Silicon Roundabout
Chinese AI labs are training models on Nvidia's Blackwell despite export controls, says ex-OpenAI engineer
US export controls are not stopping AI labs in China from using restricted Nvidia chips, according to a report from a former OpenAI engineer.Will DePue, who left the AI giant earlier this year to launch Unemployment Labs, an AI research consultancy,...
This year’s bug count just passed 100K
Chalk up a new record for vulns. The number of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) found and disclosed so far in 2026 surpassed 100,000 on Friday - more than double 2025’s total - and the reason can be summed up in two letters: AI.“It’s kind...
Meatbags suck at spotting lying LLMs, so let AI narc on itself
The internet is full of schlock, from biased news and dubious hot takes to false factoids. LogicLens aims to separate fact from fiction using the very same technology behind some of that slop: AI.It’s a simple premise, really: LogicLens, which lives...
Mozilla leaves Solo website owners to go it alone as hosting shuts down
Solo, Mozilla's LLM-powered website builder and hosting service, is shutting down. All sites and data will be deleted on November 30.Mozilla launched Solo in December 2023 as a "Mozilla Innovation Project," aimed at helping sole traders to build the...
Email addresses used in European school bomb hoaxes spotted in old infostealer logs
Two email addresses used to send bomb threats that disrupted thousands of Italian schools this week were found exposed in infostealer logs for over a year, experts say.Researchers at Hudson Rock looked into the two university email addresses used to...
FAA ground stop shuts down flights nationwide
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 3: Delta Airlines planes at the gate as a United Airlines plane lands at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) on June 3, 2026 in New York City. Jet fuel prices have roughly doubled since the start of the war in Iran, and airlines around...
HPE debuts hybrid storage configs: Rising SSD costs hit supercomputing
HPE is pitching high performance compute customers with hybrid configurations of its Cray Supercomputing Storage Systems built for faster throughput, along with a Rack Management Controller that monitors cooling systems.The hardware giant already s...
Microsoft outage gives customers a crash course in dependence on Redmond
Microsoft 365 services are slowly recovering from a prolonged outage that has handed critics of single-vendor dependence a particularly unwelcome case study.Ever wondered what it would be like if your IT supplier abruptly pulled the plug? Perhaps th...
ChatGPT Wallet lets OpenAI’s Dots agents make purchases for you
After launching its Dots AI agents platform earlier this year, OpenAI is launching a wallet for the agents. ChatGPT Wallet is rolling out starting today for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US aged 18 and older using a US billing address and "eli...
CMF’s milk carton-shaped Bluetooth speaker is down to a new low price
The CMF Speaker S comes in four colors: white, dark gray, orange, and turquoise. | Image: CMF by Nothing Bluetooth speakers are often boring boxes in plain colors, but not this one! As part of Nothing’s ongoing early Black Friday promo, you ca...
Another Linux kernel developer steps back from some duties due to overload
Arm's Lorenzo Stoakes isn't quitting Linux kernel development, though he's stepping back from some of the patch-review work he used to handle. Stoakes is a principal software engineer at Arm and he's a busy chap. Aside from writing the forthcoming...
Most affairs don't matter except to the people involved. Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen's blunder will rock the world
It's a story as old as time. Billionaire nerd boy meets girl. Girl is later suspected of being a spy. News at 11. Oh, and it's also been reported that he was having an affair with one of his direct-report employees. When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang make...
Here’s how you can save on your GTA VI preorder ahead of launch
Lucia and Jason, the two main characters of GTA VI. | Image: Rockstar Games The long-awaited launch of GTA VIis around the corner, happening next Friday, November 19th. While discounts on the game itself will be rare for some time, there’s a c...
Oh my Word! Microsoft retires compatibility options, because who needs layouts to stay put
Microsoft is retiring some legacy layout settings in Word, potentially rearranging documents created or last saved in Word 2010 or earlier."Affected documents may show layout differences, such as text reflow, changes in spacing or page count, or ima...
Quantum Systems drones back in the air after malware scare
Quantum Systems says its drones are flying again with Germany's military after a cyberattack prompted a precautionary grounding.The company says it spotted the attack at the end of October and reported it to the relevant authorities, but disclosed f...
You can adjust the position of the trackball on Keychron’s new wireless mouse
The Nape Pro was Keychron's first trackball device that was introduced at CES 2026 with a slim and compact design allowing it to be positioned right up against a keyboard. The company's new T1 HE instead looks more like other trackball mice alr...
Jensen Huang was reckless with the environment, too
Jensen Huang gives a keynote address at the Berlin GPU Technology Conference on October 21st in Berlin. | Photo: Getty Images Under cofounder Jensen Huang, Nvidia has become the engine for the AI boom - and one of the tech industry's biggest e...
Palantir adds three UK police forces to its beat with £10.1M deal
Three UK police forces led by Cambridgeshire Constabulary have awarded Palantir a £10.1 million contract after London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a separate deal with the Metropolitan Police.The five-year agreement covers Bedfordshire Police, Cambridge...
The smallest version of Camp Snap’s retro digital camcorder fits on your keychain
Last week, Camp Snap launched a miniaturized version of its screen-free CS-8 video camera that was half the size of the original with a smaller grip designed to be easier for kids to hold. But it turns out the company wasn't done shrinking its...
The new Apple TV has a YouTube problem
People who received the brand new Apple TV 4k today saw some strange error messages as soon as they opened the YouTube app. As the first units arrived, the app was initially only showing a black screen with a QR code and an error message saying...