Micron is tech's new margin king as memory crisis pushes company past Nvidia and Meta
Micron said in its earnings report that its gross margin jumped to 84.9% from 39% a year ago.
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OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale
The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.
AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient
While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers are actually making up a larger share of new hires, according to SignalFire data.
DraftKings hacker 'Snoopy' sentenced to 18 months in prison
A 21-year-old using the alias "Snoopy" was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in hacking DraftKings accounts in the November 2022 cyberattack. [...]
Chrome Stable for iOS Update
Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Stable 150 (150.0.7871.51) for iOS; it'll become available on App Store in the next few hours. This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome
AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals
Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.
13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA cancellations.
"Contract values for these efforts ballooned from nearly $2.8 billion to $5.9 billion."
Charlie Kirk’s legacy is a 30-year sentence for moving zines
Just days after a gunman killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk, it became clear that President Donald Trump would use the assassination to fuel a crackdown on free speech. To avenge Kirk's death, the administration vowed to go after so-called "antifa" (otherwise known as antifascist) terrorists. Now that promise is bearing fruit. This week, eight Texas […]
Microsoft introduces cheaper Surface devices with half the memory
Microsoft just added a cheaper 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop to its lineup. Both models come equipped with 8GB of RAM instead of 16GB, costing $849 for the specced-down Surface Pro and $949 for the Surface Laptop, as spotted earlier by Windows Central. When the 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop launched […]
The memory chip crunch is paying off for this US company
Revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion compared with the same period a year ago. The company's profit, meanwhile, rose from $1.88 billion to an incredible $28.2 billion year-over-year.
Mandiant reveals how Cisco SD-WAN zero-day attacks gained root access
New details have been revealed on how hackers exploited a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20245 in zero-day attacks to create rogue root accounts on targeted devices. [...]
US ends hantavirus outbreak response with no answers on draconian quarantines
We still don't know why RFK Jr. overruled CDC expert to order strict quarantines.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of campaign to 'brazenly' and 'illicitly' extract AI capabilities
The letter, which was obtained by CNBC, claims Alibaba carried out "the largest known distillation attack on Anthropic to date."
Micron stock jumps 15% as soaring prices from memory crunch lead to quadrupling of revenue
Micron's quarterly earnings report follows a 700% surge in the memory maker's stock price over the past year.
One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime "assembly line"
"Operation Endgame" simultaneously disrupts two widely used crime tools.
v0.30.11
What's Changed launch: add thinking capability detection to opencode by @hoyyeva in #15434 launch: auto-install Claude Code by @hoyyeva in #16802 launch: auto-install opencode when missing by @hoyyeva in #16806 discover: fix inverted iGPU/dGPU Vulkan classification on Windows hybrid graphics by @Sahil170595 in #16669 mlxrunner: unify and tune speculative decoding by @jessegross in #16791 launch/codex: detect model drift when Codex App UI switches by @BruceMacD in #16864 llama: add sm_86 architecture to cuda_v13_windows preset by @anishesg in #16834 llm: size mmproj offload by projector memory by @dhiltgen in #16866 docs: document max think level by @ParthSareen in #16877 llm: preserve generation headroom for shifted prompts by @ParthSareen in #16856 llama: default qwen2.5vl window attention metadata by @dhiltgen in #16868 llm: use host Vulkan loader on Windows by @dhiltgen in #16869 mlx: update and fix CUDA JIT packaging by @dhiltgen in #16871 llm: fix ollama ps double-counting mmap'd weights on partial offload by @discobot in #16709 docs: redesign docs landing and integrations overview by @hoyyeva in #16807 server: align generate with native chat templates by @dhiltgen in #16878 jetson: add CC 87 for CUDA v13 by @dhiltgen in #16628 llama.cpp version update by @dhiltgen in #16548 New Contributors @Sahil170595 made their first contribution in #16669 @anishesg made their first contribution in #16834 @discobot made their first contribution in #16709 Full Changelog : v0.30.10...v0.30.11-rc0
Malicious Edge extension abuses Native Messaging as bridge to malware
A malicious Microsoft Edge extension dubbed 'Edgecution' has been used in a ransomware attack to escape the browser sandbox and deploy a Python-based backdoor. [...]
Chrome for Android Update
Hello Everyone! We've just released Chrome 150 (150.0.7871.46) for Android to a small percentage of users. It'll become available on Google Play over the next few days. You can find more details about early Stable releases here . This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Krishna Govind Google Chrome
OpenAI wants to claim more of the AI stack with Jalapeño, its first custom chip
OpenAI on Wednesday announced Jalapeño, its first custom inference accelerator, co-developed with Broadcom and supported by Canadian electronics manufacturer Celestica, The post OpenAI wants to claim more of the AI stack with Jalapeño, its first custom chip appeared first on The New Stack .
A new paper argues Microsoft exaggerated its quantum claims a year ago
A critique published in Nature Wednesday calls the basic technology behind Microsoft's "breakthrough" quantum computing chip the Majorana 1 into question. Microsoft unveiled the chip in February 2025 and said it featured a brand-new technology known as a topological qubit. Topological qubits, they said, would be the "building blocks" for their future quantum computer. Microsoft […]
Azul wants to find your unpatched JVMs before AI does
Azul Systems is offering a free Java Virtual Machine (JVM) vulnerability risk assessment designed to reveal Java runtime exposure before The post Azul wants to find your unpatched JVMs before AI does appeared first on The New Stack .
Will it Mythos? One coder’s verdict on Anthropic’s blend of debugging
Anthropic’s rollercoaster ride with Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 has left various deposits of fallout this year, but the The post Will it Mythos? One coder’s verdict on Anthropic’s blend of debugging appeared first on The New Stack .
Chainguard targets Java’s unpatched vulnerability backlog with drop-in remediated libraries
Legacy Java shops are sitting on a growing pile of unpatched vulnerabilities. Chainguard says it has a fix for that. The post Chainguard targets Java’s unpatched vulnerability backlog with drop-in remediated libraries appeared first on The New Stack .
Qualcomm stock pops 15% after chipmaker almost doubles projection for 2029 non-handset revenue
Qualcomm's primary business has been smartphones, which accounted for two-thirds of the company's product revenue in it's most recent quarter.