Etiido Uko
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US Army reportedly developing program that would deploy AI agents to autonomously seek and destroy targets in enemy digital infrastructures — experts warn ECHOTRIBBLE program could have disastrous consequences
Agents will self-destruct upon completing their mission
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Arm says its AGI CPU delivers nearly 2X the performance per rack of AMD EPYC 9755 in new agentic AI CPU tests
Arm claims its AGI CPU delivers a 20% average per-chip performance lead and nearly 2X the modeled rack performance of AMD’s EPYC 9755 across seven agentic AI workloads, using a new evaluation methodology developed with Fujitsu, Meta, and OpenAI
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Researchers train AI to detect concealed handguns using Wi-Fi signals — open-source WiFireNet achieves precision detection on older 802.11a standard by analyzing how weapons distort wireless signals
The experimental prototype cannot pinpoint the weapon's location on the carrier
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Ledger to review sales and anti-tamper policies after $93 million hardware-wallet supply chain attack — rogue LTE chip implants reportedly stole users’ recovery phrases
"Physical supply chain tampering is a risk for the whole industry"
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Department of War dishes out $1.5 billion loan commitment to boost semiconductor supply chain — Wolfspeed to focus on national security applications as part of 30-year agreement
Wolfspeed will use long term-financing to upgrade its GaN epitaxy capabilities and to develop radiation hardening capabilities
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Iranian national extradited to US over alleged $3.4 billion state-backed hacking campaign in rare legal win for law enforcement — operative helped steal 31 terabytes of data from over 300 universities
Years-long hacking campaign targeted hundreds of organizations and stole more than 31 TB of academic data.
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Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions — product flaw submissions halted until 2027 as maintainers drown in hallucinations
Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports
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DeepSeek and Huawei release open-source Ascend AI programming tools to reduce reliance on Nvidia CUDA ecosystem — tools include compute and communication libraries, as well as Ascend support for TileLang
The tools build on Huawei's existing CANN software platform.
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North Korea named as primary suspect in $387 million Bitget crypto hack — investigators identify IP addresses tied to VPN infrastructure previously used by North Korean hacker groups; thieves swapped stablecoins for ETH in minutes to dodge freezes
Bitget to cover the full loss with its over $464 million User Protection Fund
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PS5 emulator successfully runs six titles at a playable 60 FPS — PS5 emulation continues to gather momentum as developers improve shader translation and Vulkan support
12 of 55 tested titles tested could be played, but only six achieved a playable 60 FPS.