California fights “preposterous” Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws
California is accepting $1.42 billion in broadband grant funding from the Trump administration, but the state is not accepting the Trump administration’s demand that it stop enforcing a net neutrality law and other telecom regulations.…
Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones
Hackers possibly linked to the Kremlin exploited previously patched iOS and Android flaws in an attempt to hack visitors of multiple websites, including one celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution, researchers said…
Nintendo’s biggest ROM chip supplier is bowing out of the business
For years, the AI industry’s insatiable demand for memory and storage has had plenty of knock-on effects on the price and availability of PC components like RAM, SSDs, and GPUs. Now those shortages are also squeezing the supply of ROM chips that…
Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed
During World War II, physicists on the Manhattan Project worried that the Nazi German nuclear program might achieve the first nuclear bomb before the US and its allies. That’s not what transpired, but historians have debated just how close the…
Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
Russian tech companies are scrambling to harden and hide their data centers underground after Ukrainian drone strikes damaged facilities housing AI supercomputers and disrupted cloud services for millions of Russian users. Meanwhile, the Kremlin is…
AMD’s record quarter: Data center business doubles, while gaming craters
AMD reported third-quarter revenues on Tuesday with a record $13.4 billion, an increase of 45 percent year over year, as data center business nearly doubled and the company’s gaming segment cratered. AMD CFO Jean Hu said, “We expect revenue…
Ted Cruz aims to stack FCC with Republicans before Democrats take Senate control
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is aiming to widen the Republican majority on the Federal Communications Commission before Democrats take over control of the Senate in January 2027. Just before the Republicans’ midterm loss, Cruz yesterday announced a…
Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
Donald Trump’s big, rapid American AI buildout now faces a major slowdown as voters in yesterday’s elections overwhelmingly supported candidates and measures that favored increasing restrictions on AI and data centers nationwide. One resource…
VMware releases vSphere Express for virtualization on up to 128 cores
After alienating many long-time small- to medium-sized business (SMB) customers, Broadcom’s VMware is trying to appeal to its smaller customers. Today, the virtualization company announced vSphere Express, a lower-end virtualization offering for…
After Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX?
Following his public disputes with California authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, Elon Musk personally moved to Texas, outside of Austin, in 2020. Over the next six years, he doubled down on the Lone Star State. In 2021, Musk increasingly focused…