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Researchers from Zhejiang University have demonstrated a class of attack that turns a cloud tenant’s legitimate GPU access into a weapon against the electrical grid — no exploit, no malware, and no unauthorised access required. The attack, called Bit2Watt and accepted to the CHES 2026 hardware-security conference, exploits the power swings inherent in GPU compute […]

Ernst and Young has disclosed a data breach in which attackers accessed a third-party IT service management platform used by the accounting firm’s tax practice and downloaded documents containing client financial information. The breach followed a familiar pattern: a trusted vendor’s tool, holding sensitive data as a routine byproduct of support operations, became the entry […]

Apple will launch a lease-to-own program called Apple Upgrade next week, partnering with Swedish payments company Klarna to let customers pay for devices over multi-year periods rather than buying them outright. The program, set to launch July 28 according to Bloomberg, covers iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. Lease terms run up to 24 months […]

Google DeepMind released three new Gemini models on July 21, bolstering its workhorse Flash lineup while leaving a conspicuous gap at the top end of its product stack. The company shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. The flagship 3.5 Pro model, which Google teased in May as “already being used internally” […]

China’s Ministry of Commerce has consulted domestic AI and semiconductor companies about a major expansion of technology export restrictions that could reshape the global AI supply chain, according to the Financial Times. The proposed measures under discussion cover four areas: restricting foreign access to Chinese AI model weights, limiting cross-border transfers of training data, barring […]

A federal judge has granted final approval to Anthropic’s US$1.5 billion (approximately GBP 1.2 billion) settlement of the largest copyright class-action lawsuit ever certified, closing a chapter of the AI company’s legal history while leaving the industry’s core fair-use question unresolved. US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin signed off on the settlement on July 20. She […]

Nvidia’s data center CPU business has quietly scaled far beyond what most of the market expected. Ian Buck, the company’s vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing and the inventor of CUDA, disclosed that Nvidia has shipped “hundreds of thousands” of Grace standalone servers, marking a decisive shift in how the company talks about its […]

Microsoft spent much of last week fighting a fire inside its own update infrastructure. The company’s Windows Server Update Services, the enterprise tool that organizations use to manage and deploy patches internally, was hit by severe degradation as a buildup of publishing metadata caused synchronization times to balloon or fail entirely. The issue was first […]

Nvidia introduced a tool at SIGGRAPH 2026 that addresses a growing blind spot in the media ecosystem: the inability to tell, quickly and at scale, whether a video was shot in the real world or generated entirely by AI. The Synthetic Video Detector, released as a NIM microservice, analyses footage frame by frame and assigns […]

The release of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weights model that topped coding benchmarks and matched or exceeded US frontier models, triggered a familiar pattern in Washington and Silicon Valley: surprise, followed by calls for a ban. The Verge’s Robert Hart argued this week that the cycle itself is the problem. China has […]