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Arm co-founder and Amadeus Capital investor Hermann Hauser told CNBC's The Tech Download podcast that AI will create more value than any prior technology revolution, but warned of bubble risk. He also argued Europe should maintain its U.S. partnership without becoming 'a technology colony of the U.S.,' and discussed semiconductors, quantum computing, and Europe's technological sovereignty.

Intel VP Robert Hallock gave a rare interview to Tom's Hardware setting expectations for the upcoming Nova Lake platform and teasing a return to Raptor Lake for DDR4-based platforms, coming months after the Core Ultra 200S Plus CPU launch. The full transcript is behind a Premium paywall (£25/year).

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a large-scale, global recruitment-themed phishing campaign that uses fake interview scheduling pages and Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) windows to steal Google and Facebook credentials and, in more advanced cases, relay multi-factor authentication (MFA) prompts in real time. CTM360, which detailed the activity in a new report titled RecruitTrap, said it

A 24TB Seagate BarraCuda is listed at Newegg for $29/TB after a $50 discount, making it $200 cheaper than the 20TB version — an unusual pricing inversion where the higher-capacity drive costs less. The article is primarily a deal alert with no technical review or benchmark data.

Apple on Thursday sent a fresh batch of notifications to customers whom it suspects may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks. In a statement shared with TechCrunch, the iPhone maker said it alerted an unspecified number of users targeted in 110 countries and that it has notified customers in over 150 countries to date. Apple began sending threat notifications to users in late 2021.

Uber and Pony.ai announced plans to deploy 2,000 robotaxis across four unnamed European cities, with no timeline given. Pony.ai supplies the autonomous driving stack while Uber provides the ride-hailing platform, and fleet management (maintenance, charging, cleaning) is handled by local partners. The companies previously partnered in May 2025 focused on the Middle East and earlier this year announced a Zagreb, Croatia launch with local company Verne.

Tom's Hardware highlights a Newegg deal on a pre-built 1080p gaming PC: an RTX 5060 rig with a 10-core Intel CPU, 32GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD, priced at $1,100 after a $300 discount. The article text itself is mostly site navigation and membership boilerplate, with little additional technical detail beyond the headline specs.

Ukraine claims to have found an Nvidia Jetson edge-AI chip inside a Russian S-71 'Monochrome' cruise missile, suggesting the weapon may use AI for targeting or navigation. The Jetson line is designed for embedded and edge inference workloads, making its presence in a munition notable as an indicator of AI-enabled autonomous weapons systems.

Trezor confirmed that a breach at its logistics partner ShipMonk exposed personal data of over 13,000 customers who ordered hardware wallets between May 10 and August 8, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and shipping addresses across the US, UK, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, and Portugal. ShipMonk was subject to Trezor's 90-day data retention policy, but earlier orders may also be affected, and Trezor warned affected customers to expect increased phishing attempts.

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A modder attached two desktop CPU coolers to a ZTE Nubia Z70 Ultra smartphone (Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, 24GB RAM) and successfully ran The Witcher 3 at 1080p ultra settings, effectively using the phone as a gaming PC. The cooling modification was necessary to sustain peak SoC performance without thermal throttling.

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AMD has borrowed $4.75 billion for unspecified 'general corporate purposes,' offering no detail on how the cash will be deployed. The article provides no further insight beyond the borrowing amount and the vague stated purpose.

Gigabyte is releasing new motherboards based on the 8-year-old AMD B450 chipset for the AM4 socket, positioning them as a budget DDR4 alternative amid high RAM prices. The move signals that DDR5 pricing remains a pain point and that the AM4 platform still has commercial life for cost-conscious builders.

A new White House memo signed by U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed the National Coordination Center (NCC) to establish a program that would allow private sector companies to take advantage of their "innovative capabilities" to break into foreign Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) and disrupt them. "By partnering with vetted United States companies subject to the direction and

A single-instruction exploit targeting AMD's 2015-era 15h and 16h CPU families can unlock secret memory areas, granting access to the Platform Security Processor, microcode, and System Management Interface for full hardware-level control. The article text itself is mostly site boilerplate with no additional technical detail beyond the headline.

The BOFH humor column recounts how sysadmins fabricate uptime metrics for management reports, cycling through buzzword excuses (Y2K, blockchain, COVID, quantum computing, AI) whenever questioned. The piece is satire about nobody actually reading infrastructure stats.

Trescon's World AI Show Malaysia returns on 9-10 September 2026 at DoubleTree by Hilton KL, focusing on enterprise AI, sovereign cloud, and digital infrastructure. Confirmed speakers include officials from MOSTI, Johor Corporation, Standard Chartered, UEM Edgenta, Pos Malaysia, Bursa Malaysia, Khazanah Nasional, and Mindvalley.

Nintendo shares rose 7% after 'Pokémon Pokopia' sold over 5 million units on Switch 2 within four months of its March 5 launch, making it the console's second-best-selling game. The company has also raised Switch 2 prices due to rising memory costs.

A functioning 1973 green sparkle 2-player edition of Computer Space, widely regarded as the first arcade video game ever created, is heading to auction with an estimated price of $200,000. The article itself is almost entirely Tom's Hardware site navigation boilerplate with no further technical or historical detail beyond the headline.

Scotland's prosecution service warned 300 staff that names, roles, and work emails may have been exposed through a supplier breach detected on August 5, tied to an online data maturity assessment. The supplier is unnamed and the intrusion method is unclear, though The Register notes it may be connected to a recently disclosed Metabase cloud zero-day that allowed admin access to connected databases—Framework was also affected.

Ryt Bank, backed by YTL Power International and Sea Limited, is the first Malaysian digital bank to allow account activation and initial funding via physical ATMs and bank branches through the Interbank GIRO (IBG) network. Users complete eKYC on the app, then fund at an ATM or over-the-counter; accounts activate within one working day, with no fixed minimum for offline transfers.

Unitree Robotics, China's best-known humanoid robot maker, priced its Shanghai STAR market IPO at 150.8 yuan ($22.4) per share, raising $900 million at a ~$9 billion valuation. Retail demand was extreme—oversubscribed 5,000x with a 0.018% lot-winning rate—and DeepSeek joined as a strategic investor, but skeptics question when humanoid robots will move beyond acrobatics to genuinely useful work.

The China-linked threat actor known as Jewelbug has been observed carrying out cyber espionage operations targeting governments and militaries, while simultaneously engaging in cryptocurrency fraud. "Both missions are administered from a single control panel, XG-Web, a browser-centric remote-access and information-stealing framework that turns a victim's browser into a full remote-control

Developers report that Anthropic's Claude API returns empty or truncated thinking blocks for Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 even when summarized thinking is explicitly requested, yet the underlying reasoning tokens are still billed in full as output tokens. Anthropic's own documentation confirms users are charged for all thinking tokens generated regardless of whether the thinking text is returned, and the issue may stem from display-summary testing rather than a broad outage.