Rahim Amir

Nvidia's RTX Spark headlines Lenovo's Yoga refresh at IFA, with two laptops, two pen-first tablets, and up to 128GB of unified memory

Lenovo's ThinkBook 14x Gen 2 weighs 990g, offers a 2.8K 120Hz OLED, and costs $999.99 while making no mention of AI at an otherwise AI-centric launch event from the computer giant.

Lenovo's ThinkCentre X Ultra packs 128GB of unified memory into 1.6 liters for $3,699, and says four will cluster into a potential 512GB pool

A crewless sailboat has fired two live missiles at RIMPAC

OpenAI's data center chief is out after 17 months, and the company had already broken his job into three pieces before he left.

OpenAI says its 700W Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia's 1,400W GB300 in efficiency, while skipping a crucial head-to-head against the latter's Vera Rubin architecture.

Intel laid out its whole agentic AI hardware stack at Hot Chips 2026, but two of the three chips are still a year or more from shipping.

Microsoft's free unlimited education storage is gone, and Arcitecta is the latest vendor selling universities the exit ramp they need.

Google shipped Gemini editions for law firms and banks. Both are previews, and pricing isn't available yet.

Ukraine says Russia built a drone with cutting charges in its wings to drop power pylons.

Researcher tricks Apple's Find My into feeding live location data to a Linux box, with no Mac or iPhone required.

Xiaomi's first NAS starts at CNY 2,699 with drives included, uses the same chip as Synology's 2023 budget boxes, and isn't yet available outside China.

IBM cools two connected fridges to a hundredth of a degree above absolute zero, but the temperature is arguably the least impressive part of its achievement.

A different kind of numbers game

A sensor that listens silently, then calls in a second one to ping the target, could be a key pairing that helps the US Navy track underwater drones before they reach the pier.

AMD says two of its 2030 racks will match 570 from 2024 using twenty times less power and reducing carbon intensity by twenty-eight times.

One corporation's old business data could be another's AI treasure

That expired card in your drawer might not be nearly as dead as you think: researchers made one pay $100 for a grocery run.

Roughly 65,000 expired domains change hands every day, and researchers have found one crime group spending an estimated $7 million on them to inherit the trust that comes attached to them.

Hackers compromised a security tool, used it to steal the publishing keys of a popular AI tool, and released a poisoned version under that tool's real name in a far-reaching attack

Michael Dell resurrects the Dell Dude to sell massive AI racks, an advertisement that also earned a "Made with AI" sticker on X.

An Alabama town and its county both passed moratoriums, but a 50 MW Bitcoin mine is being built anyway because they aren't allowed to zone.

A St. Louis PBS station bought cloud storage from a vendor that has now gone defunct and is now in a legal battle with its landlord for access to its own data

Alibaba's new AI supernode is rentable by the hour, built entirely on Chinese silicon, and smaller than every rival it's compared to.

Nvidia says its new router cuts AI costs by up to 74%, but the partner that measured it says it couldn't prove the router beat using the cheaper model.