Chinese chipmaker CXMT is predicted to be ramping up RAM production It could double memory production by 2028, we're told This extra RAM is likely to service the domestic market, though, and meanwhile, Dell's CEO is warning that the memory crisis is likely to persist to 2030 A major Chinese chipmaker has plans to expand its DRAM production in a big way over the next couple of years, but this won't…
Meta’s new Muse Wonder model: good for AI agents, bad for design Listen now on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts Brought to you by: DX —Engineering intelligence for the AI era Jira Product Discovery —Prioritize with insights, build with confidence Claire puts Meta’s new Muse Wonder model through nearly 20 real-world tasks covering agentic work, coding, writing, design, and video editing. She expl…
The CEO and founder of a pregnancy pillow company told the BBC that Meta removed an ad for the word "pregnancy." In Jan. 2025, Instagram (which is owned by Meta) notified BellaMoon founder Irene Breen that it was removing her company's ads, and she told the BBC she had to scrub the word "pregnancy" from the product name and URLs. Meta apparently told her on the call that the word was the problem.…
Could this be the best price per GB for a PCIe SSD this year so far? The Teamgroup T-Force G50 EVO is the cheapest 4TB SSD you can buy right now. Newegg sells it for $369.99 after using promo code SSF74294 and the current gift card offer ( buy $200, get $230 ). That’s an extraordinary $126 discount off its sticker price. I cannot stress enough how good of a deal that is! At just over $0.09 per TB,…
President Donald Trump on Sunday announced plans to close a historic public golf course in the nation’s capital for 15 months and redevelop it despite a court challenge to his long-sought renovation. Trump posted on social media about his intent to shutter the East Potomac Golf Course, not far from the White House, starting Nov. 15 to make it “one of the Best and Most Spectacular Golf Courses anyw…
Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal : The US DHS orders all federal civilian agencies to remove any DeepSeek tech from their IT systems and prohibits future procurement of its products and services — The Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove artificial-intelligence technology developed …
This week, Character.AI declared bankruptcy. While some saw the fall of a chatbot platform as a harbinger for the industry , court filings indicate that the decision was actually a key part of a deal that has let Disney hire most of Character.AI’s staff—including its now former CEO Karandeep Anand —potentially acquire most of Character.AI’s technology , and avoid the beleaguered startup’s many leg…
While the GameCube came in several colors, a few of the most elusive variations command thousands from game collectors. While the GameCube came in several colors, a few of the most elusive variations command thousands from game collectors.
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to explore development of a European constellation This could work as an alternative to Starlink, and allow networks to plug coverage gaps with satellites However, they still need a satellite partner to deliver any such plan Starlink has major mobile ambitions, seemingly seeing itself as a true rival to conventional…
Seagate has made hard drives for decades, and the Expansion line is about as straightforward as external storage gets: plug it in and drag your files across, no software required. The included Rescue data recovery service is a useful safety net for a drive that’s likely to hold years of files. If your photos, videos, and backups are scattered across too many small drives, a single 16TB Seagate Exp…
The front view of the Mac Mini. | Image: The Verge Best Buy has a great deal for the rest of the day on the M4 Mac Mini base model that has 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. Normally, it doesn’t make a ton of sense to buy the M4 model for its usual $799 price given that the newer, faster M6 version has been available from Amazon for $779.99 (originally $899) for the past couple of weeks. However, at $649…
Everyone knows that Apple products tend to cost a pretty penny, and MacBooks and iMacs are no exception. Thanks to the global memory crisis , they got even more expensive in 2026, making deal-shopping essential. If you'd rather avoid spending over $1,000 on entry-level specs , we have great news: You can save hundreds on an Apple laptop or computer multiple times a year . While Black Friday is rig…
