Concerns raised over Shahed kamikaze drone listings on Alibaba — they featured AI guidance to lock onto ‘people, building, vehicles, ships, etc’

Chinese eTail giant Alibaba has removed listings and suspended the accounts of sellers that were found to be advertising ‘cruise missiles’ and ‘suicide attack drones.’
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive — compares not using AI to using paper and pencil for designing chips

The Nvidia chief said that he will be alarmed if his engineers did not use AI tokens amounting to about half their annual salary, saying that AI tools will 10x their productivity.
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Elon Musk unveils $20 billion ‘TeraFab’ chip project to make chips, memory, and package processors all under one roof — targets a terawatt of annual compute

Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, announced Saturday night that his TeraFab semiconductor project will be built on the Tesla campus in eastern Travis County, Austin, Texas, as a joint venture.
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California scientists ‘FlyTrap attack’ on DJI drones demonstrated — patterned umbrellas lure autonomous drones close enough to be captured or even induced to crash

Researchers at UC Irvine have demonstrated a pattered umbrella-based drone capture and crashing technique.

‘Silicon’ is a new five-pound art book charting the semiconductor revolution with full-page die shots and commentary — 384 page tome is $99 to pre-order now

Silicon, Arena’s stylish and premium “coffee table book like no other,” is up for pre-order now priced at $99.
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City has roads named Tape Drive and Disk Drive from bygone HDD-making era — area was once home to the StorageTek empire

Tape Drive and Disk Drive rods in the Louisville/Broomfield area are a relic of the STK diskmaker’s time in the city.
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Rogue OpenClaw AI wrote and published ‘hit piece’ on a Python developer who rejected its code — disgruntled bot accuses Matplotlib maintainer of discrimination and hypocrisy, later backtracks with an apology

An OpenClaw autonomous AI agent has hit back at a volunteer maintainer of a Python library who rejected its code by posting a “hit piece” that criticizes the developer and calls them discriminatory against AI.
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US Departments of Justice and Defense crush four massive botnets totaling 3,000,000 devices — botnets responsible for a combined 316,000 DDoS attacks globally

U.S. Departments of Justice and Defense take out four gigantic botnets with 3 million devices

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Planned 10-gigawatt Softbank data center in Ohio might be the largest in the world — will require a $33 billion natural gas plant, equivalent to nine nuclear reactors

SoftBank is looking forward to building a $60 billion – $70 billion AI data center spanning multiple phases in Ohio.
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China develops new ultra-cold alloy that can reach -273°C without helium — could enable compact cooling for superconducting quantum chips, military equipment, and beyond

Chinese scientists develop europium, cobalt, and aluminum alloy that can be used to cool down quantum computers and military equipment.
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