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GTA 6 leaker cashes out in $250,000 crypto rug pull just hours before Rockstar's official reveal — memecoin crashes as Cyberleek's 'anti-corporate' campaign ends in a payday

The person or group behind nine days of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay leaks cashed out of the $CYBERLEEK memecoin on Thursday, hours before Rockstar's Extended Look premiered on Netflix.

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US Navy launches missiles from its first drone sailboat — Saildrone Surveyor launches dual JAGM missiles, carrier strike group tests armed USV and electronic warfare

The U.S. Navy successfully tested a sail-powered autonomous drone in live-fire exercises in the Pacific.

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MSI brings DDR4 back to gaming laptops amidst DRAM crisis — Katana 15 HX C14 available with up to Core i9-14900HX and RTX 5070

With 32GB DDR4 SO-DIMM memory kits costing roughly half as much as comparable DDR5 kits, MSI’s new Katana 15 HX C14 could help reduce the impact of soaring memory prices.

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New US export controls reportedly target Chinese access to remote AI servers — Trump admin's cut-down AI diffusion rule could be shared with industry as soon as September

The Trump administration is reportedly drafting a rule to close a loophole around remote access to advanced AI compute, and it could be shared with trade groups as early as September.

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Nvidia gears up its influence in Washington, forming PAC — tells employees that decisions Congress makes over the coming years could have substantial consequences for the AI industry, according to report

Nvidia establishes its employees federal political action committee (PAC) to fund politicians whose positions are favorable to Nvidia's interests.

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Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold worldwide — three different backdoor-like implants hidden in firmware

Security researchers at Vulncheck discovered intentionally masked surveillance implants embedded in the firmware of numerous devices from Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics.

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DLSS 5 has already been ported to work on RTX 4000 Series graphics cards — incompatible CUDA instructions get patched to work on previous-gen hardware

One modder has reverse-engineered DLSS 5 to function on RTX 4000 series Ada Lovelace-based GPUs, porting incompatible CUDA instructions within the Neural Rendering DLL, enabling them to be read on previous-gen hardware.

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Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB

Cloudflare says that it has freed up roughly 100TB of RAM across its global fleet without reconfiguring any physical RAM modules in its servers.

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Nvidia denies pausing AI cloud commitments initiative after reported partner backlash — report claims company told cloud providers it could only lease its GPUs to Nvidia-approved customers

Nvidia denies putting AI cloud commitments initiative on hold despite reports that some deals were paused amid partner pushback over customer controls and concerns about potential antitrust scrutiny.

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Micron workers increasingly support strike over bonus pay — labor union wants profit-sharing scheme, as employees at Samsung, SK hynix enjoy bonuses worth hundreds of thousands of dollars

80% of Micron workers in Taiwan have signaled that they're willing to go on strike if the company does not strike a deal over bonuses. The employees want to replace the current bonus system with a profit-sharing scheme, allowing them to take advantage of the AI-driven memory boom.

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X busts 200,000-strong Chinese bot farm, including accounts making claims about AI data centers and electricity — suspect accounts posted claims about pricing and grid strain to 'manipulate' debate

The X Safety Team said that at least 200 bot accounts have been making posts to influence public opinion data centers and energy policy. The accounts share links to legitimate news stories and then add their own spin designed to inflame emotions.

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Google clamps down on Android app RAM usage amid AI memory crisis — developers have until February 2027 to adapt to new memory-optimizing rules

Google implements stricter memory limits and introduces new performance standards for Android apps.

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Intel 14A defect density is dropping faster than the company expected — 'we have not seen this performance since 22nm,' says CFO

Intel says defect density of 14A process technology is declining rapidly as internal teams are already developing 14A-based products, while external clients are now wondering about capacity that Intel can provide them.

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Modders get leaked DLSS 5 running in Control — early Blackwell test drops RTX 5070 Ti from 71 to 35 FPS at 4K

DLSS 5 has apparently leaked, originating from inside a new game.

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SK hynix breaks ground on the first HBM plant in the US, bringing key AI component production to the States — says production starts in 2029

SK hynix breaks ground on HBM assembly plant in the U.S. that will form a connection between DRAM wafers produced in South Korea and their consumers among AI companies in the U.S.

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Indiana power provider proposes $59 million rate cut for state, says data centers and other large customers are driving increased revenue — move could potentially save residential users $100 annually

I&M, which serves part of Indiana, says that it plans to cut electricity prices for the state, resulting in savings of about $59 million for residential users. This translates to about $100 a year for each home, with the savings coming from increased revenue from larger consumers like data centers.

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Claude nukes a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up — Anthropic safety harness downgraded model to Opus 4.8 before fatal variable collision

Claude nuked a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing a script to ensure that wouldn't happen, and it's possible that an automatic model downgrade likely contributed to the screw-up

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China's YMTC aims to become the world's largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix

The target would require YMTC to nearly double its market share in 16 months.

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Trump administration weighs expanding chip tariffs to laptops, consoles, and servers, report claims — January's data center exemptions may be scrapped

The Trump administration is weighing a second round of semiconductor tariffs that would extend duties beyond chips to products built with them.

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Many talks between data center developers and local governments are wrapped in secrecy behind non-disclosure agreements — residents question the need for NDAs, but developers argue it’s important to avoid ‘running afoul of insider trading rules’

Researchers discovered that most negotiations between data centers and local governments are protected by NDAs. These documents keep details in secret, with residents having a difficult time finding information about these projects because of the agreements.

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Nvidia expects to sell $20 billion of Vera Rubin systems in Q3 as shipments begin — figure would account for 20% of its data center revenue mix, marks fastest ramp in company history

Nvidia expects Vera Rubin to become its fastest-ramping data center AI platform as it projects sales of Vera Rubin hardware to hit 20% of data center revenue in its third fiscal quarter.

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Samsung's new Odyssey G6 monitor hits a ridiculous 1,100Hz refresh rate at 720p — displays each frame for less than a millisecond

Ironically, the display with the four-digit refresh rate is actually the bottom of the display stack Samsung is showing off at Gamescom 2026.

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Ingenious indie hacker funds $3,000 MacBook purchase by selling advertising space on the lid — sticker space auction has already raised 111% of the price of the laptop

An enterprising individual has successfully pre-sold enough advertisement sticker space on their dream MacBook’s lid to raise 111% of the laptop’s retail price.

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EPA faces lawsuit over claims it fast-tracked approval of toxic 'data center chemicals' — exposure to photoacid generators used for semiconductor manufacturing could result in ‘sudden death,’ also appear to be long-lasting PFAS

An environmental group said that two new chemicals approved by the EPA for semiconductor manufacturing do not come with enough safeguards, so they're suing the agency for 'turning the new chemical review process on its head.'

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Nvidia to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, report claims — could strengthen Nvidia's open-model strategy and shore up position against rivals

Nvidia reportedly plans to buy Hugging Face at a price that exceeds its revenue by over 80 times, making it a major strategic investment in AI ecosystem.

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