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AI data center developers target rural territory to bypass city construction bans and regulations — rural locations allow sites to bypass city council approvals, rezoning votes, land-use reviews, and reduce public scrutiny

Data center projects are increasingly being put on unincorporated land to reduce the regulatory friction brought about by municipal level permits. These rural sites also offer larger parcels, giving more spaces to build various building and could potentially affect less people.

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Intel, SK hynix shares surge following reports of chip packaging partnership — SK is said to be testing Intel's 2.5D EMIB for HBM integration

The rally followed a report claiming that SK is conducting R&D with Intel on 2.5D packaging using Intel's EMIB technology.

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Scammers are selling fake DDR5 with empty plastic chips relabeled to pass as legit — fake components mounted to PCBs are yet another sign of the RAMpocalypse

DDR5 memory is overpriced right now, which might make some people desperate to get their hands on a good deal. Unfortunately, that could lead to you being taken advantage of with fake modules that are literally empty inside. A Japanese buyer warns of how this scam works and how to…

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IRGC-linked media outlines plan to tax and control undersea internet cables in the Hormuz Strait — Iran's mouthpiece calls for a cut of $10 trillion of transactions that pulse through the cables daily

The oil and shipping choke point of the Strait of Hormuz looks set to become a digital pressure point with internet cabling under threat.

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Portable 40mm launcher kills drones by firing 6.5-feet-long steel chains at 80 m/s — German researchers' low-tech mechanical 'bola' outshines textile, drops quadcopters without lasers or EMPs

The concept draws on the same physics as the bola, a weighted throwing weapon used for centuries by South American herders.

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MIT researchers revive 40-year-old triangular zipper concept now made possible by 3D printing, creates shape-shifting robots and deployable structures — 3D-printed 'Y-Zipper' turns floppy tentacles into rigid beams in seconds

MIT researchers have developed a 3D-printed three-sided zipper that rapidly transforms floppy structures into rigid beams, robotic limbs, and deployable frameworks using triangular geometry.

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Former Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game engines — 'The Immense Engine' dev sees opportunity for AI agents to 'do the work of ten or fifteen people'

A heavyweight games industry veteran says he is building a fully European alternative to popular games engines from American and Chinese companies.

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China's Hanyuan-2 debuts as 'world's first' dual-core quantum computer — 200-qubit claims incredible power efficiency, but lacks critical performance benchmarks

CAS Cold Atom Technology, a Wuhan-based firm affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), unveiled what it calls the world's first dual-core quantum computer.

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AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine builders of massive 6.2 million-square-foot facility over unauthorized water use

QTS says the extra 29 million gallons were consumed during temporary construction activities, including concrete work, dust control, and site preparation.

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Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards in 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers

The combined sales of the four biggest motherboard manufacturers are expected to fall by at least 28% in 2026, with the entire industry selling 11.7 million less units due to increasing PC component costs.

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Musk's SpaceX has rented out access to its supercomputer's 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI compute power to rival Anthropic — Musk says “No one set off my evil detector,” Antrhropic also interested in orbital data centers

Anthropic has signed a deal with SpaceX to access the latter's massive data center, which has over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of computing power.

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Nvidia’s ISP piracy defense backfires as judge refuses to dismiss copyright lawsuit over more than 197,000 pirated books — scripts in NeMo Framework allegedly ‘have no other purpose’ than to speed up infringement

Nvidia said that its NeMo Megatron Framework has non-infringing uses and that it's not liable for any piracy that its users might do.

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After a $16 billion Stargate AI data center was built despite being voted down, Michigan towns rush to block new buildouts — massive facility will suck 1.4 Gigawatts of energy to power ChatGPT

Backlash now covers county resolutions, bipartisan state legislation, and a regional water authority refusing to serve proposed facilities.

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GameNative unlocks up to 100 fps gameplay for PC games on Android devices by adding multi-frame generation — Vulkan version of Lossless Scaling boosts performance

GameNative's latest update brings Lossless Scaling's multi-frame generation technology to Android devices. Enabling a triple-digit FPS experience from a 30 FPS base frame rate.

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College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line with software defined radios, stopping four trains — 19 years without crypto key rotation ends in predictable result as hacker sails through 7 layers of protection

College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line, stopping four trains

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Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion

Negotiations between the National Samsung Electronics Union, which represents workers in the company’s chipmaking division, and management have seemingly broken down over a single issue.

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3D-printed rocket fuel successfully tested, could enable lighter missiles and faster production rates — new additive manufacturing process tested at 1,800 PSI

Chromatic 3D Materials has successfully tested 3D-printed rocket propellant capable of withstanding 1,800 PSI combustion pressures, potentially paving the way for faster rocket production, more advanced thrust geometries, and resilient distributed defense manufacturing.

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PCIe 8.0 spec hits 1 TB/s of bandwidth and has new connector technology — spec hits 0.5V milestone, final ratification expected in 2028

PCI-SIG announces availability of the first PCIe Gen8 draft, reassures 256 GT/s data transfer rate, maintains backwards compatibility, evaluates new connector technology.

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma kills Copilot for Gaming — overhauls leadership with CoreAI veterans

Sharma took over as Xbox CEO in February after Phil Spencer retired following 38 years at Microsoft.

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Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to build three new US-based optical fiber plants — AI infrastructure deal would boost fiber production capacity by over 50%

Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to help partners that deploy its hardware in the U.S. to get enough of optical fiber, grant Nvidia control over a significant chunk of domestic fiber production.

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Steam Controller and Puck CAD files officially released under a Creative Commons license — Valve encourages users to create accessories for the device

Valve just released the 3D CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license, allowing gamers and enthusiasts to design and 3D print their own accessories for these gadgets. The company even encouraged everyone to share their creations.

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New Linux StarFighter laptop family debuts starting at $1,878 — Star Labs Systems' laptops arrive with spacious RAM, several options

The StarFighter Linux laptop is finally available for purchase on the website, after months of delays. The startup behind this model is a small team based in rural England and runs out of a barn located some 30 miles southeast of London.

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AMD to broaden and specialize EPYC CPUs, already working on Zen 7 architecture — increased customization to better address evolving AI and cloud needs

AMD plans to expand its portfolio of CPUs for data centers that will be targeted at different workloads.

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SpaceX files for $55 billion semiconductor fab in rural Texas for Musk's Terafab — total chipmaking fab investment could reach $119 billion

The capital figures in this filing far exceed what was disclosed when Elon Musk announced Terafab in March, where the project carried a $20 billion price tag.

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Apple quietly axes 128GB Mac Studio amid supply constraints and local AI frenzy — highest memory capacity reduced to 96GB, two months after discontinuation of 512GB model

Apple quietly pulls high Unified Memory capacity Mac Studios and Mac minis from the Apple store as the memory crunch continues to affect consumer products.

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