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OpenAI mulling giving US gov't a 5% stake in the company, days after Washington delayed GPT-5.6 — Altman reportedly wants every leading U.S. AI lab paying into an Alaska-style public fund

Altman is understood to have raised the idea with President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Startup activates nuclear microreactor live on stage to power an Nvidia RTX Spark desktop PC — firm working with Nvidia to build a 30MW closed loop AI factory that doesn’t use local water

Valar Atomics claims to be the first startup to produce nuclear power, and it demonstrated that ability on stage by using its Ward 250 microreactor to power an RTX Spark unit. It also announced a partnership with Nvidia to build a 30MW closed loop AI data center that does not…

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Possible AMD RX 7900 XTX engineering sample with red PCB surfaces — prototype came with no backplate & custom VBIOS but matches RX 7900 GRE specs

It seems like a never-before-seen engineering sample for AMD's last-gen Radeon RX 7900 XTX has just popped up online, featuring specs that indicate it's a binned down model.

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Singapore cops seize $42 million mansion, freeze $772k bank account of suspected Nvidia AI GPU smugglers — individuals alleged to have illegally exported data center servers to China charged with fraud, money laundering

Four individuals suspected of smuggling Nvidia AI GPUs into China by using Singapore as a transshipment point are facing multiple charges. Singaporean authorities say they are not obliged to enforce foreign export controls but expects businesses in its borders to abide by them.

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Apple's Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it

Apple's Hide My Email service still reveals users' actual email addresses with little effort — even though it's been a year since the company was notified about problem.

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Intel expands production of photomasks in California: EUV and High-NA EUV in the focal point

Intel begins expansion of its Bowers Campus in Santa Clara to produce more photomasks in-house, which is set to be crucial as process technologies get more sophisticated.

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Google testing controversial webcam-based reCAPTCHA that asks for a hand scan to prove you're human — testers beat it with a stock photo

Google is testing a reCAPTCHA check that switches on a user's camera and asks them to wave or hold up an open palm.

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Elon Musk categorically denies SpaceX is making an AI device with proprietary OS — says rumors of a handheld thinner than an iPhone are 'utterly false'

SpaceX is reportedly working on a handheld device that runs a proprietary operating system and features advanced AI capabilities from xAI, but Elon Musk denies existence of the product.

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Xbox reportedly testing a way to digitize physical games in the wake of PlayStation killing game discs — feature said to go back to Xbox One-era games

Microsoft is reportedly testing a feature to digitize physical games going back to the Xbox One with digital copies tied to the owner of the physical disc.

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Tesla hires 17-year Intel veteran responsible for billion-dollar fab startups — Gary Jiang likely chosen to oversee fab efforts for Terafab's licensing of 14A

Tesla hires an Intel veteran, who most recently was responsible for installing advanced tools at Intel's Arizona fab that is now ramping production of chips using 18A fabrication process.

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Sony officially kills the PlayStation disc, ending physical game production in 2028 — shutting down the PlayStation Store on the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita systems

While Nintendo remains a holdout, this announcement essentially sounds the death knell for physical media in cutting-edge gaming.

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Elon Musk offers Starlink discount to AI data center neighbors following air and noise pollution lawsuits — 50% off plans and free hardware rental

SpaceXAI is trying to win residents living close to the Colossus 1 and 2 data centers by giving them discounted internet access. However, critics say that this is just a PR stunt to help win the community, even as it battles two lawsuits based on air and noise pollution complaints…

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Anthropic restores Claude Fable 5 as US lifts export controls — single filter now blocks prompt that could identify software vulnerabilities and write code to exploit them

Anthropic has restored global access to Claude Fable 5, a day after the U.S. Department of Commerce withdrew the export controls.

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Philippine town closes all 'Pisonet' computer rental shops in wake of school shooting — incident blamed on violent video games, shops closed 'for the safety of the youth'

A town in northern Philippines closed down all computer rental shops, with the mayor saying that these establishments distracted students from their studies and led to abuse and other dangers. The move came a little over a week after many people have started blaming a deadly school shooting in central…

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Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing

Virginia county asks all employees including schools to save power, due to AI-driven power requirements— state's 400-plus datacenters steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing

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New PC purchases see sharpest drop in nearly three years as memory and storage prices bite — shipments fall by 7%, analysts forecast 14% contraction that will hit budget laptops hard

A research firm says that PC deliveries for the first quarter of 2026 fell by 7%, with the entire industry expected to ship 14.4% less units for the entire year.

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AI researchers trick chatbots into sharing how to make cocaine as long as they believe a user is wearing a green shirt — 'CoT Forgery' exploit spurs LLMs to divulge forbidden info by faking trusted chains of thought

Tagged partitions of a LLM's input sequence are meant to provide security through trusted roles, but it turns out that models judge whether inputs sound like they belong in certain tags rather than literally interpreting them, making them vulnerable to prompt injection.

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Private and community servers for Minecraft and COD are illegal and amount to piracy, ESA tells California Senate — Stop Killing Games-backed bill fails to pass committee

The Entertainment Software Association, in its infinite wisdom, has told a California Senate committee that private and community servers are illegal and amount to piracy.

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xTool says its 01 Omni Printer can ‘print it all’ — firm steps into the world of UV printing for output on 'all surfaces' at up to 5mm thick

xTool launched its 01 Omni Printer today at a special event in Berlin. The digital-to-physical tool firm claims this device is the “world’s first 4-in-1 printer,” and said it was ready for makers to “print it all.”

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AMD confirms low-power CPU cores in Linux kernel patch — Zen 6 chips could follow in Intel's footsteps with new core type for background tasks

AMD confirms plans to incorporate low-power CPU cores into next-generation heterogeneous CPUs to lower power consumption and improve energy efficiency.

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Microsoft's flagship Windows PC lineup will drop reportedly drop budget options — firm prunes Surface Go and Surface Laptop Go

Microsoft is further pruning its Surface line, with the Surface Laptop Go 3 and Surface Go 4 going out of stock without clear follow-ups.

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Windows Defender 'BlueHammer' vulnerability now exploited as part of malware campaigns — CISA issues warning despite patch release on April 14

Windows Defender "BlueHammer" vulnerability now exploited as part of malware campaigns — event demonstrates lack of security awareness despite existence of patches

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Meta releases version two of its brain-computer interface that can turn thoughts into keypresses — non-invasive magnetoencephalography scanner can measure changes in brain activity

Meta just released the second version of its Brain2Qwerty non-invasive BCI, showing promising improvements that could lead to clinical trials. This system aims to build an interface that does not require invasive surgery, allowing patients to control a computer using their mind without needing to go under the knife.

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Nvidia reportedly cancels quad-die Rubin Ultra GPU in favor of dual-GPU design, report claims — complex design purportedly scrapped over 'manufacturing execution concerns'

Nvidia reportedly abandons quad-dire Rubin Ultra GPUs in favor of dual-die Rubin Ultra due to 'manufacturing execution concerns.'

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Taiwan raids Supermicro and two supply-chain partners in widening Nvidia smuggling probe — nine sites hit as six people summoned for questioning

Taiwan officials raided Supermicro Computer's Taiwan office on Monday, alongside the homes of six individuals and three affiliated company sites

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