Applied Materials Sued In China Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft Summary Beijing E-Town Semiconductor Technology Co. has filed a lawsuit in the Beijing Intellectual Property Court accusing US chip-equipment giant…
Summary Margaret “Maggie” Boden, a pioneering British philosopher and cognitive scientist who used computational ideas to illuminate human thought and creativity, has died aged 88. The University of Sussex announced…
Foxconn Now Making More From Servers than iPhones Summary Foxconn’s Q2 2025 results show a clear shift: revenue rose 16% to NT$1.79 trillion (US$59.7bn) and operating profit climbed 27% to…
China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis Summary China has launched the World Humanoid Robot Games, a three-day competition with 280 teams from 16 countries. The event…
China is About To Launch SSDs So Small You Insert Them Like a SIM Card Summary Chinese manufacturer Biwin has unveiled a “Mini SSD” roughly the size of a human…
The Plan For Linux After Torvalds Has a Kernel of Truth: There Isn’t One Summary A Register column highlighted that the Linux kernel project currently has no formal succession plan…
Microsoft Kills Volume Rebates in Name of ‘Transparency’ Summary Microsoft is changing how it prices Online Services under Enterprise Agreements by removing volume rebate programmes and aligning prices with those…
Sam Altman Says ‘Yes,’ AI Is In a Bubble Summary OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters that investor enthusiasm for AI has entered bubble territory. He said investors are “overexcited…
xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler Summary WIRED reports that Elon Musk’s xAI was on track to join a fast-moving General Services Administration…
Watch Our Livestream Replay: What GPT-5 Means for ChatGPT Users Summary WIRED hosted a subscribers-only livestream on 14 August where reporters Reece Rogers, Kylie Robison and Will Knight answered audience…
