Anthropic IPO Filing Leans on Existential Risk, Leaked Docs Show
A leaked prospectus reportedly devotes a third of its space to existential AI risk while revealing an $8 billion loss on $4.6 billion revenue.
Compute & Hardware
Chips, datacenters, interconnect, and the power they draw.
HPE and NVIDIA Take AI Sovereignty Questions at Off-Record DC Dinner
The Register's Chatham House dinner will let AI buyers ask HPE and NVIDIA executives what sovereignty options actually survive procurement.
Debian kernel security update flags 1,313 CVEs — but severity varies
The sprawling CVE count reflects automated assignment and AI-assisted bug discovery, not necessarily 1,313 new exploitable flaws.
Volantis uses photonic interposer to break AI memory wall
The Altman-backed startup says its optical interposer can pack over 10 TB of memory at 240 TB/s, enough for massive inference workloads.
TP-Link Archer BE3600 Wi-Fi 7 Router Drops to $79.98, a New Low
Amazon's early Big Deal Days discount brings the Archer BE3600 to its lowest price yet, making Wi-Fi 7 more accessible on a budget.
Windows 11 26H2 audio bug breaks AC-3 decoding in older apps
A newly identified AC-3 decoder flaw affects Windows 11 26H2, 25H2, and 24H2, crashing legacy applications that rely on built-in audio decoding.
AI Budgets Keep Climbing as Traditional IT Spending Falls
Fresh Gartner forecasts show AI infrastructure spending still accelerating even as conventional datacenter IT slides into a prolonged recession.
The Governor Shift: Six Guidelines for Governing Enterprise AI
As enterprise AI scales, the critical work shifts from building models to governing them with principles, trust thresholds, and machine-readable values.
Oxygen-Doped WSe2 Cuts Contact Resistance for 2D p-Type Transistors
Researchers demonstrate oxygen-doped monolayer WSe2 p-type transistors with low contact resistance and high current density, moving 2D CMOS closer to sub-1-nm scaling.
Row-Parallel DRAM Design Avoids Costly Data-Layout Switches
A new processing-in-DRAM architecture lets computation run directly on row-parallel data, removing expensive layout conversions between memory and CPUs.
Backside Clock Meshes Reduce Skew and Power in 2nm Chips
UCSC researchers show that moving clock meshes to the backside of a 2nm GAAFET wafer can free up premium routing metal while keeping skew low.
Quantum Computing Inc. Unveils Dirac-3S, Scaling to Nearly 10,000 Variables
The next-generation Dirac-3S quantum optimization machine targets nearly 10,000 variables, a significant scale increase for QCi's photonics-based systems.
Russian Strikes on Kyiv Data Centers Knock Torrent Sites Offline
Kinetic attacks on Ukrainian hosting firms temporarily took down major piracy sites, showing war's reach into the digital underground.
Palantir's Watson chides MP over selective NHS data, then omits caveats
Tom Watson's accuracy lecture to an MP backfired when he skipped the same warnings he demanded of others.
HP OmniBook 5 Takes on MacBook Neo with Wildcat Lake, $699 Price
HP's new 14-inch OmniBook 5 brings Intel's Wildcat Lake and four color options to the budget laptop fight against Apple's rumored MacBook Neo.
PS3 Emulator Devs Warn of Fake Blu-ray Drives on Newegg, AliExpress
Developers of a leading PS3 emulator caution retro gamers about a surge of counterfeit Blu-ray drives with spoofed firmware.
England's Schools Improve Cyber Incident Recovery, Survey Finds
A new survey shows two-thirds of English schools recover immediately from cyber incidents, but staff disagree on accountability.
Singapore's GovTech pilots dating app powered by stable-matching algorithm
The agency behind TraceTogether is applying the Gale-Shapley algorithm to match civil servants, one introduction at a time.