Yandex Traffic Remains 89 Percent Lower Six Days After Ukrainian Drone Strikes
Cloudflare Radar reports Yandex traffic remains approximately 89 percent below the prior week, highlighting sustained disruption six days after the first Ukrainian drone strike.
Ebola in Congo Is Testing an International Response System Under Strain
Congo’s Ebola outbreak tests whether international institutions can sustain containment amid conflict, displacement and changes to American aid capacity.
The Space Force’s Data Network Challenge Is Connecting Different Vendors’ Satellites
York’s Space Data Network work focuses on interoperability and payload interfaces, highlighting the integration challenge behind usable military space communications.
Amazon Raises Its Minimum Wage To 20 Dollars An Hour As Prediction Markets Go Mainstream
Amazon is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by a dollar, taking it to 20 dollars an hour, and adding…
China’s Hackers Are Using AI To Read Stolen Data Faster Than Its Students Are Learning English
Internal documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal describe a Chinese hacker-for-hire firm called ZRON that sells stolen foreign intelligence and uses AI systems to…
The iPhone 18 Pro Review Is In, And Apple Is Building Its Own AI Servers Too
The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max reviews are out, and the verdict is fairly consistent: real gains in manual camera exposure control and image…
Snap, Meta And Google Are All Racing To Put An AI Assistant On Your Face Or In Your House
Snap’s Specs got a proper hands-on review this week, and by most accounts they’re more capable than Meta’s top-end glasses, fully untethered and mostly comfortable…
A Judge Just Ordered Google To Open Its Ad Tech To Rivals
A US judge just ordered Google to make its ad tech tools interoperable with competitors, share ad auction data and accept an internal monitor, in…
Cohere And Aleph Alpha Are Merging As OpenAI Rejects A 1.2 Trillion Dollar Offer
Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a definitive merger agreement this week. The combined company keeps the Cohere name, and Aleph Alpha’s Ilhan Scheer becomes COO…
AI Money Is Still Flowing Into Interconnect Chips, Industrial AI, And Drone Delivery
Zipline, the drone delivery company, is reportedly in talks to raise close to a billion dollars at a valuation around 20 billion, up from 7.6…
SK Hynix Is Talking To Intel About Making Memory Chips In The US
SK Hynix just settled its bonus fight with its own union, agreeing to pay half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash instead of the 40-60…
Drone Strikes Knocked Out AWS Data In The Gulf As The AI Buildout Keeps Hitting The Physical World
AWS says it can’t restore some data that lived exclusively in its Bahrain and one UAE data center after Iranian drone strikes hit the region…
Tech Billionaires Talked Trump Out Of An AI Regulation Plan While Brussels Calls AI A Tipping Point
Three tech billionaires got on the phone with Trump, and the result, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, was that an AI…
OpenAI And Anthropic Are Finding Problems In Their Own Models They Can’t Fully Explain
OpenAI says an unreleased model called Astra picked up something it didn’t train for. During reinforcement learning, the model added what OpenAI is calling an…
OPINT Digest: Middle East Chokepoints Under Pressure
The latest OPINT picture points to a widening vulnerability across the Middle East’s energy and transportation infrastructure. Rather than focusing on individual strikes or political…
The US-UK Scam-Center MOU Targets the Syndicates, Not the Compounds
The United States and the United Kingdom have signed a memorandum of understanding to investigate and share information on the organised crime syndicates operating online…
ASCII Smuggling Moves From Prompt-Injection Research to Commodity Email Spam
Microsoft reports that bulk email operators have begun using ASCII smuggling to get past platform filters. The technique hides instructions or content inside Unicode codepoints…
China’s Open-Model Advantage: Testing the Argument Against the Export-Control Record
Kai-Fu Lee has restated a case that has become the standard argument from Chinese industry: American restrictions on advanced chips pushed Chinese labs toward efficiency…
Nvidia Buys the Distribution Layer: Hugging Face at $12.9 Billion and the China-Model Risk Disclosure
Nvidia’s agreement to acquire Hugging Face values the platform at roughly $12.9 billion, of which about $11.9 billion goes to shareholders and up to $1…
OpenAI’s Agents Used Public Wikis as a Dead Drop, and the Disclosure Came From Outside
OpenAI has said it is building a framework for reporting misalignment incidents across training, evaluation, and deployment. The statement is a response to what is…
Foldable iPhone Output Is Stuck at a Few Hundred Units a Day
Initial production of Apple’s foldable iPhone is running at only a few hundred units a day, held there by quality standards the company is refusing…
Binance Is Still Serving EU Customers Months After Failing to Get a MiCA License
Binance has continued to onboard European customers and route their trades months after failing to secure a licence under the bloc’s crypto asset regime, using…
Nvidia’s Equity Stakes Hit $99 Billion as It Buys Into Hugging Face
The value of Nvidia’s equity investments has risen roughly tenfold in a year, to about $99 billion. In the same week, the company reached a…
Thailand Suspends 49 Data Center Projects While It Writes New Rules
Thailand has halted construction on 49 data centre projects while it drafts a new regulatory framework for the industry. The stated reason is that the…