Oliver Haslam
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Texas has suspended 17 data center construction permits and shut down automated portal that rubber-stamped projects — site was left running for a month after Greg Abbott called for a pause on approvals
The state's automated system had continued issuing construction permits even after Governor Greg Abbott had called for a pause a month ago.
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Illegal Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs found inside state-owned China Telecom's network — Nvidia says chip smuggling is 'a drop in the bucket,' insists it remains a non-factor
A security firm was able to spot 32 of the high-powered chips within the state-owned telecom company's network, but it can't pinpoint where they are physically located.
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Amazon bows to local backlash over AI data centers, scraps plans to build four new facilities in Northern Virginia — site to be repurposed for mixed-use and residential development.
Amazon says that it will instead use the majority of a 122-acre area for mixed-use and residential development following discussions with local officials.
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CyberCartel hacking gang used Claude and Grok AI agents to automate attacks on Latin American institutions — passwords and details stolen from over 400 institutions, including banks and payment apps
AI agents have been used to attack more than 400 institutions by a group called CyberCartel.
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480,000 phishing emails sent from a PC hidden behind a fridge in a Japanese hotel room — Chinese couple arrested over fraud operation, scammers remotely leech Wi-Fi to target 2.4 million victims
Police arrested a Chinese couple for placing the computer that was found in a Kobe hotel and using stolen credit cards to make purchases.
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Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading Chinese factories to produce advanced RAM chips as AI data center competition ramps up — big players move to fight off the threat from CXMT and co.
As Chinese rivals look to get in on the lucrative market, two chip giants are taking action to stay ahead of the game.
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A Chinese hacker used AI agents to break into more than 100 company websites — Deere and SharkNinja among websites hit by open-source AI-powered problem-solving platform demo
Why break into websites yourself when you can task AI bots to do it for you?
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GTA 6 could come to PC as early as Q1 2027, leak claims — January-March launch window a huge improvement over 18-month GTA V wait
PC gamers might not have to wait too long before the year's biggest game launches on their platform of choice.
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New PS5 Relapse jailbreak enables homebrew and Switch emulation but is hamstrung by rapidly-changing firmware revisions — jailbreak unlocks firmware 13.60, but newer games already demand firmware 14.00
Some games may require an unsupported version of the PS5 firmware, including the new Wolverine title.
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Marvel's Wolverine reaches gameplay with KytyPS5 emulator — PS5 exclusive joins Ghost of Yotei in reaching gameplay, performance still in single digits
Insomniac Games likely isn't working on a PC version of Marvel's Wolverine, but that might not stop PC gamers from playing it.
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Meta's Muse AI agent accused of accessing sensitive user data on iPhone and Mac without permission — agent shocks reporter by referring to confidential messages it wasn't granted access to
Meta says Muse won't access data you tell it to ignore, but that doesn't appear to be true.
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US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem — trial programs running now, first release expected at end of 2027
The U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, preventing it from using ubiquitous U.S.-based software.
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You can now play Nintendo Switch games on a jailbroken PS5 — early alpha hits 40 FPS in lighter titles but chokes on Zelda
Some games perform better than others, but the fact that it works at all isn't to be sniffed at.
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UK government tells staff to stop thanking AI chatbots — draft guidance pushes lightweight models and shorter prompts to cut environmental impact
It's more efficient not to say thank you, and there's just no need to, the document explains, alongside other best practices.
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Nvidia patents AI chatbot to streamline PC game optimization — could one day help developers better optimize their games with requests made in plain English
Games could be quicker to make and run better when they go on sale.
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Google's orbital AI data center test packs four TPUs and 1,000W of solar power — overheating limits runs to just 15 minutes, but orbital server will handle tasks for one year
Earth-bound data centers are going to be around for a while, but Google is just one company looking to put them into space.