AI.com’s $85 million Super Bowl ad campaign falls foul as traffic crashes servers — the campaign allegedly cost $15 million for the ads, $70 million for the domain name

AI.com bought its way onto the biggest advertising stage in the world on Sunday night, and then the site crashed.

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US Air Force bans use of smart glasses among its troops — earphones and other Bluetooth devices also limited to official duties while in uniform

The U.S. Air Force is banning its personnel from using smart glasses while in uniform and limited the use of earbuds for official duties.
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Taiwan rejects possibility of transferring 40% of the island’s semiconductor capacity to U.S. — production on Taiwan expected to increase in lockstep with increases in U.S.-based production

Taiwan authorities have no problems with TSMC investing in the U.S. as long the bulk of its fabs and leading-edge process technologies remain in Taiwan.
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Nvidia now produces three times as much code as before AI — specialized version of Cursor is being used by over 30,000 Nvidia engineers internally

Cursor, an AI-assisted development environment, essentially an IDE, is being used by Nvidia internally to boost coding efficiency. Cursor says the Green Team’s internal code commits have tripled since its implementation wh…

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Nvidia says it didn’t use pirated books to train its AI models — company asking for Anna’s Archive suit to be dismissed

Nvidia is pushing back against claims that it trained AI models on pirated books, telling a federal court that alleged contact with Anna’s Archive doesn’t amount to proof of copyright infringement.
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20-gigawatt Chinese microwave weapon touted as ‘Starlink’s worst nightmare’ by country’s media — portable 5-ton device can deliver full-minute destructive bursts

Scientists in China have developed an incredibly powerful microwave weapon capable of disrupting or damaging low-Earth orbit satellites.
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Crypto disaster sends $44 billion in bitcoins to random users — exchange accidentally makes funds vanish thanks to a typo

Only 0.3% of cryptocurrency exchange transaction clients got rich as a result of a major error.

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Nitrogen ransomware programmers lock themselves out of a payment — key management bug encrypts victims’ data forever

Bug in Nitrogen ransomware locks victims’ data way forever

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Security researcher says AMD auto-updater downloads software insecurely, enabling remote code execution — company rep reportedly said man-in-the-middle attacks are “out of scope,” ignored bug

AMD auto-update delivers software insecurely, company says MITM attacks are “out of scope”

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Semiconductor industry on track to hit $1 trillion in sales in 2026, SIA predicts — bumper forecast follows $791.7 billion haul for 2025

After recording a $791.7 billion revenue in 2025, the semiconductor industry is on track to hit $1 trillion in sales in 2026.
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