The Middle East had everything data center builders and hyperscalers could wish for — then the Iran war happened

The Middle East has been a hotspot for investment into data centers, with multiple large projects in planning, attracting wide global investment. But that belief has been shaken by the disruption within the region after Is…

Senator at center of Utah AI data center debate gets physical, slaps phone out of reporter’s hand — reporter covering cases of harassment against his business

Utah State Sen. Jerry Stevenson (R.-Layton) got into a physical confrontation with an ABC4 reporter as they tried to cover the harassment being made against his employees by people against the proposed Box Elder County dat…

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Desperate SK hynix customers offer to buy its EUV machines and fund new fabs as memory capacity hits zero amid crushing AI-driven shortages — worsening global shortages pry open wallets to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars

The offers go well beyond standard long-term supply agreements.

Google’s DeepMind to train AI on player actions in quarter-million-player MMORPG Eve Online — Google bought in by purchasing a minority stake in the newly independent Fenris Creations

Google will leverage data from one of the most complex and multi-layered sci-fi RPGs to train its AI, as DeepMind begins training in Eve Online.
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Devastating ‘Dirty Frag’ exploit leaks out, gives immediate root access on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available, no warning given — Copy Fail-like vulnerability had its embargo broken

Dirty Frag exploit gets root on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available

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White House reportedly considers mandatory government vetting of AI models before release — executive order under discussion

The Trump administration is in early discussions about an executive order that would create a government review process for AI models before public release.
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Musk’s SpaceX has rented out access to its supercomputer’s 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI compute power to rival Anthropic — Musk says “No one set off my evil detector,” Antrhropic also interested in orbital data centers

Anthropic has signed a deal with SpaceX to access the latter’s massive data center, which has over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of computing power.
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Nvidia’s ISP piracy defense backfires as judge refuses to dismiss copyright lawsuit over more than 197,000 pirated books — scripts in NeMo Framework allegedly ‘have no other purpose’ than to speed up infringement

Nvidia said that its NeMo Megatron Framework has non-infringing uses and that it’s not liable for any piracy that its users might do.
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After a $16 billion Stargate AI data center was built despite being voted down, Michigan towns rush to block new buildouts — massive facility will suck 1.4 Gigawatts of energy to power ChatGPT

Backlash now covers county resolutions, bipartisan state legislation, and a regional water authority refusing to serve proposed facilities.
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College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line with software defined radios, stopping four trains — 19 years without crypto key rotation ends in predictable result as hacker sails through 7 layers of protection

College student hacks Taiwan high-speed rail line, stopping four trains

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