Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs
Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs Summary Intel agreed to convert $5.7bn of CHIPS Act grants into a 10% equity stake held by…
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Summary The US Department of Defense has ordered Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers to support Azure cloud services…
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has added xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 to GitHub Copilot as an opt-in public preview for…
AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials
AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials Summary Amazon disclosed it disrupted an APT29 (aka Cozy Bear / Midnight Blizzard) watering‑hole campaign that tried to trick Microsoft users…
AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content
AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content Summary Opinion piece by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols highlighting how modern AI web crawlers are overloading…
AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says
AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says Summary The open-source GMP (GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library) project reports it has “fried” two AMD…
xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups
xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups Summary More than 30 advocacy organisations, led by Public Citizen and Color of Change, have sent an open…
Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference
Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Summary Alibaba’s T-Head division has reportedly developed a new AI accelerator focused on inference — serving models rather than training…
Researcher who found McDonald’s free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots
Summary A security researcher known as Bobdahacker has discovered critical administrative security weaknesses in Pudu Robotics’ backend systems that control service robots (BellaBot, FlashBot, etc.). The flaws allowed attackers with…
Uncle Sam doesn’t want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China
Summary The US Commerce Department has revoked the Verified End User (VEU) status for major South Korean memory manufacturers Samsung and SK Hynix, according to a Federal Register notice. The…