California tightens datacenter rules on water and power

Public pushback puts bit barn resource use under the microscope

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Anthropic-linked CVEs pile up, attackers mostly shrug

Of 225 flaws found by Glasswing and tracked by VulnCheck researcher, just one has confirmed exploitation in the wild

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Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club

Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too

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Skip the upgrade? iPhone 18 Pro aperture about as unrepairable as it gets, iFixit finds

Repairability improvements can't lift last year's score as camera complexity and screen-frame concerns remain

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Meta Muse AI app flaw lets local malware redirect dictation traffic

Ad biz promises users control while bug could expose voice prompts

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Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts

'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face

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Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing

'A new category,' insists the Chocolate Factory, not a premium Chromebook - yet some of the family resemblance remains

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London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street

Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO

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AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land

Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny

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AWS bolts together open source agent harness, says it sips fewer tokens than rivals

Strands claims near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks, though it only raced coding agents and marked its own homework

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RansomHouse picks a fight with Namibia's defense establishment

National cyber team confirms the breach, but not whether data was stolen or encrypted

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Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty

Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game

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Amazon shows Meta's Muse AI shopping agent the door

Retailer cites credentials and transparency concerns while guarding its lucrative customer journey

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Clop gets a taste of its own medicine after ShinyHunters hijack leak site

Rival crew demands eight figures and threatens to expose companies that paid to keep quiet

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NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon

Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain

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American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient

US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth

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Rustaceans warned of job interviews with a malicious payload

Attackers are courting crate owners with plausible company profiles and booby-trapped recruitment calls

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It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity

Please release me, let me close...

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Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how

Seats, Flex Credits, and all-you-can-eat contracts make for an 'anxiety-filled architecture'

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Your cloud survived everything except the real world

War damage, air traffic chaos, and a storage shortage expose the cost of treating resilience as someone else's problem

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VMware has quietly walked back its SmartNIC ambitions

Virtzilla’s bet on hyperscale hardware going mainstream didn’t excite customers, but may live on

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Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on

Attempt to prove procurement prowess ended up gathering dust

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Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal

Quits enterprise networking hardware business, tells users to install on-prem software ASAP

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Google joins the ‘Oops, our agents hacked someone’ club after partner’s internet access error

Kept it secret for months - even after OpenAI 'fessed up

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Chinese memory-maker CXMT claims DRAM production breakthrough

PLUS: Toyota's robot hiring spree; China's CDNs struggle; India to charge for some UPI payments; and more!

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How Windows turned months of inactivity into a 7-hour update hostage situation

Windows is getting more efficient. The updates, not so much

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Agentic security is the billion-dollar challenge for some clever startup to solve

High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The Reg

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AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth

Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap

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Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake

From Waterfox to LibreWolf and Pale Moon, there's a browser for almost every Mozilla dissenter

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Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec

Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache

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