Micron commits $500 million to GlobalWafers’ Texas wafer plant as it raises U.S. spending to $250 billion — memory maker aims to manufacture 40% of DRAM in the US by 2035

Running until 2035, the $250 billion spending target is attached to a goal of making 40% of Micron’s DRAM in the U.S. by the mid-2030s.

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Intel’s new space-grade Starfire chip is a Panther Lake SoC that puts an 18A CPU into orbit — chip designed for the US government leverages Intel 3 for the GPU

Intel has unveiled Starfire, a space-grade system-on-chip designed for the U.S. government.

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Meta expands colossal Hyperion AI supercluster plans to 5GW, pushes Louisiana investment past $50 billion as AI race accelerates — says it plans to invest over $1 billion in local infrastructure improvements
 Meta expands colossal Hyperion AI supercluster plans to 5GW, pushes Louisiana investment past $50 billion as AI race accelerates — says it plans to invest over $1 billion in local infrastructure improvements

Meta is expanding Hyperion from 2 GW to 5 GW, lifting its Louisiana investment above $50 billion as it races to secure more AI computing capacity.

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Apple’s rumored M7 Ultra targets 1.5TB of memory and Blackwell-class AI performance, report claims — monster 2028 offering would depend on memory shortage easing
 Apple’s rumored M7 Ultra targets 1.5TB of memory and Blackwell-class AI performance, report claims — monster 2028 offering would depend on memory shortage easing

Apple’s planned M7 Ultra chip is being designed to support up to 1.5 TB of unified memory and to push AI performance toward the class of Nvidia’s Blackwell accelerators.

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Ireland’s data centers consumed nearly as much electricity as every home in the country combined in 2025 — server farms gulped 23% of national power despite years of grid restrictions

Ireland’s data centers consumed 23% of the country’s electricity in 2025, rising 10% in one year despite restrictions on new grid connections.

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FCC approves orbital space mirrors, first test satellites will launch this year — large spacecraft reflects sunlight to Earth’s surface for construction sites, search-and-rescue lighting, and more

A startup that aims to bring sunlight on Earth after dark just received approval from the FCC to launch its experimental satellite. Critics say that the project could adversely affect astronomy and the environment, but the regulator says that their complaints are outside of its jursidiction.

Microsoft struggles to fulfill its 2030 sustainability promise amid carbon-heavy AI expansions — the company’s chief sustainability officer claims the target is still feasible
 Microsoft struggles to fulfill its 2030 sustainability promise amid carbon-heavy AI expansions — the company’s chief sustainability officer claims the target is still feasible

Microsoft’s carbon emissions jumped 25% in FY2025 as AI data center expansion outpaced sustainability gains, despite progress in water conservation and waste reduction.

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Colibrì proof-of-concept gains frontier-level 1.5-TB AI model — novel approach runs on only 25GB of RAM and shows promise for local AI setups
 Colibrì proof-of-concept gains frontier-level 1.5-TB AI model — novel approach runs on only 25GB of RAM and shows promise for local AI setups

Colibrì proof-of-concept gets a frontier-level AI model running on only 25 GB of RAM and a modest CPU

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Fake Go DNS scanner spread malware through over 200 GitHub repos — ‘Operation Muck and Load’ has published 700 malicious modules since January
 Fake Go DNS scanner spread malware through over 200 GitHub repos — ‘Operation Muck and Load’ has published 700 malicious modules since January

The module published its first version on January 24 this year and has since accumulated more than 1,200 versions.

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Flock cameras mistakenly track car reviewer over ‘stolen’ tags — police ambush tester in store parking lot and detain him for an hour

Flock AI cameras failed to read the smaller digits on a non-standard New Jersey plate, leading cops to block in the driver on suspicion of driving a vehicle with “stolen” tags. It turns out the initial police report omitted the smaller numbers, resulting in several legitimate plates getting flagged by the system.

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