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Anthropic has confirmed what was long rumored: it is assembling an in-house team to design processors custom-made for Claude. The disclosure, made through a spokesperson on August 5, marks the first time the company has publicly acknowledged a silicon program of its own, and it closes a chapter in which every major frontier AI lab […]

On Monday night, a single account posting prohibited content was enough for Apple to remove Telegram’s listing from its store worldwide. The messaging app, which serves more than a billion users, vanished from new downloads for roughly an hour before returning. A few months earlier, Apple had formally documented in a letter to three US […]

Since the arrival of mainstream chatbots, the AI security conversation has centered on prompt injection, the trick of slipping instructions into content that a model later reads. Two Check Point researchers argue the industry has been staring at the wrong layer. In a year-long study presented at Black Hat USA on August 5, Yarden Porat […]

Every enterprise server ships with a second computer hidden on its motherboard. The baseboard management controller, or BMC, runs its own processor and firmware, maintains its own network interface and IP address, and keeps working even when the host is powered off or its operating system has crashed. That independence makes it an ideal remote-management […]

Google has found an unusual way to keep its most senior AI talent from drifting toward competitors: it is funding their next company itself. On August 5, the company confirmed it is buying a stake in Discovery Loop, a new startup co-founded by Jeff Dean, who is leaving after three years as Google’s chief scientist […]

Linux just had its best desktop month ever, according to one widely cited measure. StatCounter’s data put Linux at roughly 10 percent of North American desktop traffic, about double its usual low-single-digit share, with the change unfolding within weeks during May and June. The milestone made headlines, but the measurement almost certainly reflects a shift […]

North Korea’s state hackers made a beginner’s mistake that handed a security researcher a two-year window into their operations: they infected their own computers with their own malware. Vangelis Stykas, a Greek security researcher and the chief technology officer at Kumio, presented his findings in Las Vegas at Black Hat, the annual security conference. He […]

A discarded SpaceX rocket stage crashed into the Moon on August 5 after 18 months in an unstable orbit, leaving a fresh crater on the lunar surface and a dust plume that telescopes on Earth watched. The impact was never part of the mission plan, and it is only the second time on record that […]

A bill introduced in the House last month would not just bar new AI data centers from federal land: it would order the government to start tearing down the ones already there, with demolition explicitly on the table. The legislation, introduced July 23 by Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, prohibits the construction or operation of […]

Microsoft has started rationing one of its most visible internal resources: AI tokens. In an email obtained by 404 Media, executive vice president Jay Parikh told staff that the company is not optimizing for token volume, and that divisions would now carry AI token budget targets as Microsoft tries to squeeze more value from the […]