
Revenue per employee at the Magnificent Seven has outpaced the S&P 493, and a new comparison highlights the growing divide in fortunes between America’s largest technology companies and the rest of the S&P 500.
Reports say that this is one of three data centers that the Russian finance ministry operated.

OpenAI’s red-team agents passed hidden messages through the CPU cache, a covert trick already shown to move data between cloud VMs.

Nvidia and PreussenElektra are studying whether decommissioned sites of German nuclear power plants can be repurposed as AI data centers, potentially cutting development time by reusing existing grid connections, land, and industrial infrastructure.
A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices’ microphones to listen to users.

We give you a glimpse at some of the biggest stories we’ve published over on Tom’s Hardware Premium this week, including reports on TP-Link’s struggles over sales of its Wi-Fi 8 routers, FADU’s new SSD, and how to juice better gaming performance from RTX Spark.

Texas has suspended 17 data center construction permits and shut down the automated portal used to approve them

Amazon has ditched its plans to build four new data centers in Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, following an outcry from local residents and officials. The land will now be repurposed for mixed and residential use.
China has stretched older DUV lithography far further than expected, using multiple patterning to approach 5nm-class without EUV. But experts say the trade-offs in cost, yield, and die size mean further advancements are unlikely to be economically viable.

A security firm has been able to identify 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 AI chips running inside a China Telecom network, but it’s unclear where the export-barred components are physically located.