Project Jupiter AI data center build raises concerns about water usage in rural New Mexico desert — Oracle calls water usage ‘negligible’ for 11 million gallon one-time fill

Oracle’s Project Jupiter is targeting a New Mexico desert already struggling with water consumption, but the company assures residents that the data center’s water usage is “negligible.”
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Multiple small Tennessee counties pass temporary data center bans — Nashville also passed near-unanimous moratorium on first reading

Two jurisdictions in Tennessee just passed a data center moratorium as three more a set to vote on bills that delay these projects. These temporary bans have gained widespread support, especially in rural regions where dev…

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Marvell details vision of optically-interconnected data centers spanning across thousands of kilometers — new interconnects sampling later this year would allow CSPs to pool resources based on workload

Marvell shares its vision for optically connected data centers, connecting devices across hundreds of kilometers, and the company already has hardware to build them.
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China’s supreme court bans Infineon from selling GaN power chips in China — market-leader Innoscience secures major victory in multi-region patent war

China’s Supreme People’s Court on Friday upheld an injunction prohibiting Infineon from selling disputed GaN products in mainland China.
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FBI dismantles Chinese phishing service that coached buyers to generate scam sites using AI —$88 cybercrime product linked to $1.9 billion in losses, 3.87 million stolen cards

The FBI, Google, and Lumen Technologies say they’ve dismantled a China-based phishing-as-a-service operation called Outsider Enterprise.
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2021 Honda Civic infotainment system can be jailbroken via USB — flaw uses public Android test keys to install unauthorized apps, enables for ‘EvilValet’ attacks

A software architect determined that they could practically install anything they want on the infotainment system of their 2021 Honda Civic through the front USB port. While the head unit required a signed AOSP file to upd…

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Apple made marketing gold from the export ban on Power Mac G4 ‘supercomputer’ in 1999, ‘for the first time in history a personal computer has been classified as a weapon’ — Pentagon banned sales of the 400 MHz G4 in 50 countries when it launched

In the context of the recent tech export bans, we look back at the Apple PowerMac G4 export ban from 1999 and Steve Jobs making marketing gold from the situation.
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Computer History Museum recalls ‘astonishing’ retro haul recovered from abandoned German warehouse — over 2,000 artifacts spanning the 1930s to 1980s required seven tractor-trailers after a WWII bomb scare

The Computer History Museum recalls one of its biggest ever retro treasure troves. This ‘astonishing’ haul was rescued from an abandoned warehouse in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, Germany.
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OpenAI hit with sweeping probe from massive coalition of 42 US state attorneys general just days after reported IPO filing — subpoena targets ChatGPT maker’s ads, data practices, handling of minors, model sycophancy, and safety policies

State attorneys general have opened a broad investigation into OpenAI, subpoenaing documents on ads, user retention, data handling, minors, health data, model behavior, and safety policies.
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US government warned Anthropic that Fable 5 had been jailbroken, but firm ‘refused’ to fix before US implemented export controls — Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak ‘isn’t serious,’ Chinese group had reportedly accessed model

David Sacks said the US government warned Anthropic that Claude Fable 5 had been jailbroken and that CEO Dario Amodei refused to fix the flaw.
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