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OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas is vulnerable to prompt injection attacks within the omnibox

29 October 2025 at 21:32

A new report by NeuralTrust highlights the immature state of today's AI browsers. The company found that ChatGPT Atlas, the agentic browser recently launched by OpenAI for macOS, is vulnerable to a novel prompt injection attack capable of "jailbreaking" the browser's omnibox. In Atlas and other Chromium-based browsers, the omnibox...

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Silicon Valley startup bets on x-ray lithography to transform semiconductors

29 October 2025 at 20:47

Despite having no prior semiconductor manufacturing experience, the Proud brothers have secured backing from leading venture capital firms, including Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Valor Equity Partners. Last year's fundraising round, previously undisclosed, valued Substrate at over $1 billion, according to company executives. People familiar with the funding told The...

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Latest Windows 11 update adds redesigned Start Menu, colored battery icons, and more

29 October 2025 at 20:04

The KB5067036 update for Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 (preview builds 26200.7019 and 26100.7019, respectively) introduces a redesigned Start Menu with a scrollable "All" section that lists all installed apps. The updated Start Menu also adds two new views: Category and Grid. Category groups apps by type and highlights frequently...

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Microsoft now owns 27% of OpenAI as the company shifts to a for-profit model

29 October 2025 at 15:21

The new arrangement solidifies OpenAI's position as a profit-seeking enterprise, ending nearly a year of restructuring discussions that had drawn scrutiny from regulators and investors. Under the terms, Microsoft's access to OpenAI's technology, including any systems capable of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), extends through 2032.

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FurMark remains the classic GPU torture tool for serious stability testing

28 October 2025 at 21:44

FurMark is a widely trusted GPU stress test built for enthusiasts, overclockers, and system tuners. It delivers a brutal, sustained load to expose thermal and stability limits, giving you a clear picture of your cooling performance and long-term reliability. Despite its intensity, it stays simple to run and produces repeatable, no-nonsense results.



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Researchers find AI search pulls from the internet's fringes, not Google's top links

28 October 2025 at 20:33

A new academic study comparing traditional web search results with those generated by AI-driven systems has found that generative AI tools frequently rely on less popular or unconventional sources. The findings underscore a growing divide between how conventional search engines and large language model-based systems gather and present online information.

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Amazon reveals a single point of failure brought down AWS taking thousands of services with it

28 October 2025 at 00:43

Amazon notes that last week's AWS outage began at 11:48 PM PDT on October 19, as users reported widespread errors and latency across services in the US-EAST-1 region (Northern Virginia). Amazon confirmed the disruption stemmed from DNS resolution problems with the DynamoDB API endpoint. While engineers mitigated the issue within...

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Qualcomm steps into the AI infrastructure race with new AI200 and AI250 accelerators

27 October 2025 at 23:54

Qualcomm is expanding beyond its roots in mobile technology, directly challenging the companies dominating artificial intelligence hardware. The semiconductor firm has announced that it will enter the high-end data center market with two new AI accelerator chips, marking its most ambitious move yet into the computing infrastructure that underpins the...

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OpenAI's hype vs Anthropic's strategy: who's really winning the AI war?

27 October 2025 at 17:59

OpenAI has entered agreements worth hundreds of billions of dollars to build vast data centers packed with high-performance chips, designed to strengthen its grip on generative AI. Yet as it expands through costly construction and mass-market products, a quieter rival, Anthropic, is emerging as a more structurally sustainable business in...

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Engineering the perfect robotic hand could unlock a $5 trillion humanoid market

26 October 2025 at 20:26

Robotics engineers worldwide are tackling one of the most challenging frontiers in artificial intelligence and mechanical engineering: building a hand that functions like a human's. While humanoid robots can walk, lift, and balance, the absence of dexterous, sensor-rich hands remains a significant barrier to large-scale deployment in factories and other...

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HP is betting on Saudi manufacturing as the kingdom pitches itself as the Middle East's tech factory

25 October 2025 at 19:02

HP has begun producing computers in Saudi Arabia through a large-scale manufacturing partnership, marking one of the country's most significant technology investments under its Vision 2030 economic diversification program. The move makes HP the latest global hardware maker to anchor its supply chain in the kingdom, joining a wave of...

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Cybersecurity experts warn real-time voice deepfakes are here

25 October 2025 at 17:51

Cybersecurity firm NCC Group has demonstrated that combining open-source AI tools with off-the-shelf hardware can generate real-time voice deepfakes with minimal latency. The technique, dubbed "deepfake vishing," uses AI models trained on samples of a target's voice to produce live impersonations that operators activate via a start button on a...

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Intel can't spin up 18A fast enough, so Intel 7 is now the new CPU bottleneck

25 October 2025 at 02:14

Intel's rebound in chip demand during the third quarter has been tempered by ongoing supply constraints that continue to limit the company's ability to deliver both client and data center processors. Although CPU orders have strengthened across multiple product lines, Intel's production remains bottlenecked by limited manufacturing capacity and a...

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Seduction is the new spyware: US tech startups are now the target of "sex warfare"

24 October 2025 at 21:42

According to sources speaking with UK newspaper The Times, foreign operatives from China and Russia are increasingly using "sex warfare" to target American tech professionals. The tactic involves sending attractive women to seduce employees, gain access to trade secrets, and sometimes even marry and have children with their targets.

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NextSilicon bets on adaptive hardware to outrun traditional CPUs and GPUs

24 October 2025 at 15:54

NextSilicon, an Israeli startup backed by more than $300 million in funding, is advancing its challenge to the dominance of Nvidia, Intel, and AMD in high-performance computing. The company announced that its new line of chips, including the Maverick-2 Intelligent Compute Accelerator and a RISC-V-based CPU code-named Arbel, is being...

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