Vendor slaps extra ‘memory fee’ on each tech purchase amid global chip crunch — the more you buy, the more you pay

Ubiquiti Inc. has started charging customers a ‘Memory Surcharge’ of up to 5.8% on some of the products sold in its online store.

News site linked to OpenAI super PAC sent bots posing as journalists to interview real people — site has published nearly 100 articles with real quotes gathered by fake writers

The site has published 94 articles since late December using a fully automated pipeline that drafts stories, reviews them, and deploys bots to solicit quotes from real people under fake bylines.

Inside Google’s TPU V8 strategy, delivering two chips for two crucial tasks at incredible scale — network scales up to 1 million TPUs per cluster, an advantage over Nvidia AI accelerators

Google announced its eighth-gen TPUs at Cloud Next, shipping two distinct chip designs for the first time in the TPU program’s decade-long history.

Microsoft and OpenAI end exclusivity agreement, opening up potential partnerships with Amazon and Google — Microsoft will continue to receive revenue share through 2030

Microsoft and OpenAI are ending their long-standing exclusivity agreement, allowing OpenAI to leverage cloud providers like Amazon and Google.

Complex that supplies 70% of global critical PCB base targeted in Iranian strike — attack could fracture the already disrupted electronics supply chain

War-related disruptions in the Middle East are hitting global electronics supply chains, triggering shortages in critical PCB and chipmaking materials that could drive up prices of gadgets

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic’s Claude goes rogue

After the company database was wiped in just 9 seconds, the founder of PocketOS penned a social media post to warn others about the ‘systemic failures’ of flagship AI and digital services providers.

New AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses — Kevin O’Leary’s 9 Gigawatt Utah data center campus approved

Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority on Friday approved a development agreement for a hyperscale data center campus in Box Elder County.

Chernobyl virus turned 27 today, and it could brick your PC in ways modern malware can’t by overwriting BIOS firmware

27 years ago today, on April 26, 1999, a 1 KB virus called CIH detonated its payload on hundreds of thousands of Windows 9x machines worldwide.