Pilot’s 50-minute in-flight conference call with tech support failed to avert $200 million F-35 fireball — pilot ejected and suffered only minor injuries

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An accident report has revealed that a U.S. Air Force pilot spent 50 minutes on a conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers ahead of his plane plummeting to the ground and exploding in a fireball. Thankfully, the unnamed pilot ejected safely with just minor injuries, reports CNN , but the $200 million F-35 fighter jet was destroyed.

This incident took place on January 28, near Eielson Air Force Base, Fairbanks, Alaska. Investigations point towards

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Cougar Polar X2 1200W Platinum Power Supply Review

Tom's Hardware Verdict

The Cougar Polar X2 1200W delivers performance that competes with flagship units while maintaining whisper-quiet operation. With premium Japanese capacitors, a hydraulic bearing fan, and exceptional voltage regulation, this unit is a worthy competitor amongst products designed to balance performance, reliability, and aesthetics.

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    Excellent efficiency characteristics

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    Great electrical performance

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    Quiet operation

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    Comprehensive 10-

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Nvidia posts $46 billion revenue in another record quarter — Data center and gaming GPU sales break records

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Nvidia on Wednesday published its financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2026, posting record revenue of $46.743 billion and marking its best quarter ever. During the quarter the company managed to tangibly increase sales across all product categories both sequentially and year-over-year. Yet, AI GPUs accounted for nearly 88% of its revenue, asserting Nvidia's dominance in the AI hardware segment. But perhaps the biggest thing that will

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Intel

Anthropic forms new security council to help secure AI's place in government

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On Aug. 27, Anthropic, the company behind Claude, unveiled what it calls its “National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council” — an 11-member council that includes a former U.S. senator and intelligence chief, to guide how its models are deployed in U.S. defense and government applications.

Partnering with the Pentagon

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Internet standards body proposes new header field disclosing AI — will make it easier for machines to determine if AI was used on a site

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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body responsible for the standards used across the web, has just released a draft document that will introduce a new header to make it easier to determine whether AI was used on a web page. According to the AI Content Disclosure Header draft , this proposed metadata will make it easier for machines to determine how AI is involved in the production of a particular site for easier automation, indexing, and compliance.

“The goal of AI-Disclosure

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Microsoft announces super wideband stereo mode for Bluetooth LE devices — audio no longer downgrades to mono when microphone is used

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Microsoft has improved Bluetooth audio quality in Windows 11 24H2 — particularly, over a Bluetooth headset / earbuds during voice chats and video calls. The company announced in a blog post that it has upgraded Bluetooth LE Audio streaming for Windows 11 via a feature called "super wideband stereo." This feature gives supported Bluetooth devices the ability to run super wideband audio in stereo mode while simultaneously using the device's internal microphone.

This is a big upgrade for users who regularly

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Trio of current and ex-TSMC employees face combined 30 years in prison for stealing national core key tech — engineer allegedly stole data to help Tokyo Electron improve etching machine performance

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One former and two current TSMC employees have been formally charged by Taiwanese prosecutors for violating the country’s National Security Act. According to Nikkei Asia , the trio is accused of stealing details of the company’s 2nm process in an attempt to help Tokyo Electron become more competitive as a supplier of 2nm etching stations to mass produce the foundry’s latest technology.

One of the accused, Mr. Chen, was a former engineer at TSMC who had transferred to Tokyo

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Huawei to open-source its UB-Mesh data center-scale interconnect soon, details technical aspects — one interconnect to rule them all is designed to replace everything from PCIe to TCP/IP

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Huawei used its Hot Chips 2025 slot to introduce its UB-Mesh technology that is designed to unify all interconnections across AI data centers — both inside nodes and outside nodes — with a single protocol. The company also said that it will announce it is opening up the protocol for all users for free at its event next month. The technology is meant to replace PCIe, CXL, NVLink, and TCP/IP protocols with one single protocol to cut latency, control costs,

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White House reveals nebulous plans to put government data on the blockchain — 'The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain because you are the crypto presiden

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New reports from the White House indicate that the Trump administration, specifically Howard Lutnick's Department of Commerce, has seemingly inexplicable designs to start putting statistics "on the blockchain." As to what data exactly might find its way to the blockchain, or what purpose that might serve, Lutnick failed to elaborate.

Gizmodo reports that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told President Trump on Aug. 26 that his department "is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain because you

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Phison squashes reports of Windows 11 breaking SSDs — says it was unable to reproduce issues despite 4,500 hours of testing, recommends users deploy heatsinks just in case

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Last week, Microsoft pushed a Windows 11 update that was reportedly breaking several SSDs . What was supposed to be a routine "patch Tuesday" turned into a headache for customers and a PR nightmare for manufacturers. Chief among them was Phison, a prolific name in the industry whose controllers are used in drives across multiple applications—both consumer and business. Now, Phison has come forward to essentially deny these reports following internal testing, in a new press release.

In a

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