Former Google engineer convicted of stealing GPU and TPU trade secrets for 'Chinese interests' — tried to raise funding for his own start-up

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A federal jury in San Francisco has convicted a former Google engineer of stealing confidential AI infrastructure data and transferring it to benefit Chinese interests, closing one of the highest-profile trade secret cases to date involving AI systems.

The defendant, Linwei Ding, was found guilty on 14 counts, including economic espionage and theft of trade secrets, following a

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Chinese researchers discover new salty cooling solution that can drop temperatures by more than 50 degrees Celsius in seconds — depressurizing saturated fluid triggers massive amounts of heat transfer

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Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered that saturating water with ammonium thiocyanate salt and pressurizing it, and then suddenly releasing the pressure, would allow it to cool by 30 degrees C (54 degrees F) at room temperatures, even going as far as a 50-degree C (122 degrees F)

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Save 47% on Samsung's 32-inch 1440p 180Hz gaming monitor as it drops to its cheapest price ever — Get your hands on the Odyssey G5 G50D for just $229 on Amazon

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Amidst the AI boom's unending appetite for PC-related hardware, monitors remain untouched by supply-chain issues, for now. If you've been looking to upgrade from a basic, office monitor to a more feature-rich model, or are somehow just stepping into the hobby and need a display that does justice to your

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SpaceX formalizes plan to build 1 million satellite Orbital Data Center System — FCC filing sketches out plans, but over-packed orbits could be limiting factor

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A SpaceX FCC filing said that it plans to put a million satellites in orbit to build an Orbital Data Center system. The company said in the document that these will support AI, machine learning, and edge computing applications, taking advantage of the sun's energy without interference from the Earth’s atmosphere.

“Launching a constellation of a million satellites

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Asus ROG Strix GS-BE18000 Wi-Fi 7 gaming router — Good overall performance and a wealth of LAN ports

Tom's Hardware Verdict

The ROG Strix GS-BE18000 boasts some impressive hardware specs and good overall performance.

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    Seven 2.5 GbE LAN ports

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    Mesh-expandable via Asus AiMesh

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    Can be set up and maintained with a desktop browser or smartphone app

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    Wealth of configuration options

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    No 10 GbE LAN

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    Poor long-range 2.4 GHz performance

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Researcher builds bizarre 128-byte USB drive the size of a dinner plate using ancient pre-semiconductor magnetic core memory technology — data disappears once it is read, requiring special handling

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A computing enthusiast has assembled one of the most bizarre USB drives we have ever seen. Despite being the size of a dinner plate, this drive holds just 128 bytes of data. The incredibly poor data density is largely due to the use of the archaic Magnetic Core Memory technology, which predates integrated circuits. Moreover

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Starlink uses emergency fix to block Russian drones using its devices to bomb Ukraine — company looking for permanent solutions to stop unauthorized use of its service

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SpaceX and Ukraine have worked together to disable unauthorized Starlink terminals operating inside the country. This is an important update after news came last month that Russia continues to use the service to control its long-range drones that attack targets well within Ukraine’s borders.

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s newly appointed Defense Secretary, went on Telegram [

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Open source IDE-ATAPI drive emulator launches for vintage computers — drop-in 3.5-inch bay solution can save oodles of optical and HDD images to a microSD

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PicoIDE launched earlier this week, touted as “an open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers.” This single 3.5-inch bay fitting device can replace those aging optical drives (and media) and HDDs, that your retro-PC relies on, with the convenience and capacity that modern microSD cards provide. It uses

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Shanghai scientists create computer chip in fiber thinner than a human hair, yet can withstand crushing force of 15.6 tons — fiber packs 100,000 transistors per centimeter

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A group of researchers has built a computer chip in a flexible fiber thinner than an average human hair. The team from Fudan University in Shanghai says that their Fiber Integrated Circuit (FIC) design can process information like a computer, yet is durable enough to be “stretched, twisted, and woven into everyday clothing.”

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Intel ties AMD for most reliable CPUs in 2025 system builder report — Nvidia's Founders Edition GPUs dominate with the lowest failure rates

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Puget Systems releases an annual reliability report detailing the reliability of the components that it uses for its systems. According to the data, Intel and AMD produce the best CPUs and are tied in reliability. The report also presents data on which motherboards, graphics cards, and memory modules have the lowest failure rates.

The tables have turned for 202

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