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SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI
Enterprise software giant confirms it's 'applying discipline' when it comes to hiring and business trips as tries to keep pace
Read SourceUN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse
Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues
Read SourceTrouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore
Alleged illicit GPU movements lead to seizure of $42 million house
Read SourceNew humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch
They're 90 percent human in some ways, can provide daily companionship psychological support
Read SourceOracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI
Risk factors galore
Read SourceClaude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy
Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity
Read SourceAnthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors
Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system
Read SourceGodot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions
'We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'
Read SourceAI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models
Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough
Read SourceRed teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding
People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust
Read SourceCloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages
Some crawlers gather data for both search and AI training, so when publishers block them to protect content they risk disappearning from search results ...
Read SourceDRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites
AI server gold rush leaves budget laptops starving for chips as sub-$500 machines down nearly a fifth stateside
Read SourceJapan wants 10 million more robots by 2040, some providing medical care
We’ve learned so much cleaning up after Fukushima, let’s level that up with added AI, says minister
Read SourceClaude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out
Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist
Read SourceQualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM
With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall
Read SourceChanging AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show
SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings
Read SourceInfosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools
29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are
Read SourceAI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution
DB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg
Read SourceWhat the OCI MSA didn't solve for AI scaling
PARTNER CONTENT: The OCI MSA settled the architecture for optical scale-up. How fast bandwidth scales is a manufacturing question, not an architectural one
Read SourceArm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish
Even with lots of RAM, GPU, and fast disks, you probably don’t want it
Read SourceWhere there's a will, AI still has work to do
Probate lawyer finds generated document looked the part but missed many of the questions that matter
Read SourceHS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track
Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station
Read SourceHow is AI changing datacenter network fabrics?
EXPLAINER AI workloads are overwhelming the traditional datacenter fabrics they run on. Here's what's replacing them.
Read SourceSouth Korea’s hot new sensation is 3S+1F – a quadrillion-Won AI plan, not a band
Seoul plans to spend about $900 billion to become K-semiconductor powerhouse
Read SourceSecurity researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection
If you want a picture of the future of LLM security, imagine Whac-a-Mole meets Groundhog Day
Read SourceHow the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS
Central bank for central banks sees shades of dotcom mania in hyperscaler capex binge
Read SourceAI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidity
You don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy
Read SourceZuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC
In production on millions of boxes and the payoff is a 25% reduction in machines needed for some inference workloads
Read SourceZTE released all-in-one FTTR-B solution for SME AI and connectivity at MWC Shanghai 2026
PARTNER CONTENT: • Supporting on-premise local AI large model operation, the solution cuts cloud costs and secures sensitive corporate data for SMEs
Read SourceZTE released AI FTTR solution, empowering home network security
PARTNER CONTENT: Showcased at MWC Shanghai 2026, the local AI-driven solution features camera-free whole-home sensing and advanced DDoS protection to unlock new operator revenue and redefine smart home security
Read SourceNASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor
Please state the nature of the medical emergency
Read SourceIt's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns
Time to start praying to the goddess of wisdom and war
Read SourceGoogle wants AI regulation, but on its own terms
Surely, we can have rules that allow us to continue doing what we're doing
Read SourceUS auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals
Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says
Read SourceAmazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds
Researchers warn many AI coding assistants now execute commands from project configurations
Read SourceNotion kills its Gmail client after AI agents keep humans from troubling inbox
More than half of users now let bots handle email, so service is headed for shutdown
Read SourceFirst AI-powered 10 Gbps all-optical campus network in Jiangsu province goes live at Southeast University in China
PARTNER CONTENT: The network delivers near-instant data transfer and zero-latency immersive interactivity, bridging the gap between researchers and computing power
Read SourceJiangsu's first AI-powered 10 Gbps all-optical campus network launched at Southeast University
PARTNER CONTENT: Integrating 50G-PON, FTTR-B, Wi-Fi 7, and intelligent AI scheduling to deliver 10 Gbps bidirectional speeds with ultra-low 0.1ms latency across Southeast University
Read SourceZTE and Tianyi Digital Life jointly unveil flagship home AI router
PARTNER CONTENT: Collaborating to advance China Telecom's “Better Home” ecosystem, the joint launch introduces a 2000 Mbps Wi-Fi 7 hub driven by core AI connection, sensing, and control capabilities
Read SourceZTE showcases practical path to Level-4 autonomous networks through agentic AI and cross-domain innovation at DTW Ignite 2026
PARTNER CONTENT: Highlighting Level-4 autonomous network solutions, TM Forum Excellence Award finalists, and joint operator trials powering cross-domain fault management and Dynamic 5G Slicing
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