World ID for Zoom will put a Human Badge on your video feed to prove you're... human Setting this up requires a physical iris scan and a verification selfie Verifying human authenticity is easier than identifying deepfakes Sam Altman's biometric identity verification company, World, has launched a series of tools designed to help businesses distinguish real people from AI deepfakes as one of his o…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/pinterest-event-time-partition/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1791063877867.jpg"/><p>Pinterest has introduced event time-based partition finalization for its database ingestion framework. The mechanism uses Apache Flink to track event time and Apache Iceberg metadata to publish a non-regressing watermark, helping downstream jobs determine when cont…
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : Sources: US investigators pursuing ShinyHunters, which stole FBI data, identified executives at two ransomware negotiation firms who had unusually close ties — U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI …
About a month ago, a Chinese rocket took off from a remote spaceport in the Gobi Desert, released 10 satellites into orbit, then reignited its engine and put itself on a trajectory to rain down debris over the American Midwest. The rocket's flight on September 15 lasted between 75 and 80 minutes, and it came down without completing a full orbit of the Earth. Social media posts at the time showed s…
Town, a San Francisco startup that gives each person at work an AI work assistant, has raised $108m in a Series B that values it at $1bn. Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures co-led the round, the company announced on Monday. Existing investors a16z and First Round Capital took part, along with Better Tomorrow Ventures, Precedent.vc, […] This story continues at The Next Web
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/jep-543-jdk-28/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1792296304479.jpg"/><p>JDK 28 finalizes structured concurrency through JEP 543, with no API changes from JDK 27. Teams on JDK 27 only need to drop --enable-preview and recompile. Code written for JDK 25 or 26 must adapt to the R_X exception type parameter, ExecutionException wrapping, and the abstract t…
Today, I’m talking with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of unexpected political realignment — and with the midterms coming up next month, and early voting already underway in a lot of places, the stakes are pretty…
AI is here to stay, it seems, and a lot of people have leaned into the change rather than resisting it. Many people engage with AI over their web browser since major AI services are available there, thereby bypassing the need to have a strong PC that’s optimized to run AI. However, other folks want to run AI directly on their PCs. That is a different category entirely. To run AI, you need a…
Windows is a massive operating system and you can go years or even decades without interacting with most of the features. There are over 100 native system-wide hotkeys in Windows 11 and it’s a pretty safe bet that most people don’t know much beyond Select All, Copy, and Paste. It would take a year to list everything, so instead we’re going to focus on Windows settings that you ma…
Cyberdecks are interesting pieces of tech. They are, essentially, sci-fi inspired portable computers that people build that can kind of bridge the gap between smartphones and laptops. You’ve probably seen them all over the sci-fi genre, including games like Cyberpunk 2077 and movies like Ghost in the Shell or Hackers . You may be interested in building your own. It turns out, you can do that…
Dan Mangan / CNBC : Filing: US prosecutors say OpenAI suspect Abdulrahman Alfozan maintained frequent WhatsApp contact in 2025 and 2026 with an unnamed Saudi Royal Family member — The Saudi national charged with planting a recording device in a sensitive OpenAI executive conference room in San Francisco was …
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a letter of intent saying they're considering a joint bid for spectrum that would support European direct-to-device satellite competition for SpaceX's Starlink. The four telecom companies say they would handle the ground infrastructure while a separate, unannounced satellite partner provides the satellite constellation: The joint ini…
If you haven’t looked at the cost of RAM recently, then don’t. They haven’t changed in any positive way since the RAMpocalypse began, and if anything, it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. That makes almost any upgrade untenable, whether it’s buying a new laptop or upgrading your existing desktop PC. There is another way, and that’s the wonder…
Amnon Shashua’s startup doubleAI has launched Maxwell, an AI model that works inside running software to make it use less computing power. Shashua co-founded the Tel Aviv company and is its chief executive. The company announced Maxwell on Monday and opened it for early access. Shashua set out the company’s plans to Belle Lin of […] This story continues at The Next Web
