Baidu says Chinese buyers want local AI chips due to ‘supply chain’ issues
Chinese web giant Baidu yesterday told investors it sees good days ahead for its Kunlunxin chip biz, because local buyers […]
Month: August 2026
OpenAI’s overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security
OpenAI on Tuesday said its decision to suspend model training work, implemented after unreleased, unsupervised AI models hacked HuggingFace, remains […]
Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance
If high-speed AI inference is what you’re after, memory bandwidth is the bottleneck to beat. At a mind-numbing 21.6 petabytes […]
Meta and Google mobile apps gorge on user data: Study
A study of mobile apps claims that Meta collects three times as much user data on average as tools published […]
Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments
Researchers affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found that you can get payments out of certain expired contactless […]
CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug
CISA says attackers are exploiting a critical 2025 vulnerability in Ray, the widely used open source framework for scaling Python […]
Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu
Microsoft’s making some major changes to File Explorer and the context menu in order to resolve quality issues and offer […]
Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70
OBIT Dr Timothy James King, the programmer behind the 68000 version of TRIPOS that became AmigaDOS, has died aged 70. […]
Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse
Apple has released a batch of vulnerability fixes for iPhones, iPads, and Macs, including an image-processing flaw that experts say […]
Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions
Microsoft Teams will continue censoring profanity in captions by default for some government users until the end of August, a […]