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Chinese researchers have set a new world record for data transmission over hollow-core fiber, achieving 51.3 terabits per second across a single 206.5-kilometer (approximately 128-mile) unrepeatered span using only standard erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) amplification. The trial was conducted by China Telecom, Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable (YOFC), and Dekoli under a national research initiative […]

Meta has built a custom Compute Express Link (CXL) ASIC called Vistara that rescues DDR4 memory from retiring servers and puts it back to work in new machines, a practical response to both hardware waste and the soaring cost of DRAM. The problem is structural. About 40 per cent of Meta’s vast server fleet cannot […]

Instagram is testing new ways for users to interact with “Your Algorithm”, a feature that lets people specify which topics and content types they want to see more or less of. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri previewed the upcoming changes in a recent post, saying the company wants to “evolve Your Algorithm from a setting […]

The security industry is facing what some are calling a “vulnpocalypse.” Frontier AI models, including Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber, are discovering vulnerabilities in open-source software at a rate and depth that human auditors could never match, collapsing the time between discovery and exploitation to near zero. “It’s looking like a hot, messy summer for […]

China’s Zhipu AI (Z.ai) claims its open-weight GLM-5.2 model can match Anthropic’s Mythos on cybersecurity vulnerability detection, even if it still lags behind on general reasoning tasks. The claim, reported by The Verge, marks a significant new frontier in the AI model race. GLM-5.2 was originally released in June as a coding-focused model with a […]

Ford has hired back 350 veteran engineers, including former employees and workers from suppliers, after discovering that relying on artificial intelligence alone was not enough to ensure manufacturing quality. The move is a concrete example of the limits of AI in complex physical manufacturing. Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, told TechCrunch: […]

China has retaken the top spot on the TOP500 supercomputer ranking for the first time since 2017, with a system built entirely from domestic processors that achieves world-leading performance without a single GPU accelerator. LineShine, installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen, recorded 2.198 exaflops on the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark, roughly 80% […]

SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son has publicly questioned Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers, arguing that building compute infrastructure in space will neither cut costs meaningfully nor arrive in time for the current AI arms race. Speaking at a SoftBank shareholder meeting on June 23, Son said that power accounts for only about […]

LastPass has confirmed another data breach, this time through a compromised third-party service provider. Attackers used stolen OAuth tokens from Klue, a market intelligence platform, to access LastPass’s Salesforce environment and extract customer contact information. The breach is the latest in a troubled security history for the password manager, which suffered a major 2022 incident […]

DeepSeek has open-sourced DSpark, a speculative decoding framework that accelerates per-user text generation on its DeepSeek-V4 models by 60 to 85 percent without sacrificing output quality. The framework, along with the MIT-licensed DeepSpec training codebase, is available on GitHub and Hugging Face. DSpark is a serving optimization, not a new model. The checkpoints DeepSeek-V4-Pro-DSpark and […]