Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’ — structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power

Meta is reportedly building more tents that house expensive data centers across the U.S., as it reportedly cuts construction time from two to three years to just a few months. It’s also bringing its own power instead of re…

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Outlook may have allowed unencrypted connections for decades, report claims — Fedora and Dovecot upgrade reveal protocol downgrade issue present since at least 2007

Ssh, don’t tell the customer anything.

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Indiana mayor secretly recorded saying AI data center protestors only live in ‘sh***y’ houses — office issues statement of clarification over controversial comments

Shelbyville mayor Scott Ferguson (R) made these remarks likelly without knowing that he was being recorded, and it has ignited a political firestorm in the small town.
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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says, ‘It will be a long time before we can meet customer demand’ — tells shareholders that he will keep prices stable, refrain from implementing price hikes

TSMC says it does not have enough capacity to handle all the demand from AI hyperscalers, with CEO C.C. Wei saying that it will take a long time before it can match customer demand. This is an opportunity for Intel, thoug…

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX secures 100% property tax exemption for planned $55 billion Terafab semiconductor factory in Texas — county approves 35-year deal worth hundreds of millions despite resident backlash

SpaceX has secured a 35-year, 100% property tax abatement for its proposed $55 billion TeraFAB semiconductor facility in Texas. Elon Musk argues the exemption is essential to compete with global chipmakers, while residents…

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US tech layoffs record single-highest month in two years, and more than any other sector — nearly 40,000 get the axe, AI the most cited reason for layoffs

U.S. tech companies announced 38,242 job cuts in May, more than any other sector and the industry’s heaviest month of reductions in nearly two years.
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Best of Computex 2026: Innovating despite disruptions

From affordable premium laptops to next-gen handhelds, and Nvidia bringing its Spark to Windows on Arm, these are the 11 best products introduced at this year’s show.
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‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year

The rapid increase in agentic internet traffic means “bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet’s history,” remarked CEO and co-founder of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince.
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AMD’s Helios MI455X AI platform breaks cover, initial systems use UALink-over-Ethernet interconnects — AMD’s Vera Rubin rival surfaces, but the downsides of Ethernet could hamstring performance

AMD’s Helios set to compete against Nvidia’s NVL72 VR200 rack-scale system later this year, but its UALink-over-Ethernet interconnection may affect performance in certain workloads before real UALink interconnects are depl…

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits AI token costs are becoming ‘a huge issue’ — company seeks improved value as overspending becomes a meme

OpenAI’s clients are complaining about out-of-control AI spending, and they’re asking Sam Altman to make it more efficient so they don’t blow their annual AI budgets in just one quarter.
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