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Why the immediate future of liquid cooling is hybrid

From training massive language models to powering nonstop inference, AI is fundamentally rewriting the rules of data center thermal management.AI workloads are characteristically less predictable and significantly more power-dense than traditional o...

Certification authority eMudhra defends its laughably weak private keys

Indian certification authority eMudhra has defended the laughably weak private keys it used to sign some digital certificates it issued, and suggested others should share the blame for the incident.In case you’re coming to this one late, news broke...

IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has told investors that open weight models now make brilliant sense for on-prem enterprise use.Speaking on the company’s Q3 earnings call, Krishna said that in 2024 closed frontier models were plainly superior to open alternat...

Philippine government suspends top tech official for alleged misconduct

The Philippines government’s Ombudsman has suspended a senior Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) official over allegations he assigned government contracts to a company he founded and continued to hold a stake in.The Ombu...

To help world gorge on GPUs, Nvidia brings cash bucket to fatten wafer-thin supply chain

Nvidia has decided that its future prospects rest on an improved silicon substrate and packing supply chain, so has dipped into its giant pile of cash to ensure it can get the parts it needs by ensuring its suppliers have the resources needed to pla...

PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk

PHP developers have accused software supply chain security shop Chainguard of effectively revealing critical bugs in the open-source scripting language ahead of a planned official disclosure.On Wednesday, just hours after releasing emergency patches...

OpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million in tokens last month

Peter Steinberger, member of technical staff at OpenAI and the creator of OpenClaw, estimates that he spent around $10 million in tokens running AI workloads last month. But don't feel bad for him, because it's all coming out of investors' pockets.H...

Reach new heights of laziness by burning tokens to let an AI tap your smartphone screen for you

Why use your smartphone when AI can do it for you? We’ve reached a new level of AI inanity with the launch of Opposable, a tool that taps, swipes, and types on Android phones and controls iPhones through a companion computer, sparing users the appar...

YouTube says it isn’t testing hiding the dislike button

On Tuesday, I published a story about how YouTube appeared to be testing hiding the dislike button on videos, with at least twousers on X sharing screenshots of the dislike button moved into the three-dot menu. But a YouTube spokesperson, in a...

Tesla says customers can add their own vehicles to the robotaxi fleet next year — will it happen?

For years, Elon Musk has been making big promises to Tesla owners about unsupervised autonomous driving and the ability to add their own vehicles to the company's robotaxi fleet. During today's third-quarter earnings call, the company finally g...

Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models

Nvidia hopes to capitalize on European sovereign AI demand by unloading a slew of new open weights models spanning chatbots, healthcare, and robotics.The major model devs have the resources to build highly capable models from scratch. But most enter...

Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains

A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI.New and proposed data centers are demanding a treme...

LiteLLM supply chain attack hoovers up passwords and secrets

Unknown crims compromised LiteLLM's release process on Wednesday, distributing a malicious version (1.107.0) containing malware designed to steal cloud and AI credentials and a remote access trojan (RAT) capable of executing arbitrary code on infect...

Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push

Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisitions and employee compensat...

AI will eat a fifth of tech budgets in 2027, but don't expect it to pay for itself

More than half of CIOs are likely to miss their AI-related ROI targets next year, according to Forrester. The analyst firm's State Of AI Survey 2026 found that 45 percent of AI decision-makers need positive ROI within a year to consider their invest...

Signal bug could keep your mic - and camera - on after hangup

Make sure you don’t say anything mean or secret after hanging up a call on Signal, as a bug in the encrypted messaging app’s calling library could prevent a call from ending properly, potentially leaving audio and possibly video active.The vulnerabi...

New York’s first microdrama film festival searches for its audience

Actors Taye Diggs, Autumn Federici, Gary Entin, Troy Brookins, Edmund Entin and Eric Guilmette attend the world premiere of Microhouse Films and Lifetime's Reunion Island during the ALZA Festival. | Getty Images for Lifetime. It remains to be...

Meta says it would’ve made over $22 billion if it didn’t have to pay a child safety settlement

Meta had to shell out $9.89 billion to pay for a chunk of the child safety settlement it reached with US attorneys general. That's according to the company's third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, which says Meta's income from ope...

PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today

Two bugs found with AI are behind major issues today for 4chan, DeviantArt, Wikipedia, and the blog where the bar around the corner posts pictures of people's dogs. The "critical vulnerabilities" were discovered in the PHP programming language,...

Flying Roadsters can’t lift Tesla’s flat Q3 revenues

As the smoke clears from its outrageous Roadster demo, Tesla reported Q3 earnings on Wednesday - and the cold reality is that revenue has flatlined.Tesla said it earned $1.7 billion in net income on $28.0 billion in revenue in the quarter that...