Microsoft quietly purges 32GB of RAM recommendations from its website — company reels from the effects of the memory shortage as it released 8GB base models for

ezst036 SmokyBarnable said: Now our OSs are being messed up because of the AI insanity. No. Microsoft’s 16/32 GB recommendation was in a gaming context. Most of the problems long complained about over the last 5 years of…

US mulling ban on key Chinese networking tech in data center component crackdown — White House wants to impose restrictions in 2026, China says it will respond

“Transceivers definitely ⁠pose a risk,” AI policy expert Divyansh Kaushik of advisory firm Beacon Global Strategies told the publication. “As the data center buildout scales up, you want to make sure the ​data center sup…

Nashville attempts to block controversial data center near zoo with eminent domain — city could force developer to sell the land for public use, rather than $70

The city council vote would allow the local government to negotiate with DC Blox for the acquisition of the property. However, this does not automatically mean that Nashville would automatically have the right to own the…

VPN provider built a script to block Microsoft’s hidden GDID tracking on Windows — Windscribe’s “deGDID” erases existing identifiers and blocks new ones from be

A fourth flag, –Unprotect , allows you to reverse the script in case you need to revert back to the default state. But –Protect is the one worth discussing. First, the script looks for server-issued GDID keys in the regi…

Rogue OpenAI models behind ‘unprecedented cybersecurity incident’ teamed up to break out of their testing environment — multiple agents left each other messages

Recent high-profile events such as this one highlight another layer of the problem, namely, that rogue AI models can sometimes perform alarming feats of hacking — like breaking out of a testing environment — with no huma…