Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
Researchers from Germany’s Helmholtz Center for Information Security have found processors made by China’s Loongson have leaky caches that attackers […]
Month: August 2026
Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53bn hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads
Chinese tech giant Tencent has turned its back on instant profits, betting that a new business unit that creates its […]
Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says “The Mythos Effect” will see customers scour their networks for unsupported devices and replace them […]
Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results
PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we highlight others’ security failures. Hopefully, there’s a lesson in […]
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn’t nebulous
Rent-a-GPU cloud Nebius plans to bring online over a gigawatt of datacenter capacity every year starting in 2027, but doing […]
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B
Neocloud operator CoreWeave remains bullish about its prospects, claiming that changing patterns of AI use will create sustained demand for […]
OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models
A new project aims to build a shared, open source AI training dataset that anyone can contribute to, much like […]
Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows
Nightmare Eclipse, the serial zero-day hunter who has an axe to grind with Microsoft, published a new Defender zero-day, ShieldBreak, […]
Nvidia’s latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is…a router?
Soaring AI infrastructure costs and model pricing, combined with uncertain returns on investment, threaten to stall enterprise adoption. To make […]
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
If you thought that the famous Spectre security vulns were a relic of 2018, think again. Certain RISC-V chips are […]