Desperate SK hynix customers offer to buy its EUV machines and fund new fabs as memory capacity hits zero amid crushing AI-driven shortages — worsening global shortages pry open wallets to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars

The offers go well beyond standard long-term supply agreements.

Google’s DeepMind to train AI on player actions in quarter-million-player MMORPG Eve Online — Google bought in by purchasing a minority stake in the newly independent Fenris Creations

Google will leverage data from one of the most complex and multi-layered sci-fi RPGs to train its AI, as DeepMind begins training in Eve Online.
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Devastating ‘Dirty Frag’ exploit leaks out, gives immediate root access on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available, no warning given — Copy Fail-like vulnerability had its embargo broken

Dirty Frag exploit gets root on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available

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White House reportedly considers mandatory government vetting of AI models before release — executive order under discussion

The Trump administration is in early discussions about an executive order that would create a government review process for AI models before public release.
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Musk’s SpaceX has rented out access to its supercomputer’s 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI compute power to rival Anthropic — Musk says “No one set off my evil detector,” Antrhropic also interested in orbital data centers

Anthropic has signed a deal with SpaceX to access the latter’s massive data center, which has over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of computing power.
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Nvidia’s ISP piracy defense backfires as judge refuses to dismiss copyright lawsuit over more than 197,000 pirated books — scripts in NeMo Framework allegedly ‘have no other purpose’ than to speed up infringement

Nvidia said that its NeMo Megatron Framework has non-infringing uses and that it’s not liable for any piracy that its users might do.
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After a $16 billion Stargate AI data center was built despite being voted down, Michigan towns rush to block new buildouts — massive facility will suck 1.4 Gigawatts of energy to power ChatGPT

Backlash now covers county resolutions, bipartisan state legislation, and a regional water authority refusing to serve proposed facilities.
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College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line with software defined radios, stopping four trains — 19 years without crypto key rotation ends in predictable result as hacker sails through 7 layers of protection

College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line, stopping four trains

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Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix’s $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion

Negotiations between the National Samsung Electronics Union, which represents workers in the company’s chipmaking division, and management have seemingly broken down over a single issue.
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PCIe 8.0 spec hits 1 TB/s of bandwidth and has new connector technology — spec hits 0.5V milestone, final ratification expected in 2028

PCI-SIG announces availability of the first PCIe Gen8 draft, reassures 256 GT/s data transfer rate, maintains backwards compatibility, evaluates new connector technology.
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