Wolves roam into Finnish villages after Google destroys 1,300 acres of forest for AI data centers

An unidentified user who accidentally broke the PHP news embargo, sparking worldwide panic, comes clean

New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads

Lack of staff and funding likely led to the recent PHP security snafu; project has only one full-time employee, but that's just the tip of the iceberg

Texas has suspended 17 data center construction permits and shut down automated portal that rubber-stamped projects — site was left running for a month after Greg Abbott called for a pause on approvals

Amazon bows to local backlash over AI data centers, scraps plans to build four new facilities in Northern Virginia — site to be repurposed for mixed-use and residential development

Valve adds CD-ROM drive support to Steam Frame kernel, took less than ten minutes — update comes one day after user requests for capability in the Steam Community forum

3.2 Petabits per second real-time optical fiber transfer speed world record claimed by Chinese team, equivalent to downloading more than 20,000 4K movies in one second — speed improvement of 30% in one year

US restarts three shut-down nuclear reactors to feed AI data centers — 2.25 GW coming online with backing from Microsoft and Google

Cybersecurity bounty hunter says Samsung TVs use AI to record audio and screenshots for ads — 'Finally found a company that truly listens to its customers,' says hacker

480,000 phishing emails sent from a PC hidden behind a fridge in a Japanese hotel room — Chinese couple arrested over fraud operation, scammers remotely leech Wi-Fi to target 2.4 million victims

Jensen Huang Nvidia GTC keynote disrupted by Greenpeace protest over chips in Russian drones — "What are you doing about that?" heckler demands before being thrown out

Windows XP debuted 25 years ago today — Microsoft's biggest launch since 95 was its first consumer OS to remove the DOS underpinnings

China-aligned hackers deploy AI agents in massive ConnectWise supply chain attack — agents attempted sign-ins at more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, with some of the group's attacks reaching privileged access in under three hours

Russian military satellite closes from 200 miles to 3 miles of US radar satellite aiding Ukraine — astronomer says it may be the first unapproved rendezvous in low Earth orbit

FCC issues first bans under new chip-level rule — dashcam and video transmitter carried Huawei AI silicon with face tracking

Senate probe accuses Big Tech of misleading public on AI data centers — massive 100 MW sites create only 100 jobs while securing lucrative GPU tax breaks; Senators question the number of permanent jobs…

Police reportedly pulling motorists over because AI algorithms deem their driving patterns 'suspicious' — rights group report warns AI surveillance systems will sweep in more innocent people than wrongdoers

300-plus local data center bans have only delayed just three US projects

US military-backed cargo pod promises 90-minute orbital delivery anywhere on Earth, 10-ton Ghost vehicle gets first real-world test — Sierra Space drops radio and whiskey from 68,500 feet to test StarCraft-like supply drops

Ukrainian drones strike Russia's largest data center, multiple parts of 1.4 million square foot campus knocked offline

Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages

Nvidia RTX 5090 shipment worth $470,000 goes missing in Brazilian airport — two pallets disappear, distributor seeks explanations but met with zero answers

Flock camera locations revealed on MapQuest’s new Surveillance Layer — users can now see placement and direction of known license plate readers from multiple companies

State of California sues 3D printer filament company Polymaker for promoting ghost guns by marketing to 3D-printed gun community — state alleges company turns harmless PLA filament into a regulated "firearm precursor part"

Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers

Micron now has an 88% margin on consumer memory as price hikes drive profits

Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications

Console market craters as Xbox 2026 sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 2026 sales drop 25% — steep price hikes push Series X to $800 and PS5 Pro to $900

Leaked video exposes how industrial-scale Chinese factories are dismantling RTX 5090s by the thousands to fuel AI servers — GPU die and memory desoldered and transplanted to blower designs; custom cards to Nvidia Founders Editions on the chopping block

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