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A recent examination of hundreds of mobile apps marketed toward US military personnel found more than one in eight contained software built by companies in China, Russia, or other foreign nations, raising fresh concerns that adversary governments could harvest data revealing wher

Chelsio Communications has introduced its seventh-generation AI Interconnect Platform, expanding its Ethernet offload portfolio with SmartNICs, storage controllers, and Data Processing Units. Built on the company’s Unified Wire architecture, the T7 platform targets AI training an

Intel and Fortinet today made a big announcement for a future ASIC. The companies announced that they would be working together on the Fortinet Security Processor 6 (SP6). Just to be clear, this is Intel’s Fortinet SP6, not AMD’s socket SP6 that is for products like AMD EPYC 8005

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Although it sometimes feels like automakers have all but abandoned everything other than high-end luxury model vehicles, it’s not universally true. While some car companies have lobbied the government, terrified, asking to build protective walls to fend off

WEKA has launched two connected products: NeuralMesh 6, its most significant software release to date, and WEKApod 3, a new generation of storage appliances designed and engineered by WEKA to run it. NeuralMesh 6 remains deployable on customer-selected hardware, while WEKApod pro

While Intel continues to pursue a marquee customer for its foundry services, the chipmaker has landed a notable client from the cybersecurity space. Fortinet will use Intel's foundry to produce its next-generation security chip, the two companies announced Tuesday, marking a win

Intel to co-develop and manufacture Fortinet's next-gen firewall ASIC on Intel 4 — node gets its first named external customer The agreement makes Fortinet the first cybersecurity vendor on Intel's manufacturing customer list. Intel and Fortinet have announced a strategic collabo

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I first slipped on Halliday’s original smart glasses at CES 2025. I was not a fan. The glasses had a tiny, movable display window embedded into the frame that was incredibly finicky to see, and my 30-minute demo left me with achy eyeballs. It was an interesting concept with terri

Spain’s $3.4B AI Campus Skips the Queue with On-Site Generation The planned 300 MW AI campus in Spain would rank among Europe’s largest as developers pursue fast-track approval and an on-site power strategy. A proposed €3 billion ($3.4 billion) AI campus in central Spain is advan

Z.ai powers up a 1-gigawatt AI data center built entirely on Chinese chips, report claims — GLM developer now runs multiple 10,000-chip clusters with zero Nvidia silicon The blacklisted Chinese AI lab's gigawatt-class site is among the largest built by any Chinese model developer

TSMC eyes price hikes of up to 25% on chip production services in 2027, report claims — plans to raise baseline prices by 5% to 10% on advanced nodes Customers that need additional HPC chip capacity beyond their original volume requirements will reportedly have to pay another 10%

This year’s El Niño weather system, expected to be one of the strongest in decades, could cause a global economic shock that the world is unable to absorb given existing stress on supply chains, Deutsche Bank warned. The phenomenon causes temperature spikes every few years and sh

Soaring egg prices in China sparked anger across the country, highlighting the contrast between its slowing national economy and consumer cost pressures. Beijing recently said that GDP grew 4.3% in the three months to June, one of the lowest quarterly readings on record, and many

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Tuesday. JetBlue won the LaGuardia Airport slots left open by Spirit Airlines. I'll be keeping an eye on whether it also moves to the airport's Art Deco-style Marine Air Termi

Major powers criticized China for what the US called “dangerous and aggressive” naval maneuvers, with regional tensions set to dominate today’s meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers. China blamed the Philippines for the clash at Scarborough Shoal, a disputed part of the South China

IREN’s $2.8B AI Deals Highlight New Funding Model The company raised AI cloud ARR target above $4 billion after signing $2.8 billion in new contracts, pointing to a financing model gaining traction across AI infrastructure. AI infrastructure company IREN said it has signed $2.8 b

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Intel layoffs to hit Data Center group — division focused on server CPUs, AI chips, and data center architecture to be hit by an unknown number of cuts The layoffs continue. Intel just announced another round of layoffs more than a year after CEO Lip-Bu Tan warned of “tough decis

Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for $12 in this Newegg AM5 combo — score AMD's new Ryzen 7700X3D, 16GB of RAM, and Asus B850 motherboard for only $491 An excellent base for your new AMD gaming PC As hardware costs continue to rise, anyone looking to build a new PC should seek combo deals wh

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company plans to invest $6.2 billion to develop natural gas at its offshore Umm Shaif field, alongside France’s TotalEnergies, Italy’s Eni, and China National Petroleum Corp. The project is expected to produce more than 600 million cubic feet of gas a day f

So much has changed in recruiting in the past few years: - You can apply to 1,000+ jobs with AI (literally) that you know nothing about - Folks do far more Zoom interviews than they ever did IRL, often with zero research - Reference checks aren’t taken as seriously as before, or

Overseas investors poured $1.6 billion into Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange in the second quarter, the only Gulf market to post an increase in net foreign buying, according to Kamco Invest’s latest trading activity report. The interest was driven in part by the kingdom’s decision t

With little sign of momentum in peace talks between the US and Iran, attention has returned to three small islands that are crucial to controlling the Strait of Hormuz. Lying at the mouth of the Gulf chokepoint, the islands — Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb — have been he

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Bahrain is studying whether to build a small modular nuclear power plant, the Middle East Economic Digest reported, with the state-owned Bapco Energies leading the effort through its venture capital arm. If it goes ahead, it would be the first nuclear plant in the kingdom, which

WEKA's big beast AI storage products WEKA has announced an exabyte-scale WEKAPod all-flash array for its sixth generation NeuralMesh software to feed and receive massive amounts of data for production-scale, accelerate computing AI training and inference workloads. This WEKApod p

AI is fast becoming a driver of geopolitical instability and competition, analysts, executives, and officials worldwide warned. The recent announcement of a relatively powerful, open-source Chinese AI model has crystallized US worries over Beijing’s growing capabilities: The boss

Spend management and SaaS led fintech platform Zaggle has invested up to Rs 7.96 crore, in one or more tranches, in Unobanc, a technology driven cross border payments and remittances company. Upon completion of the proposed investment, Zaggle will hold up to a 19.9% equity stake

Tim’s view The two biggest themes in global geopolitics — the rollout of AI and the fallout from the Iran war — look set to benefit Democrats, and potentially reshape the US political landscape in a matter of months. Between the steady march of average US gasoline prices back abo

Surging tensions across the Middle East strangled shipping traffic, driving energy prices higher and raising the specter of accelerating inflation worldwide. A 10th day of aerial attacks between the US and Iran meant just 53 ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz in the week to July

Wael’s view In 2025, Saudi courts received 1.6 million requests to collect on more than 165 billion riyals ($44 billion) in unpaid financial obligations. Justice Minister Walid Al-Samaani said the figure was evidence of a modern, responsive judicial process, but read differently,

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1994 Sega 32X gets first-person Backrooms game with raycasting engine — retro hardware tour de force includes yellow rooms, buzzing fluorescents, endless procedurally generated levels Free and open source title is strap lined ‘Welcome to the cutting edge of 1994!’ Developer Paisl

Suminter India Organics, an organic and sustainable food ingredients company, has raised Rs 25 crore ($2.6 million) in debt funding from BlackSoil Capital. According to the company, the funding will enable it to source high-quality organic food ingredients at scale while further

Generosity Under Conditions: Hardening Google Cloud Access Management Leonid Yankulin Senior Developer Relations Engineer In Google Cloud, Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps you maintain access control over your cloud resources and operations. While it includes other feat

Tech stocks rebounded from a recent slump driven by fears of an AI bubble, although concerns are growing about industry giants’ off-balance-sheet debt. Shares in chipmakers Samsung and TSMC in particular saw big gains from comparative lows, as investors bet that semiconductor dem

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Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The response was swift and predictable. Markets wobbled, commentators declared Silicon Valley shooketh, and policymakers reached for the familiar lan

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