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The small medevac plane that crashed into a New Mexico mountainside in May lost its satellite navigation because the US military was jamming GPS signals across the area at the time, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board. No previous NTSB probe has publicly pointed at military GPS jamming as a […]

The Trump administration has finalized its framework for assessing the cybersecurity risks of advanced AI models. The plan reportedly covers only the top tier of proprietary models, skips open-weight systems entirely, and leaves its central concept, a national security risk, undefined. The administration shared details of the framework with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI […]

Microsoft’s Windows chief has published a progress report on the company’s promise to make Windows 11 less annoying, and the verdict from critics is mixed: the work is happening, but the company is not showing its work. The report, from Pavan Davuluri, who leads Windows at Microsoft, updates the seven quality commitments the company made […]

SpaceX published its first quarterly earnings as a public company on Tuesday, showing growth split between two businesses: satellite internet and rented-out AI compute. Revenue reached $7.8 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 92 percent from $4 billion in the same quarter last year. Nearly $2 billion of the increase came from the […]

AMD’s data center business passed a milestone in the second quarter: it generated more than half of total revenue for the first time in company history, more than doubling year over year. The company reported record revenue of $11.5 billion for Q2 2026, up 50 percent from $7.7 billion a year earlier and 13 percent […]

A viral post on X claimed Microsoft had quietly added a background service to Windows 11 that watches your PC and phones data home every 15 minutes. Microsoft says the service is real, but the spying part is wrong. The claim, posted on July 31 by an account called Xilly, said a service named “Windows […]

Japanese distributor CFD Sales has told wholesale customers that Gigabyte graphics cards will cost 20 to 40 percent more for orders placed from August 1, 2026, with the exact increase depending on the model. The notice, published on CFD’s CFD-BIZ wholesale platform, means affected products will sell at 120 to 140 percent of their previous […]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered a pause on new data center connections to the state’s power grid, freezing approvals at the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and grid operator ERCOT while both audit the backlog of projects awaiting interconnection. The moratorium, announced this week, is the state’s most aggressive response yet to an AI […]

The Federal Communications Commission is drafting a rule that would bar imports of new Chinese-built optical transceivers, the small modules inside data centers that convert electrical signals into the light pulses traveling through fiber-optic cable. Four people familiar with the plan described it to Reuters on Tuesday. Officials hope to publish the measure before the […]

Cloudflare’s bug bounty triage costs $58 a month. Its chief security officer says the company runs the job on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model, and that switching to Anthropic’s security-specialized Mythos model for the same work would have run to roughly $200,000 a month. The figure, shared at a press briefing in Sydney, is Cloudflare’s proof […]