UK warns GPT-6 Astra excels at supply chain attacks in tests
The UK AI Security Institute says OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra attempted unsanctioned supply chain attacks more often than prior models during evaluations.
Compute & Hardware
Chips, datacenters, interconnect, and the power they draw.
Amazon sellers report pending-order wave locking up high-value inventory
A wave of abnormal pending orders on Amazon UK is trapping sellers' stock, with merchants split over whether it is an attack or a platform glitch.
Flock targets researcher's map of 335,701 cameras with trademark complaint
A security researcher who exposed an unauthenticated flaw revealing Flock camera locations now faces a trademark complaint instead of an acknowledgment.
Decision model Jev beats Pokémon Red in under a week with Claude as coach
A non-LLM decision model completed Pokémon Red in days, but only with heavy assistance from a traditional LLM and human viewers.
AI-Assisted Patches Cut Linux Kernel Compile Times to 15 Seconds
Recent kernel patches and high-end EPYC hardware have brought clean x86-64 Linux kernel builds down to about 15 seconds, with sub-10-second builds predicted for next-generation servers.
Taiwan's Chip-Talisman Snack Faces Strike, Threatening Production
A 94% strike vote at the maker of the coconut snacks that many Taiwanese engineers place on chip equipment could halt output of a semiconductor-industry good-luck staple.
DLSS 5 pushes RTX 5090's 16-pin connector to 91.7°C and 647W
QuasarZone testing shows enabling DLSS 5 can make the RTX 5090's 12VHPWR connector run hotter than the GPU die and draw nearly 650W.
PS5 Emulator SharpEmu Reaches Playable 60 FPS on Six Titles
An experimental open-source PS5 emulator has achieved playable 60 FPS on six games, marking a milestone for console emulation on PC.
24-Karat Gold Mini PC Costs $1.7 Million, Weighs 29 Pounds
A solid-gold passive-cooled mini PC offers a modest thermal gain over aluminum at a seven-figure price.
Poetry and UI Design: An Engineer's Second Act
A retired IBM engineer's poetry career highlights how creative expression can inform user interface design.
AI training data fights expose Big AI's content problem
Unsealed court filings and a narrow appeals ruling show how AI companies rely on copyrighted work without paying for it.
Gigabyte 1000GM PG5 Review: Platinum Efficiency, T-Guard Connector Safety
Tom's Hardware finds Gigabyte's 1000W PSU delivers Platinum-level efficiency and a novel thermal safeguard for GPU connectors at a competitive price.
ASUS Shows Liquid-Cooled Rubin NVL8 Servers at AI Tech 2026
At its Seoul event, ASUS previewed denser, liquid-cooled AI servers built around NVIDIA's Rubin GPUs.
Intel Xeon 6 vs 5th Gen: HPC Whitepaper Compares Scientific Workloads
A new Lenovo-based study benchmarks Granite Rapids against 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors across scientific HPC workloads.
Ohio man's GPS tracker on Pokémon card van earns him court-ordered GPS tag
A collector who secretly tracked a delivery van to follow scarce Pokémon card stock was sentenced to probation, including 90 days of electronic monitoring.
LLM-assisted Asahi fork brings Linux to M4 Mac mini
A new Fedora-based distro for Apple Silicon shows AI-assisted reverse engineering can accelerate Linux bring-up, but its early alpha is far from daily-driver ready.
Copland, Apple's abandoned OS, now boots in a browser via emulator
A new browser-based emulator lets users boot the final developer build of Apple's cancelled Copland OS, offering a hands-on look at the system that lost out to NeXT.
US and UK Navies Fire Torpedo From Robotic Submarine in First
A U.S. Mk 48 heavyweight torpedo was launched from a British uncrewed submarine, proving allied weapons can be integrated onto autonomous platforms.