azure after reports that the army was using the platform in a mass surveillance operation against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.…
X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s latest attempt to bring Apple’s M-series magic to the PC
Qualcomm revealed the second act in its bid to overtake Intel and AMD as the leading laptop CPU maker this week with the paper launch of its Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme processors. The company seeks to bring the kind of battery life and performance Apple has gotten out of its Arm-based M-series silicon to the Windows market.…
North Korea's Lazarus Group shares its malware with IT work scammers
North Korean-linked crews connected to the pervasive IT worker scams have upped their malware game, using more advanced tools, including a backdoor that has much of the same code as Pyongyang's infamous Lazarus Group deploys.…
Amazon will refund $1.5B to 35M customers allegedly duped into paying for Prime
Amazon has settled the Federal Trade Commission's case against it for making it too hard to quit Prime, and while it naturally didn't admit to any wrongdoing, it's still going to pay out one of the largest settlements in FTC history to make the matter go away. …
AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42
Despite protest letters, concerns that it's biased and untrustworthy, model tweaks to appease its billionaire boss, and even a past incident where it called itself "MechaHitler," xAI's Grok is still being made available to government agencies for mere pennies.…
Callous crims break into preschool network, publish toddlers' data
A cyber criminal crew has targeted Kido International, a preschool and daycare organization, leaking sensitive details about its pupils and their parents.…
Harness pitches AI agents as your new DevOps taskmasters
At its Unscripted event in London, DevOps company Harness presented its latest AI-driven modules, including an AI pipeline builder, AI test automation, autonomous code fixing when builds fail, AI AppSec (application security) and even AI-driven chaos testing, where resiliency is tested by introducing random failures.…