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Security

The tool your IT provider uses to fix your PC just got a 10.0

N-able rushed out hotfixes for three N-central flaws including a maximum severity pre-auth RCE after the platform thousands of IT providers rely on ...

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AI

Microsoft exec called AI scraping the largest theft of labour in human history

Unredacted court filings reveal that a Microsoft executive privately described AI data scraping as the largest theft of labour in human history, a ...

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Computing

Gartner says memory prices climb 130% this year and AI is eating 70% of supply

RAM prices will not go down in 2026. Gartner forecasts a 130% surge, AI data centres take 70% of supply, and the earliest real relief is late 2027.

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Computing

Mazama Energy raises 135 million dollars to drill three miles down for geothermal power

Mazama Energy just closed a 135 million dollar round to drill three miles underground and tap superhot rock that can generate 15 megawatts per well ...

· 4 min read
Computing

The VRAM tier list, and exactly which AI models your GPU can run

Local LLM VRAM requirements in 2026, by tier. What 8GB, 16GB, 24GB and 48GB actually run, plus which model to pick at each level and why.

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Computing

Huawei just moved its Nvidia rival forward by nine months

Huawei's Ascend 960 now lands in Q1 2027, nine months early. Here is how the Ascend 960 vs Nvidia comparison actually reads, and what still caps it.

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AI

Four frontier models shipped in one week and IT buyers stopped celebrating

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta all shipped between 1 and 3 September. The best AI model September 2026 comparison now expires faster than ...

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Security

One reused police password opened Florida's entire driver database

ShinyHunters says it broke into Florida's DAVID driver database using credentials a police officer stored on a personal device, exposing around ...

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AI

The FAA is spending 875 million dollars on AI to fix US air traffic control

The FAA has announced an 875 million dollar AI programme to give US air traffic controllers better real-time decision support, smarter conflict ...

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Space

The youngest planet ever found was hiding in data nobody re-examined for 8 years

Elias 2-24 b is under a million years old and still eating. The youngest exoplanet ever discovered was confirmed in archival Keck data from 2017.

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Computing

Crusoe raises 3.9 billion dollars to build AI data centres powered by cleaner energy

Crusoe has closed a 3.9 billion dollar funding round at a 30.9 billion dollar valuation to build both giant data centres and smaller ...

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Security

Cisco's network gatekeeper had a perfect 10 hole in it

CVE-2026-76460 lets an unauthenticated attacker skip Cisco ISE's login entirely and grab root, already exploited before the patch landed

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AI

Sovereign AI has four meanings, and vendors rarely say which one they sell

Sovereign AI means at least four different things: data residency, operational control, supply chain independence and full capability. Here is what ...

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Security

A Parallels bug hands any Mac user root, and Intel Macs cannot install the fix

Parallels Desktop CVE-2026-90894 lets any local Mac user escalate to root. The fix ships in v27, which will not install on Intel Macs. Here is what ...

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AI

OpenAI just published a framework for when its models behave badly

OpenAI has published a formal framework for how it will detect, categorise, and disclose incidents where its models behave in unintended ways, and it ...

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Security

A cyberattack has knocked the world's meteor-tracking nonprofit offline

A nonprofit that runs one of the world's key meteor-tracking networks has been taken offline by a cyberattack, with the group warning it will be ...

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Computing

Meta is making a camera-free version of its Ray-Ban glasses

After a run of bad press around its camera-equipped Ray-Ban smart glasses, Meta is developing a camera-free version that keeps the speakers ...

· 4 min read
AI

Gemini 3.8 Live costs 1.38 dollars an hour. GPT-Live-1 lands closer to 5.

Gemini 3.8 Live vs GPT-Live-1 pricing compared. Google charges about 1.38 dollars per hour of voice. The OpenAI split architecture lands at 4.47 to ...

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AI

Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a 20 billion dollar merger built on sovereign AI

Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a definitive combination agreement valued near 20 billion dollars, with dual headquarters, over 1,000 staff and a ...

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Computing

Apple is secretly building an AI server rack full of M-series Ultra chips

Apple is reportedly building a rack server loaded with multiple M-series Ultra chips, with a planned 2029 launch that would make it the company's ...

· 4 min read
AI

AI data centre E-waste could fill 23 million shipping containers by 2050

A new report puts a staggering number on AI's hardware waste problem: by 2050, discarded data centre equipment could fill 23 million shipping ...

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Space

US military confirms it has placed weapons in Earth's orbit

The US military has officially confirmed it has placed weapon systems in Earth's orbit, a milestone that shifts space from a surveillance domain to ...

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Space

SpaceX sets 22 September launch date for Starship's first orbital flight

SpaceX has named 22 September as the date Starship will attempt its first full orbital flight, the biggest single test in the rocket's decade-long ...

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Space

Roman Space Telescope has enough fuel for 22 years, double what NASA planned

NASA's Roman Space Telescope launched with enough fuel to operate for 22 years, double the original mission estimate, and it's also the first NASA ...

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Computing

What you can actually run locally in 2026, by how much RAM you have

Local LLM hardware requirements by tier, from an 8GB laptop to a 128GB tower, plus the two rules that decide which models will actually fit on your ...

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