Chinese chipmaker CXMT allegedly used a written roadmap to steal Samsung DRAM tech — South Korean court says 'Project Hefei' lifted 620-step recipe to build 10% global market share

Linux kernel nears record 2,000 vulnerabilities per release as AI bug hunters scour 40 million lines of code — maintainers say they are "completely overwhelmed" by CVE finds

AI memory shortage: Fairphone says RAM is now 60% of materials cost

A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record – beats desktop i9 and Ryzen 9

AMD unveils Threadripper Halo Station, an AI workstation packing 96 cores

Jensen Huang and Lisa Su snubbed by TIME’s 2026 list of top 100 AI leaders — Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck, among others, make the list as ‘Architects of AI’ inexplicably not listed

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

PBS loses 70 years of TV history after cloud storage vendor goes defunct

U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers

Ukraine built a $48,000 long-range drone after covertly snapping Chinese factory photos, clone destroys Russian Tu-95 bomber — attack drone has 2,000 km range, country builds 6,000 $48,000 flying-wing drones a year

Enterprise SSDs cost 18.6 times more than HDDs as 30TB drives hit $22,600 — hard drive supply is sold out through 2027

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

DDR5 scalper bots now outnumber shoppers 10 to 1 — automated scraping hits listings every 6.5 seconds as 32GB kits surge from $72 to $392, DataDome researcher says

Man uses robot vacuum to covertly record his wife's affair, wins divorce settlement but gets sentenced to prison for making an illegal recording — Husband lands behind bars after counter-suit over privacy rights

AliExpress allegedly uses your browser's audio system to fingerprint your PC, hidden code runs even when no sound is playing

Ukrainian drone regiment ‘decimates’ 3,500-strong U.S

The world's first webcam was switched off 25 years ago today; 128x128 grayscale feed predated the World Wide Web to monitor a Cambridge coffee pot

Kansas town drops charges against teacher arrested for clapping during public hearings on data centers — says that ‘case has been dismissed without prejudice’

China's YMTC aims to become the world's largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix

Local officials face death threats and gunfire over AI data center projects — More than 500 towns restrict builds as councils shutter public comment

Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold worldwide — three different backdoor-like implants hidden in firmware

EPA faces lawsuit over claims it fast-tracked approval of toxic 'data center chemicals' — exposure to photoacid generators used for semiconductor manufacturing could result in ‘sudden death,’ also appear to be long-lasting PFAS

China's top DRAM maker CXMT sues Pentagon over its blacklisting — argues chips are standard civilian JEDEC spec, not defense hardware

Nvidia doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's MSRP to a staggering $16,000

Hardware researcher spins up 'CPU deoptimization' project to find the slowest single x86 instruction, creates hall of shame — worst offender takes 198 billion cycles spanning 62 seconds to execute

Gamescom Crime Spree? Three Exhibitors Report Their Laptops Were Stolen

Claude nukes a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up — Anthropic safety harness downgraded model to Opus 4.8 before fatal variable collision

Valve was founded 30 years ago — changed PC gaming forever with Half-Life, then Steam

Self-driving Ford F-250 truck with shotgun-equipped drone-killing turret tested by US Army; autonomous system designed to blast fast-moving drones at between 10 and 100 meters range

Supermicro fires several employees following investigation into $2.5 billion China AI chip smuggling — claims that senior management had no knowledge of illicit transactions

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