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Today — 28 October 2025TechSpot

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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Yesterday — 27 October 2025TechSpot

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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Investors continue to sound the alarm on the inevitable burst of the AI bubble

23 October 2025 at 20:49

Lauren Taylor Wolfe is exploring new investment opportunities in a bullish market, but told CNBC she plans to steer clear of anything tied to artificial intelligence. As co-founder of activist investment firm Impactive Capital, Wolfe recently voiced concern over Wall Street's near-total fixation on AI among major technology corporations.

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Amazon says its robots aren't taking human jobs, while unveiling more robots built to take jobs

23 October 2025 at 18:22

The New York Times reported this week that Amazon's robotics team aims to automate 75% of all operations at the company, thereby eliminating 160,000 positions that would have otherwise been required by 2027. The company hopes its robots will fill more than 600,000 US positions it would have had to hire for by 2033.

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YouTube launches AI detection tool to spot deepfakes using creators' faces and voices

23 October 2025 at 15:53

YouTube has begun the broad rollout of a new artificial intelligence detection system that identifies and manages AI-generated content replicating a creator's face or voice. The feature, now available to verified members of the YouTube Partner Program, allows creators to review and request the removal of deepfake videos that misuse...

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