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Hackers are going after our water now — over 30 Minnesota utilities hit in coordinated cyberattack by apparent Iranian attackers
Cyberattack hits operational technology at more than 30 Minnesota community water systems, briefly taking treatment plant offline and forcing several towns onto manual operations A leaked WaterISAC memo obtained by WIRED relays a state fusion center assessment tying the intrusions to Iranian-affiliated hackers, but no US agency has formally attributed…
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UK tests robot boat that can fly its own wired drone even in 14ft waves and stay at sea for weeks
Robot boat launches drone without crew during challenging ocean demonstrations Pioneer vessel survives rough seas while supporting airborne surveillance operations Tethered SkyRanger drone provides continuous monitoring from unmanned ships A robotic boat has launched and recovered its own drone off the deck, without a single crew member aboard either vehicle.…
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Half of adults admit they would publish work created mainly by AI and not say so — despite believing other people should do just that
Over two-thirds (69%) of people believe AI generated material can be presented as their own work if they provided the prompt and approved the final version Meanwhile, 54% believe AI-based work should be clearly marked 7,200 adults were surveyed, located across the US, the European Union, the UK, and Latin…
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Startup swaps costly AI GPUs for Arm cores and up to 128TB of ‘cheap’ LPDDR6 RAM instead of expensive HBM to smash through the memory wall
Startup replaces Nvidia GPUs with custom Arm-powered AI processing hardware Prometheus packs up to 128TB of unified LPDDR6 memory onboard New server promises 1,000× more memory available per processor Majestic Labs, a startup founded in 2023 by former Google and Meta engineers, has unveiled a server built to rival Nvidia‘s…
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China outs Nvidia-powered AS2-W quad-wheel ‘robot wolf’, just weeks after its armed version surfaced in joint military drills in Mongolia
China unveils rugged AS2-W robotic platform with advanced onboard artificial intelligence Robot wolf climbs steep slopes while carrying heavy operational payloads AS2-W combines wheeled mobility with advanced terrain handling capabilities Chinese robotics company Unitree has unveiled its new AS2-W, an uncrewed ground vehicle on its official website. The four-wheeled vehicle…
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Quote of the day by investor Warren Buffett on AI capex: “That’s real money… That kind of money wasn’t even put in the railroad business” — outlining his bullish long-term thesis on AI
AI demands a huge amount of energy, water, compute, and, of course, money. Big tech companies, including Google and Meta, have pledged huge sums of money toward the capital expenditure (capex) to continue the push to more powerful AI. But many inventors feel increasingly wary that this spending is simply…
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