London Mayor Sadiq Khan: AI could become a ‘weapon of mass destruction’ for jobs

The Mayor of London warns AI could bring ‘mass unemployment’.

Hackers exploit WordPress plugin security flaw exposing 40,000 websites to complete takeover risk – here’s how to stay safe

Critical WordPress plugin flaw exposed some 40,000 users to risk of a complete website takeover.

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Powering the AI data center boom: the infrastructure upgrades behind innovation

AI’s GPU boom is forcing radical upgrades across power, cooling, connectivity, and delivery models.

This chip maker mounted a challenge to Intel’s Pentium range – so AMD bought it

AMD acquired NexGen for a bumper fee in the mid-1990s in a bid to boost its own chip range

Magnets produced at room temperature using lasers could one day produce better HDDs, faster non-silicon processors — and at 20nm, they are so thin that they could be used almost anywhere, even in the human body

Magnets tuned with lasers at room temperature could lead to faster hard drives and a new generation of computer chips.
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‘Don’t be a doomer’ – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says no one currently has ‘any reasonable ability to create god AI’, so we should all just relax

Jensen Huang dismisses god-level AI fears, stresses responsible use of AI tools to improve productivity and address real-world challenges.
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‘Our viewpoint is that we are trying to help consumers around the world’: Micron finally breaks silence on claims it abandoned customers by dropping the Crucial memory brand

Micron confirms Crucial exit while emphasizing ongoing consumer support, highlighting enterprise DRAM growth and persistent shortages through at least 2028.
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Google Meet can now automatically detect when you’re in a conference room

Google plans on stopping all unnecessary echoes in Meet by getting users to join via Companion Mode automatically.

IBM wants to give businesses and governments more control over AI data

Enterprises and governments can build, deploy, and manage AI-ready sovereign environments with IBM Sovereign Core.

Palo Alto patches a worrying security issue which could crash your firewall without even logging in

A high-severity flaw was found in GlobalProtect Gateway and Portal and was promptly fixed.

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