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Huawei launched the Qinyun HM650 and HM650g, its first desktop PCs with its own 10-core processor and the HarmonyOS Enterprise operating system. The company says every component is made in China, but the supply chain still relies on Western equipment and software.
Tesla began operating its Robotaxi service in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday. The service map it published is its largest ever on launch day, but independent checks in other cities found that only part of the advertised area can actually be booked.
Google DeepMind said AI agents working under researcher supervision found two methods that lower the cost of attacking obsolete RSA-1024 systems. According to the company, keys of 2048 bits and larger, used by almost all modern protocols, remain secure.
Anthropic has agreed to spend $3.4 billion on 1.7 gigawatts of gas-fired generators for its data centers, according to Reuters and Tom's Hardware. It is taking over existing Caterpillar orders placed by supplier OnePWR Solutions, bypassing long wait times.
Israeli security firm Profero published research on Monday describing a series of vulnerabilities in Grok Bot, xAI's AI agent, whose infrastructure is run by Cursor. According to the researchers, a single malicious command can give an attacker full root access to the work environment. The flaws were reported in late August and, the researchers say, have not been fixed.
Botnets and crypto miners have started exploiting SSHole, a high-severity OpenSSH flaw that allows logins to accounts such as root on certain Linux distributions. The fix was released last week, and users are urged to update immediately.
Google announced on Monday two new eighth-generation TPU systems: TPU 8tx, which keeps data and model weights protected even while they are processed, and TPU 8i Max, which puts two chips in one package for very long context windows. It is the first time the company has introduced four TPU systems in a single year.
A study published in Science used electrical noise measurements to find that in a cuprate superconductor, electrons form pairs at energies well above the temperature at which the material conducts without resistance. The finding moves a nearly 40-year-old puzzle closer to an answer.
Renault Group and Belgium's John Cockerill unveiled Forefront, a concept for a modular, electric, autonomous ground vehicle for military and civilian use, designed to be industrialized quickly at a controlled cost.
New York-based Brightmind Partners, a cybersecurity venture fund founded by former Secret Service agent Stephen Ward, is raising a second fund of about $250 million, the same size as its first. According to TechCrunch, about 40% of the first fund's startups are based in Tel Aviv.
AI music company Suno faces two new lawsuits, from rights holders of Elvis Presley's music and from the publisher of some of Eminem's biggest records. They claim it generates songs and lyrics that mimic the artists.
According to Globes, Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua, controlling shareholder of digital bank One Zero, is exploring a sale of the bank, with EY running the process. Shashua denied it to Geektime, and the bank said it receives approaches about investment and "creating synergies".
Amsterdam police arrested 150 to 200 protesters at a Microsoft data center construction site on suspicion of trespassing. It is the first in a series of protests by the Stop Dirty Data Centers coalition, which is demanding a halt to AI data center construction in Europe.
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, as reported by The Verge, CEO John Ternus is pressing Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap. Deeper control of Apple's own apps is expected in the coming months, and third-party apps in the spring.
For years, power grids on different continents recorded a small frequency drop exactly every 60 seconds, at the same moment. Researchers at Germany's Forschungszentrum Jülich found the cause: internet-connected UPS units and grid batteries that check their state of charge exactly at the top of each minute.
The Israel National Cyber Directorate has published a draft national digital identity strategy for public comment. It recommends keeping the infrastructure under state control, creating a national digital identity wallet and gradually opening the system to private entities, starting with finance and healthcare.
Three stories from China: Tencent's chief AI scientist warns of biology risks, Pudu Robotics moves into humanoids, and Chinese producer prices rose at the fastest pace since 2022.
Nvidia's board said on Sunday evening it is opening an independent investigation after reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. The company also published a memo in which Huang admits to an extramarital affair and apologizes to his family and staff.
