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Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan

Nvidia is more than just a leader in graphics and AI hardware. It has also become a titan of the networking industry with bigger datacenter Ethernet sales than any other vendor.In Q2, Nvidia's networking revenues topped $17.5 billion. To put that i...

Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts

Declining token prices have prompted Darkbloom, a distributed inference network, to reassess its business plans.Darkbloom, a project from Seattle-based tech biz Eigen Labs, has developed software that allows anyone with a sufficiently capable macOS...

HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare

When you're ordering food from your phone, even time spent navigating the app is time wasted. At the P99 2026 virtual conference, Elvis Chidera, a staff engineer at Germany-based global delivery service Delivery Hero, explained how the company moved...

Crim spent $7K+ on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see

A n0n ransomware operator tried to break into 23 organizations across 14 countries, but couldn't secure its own front door, leaving its server exposed with all of its methods on view.The criminals used a mix of new (AI) and old (stolen credentials)...

Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China with iOS 27.3

Apple will launch Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3, the company announced on its Chinese newsroom website, as reported by MacRumors. The Apple Intelligence features will be available first in an iOS 27.3 beta that's set to launch on No...

Exclusive details about Akai’s MPC Sample Key

Akai teased its new MPC Sample Key on Instagram earlier this week, and said it plans to open-source its software so the modding community can hack it to their hearts' delight. While there's no word yet on when the device will launch or how much...

Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk

Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. During his appearance on the Cheeky Pint podcast, where he a...

GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement

General Motors is taking what looks like a light slap on the wrist from a coalition of 35 states and the District of Columbia after agreeing to settle allegations that it collected drivers' data without proper consent and sold it to data brokers tha...

Anthropic: That Claude Code extension compromise… couldn't be us

Anthropic has denied allegations that a malicious version of the official Claude Code extension published to Cursor’s marketplace was linked to any kind of compromise of its own systems.The company was forced to issue a statement after prominent fig...

The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable. With this control, publishers can apply their AI training pr...

Voyager 1 gives controllers the silent treatment

Voyager 1 gave controllers the silent treatment for a few days this month before resuming communication weeks before the spacecraft reaches the one-light-day milestone.The incident happened on October 18: NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) couldn't det...

AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS

Just days after Daemonarchy, there's another new OS in the BSD family – and one that is heading determinedly in almost the opposite direction.AlpineBSD is so new that it barely exists yet. There are no installation media available, though it's possi...

Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth

Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space. In a blog post on Friday, Google says it successfully booted up the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), allowing the on-board Gemma 4 model to follow throu...

NASA ponders a Hubble servicing mission or a controlled deorbit

NASA has posted a contract opportunity notice, also known as a request for information, from commercial space orgs who can service the Hubble Space Telescope.Hubble was always looked after by NASA astronauts flying on the Space Shuttle, yet the las...

Starbucks wants to use AI to show you a ‘personalized digital menu’ at the drive-thru

Starbucks could eventually show you a personalized digital menu when you pull up to the drive-thru. During an earnings call on Thursday, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the company is going to explore "experiences that recognize participating c...

The delightfully messy state of Apple gadgets

The iPhone has more screens! The MacBook has a touchscreen! The HomeView does CarPlay apps! For the first time in a long time, Apple is in a period of unabashed gadget experimentation, and while the final results aren't always perfect, it's fun...

Rivian’s autonomy gamble faces its first real test

Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe (left) watches Rivian R2s being built after an event at the Rivian assembly plant on May 19th, 2026, in Normal, Illinois. | Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images During an hourlong earnings call last night, Rivia...

AI projects not paying off? Keep at it, says Uni Productivity Institute

The University of Manchester is scrutinizing why growing adoption of AI tools has so far failed to translate into the forecast productivity gains, however, researchers are struggling to give easy answers to close the "AI ambition gap."In a report, a...

Vizio’s discounted Mini LED TV lets you skip the sign-ups and smarts

Walmart’s inexpensive Vizio produces a nice, bright image, though its black levels aren’t that deep. | Photo: John Higgins / The Verge Modern smart TVs let you skip the streaming device, which is convenient, but they also come with their own i...

NHS quango warns of risk to GP patient data after website vendor collapse

The UK's top health quango has called on family doctors to figure out how to preserve health information and get in touch with patients after a website provider collapsed earlier this month. NHS England has taken the unusual step of writing to GPs,...