Nvidia Jetson chip found in Russian cruise missile, Ukraine claims — presence in S-71 ‘Monochrome’ weapon may indicate use of AI tech

Ukraine intelligence claims that Russia’s latest S-71 ‘Monochrome’ cruise missiles use Nvidia’s Jetson Orin NX modules with AI capabilities, allegedly for terminal guidance.

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Just one instruction on AMD’s 2015-era CPUs cracks open secret memory areas and gives full hardware-level control — exploit for 15h and 16h chip families gets you access to Platform Security Processor, microcode, and System Management Interface

Just one instruction on AMD CPUs gets you access to Platform Security Processor, microcode, and System Management Interface — exploit for 15h and 16h chip families cracks open secret memory areas

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Microsoft’s nemesis drops new zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability — attack grants system-level privileges, but it could already be patched
 Microsoft’s nemesis drops new zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability — attack grants system-level privileges, but it could already be patched

Nightmare Eclipse drops ShieldBreak, another Windows zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability, but Microsoft has rushed quickly to block it with Defender

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Near-packaged optics (NPO) gains ground as the industry hedges against CPO’s growing pains — analysts say volume for NPO silicon photonics products will extend until the end of the decade

The case for near-packaged optics (NPO) is strengthening, as the growing pains of co-packaged optics (CPO) become apparent. We explain the material differences between the two technologies as optics and silicon photonics make waves in the AI industry.

Memory maker CXMT overtakes Tencent to become China’s most valuable company 17 days after its IPO — now worth $524 billion

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is now the world’s most valuable Chinese company after passing Tencent.

Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737’s Flight Management Computer, mess with takeoff weights, or even divert an aircraft — gadget connects to an easily accessible port that overrides commands from the pilots, uses in-flight Wi-Fi

Security researchers discovered a way to tap into the avionics of a Boeing 737 and remotely give its flight management computer erroneous data through in-flight Wi-Fi. This coin-sized device plugs into a diagnostic port in the plane’s avionics bay and could easily be hidden behind its protective dust cover.

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Critical ‘Zoomsday’ flaw enables total device takeover during Zoom calls — AI-assisted research only used 20 prompts to find an exploit to hack hundreds of millions of people.
 Critical ‘Zoomsday’ flaw enables total device takeover during Zoom calls — AI-assisted research only used 20 prompts to find an exploit to hack hundreds of millions of people.

Zoomsday vulnerability let anyone in a Zoom meeting take over anybody else. The vulnerability was developed with AI assistance and took research only used 20 prompts to find an exploit to hack hundred of millions of people.

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Alabama residents left powerless to stop massive Bitcoin mining data center despite county and town moratoriums — hole in state zoning laws lets facility through

Alabama residents left powerless to stop 50 MW Bitcoin mining facility despite county and town moratoriums thanks to the state’s lack of appropriate zoning laws.

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Elon Musk says xAI will increase data center capacity 7x by 2027 — targeting 10 gigawatts of compute, up to $500 billion in revenue by the end of next year
 Elon Musk says xAI will increase data center capacity 7x by 2027 — targeting 10 gigawatts of compute, up to $500 billion in revenue by the end of next year

Elon Musk expects xAI to increase its nameplate power draw to 10 GW by late 2027, which will increase its performance by orders of magnitude what is available to AI today.

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Cerebras shares plunge nearly 20% after missing earnings expectations — hardware sales drop but AI cloud revenue climbs 281%
 Cerebras shares plunge nearly 20% after missing earnings expectations — hardware sales drop but AI cloud revenue climbs 281%

Cerebras keeps growing, but misses forecast as hardware sales dip amid explosive increase of AI cloud revenue.

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