Silicon Roundabout
To help world gorge on GPUs, Nvidia brings cash bucket to fatten wafer-thin supply chain
Nvidia has decided that its future prospects rest on an improved silicon substrate and packing supply chain, so has dipped into its giant pile of cash to ensure it can get the parts it needs by ensuring its suppliers have the resources needed to pla...
PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk
PHP developers have accused software supply chain security shop Chainguard of effectively revealing critical bugs in the open-source scripting language ahead of a planned official disclosure.On Wednesday, just hours after releasing emergency patches...
OpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million in tokens last month
Peter Steinberger, member of technical staff at OpenAI and the creator of OpenClaw, estimates that he spent around $10 million in tokens running AI workloads last month. But don't feel bad for him, because it's all coming out of investors' pockets.H...
Reach new heights of laziness by burning tokens to let an AI tap your smartphone screen for you
Why use your smartphone when AI can do it for you? We’ve reached a new level of AI inanity with the launch of Opposable, a tool that taps, swipes, and types on Android phones and controls iPhones through a companion computer, sparing users the appar...
YouTube says it isn’t testing hiding the dislike button
On Tuesday, I published a story about how YouTube appeared to be testing hiding the dislike button on videos, with at least twousers on X sharing screenshots of the dislike button moved into the three-dot menu. But a YouTube spokesperson, in a...
Tesla says customers can add their own vehicles to the robotaxi fleet next year — will it happen?
For years, Elon Musk has been making big promises to Tesla owners about unsupervised autonomous driving and the ability to add their own vehicles to the company's robotaxi fleet. During today's third-quarter earnings call, the company finally g...
Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models
Nvidia hopes to capitalize on European sovereign AI demand by unloading a slew of new open weights models spanning chatbots, healthcare, and robotics.The major model devs have the resources to build highly capable models from scratch. But most enter...
Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains
A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI.New and proposed data centers are demanding a treme...
LiteLLM supply chain attack hoovers up passwords and secrets
Unknown crims compromised LiteLLM's release process on Wednesday, distributing a malicious version (1.107.0) containing malware designed to steal cloud and AI credentials and a remote access trojan (RAT) capable of executing arbitrary code on infect...
Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push
Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisitions and employee compensat...
AI will eat a fifth of tech budgets in 2027, but don't expect it to pay for itself
More than half of CIOs are likely to miss their AI-related ROI targets next year, according to Forrester. The analyst firm's State Of AI Survey 2026 found that 45 percent of AI decision-makers need positive ROI within a year to consider their invest...
Signal bug could keep your mic - and camera - on after hangup
Make sure you don’t say anything mean or secret after hanging up a call on Signal, as a bug in the encrypted messaging app’s calling library could prevent a call from ending properly, potentially leaving audio and possibly video active.The vulnerabi...
New York’s first microdrama film festival searches for its audience
Actors Taye Diggs, Autumn Federici, Gary Entin, Troy Brookins, Edmund Entin and Eric Guilmette attend the world premiere of Microhouse Films and Lifetime's Reunion Island during the ALZA Festival. | Getty Images for Lifetime. It remains to be...
Meta says it would’ve made over $22 billion if it didn’t have to pay a child safety settlement
Meta had to shell out $9.89 billion to pay for a chunk of the child safety settlement it reached with US attorneys general. That's according to the company's third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, which says Meta's income from ope...
PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today
Two bugs found with AI are behind major issues today for 4chan, DeviantArt, Wikipedia, and the blog where the bar around the corner posts pictures of people's dogs. The "critical vulnerabilities" were discovered in the PHP programming language,...
Flying Roadsters can’t lift Tesla’s flat Q3 revenues
As the smoke clears from its outrageous Roadster demo, Tesla reported Q3 earnings on Wednesday - and the cold reality is that revenue has flatlined.Tesla said it earned $1.7 billion in net income on $28.0 billion in revenue in the quarter that...
Bose acquires Skullcandy to help it reach a wider audience
Bose announced today it has acquired Skullcandy. Although the two companies are competitors in the consumer audio space, Skullcandy recently partnered with its new owner to bring several of Bose's audio technologies - including its head-trackin...
Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash
Checking out of your next Airbnb might be less of a hassle now that the company is banning hosts from including time-consuming chores in their house rules. Airbnb's updated house rules policy, which starts with reservations booked on or after N...
Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent
Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to Anthropic, and it's available...
OpenBSD 8.0 beefs up virtual machines and gets a taste of Wine
OpenBSD 8.0 brings bigger virtual machines, graphics improvements, and another helping of AI mockery. The round version number doesn't signal a radical break with its predecessors.OpenBSD 8.0 is the 61st release of the project. Developer Bryan Steel...