Nvidia's Grace Blackwell Superchips Are Officially Coming to the PC with RTX Spark Notebooks
Nvidia unveiled the N1X processor, a high‑end mobile chip that pairs a MediaTek‑co‑designed Arm CPU with a Blackwell GPU, and announced the RTX Spark line of notebooks and mini‑PCs. The same silicon that powers the $4,699 DGX Spark AI workstation will now run Windows, promising up to 100 fps at 1440p in AAA games and massive unified memory for creative AI tasks. Early RTX Spark models from major OEMs are slated for a fall launch, with top configurations expected to cost between $4,000 and $5,000. The move marks Nvidia’s first major push into the consumer PC market.
Password Manager Dashlane Suspends Customer Accounts Amid Brute-Force Attacks
Dashlane temporarily disabled a number of user accounts after detecting a wave of brute‑force login attempts originating from overseas IP addresses. The company investigated the incidents on Sunday, restored the affected accounts by evening, and moved the incident status to...
23andMe Inherits Lawsuit over 'Disturbing' DNA Data Breach
California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued 23andMe, now operating as Chrome Holding Co., alleging the company failed to safeguard genetic data and misled consumers after the 2023 breach. The incident, initially affecting about 14,000 accounts, leveraged the DNA Relatives feature...
London Cops Post £300M Tech Shopping List After Palantir Contract Blocked
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) had a £25.3 million (≈$32 million) contract with Palantir blocked by London’s deputy mayor for policing after the force failed to follow required procurement procedures. In response, the MPS published 30 tender notices covering roughly £304 million (≈$381 million)...
Alibaba Gets Android 16 Running on RISC-V
Alibaba’s DAMO Academy announced that it has successfully run Android 16 on its XuanTie 9‑series RISC‑V processors, marking the first RVA23 chip to boot the operating system. The achievement was demonstrated on a range of XuanTie models, though the exact...
Google Explains How It Will Infuse Ads Into AI Answers
Google announced new AI‑driven ad formats as part of its Gemini 3.5 Flash upgrade to Search. The company will embed Conversational Discovery ads and Highlighted Answers within AI Mode responses while keeping traditional SERPs as the default. Advertisers will use...
Patch Time for Cisco SD-WAN Admins as Vendor Drops yet Another Make-Me-Admin Zero-Day
Cisco has issued emergency patches for a critical zero‑day vulnerability (CVE‑2026‑20182) affecting its Catalyst SD‑WAN Controller and Manager, formerly known as vSmart and vManage. The flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain admin privileges, enabling arbitrary NETCONF...
ZTE Showcases at GSMA M360 LATAM 2026, Driving Future Business Model Restructuring - AI & Network Two-Way Integration
ZTE showcased its AI‑Native network strategy at the GSMA M360 LATAM 2026 summit, emphasizing a two‑way integration of artificial intelligence and telecommunications. The company highlighted a 20% increase in 5G cell throughput and a 38% reduction in power consumption achieved...
UK Reloads Artillery Plans with £1B Remote-Control Howitzer Order
The British Ministry of Defence has awarded a £1 billion ($1.35 billion) contract for 72 remote‑controlled RCH 155 howitzer modules mounted on Boxer 8×8 vehicles. The system, capable of firing 155 mm rounds up to 70 km at eight rounds per minute, replaces the aging...
Vietnam to Develop Domestic Cloud so It Can Ditch Risky Overseas Operators for Government Workloads
Vietnam’s government announced Decision 808, a roadmap to build a national cloud platform by 2030, aiming to replace foreign services for all state agencies. The plan is part of a broader list of 20 strategic technologies, including AI models, quantum‑resistant...
Microsoft Researchers Find AI Models and Agents Can't Handle Long-Running Tasks
Microsoft researchers published a preprint revealing that even top‑tier large language models (LLMs) corrupt documents during long‑running, multi‑step workflows. Using a new benchmark, DELEGATE‑52, they measured a 25% average loss of content after 20 delegated interactions, with overall degradation around...
MacOS 27 Threatens to Bury Time Capsule, FOSS Brings a Shovel
Apple’s upcoming macOS 27 is expected to drop Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) support, which will prevent existing Time Capsules from functioning as network backup targets. The change follows a trend that began with macOS 26’s network Time Machine issues and...
HPE Drops First Juniper X Aruba Collab – Self-Driving Wi-Fi
HPE has launched its first Juniper‑derived Wi‑Fi 7 access point, the Networking 723H, which can be managed through either Aruba Central or the Mist platform. The device introduces AI‑driven “self‑driving” functions that automatically avoid restricted RF bands, scale capacity for large...
Claude Hitches Ride on SpaceX's Datacenter Capacity
Anthropic announced a partnership with SpaceX that gives it access to the full capacity of the Colossus 1 data centre, allowing the company to double five‑hour rate limits for Claude Code and raise API limits for Claude Opus. The deal adds...
Musk Has Never Built a Wafer Fab, but He Wants to Burn $119B on One Anyway
Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced the "Terafab" project, a proposed $119 billion semiconductor fabrication complex in southeast Texas. The first phase alone is budgeted at $55 billion, roughly double Intel’s recent Arizona fab expansion. SpaceX has enlisted Intel as a partner to provide...