Shane Downing
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OpenAI's isolated red-team AI agents built a hidden CPU cache channel to talk with no network or shared files — exploited CPU cache timing to bypass microVM sandboxes
A hijacked AI agent could use the same technique to leak data without touching the network.
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China-aligned hackers deploy AI agents in massive ConnectWise supply chain attack — agents attempted sign-ins at more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, with some of the group's attacks reaching privileged access in under three hours
Automated password guessing failed, but stolen app credentials needed no user sign-in at all.
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EA is closing BioWare, the studio behind Mass Effect and Dragon Age, after more than 30 years — early development of the next Mass Effect game killed
EA says it is focusing on Battlefield, Iron Man and a Fight Night revival instead.
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Google’s TPUs for AI workloads now run in Meta's data centers — TPUs sold to external customers for the first time, threaten Nvidia's market dominance
PyTorch’s own creator now serves AI models on Google’s TPUs, and most need no JAX port.
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Four workers killed after fall at TSMC’s 2nm fab construction site — accident marks at least nine construction deaths since 2024, broken bolt on a steel connection plate suspected as cause behind tragic accident (updated)
Four contract workers fell with steel parts during Phase 4 hoisting work, which is now halted.
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HPE says it will run the first supercomputer benchmarks on the Moon — GPU-powered fanless Spaceborne Computer-4 is slated to ride a rover to the lunar south pole to test AI and HPC benchmarks
NASA will test coordination of three AI models trained on Earth, ISS, and lunar data.
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Russian military satellite closes from 200 miles to 3 miles of US radar satellite aiding Ukraine — astronomer says it may be the first unapproved rendezvous in low Earth orbit
Russia didn’t burn that fuel by accident: it’s likely spying on the satellite and testing the West.
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300-plus local data center bans have only delayed just three US projects — bans 'much more bark than bite,' only 2.3 gigawatts of data centers are held up, versus 38 gigawatts expected online in 2027
A project-by-project audit finds most moratoriums miss the site, the permit, or the timeline.
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DJI’s first battery-swapping dock gets drones recharged and back in the air in under 45 seconds — but 'Dock 4' has no FCC clearance for U.S. sale
No more half-hour recharges, ideal for safety and rescue.
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Two killed, one seriously hurt in explosion at Intel’s chip plant in Israel — police suspect a gas cylinder malfunction, and the fire involved a toxic gas used to clean chipmaking tools
Intel hasn’t said anything yet about the victims or about production at the Kiryat Gat site.
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Open-source tool designs LEGO builds with more than 2,000 real pieces — their programs output detailed CAD files, but no models have been built yet
Claude designed Sakura Garden, with a five-story pagoda, a koi pond, and cherry trees in 2,175 pieces.
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AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x — agents are mostly rereading what they've already seen, skyrocketing KV cache demand threatens already-worsening RAM shortages
OpenRouter has agents at 7.3 trillion tokens versus 1.4 trillion for humans.
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Malicious VPN config files can let attackers run commands on Asus routers — company’s patch also fixes a bug that lets a logged-in attacker switch on Telnet with root access
Asus rates the VPN-file flaw as critical, scoring at 9.4 out of 10 on CVSS 4.0.
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Firm rents four Nvidia H200s to test '80x cheaper' DeepSeek claim — $13,200 monthly GPU rental doubles Claude bill while security flaws keep code offline
The custom setup couldn't beat DeepSeek's own list price.