Marvell to buy Lumentum in $115 billion all-stock deal — combined company to supply scale-up and scale-in optics for AI data centersv
We've previously covered how much AI is disrupting cybersecurity, and the recent PHP vulnerability is merely the latest in a string of critical issues found in commonplace pieces of software, much of which forms the foundation of the modern internet. We tear apart and examine The PHP Foundation's post-mortem of the issue, their response, and more.
PHP vulnerability post-mortem reveals bug was known two years ago — Small team of maintainers knew of the issue before it was made public, as new PHP2Shell chained exploit ravages servers
Google 's Gemini 4 Carbon AI model recently topped charts as being one of the most capable frontier AI models out there. Google has historically been a laggardly competitor in the overall AI frontier race, with much more irregular releases than the likes of Anthropic or OpenAI. We explore how Gemini 4 Carbon fares in the grand AI thunderdome, and where it might have some advantages, such as being the model least likely to hallucinate.
Google reveals new Gemini 4 Carbon AI model, narrowly beating Claude Opus 5.5 — frontier AI model is also the least likely to hallucinate, benchmarks claim
A Pat Gelsinger-backed company, Nagare Labs, has recently showcased a new type of memory named Z2RAM. It can achieve rapid, SRAM-like speeds, with the same density benefits as DRAM. The product is still in early testing, with the latest published figures and roadmap pointing toward the device potentially becoming an alternative to High Bandwidth Flash (HBF). We explore all elements of the published design documents in our technical analysis.
Gelsinger-backed Nagare Labs’ capacitorless Z2RAM promises SRAM speed with DRAM density — latest published cell retains data for over 300 seconds at 85°C, but further figures are projected
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