AMD forecasts quarterly revenue above Intel as data-center sales surge
AMD guided to about $17 billion in fourth-quarter revenue after record results, a level that would place its quarterly sales ahead of Intel for the first time.
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Local ballot measures put new limits on US data-center expansion
Voters in more than 30 communities across nine states backed restrictions on data centers, turning local opposition into a material risk for the AI infrastructure boom.
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RTX Spark laptop tests expose severe native Linux GPU slowdown on mains power
A hands-on test found an Nvidia RTX Spark laptop ran large-model inference far more slowly under native Linux when plugged in, while Windows and WSL retained full performance.
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AI-assisted PHP research highlights widening gap between finding and fixing security flaws
Researchers used AI tools to turn a known PHP crash bug into a critical code-execution exploit, intensifying concern over the burden on open-source defenders.
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Geoffrey Hinton warns major AI incident could force governments to confront systemic risk
The Nobel-winning computer scientist said an AI-enabled disruption to power or finance could occur within two years, while maintaining that beneficial outcomes remain possible.
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Binance says fake job interview enabled multi-stage attack behind $6.3 billion theft
The exchange attributed its October breach to a sophisticated campaign involving malware, compromised employee devices and stolen deployment credentials.
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AI science debate shifts from correct answers to accountability and understanding
A new essay argues that verified outputs alone do not constitute scientific knowledge when researchers cannot explain, challenge or take responsibility for the claims.
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Democrats projected to win US House and take committee control
NBC News projected a Democratic House majority of roughly 255 seats, shifting legislative and oversight authority when the new Congress convenes in January.
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Recovered Unix code traces early alternatives to modern malloc
A new examination of historic Unix sources shows how early allocators used explicit resource maps and program-lifetime regions before today's familiar C memory interface became standard.
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Residential proxy buyers urged to test supply-chain overlap
An industry interview argues that proxy brands may share underlying device pools, making sourcing evidence and correlated-failure testing more important than the number of vendors used.
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Activist group says it will publish dossiers linking billionaires to home addresses
The self-described Capytistas told WIRED that a planned campaign will begin with Elon Musk and Tesla-linked figures, raising fresh safety and privacy concerns around political doxing.
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Kalshi and co-founders charged under Utah gambling laws
Utah filed 13 felony counts and one misdemeanor against the prediction-market company and each founder as a parallel federal-state jurisdiction fight intensifies.
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Namespace puts MacBook Pros into custom racks for cloud macOS workloads
The infrastructure company says supply constraints pushed it toward laptop-based racks while its virtualization system delivers macOS environments for iOS development and testing.
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Office Engine brings progressive browser editing to large Office files
The open-source React component handles DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files locally in the browser, with progressive loading intended to keep very large documents responsive.
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Critique challenges claims about Astra directly understanding and editing model weights
A technical analysis argues that the headline Qwen result relied on Python tools, test runs and practice problems rather than inspection of raw weights alone.
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NASA's Swift observatory faces uncontrolled re-entry after 22 years in orbit
Forecasts placed the 1.5-tonne telescope's return on November 4, but its precise time and location remained uncertain as atmospheric drag pulled it lower.
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Nvidia releases Auto Ontology framework for more explainable enterprise AI
The Apache-licensed Python project builds graph-based context layers over enterprise metadata and exposes them to agent tools through MCP, a command line and an API.
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Browser-based hjkl trainer turns Vim commands into short editing challenges
The free desktop-browser tool teaches motions, text objects, search, marks, counts and repeats through exercises completed inside a real Vim editor.
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Rustable launches cross-platform open-source database client with browser demo
The early v0.4.8 release supports major SQL databases and standalone Redis, while a Rust-to-WASM demonstration lets users try local SQLite and Redis workflows in a browser.
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Google researchers warn LLM hijacking can drive cloud bills toward $1 million
Mandiant investigations found attackers stealing cloud identities and model access, then routing unauthorized AI usage through a growing resale ecosystem.
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DiscImageStudio turns optical-disc data into visible artwork
The open-source project generates CD, DVD and single-layer Blu-ray images whose physical data patterns form pictures visible on the recorded surface.
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Study compares open-source 5G radio platforms across real workloads
Researchers evaluated OpenAirInterface and srsRAN using multiple radio configurations and applications including video on demand, live streaming and cloud gaming.
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Hacker Times gives Hacker News an hourly newspaper-style front page
The independent web project reorganises links discussed by Hacker News readers into a saved edition with summaries and pointers to original sources.
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US midterms put every House seat and 35 Senate contests before voters
The vote will decide whether Republicans keep control of Congress and how much room President Donald Trump has to pursue his domestic agenda.
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