FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP’s emails as spam Summary FTC chair Andrew Ferguson has written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai after reports that Gmail was routing Republican fundraising…
Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs Summary The US government converted approximately $5.7bn of CHIPS Act grant funding into a 10% equity stake…
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Summary The Pentagon has ordered Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers to support Azure cloud services for US Department…
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has added xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 model to GitHub Copilot as an opt-in public preview…
AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials Summary Amazon said it disrupted a watering‑hole campaign by APT29 (aka Cozy Bear / Midnight Blizzard) that aimed to harvest Microsoft…
AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content Summary Opinion piece by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on how modern AI web crawlers are overwhelming…
AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says Summary The GMP (GNU Multiple Precision) project reports that two AMD Ryzen 9950X processors were damaged…
xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups Summary More than 30 advocacy organisations, led by Public Citizen and Colour of Change, have urged the US…
Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Summary Alibaba has reportedly developed a domestic AI accelerator focused on inference workloads as Beijing pushes to reduce dependence on…
Researcher who found McDonald’s free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots Summary A security researcher known as Bobdahacker discovered that Pudu Robotics — a major Chinese supplier of…
