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Valve Steam Machine Starts at $1,049, Up From $750 Target
Valve priced its Steam Machine at $1,049 for the 512GB base model, with sales opening June 29 — a steep jump from the original ~$750 target that the company blames on AI-driven component costs.
Nvidia: Rubin Data Center Cuts Water to Near Zero
Nvidia says its Rubin generation data center reference design, which runs servers as hot as 113°F using 100% liquid cooling, can cut water consumption to near zero from roughly 2.6 million gallons per
Meta Exposed Employee Data From AI Tracking Program
Meta exposed data from its internal employee-tracking program—designed to train AI models by monitoring worker laptop activity—making it accessible to anyone inside the company, according to an intern
Groq Confirms $650M Raise, Pivots After Nvidia Poach
Groq confirmed a $650 million funding round roughly six months after Nvidia's December licensing deal poached its CEO and other key talent, as the AI chipmaker pivots its business toward neocloud serv
Apple, Tesla Supplier Tata Electronics Confirms Data
Tata Electronics, a key Indian supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirmed a data breach weeks after hackers advertised 630GB of allegedly stolen files on a forum, including what appear to be Apple supplie
Paradigm Shift Reveals Unpatchable Apple Boot ROM Flaw
Barcelona-based offensive cybersecurity firm Paradigm Shift publicly disclosed an unpatchable Boot ROM vulnerability in Apple A12 and A13 chips, publishing a proof-of-concept exploit that could enable
Anthropic may demand IDs from flagged Claude users
Anthropic's updated privacy policy may require flagged Claude users to upload government IDs and biometric scans, part of an appeals process the company says affects only a small subset of its tens of
Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government
The US government placed export controls on Anthropic's Fable AI model just hours after its public release, and the resulting standoff is already rippling outward — pushing European leaders toward sov
U.S. tech megacaps slide as SpaceX shares return to earth, AI expense concerns grow
U.S. tech megacaps tumbled Monday, erasing more than US$500 billion in combined market value, as SpaceX shares fell for a third straight session and investor anxiety deepened over massive AI infrastru
Google invests in A24 to build AI movie tools
Google is investing roughly $75 million in indie film studio A24 — its first-ever stake in a film company — to develop AI-powered movie production tools with its DeepMind lab, betting on creator-frien
OpenAI Launches Patch the Planet for Open-Source Bugs
OpenAI unveiled a cybersecurity push centered on a new open-source bug-patching initiative called Patch the Planet, alongside an upgraded GPT-5.5-Cyber model, as it competes with Anthropic's recently
SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab
Open source AI startup Reflection AI has signed a deal worth up to $6.3 billion to rent Nvidia GB300 chips from SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center beginning July 2026, becoming the third major AI lab to
DifyTap: Four Dify Flaws Exposed Cross-Tenant AI Chats
Cybersecurity researchers at Zafran Security have disclosed four vulnerabilities in the open-source Dify AI platform — collectively dubbed DifyTap — that could let attackers silently read AI chats and
Meta Taps Cred's Kunal Shah to Lead WhatsApp
Meta is replacing longtime WhatsApp head Will Cathcart with Cred founder Kunal Shah and investing $900 million for a ~20% stake in the Indian fintech startup as part of the transition.
Nvidia Launches Halos Safety OS for Humanoid Robots
Nvidia unveiled Halos, a safety-focused operating system adapted from its autonomous vehicle technology and designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, alongside opening a new safety lab
Klue breach exposes data at cybersecurity clients
A hacking group called Icarus breached Vancouver-based market intelligence provider Klue on June 12 using a stolen legacy credential, stealing customer data from at least nine major cybersecurity and
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Found Exposed Online
As AI-powered 'vibe coding' makes app creation accessible to anyone, security researchers and developers are uncovering alarming patterns — from hidden SQL injection flaws to entire production databas
AI Trainers Admit Using ChatGPT to Do Their Jobs
Workers paid to generate training data for new AI models are using chatbots like ChatGPT to do the work themselves, according to whistleblowers who say the widespread cheating risks degrading AI perfo
Electricians Divided on Data Center Buildout
As Big Tech pours billions into data centers to power AI, the electricians wiring those facilities are publicly split on whether the work makes them complicit in harm — or just a paycheck like any oth
iPhone Air 2 Could Get A Hardware Downgrade That Will Seal The Fate For Apple’s Sleek Flagship Future Forever - Wccftech
Apple is reportedly preparing a second-generation iPhone Air for Spring 2027, though outlets disagree on whether the device will receive upgrades or a hardware downgrade.
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