North Korean fake remote worker scam lands two Americans 18-month prison sentences for hosting laptops — US firms unknowingly shipped laptops to “employees” who secretly worked from overseas via remote desktop, generating $1.2 million for Pyongyang

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/north-korean-fake-remote-worker-scam-lands-two-americans-18-month-prison-sentences-for-hosting-laptops-us-firms-unknowingly-shipped-laptops-to-employees-who-secretly-worked-from-overseas-via-remote-desktop-generating-usd1-2-million-for-pyongyang

Senator at center of Utah AI data center debate gets physical, slaps phone out of reporter’s hand — reporter covering cases of harassment against his business

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/senator-at-center-of-utah-ai-data-center-debate-gets-physical-slaps-phone-out-of-reporters-hand-reporter-covering-cases-of-harassment-against-his-business

SK hynix customers offer to buy its EUV machines and fund new fabs as memory capacity hits zero amid crushing AI-driven shortages — worsening global shortages pry open wallets to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/sk-hynix-customers-offer-to-buy-its-euv-machines-and-fund-new-fab-lines-as-memory-capacity-hits-zero

Google's DeepMind to train AI on player actions in quarter-million-player MMORPG Eve Online — Google bought in by purchasing a minority stake in the newly independent Fenris Creations

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-deepmind-to-train-ai-on-player-actions-in-quarter-million-player-mmorpg-eve-online-google-bought-in-by-purchasing-a-minority-stake-in-the-newly-independent-fenris-creations

Cloudflare fires 1,100 people the same day it reports record revenue

Cloudflare cut 20% of its workforce while posting its best-ever quarterly results - a paradox that explains exactly where the tech economy is headed.

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Devastating 'Dirty Frag' exploit leaks out, gives immediate root access on most Linux machines since 2017, no patches available, no warning given — Copy Fail-like vulnerability had its embargo broken

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/dirty-frag-exploit-gets-root-on-most-linux-machines-since-2017-no-patches-available-no-warning-given-copy-fail-like-vulnerability-had-its-embargo-broken

White House reportedly considers mandatory government vetting of AI models before release — executive order under discussion

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/white-house-considers-mandatory-government-vetting-of-ai-models-before-release

Nvidia’s ISP piracy defense backfires as judge refuses to dismiss copyright lawsuit over more than 197,000 pirated books — scripts in NeMo Framework allegedly ‘have no other purpose’ than to speed up infringement

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/nvidias-isp-piracy-defense-backfires-as-judge-refuses-to-dismiss-copyright-lawsuit-over-more-than-197-000-pirated-books-scripts-in-nemo-framework-allegedly-have-no-other-purpose-than-to-speed-up-infringement