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SK Telecom named as the Korean carrier at the center of Anthropic's Mythos export controls controversy — access was revoked days before White House took Mythos and Fable 5 offline for all foreign nationals

Wired has identified SK Telecom as the South Korean telecom company whose access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos model the White House ordered revoked over alleged ties to China.

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16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes — 25x more than the drive's endurance rating

As part of an experiment, an enthusiast has written one petabyte of data on a legacy Sandisk P4 SATA II SSD that was released 16 years ago.

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Tesco UK supermarket chain removes 40,000 servers from VMware infrastructure — mass exodus continues due to Broadcom's aggressive subscription model

Tesco UK supermarket chain moves 40,000 servers off of VMWare infrastructure — mass exodus continues thanks to Broadcom's pricing shenanigans

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US energy regulator to order grid operators to expedite AI data center applications — says projects should bring their own power or cut usage during high demand

The FERC says that it will order grid operators to fast-track AI data center connections that generate their own power or reduce demand during peak hours. It demands that these changes must be enacted within 90 days.

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Scammers in China sell $222 RTX 4090 with fake GPU die made out of plastic instead of real silicon — marked with 2030 production dates, the card didn't even have working VRAM

Nvidia dupes keep getting more sophisticated as time goes on, with the latest example using a plastic die instead of real silicon on an RTX 4090.

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MSI's new Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld with an Intel Arc G3 Extreme and 32GB of RAM costs $1,799 — company says it'll be 'a tough year' with chances of 'another price hike'

MSI's new Arc G3 Extreme-based handheld costs nearly $2,000 but the company is rather apologetic about it, even if it's warning that the price may rise in the future.

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Retro pirate gets two-year suspended jail sentence for being stuck in the past, burning and selling remix CDs of famous artists — four-year investigation into copyright infringement on 40-year-old medium began in 2018

A UK man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to the unauthorized mixing and selling of music CDs, and thus breaking copyright laws. It is 2026.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook warns AI-driven price increases are unavoidable — says company is trying its best but 'the situation has become unsustainable'

Apple's Tim Cook says that Apple can no longer 'shield' its customers from increased prices of DRAM and NAND memory.

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Bosch to pay $36 million penalty for $72 million in ‘illicit’ sales to Huawei — German company sold export-controlled goods and software to banned Chinese firm between 2020 and 2024

The U.S. fined Bosch $36 million for selling export-controlled product to Huawei, including software and MEMS sensors. The German company agreed to pay the penalty, as well as disgorging part of the profits it made from the 'illicit' sales.

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Trump says Apple has agreed to 'build' chips with Intel — neither company confirms deal as Intel share price rockets

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Apple has agreed to work with Intel to “design and build” chips in the United States.

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Chinese makers of DRAM modules, SSDs have a serious advantage over American and Taiwanese suppliers, says SMI SVP — state guidance secures local DRAM and SSD supply while the Big Three chase AI margins

CCP directives can be lifebuoy for Chinese producers of DRAM modules and solid-state drives as domestic memory makers may be obliged to support the module industry.

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Digital entrepreneur creates humorous 'physical NFT minting device' using a Raspberry Pi in quest for 'infinite money machine' — contraption trained on M3 MacBook can generate an NFT in 3 seconds, has so far sold one for $9.92

An enterprising young man aims to catch up with the collective wealth of Elon Musk, and his first money spinner is a portable NFT minting gadget.

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Kaspersky finds malware hidden in Steam Wallpaper Engine that hijacks accounts to spread itself — dozens of malicious packages downloaded tens of thousands of times

Attackers have spent the past several months smuggling malware into Steam through animated desktop wallpapers.

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Frontier Airlines site leaks all personal info with just a glance at a boarding pass, researcher claims — booking number and last name nets you every passenger's personal info, including address, passport, TSA PreCheck, and most credit card info [Updated]

Frontier Airlines site leaks all personal info with just a glance at a boarding pass — just a booking number and last name nets you all passengers' personal info including address, passport, TSA PreCheck, and most credit card info

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DeepSeek was set to be added to US Entity List for supporting China’s military and intelligence operations, report claims — White House holds off to avoid escalating tensions with China

DeepSeek and CXMT, which have both been tagged as supporting Chinese military and intelligence operations, are set to be added to the U.S.'s Entity List. However, the White House hasn't included them yet in order to avoid escalating trade tensions with Beijing.

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Nvidia releases RTX Remix 1.5 with new RTX IO compression reducing mod file sizes by up to 37% — update also adds Smooth Normals and 'RTX Remix Skills' Agents

Nvidia has updated RTX Remix with a bunch of new features that will help improve the fidelity and reduce the file size of modded games, along with the complexity of developing said mods.

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Researchers build brain-like memory device for AI sensors that may improve energy efficiency — phototransistor device combines light sensing, memory, and processing to cut data movement

Oregon State University researchers have developed a brain-inspired phototransistor that combines light sensing, memory, and signal processing in one device. The hardware can electronically control how long optical memories persist or fade, potentially improving energy efficiency in future AI vision systems.

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Undersea cable connecting Egypt and Syria has been cut, state-owned telecom operator says — Damascus blames 'systematic sabotage campaign' as cause of damage

The Syrian government blamed a third party for the damage on its undersea cable that connects it to Egypt. Damascus didn't mention any specific state or non-state actor, but its location makes it a prime target for disruption.

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First official details of AMD's next-gen 'Mustang Peak' Threadripper CPUs come into view — chips feature DDR5, PCIe 6.0, and a new socket

We now have the first confirmed details about AMD's Zen 6-based Threadripper CPUs, code-named Mustang Peak.

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Nvidia reveals AI robots that taught themselves to install GPUs into motherboards — video shows robot ‘solve high-precision tasks like… installing GPUs all by itself’

Nvidia showcases agentic robots that can teach themselves high-precision and dexterous tasks - like PC building - in the real world.

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SMI says Nvidia is driving its consumer PCIe 6.0 roadmap, not AMD and Intel — RTX Spark agentic AI platform fuels a hunger for storage bandwidth

Nvidia may be ahead of AMD and Intel with PCIe Gen6-supporting platform for client PCs due to its client agentic AI ambitions, and that roadmap has suppliers like Silicon Motion paying attention.

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U.S. gov't asks court to dismiss NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI over use of unpermitted gas turbines — DOJ says Grok model running at Colossus 2 ‘supports mission-critical operations’

The US government is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit from the NAACP, arguing that the Colossus 2 data center is crucial for national security. The data center runs the Grok Gov AI model, and the government claims a shutdown "directly threatens ongoing national security interests."

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AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable — security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent when pressed about the change

AMD has reportedly stripped TSME from consumer Ryzen processors after years of working support, with testing suggesting newer AGESA firmware disables the memory-encryption feature while Pro and EPYC CPUs remain unaffected.

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Chinese memory brands ditch Samsung and Micron for homegrown CXMT and YMTC silicon — Corsair, HP, and Dell are already adopting the China-produced DDR5 chips

Chinese memory brands Gloway and KingBank have begun using homemade chips to produce DDR5 memory kits in lieu of Samsung, Micron, or SK hynix DRAM.

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Intel’s performance-enhanced 18A-P process enters risk production — drop-in 18A upgrade promises 9% performance improvement at iso-power, cuts thermal resistance by 40%

Intel's enhanced 18A-P has entered risk production, laying the groundwork to ramp the node into full production in the coming months.

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