Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state’s 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing

Virginia county asks all employees including schools to save power, due to AI-driven power requirements— state’s 400-plus datacenters steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing

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New PC purchases see sharpest drop in nearly three years as memory and storage prices bite — shipments fall by 7%, analysts forecast 14% contraction that will hit budget laptops hard
 New PC purchases see sharpest drop in nearly three years as memory and storage prices bite — shipments fall by 7%, analysts forecast 14% contraction that will hit budget laptops hard

A research firm says that PC deliveries for the first quarter of 2026 fell by 7%, with the entire industry expected to ship 14.4% less units for the entire year.

AI researchers trick chatbots into sharing how to make cocaine as long as they believe a user is wearing a green shirt — ‘CoT Forgery’ exploit spurs LLMs to divulge forbidden info by faking trusted chains of thought
 AI researchers trick chatbots into sharing how to make cocaine as long as they believe a user is wearing a green shirt — ‘CoT Forgery’ exploit spurs LLMs to divulge forbidden info by faking trusted chains of thought

Tagged partitions of a LLM’s input sequence are meant to provide security through trusted roles, but it turns out that models judge whether inputs sound like they belong in certain tags rather than literally interpreting them, making them vulnerable to prompt injection.

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Windows Defender ‘BlueHammer’ vulnerability now exploited as part of malware campaigns — CISA issues warning despite patch release on April 14

Windows Defender “BlueHammer” vulnerability now exploited as part of malware campaigns — event demonstrates lack of security awareness despite existence of patches

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Nvidia reportedly cancels quad-die Rubin Ultra GPU in favor of dual-GPU design, report claims — complex design purportedly scrapped over ‘manufacturing execution concerns’
 Nvidia reportedly cancels quad-die Rubin Ultra GPU in favor of dual-GPU design, report claims — complex design purportedly scrapped over ‘manufacturing execution concerns’

Nvidia reportedly abandons quad-dire Rubin Ultra GPUs in favor of dual-die Rubin Ultra due to ‘manufacturing execution concerns.’

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Chinese Z.ai’s latest model tops AI ranking charts amid Anthropic Fable 5 ban — blacklisted China firm’s popular open-weight GLM-5.2 AI model powered by Huawei silicon
 Chinese Z.ai’s latest model tops AI ranking charts amid Anthropic Fable 5 ban — blacklisted China firm’s popular open-weight GLM-5.2 AI model powered by Huawei silicon

Within a week of Fable’s ban, GLM-5.2 had climbed to the top of the openly available leaderboards.

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Taiwan raids Supermicro and two supply-chain partners in widening Nvidia smuggling probe — nine sites hit as six people summoned for questioning
 Taiwan raids Supermicro and two supply-chain partners in widening Nvidia smuggling probe — nine sites hit as six people summoned for questioning

Taiwan officials raided Supermicro Computer’s Taiwan office on Monday, alongside the homes of six individuals and three affiliated company sites

Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists — $300,000 worth of copper wire and $1 million worth of equipment recovered outside Chicago
 Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists — $300,000 worth of copper wire and $1 million worth of equipment recovered outside Chicago

Authorities recover $1.3 million worth of data center supplies and equipment in a truck stop near Chicago. Equipment like this is a prime target for theft rings given its high value, but it’s also likely difficult to sell given its specialized nature.

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South Korea unveils $520 billion investment plan with Samsung and SK Hynix to expand memory chip dominance — plan includes four new fabs and HBM facilities, amid strong government support

President Lee unveiled an 800 trillion won ($520B) public-private plan for four new Samsung and SK Hynix fabs, dwarfing the US CHIPS Act tenfold.

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Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron sued over alleged DRAM price fixing amid record memory costs — lawsuit claims coordinated HBM shift was cover to curtail DDR3 and DDR4 production

Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron were sued on June 25th in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.