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

MicroSD card torture test writes 133 petabytes of data across 351 cards over three years — cards tested to failure reveal SanDisk as the outlier with 6 failures of the 7 tested

Microsoft-backed AI data center faces backlash over alleged unpermitted gas turbines and 1.5M-gallon LNG tank — groups' issues with $19.4B facility range from illegal construction to noise pollution

Memory maker CXMT overtakes Tencent to become China's most valuable company 17 days after its IPO — now worth $524 billion

Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on its lands, won't support projects without consultation - energy and water consumption, air quality, noise…

GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game

3D-printed sound-powered jet engines propel micro drones — fliers are completely silent; researchers use ultrasonic frequencies to drive 12,000-RPM silent hovering fliers

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