Microsoft has announced new tools to control AI agents in Microsoft 365 E7 and its Project Perception platform. The tools limit what each agent can reach and tighten those limits when its risk increases. Hayete Gallot, executive vice president of Microsoft Security, set out the approach in a post on Monday. She wrote that companies should […] This story continues at The Next Web
Emil Michael says the US government can use export controls on AI companies that do not cooperate with it. The under secretary of war is the Pentagon’s chief technology officer. He made the case in a video interview with Amir Efrati and Leo Schwartz of The Information, which reported it on Monday. Michael spoke the […] This story continues at The Next Web
AI is becoming a major part of our digital lives, and Microsoft has adopted the new tech with open arms. So much so that Microsoft now offers a huge range of AI tools straight from Windows 11, led by Microsoft’s new digital assistant, Copilot . The real advantage of AI is that it can help you do your work faster. AI tools, at least right now, are excellent at helping users save time, so they…
Netflix will report its third-quarter results on Tuesday, October 20, as investors look for signs that viewers are spending less time on the service. Analysts expect revenue to rise 11.8% to $12.87bn, up from about $11.5bn a year earlier, according to LSEG data cited by Reuters. That would be Netflix’s slowest third-quarter growth in three years. […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Moon is getting closer to full, with most of its surface now lit up as it moves through the Waxing Gibbous phase. There's a lot more to see tonight than a week ago, so be sure to look up tonight. What is today's Moon phase? As of Monday, Oct. 19, NASA's Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon is in the Waxing Gibbous phase, with 56% of its surface visible. Tonight, you should be able to spo…
North American movie theaters were flooded with new films this weekend, including a video game reboot, a big budget survival thriller and a Jane Austen adaptation . While Paramount’s “Street Fighter” took the first-place spot, earning $31 million from 3,575 theaters according to studio estimates on Sunday, most of the attention and cultural discourse was elsewhere: On the nearly three-hour Elizabe…
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If you're on the hunt for lightweight wireless headphones but wearing earbuds or clip-ons never feels comfortable or secure, a relatively obscure Japanese headphone maker could have the solution. Final's new Porta headphones feature an on-ear design supported by a headband but with a structure made from a single piece of wire so they weigh just 40 grams. For comparison, Marshall's recently-launche…
Anthropic just published a report on what AI has done to its own workforce. The authors used internal headcount data, agent session telemetry, calendar data, Slack patterns, and hiring scorecards, plus 17 employee interviews. Anthropic has rebuilt more of its workflows around agents than almost any company in B2B. That makes this the most detailed data available on what happens to hiring, output,…
A cybersecurity researcher watched a Chinese-speaking hacker break into the websites of more than 100 companies, leaving almost all the work to AI agents. Snorre Fagerland, principal threat researcher at NorForge, set out the findings on Monday in a report on Cairn, the open-source AI platform the hacker used. Reuters saw the report before publication […] This story continues at The Next We…
A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge . Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. Concerns over AI-powered cybersecurity breaches have grown as the technology grows more advanced, wi…
TL;DR: Fandango and Lionsgate are streaming all five Hunger Games movies for free on Fandango’s ad-supported platform through Oct. 31. Fans can rewatch the entire saga at zero cost before tickets open for the new prequel. If you need a reason to revisit Panem's most brutal arena battles, Lionsgate and Fandango just handed you one on a silver platter. In a first-of-its-kind streaming takeover…
The PS5 shows a variety of light colors to indicate its status, and orange thankfully isn't the alert you might expect from that color. The PS5 shows a variety of light colors to indicate its status, and orange thankfully isn't the alert you might expect from that color.
The AMD Ryzen 7 700X impressed us during our testing, with our components expert John calling it "hands down the best processor on the market for most people." If you’re building or upgrading to AMD’s AM5 platform, this CPU delivers a fast eight-core chip and the cooler to run it for well under the original asking price. Now, the AMD Ryzen 7 700X is $239 (was $399) at Newegg with a free Cooler Mas…