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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

Per the lawsuit, a top Microsoft executive privately described the companies’ AI training practices as “theft,” and OpenAI’s own leadership said its AI models posed an “existential threat” to the publishers and…

Researchers find way to listen in on headphones from afar

The technique, referred to as InjectEave, is not simply listening in on a low-frequency analog signal. It's an EM side-channel attack that overcomes one of the longstanding barriers to exploiting EM leakage: the…

Andrew Ng calls the AI extinction warnings science fiction

The EU AI Act already lists both the engineering risks he wants prioritised and the loss-of-control risks he dismisses, in the same recital. Andrew Ng has called warnings of existential AI risk “ much more science…

Will Samsung and Qualcomm’s organic bridge technology make AI processors more powerful and cheaper to produce?

Described as an “organic bridge,” the technology is intended for AI semiconductors. The development of what has been named 2.1D packaging is aimed at reducing costs in AI chip fabrication, where 2.5D packaging is…

Customer Data Permanently Lost in Iran Strikes on Amazon Data Centers

The development was first reported by Reuters and suggests that the Iranian strikes inflicted catastrophic damage on the data centers. Customer data was irretrievably lost in one of three AWS availability zones in the…

Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites

US Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has proposed a law that would require Internet service providers and other network operators to block foreign piracy websites. Issa’s bill would help copyright holders obtain judicial…

Crusoe raises $3.9bn and starts trucking data centres to spare power

He was describing what he called an era of abundance brought by AI. The Denver company announced the initial closing of a $3.9bn Series F on 17 September, in a statement . It puts the post-money valuation at $30.9bn.…

Candy Crush developers are planning a strike for next week

Staff at developer King could go on strike next week, according to statements from Swedish labor unions Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer . King's developers have been attempting to negotiate a union contract for years…

You'll soon be able to talk to Slack — and if you're lucky, it'll even talk back

Speaking at parent company Salesforce 's Dreamforce 2026, Rob Seaman: EVP & GM at Slack unveiled new tools to allow the platform to be "the front door to the agentic enteprise". This includes new upgrades to its Slackbot…

Tesla’s European Megacharger rollout covers 21 sites and over 100 stalls

Milence, the joint venture owned by Daimler Truck, Traton and Volvo, has EU funding to build 284 megawatt charging points across 71 sites by the end of 2027. Tesla will install more than 100 megawatt-capable charging…