Minecraft-spawned crypto kingpin faces 20 years for $245 million heist — mastermind’s role in hacking campaign fueled their supercar, bodyguards, and private jet habit
 Minecraft-spawned crypto kingpin faces 20 years for $245 million heist — mastermind’s role in hacking campaign fueled their supercar, bodyguards, and private jet habit

The ringleader of a cybercrime gang, which reportedly formed after meetups in Minecraft online, has plead guilty to a racketeering charge and now faces up to 20 years in jail.

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OpenAI’s rogue AI agents accessed more websites to communicate than originally believed — defiant LLMs accessed old wikis and abandoned websites to co-ordinate in a bid to dupe assessors

Rogue OpenAI agents used dozens of website to exchange information, new investigations have found. However, the real impact is yet to be determined.

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Old MacBook uses a mirror, webcam, and AI agent to code its own AMD GPU drivers — ‘agent-first’ Omarchy Linux debugs itself, AI can check its own progress on screen in real-time

Using an ‘age of agents’ Linux distro a ‘MacBook is using its webcam to look at its screen in a mirror to improve AMD Radeon chip support.’

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China’s AI accelerator supplier Biren posts 2,000% year-over-year revenue growth — US export controls benefit homegrown chips as Nvidia and AMD exit market

Biren Technology shows unprecedented shipments growth in 1H 2026 as competition from AMD and Nvidia vanishes (at least officially).

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Chinese quartz approved for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing, but it still can’t break America’s monopoly — China secures domestic supply for chipmaking components, but Spruce Pine still holds the crucible monopoly
 Chinese quartz approved for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing, but it still can’t break America’s monopoly — China secures domestic supply for chipmaking components, but Spruce Pine still holds the crucible monopoly

Pacific Quartz gets its high-purity quartz qualified for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing.

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The state of ABF substrates in data center silicon in 2026 — solving the supply crunch and material wall beneath every AI accelerator
 The state of ABF substrates in data center silicon in 2026 — solving the supply crunch and material wall beneath every AI accelerator

ABF substrates underpin today’s most advanced AI chips, but soaring demand and expanding accelerator packages are creating new supply and technical bottlenecks that the industry is currently racing to resolve

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TSMC, Samsung, and Intel shore up support with ASML to deploy larger High-NA EUV photomasks — 6×12-inch photomask transition may take years despite unified effort
 TSMC, Samsung, and Intel shore up support with ASML to deploy larger High-NA EUV photomasks — 6×12-inch photomask transition may take years despite unified effort

ASML, Intel, Samsung, and TSMC back development of 6×12-inch to build large processors using High-NA EUV lithography systems without stitching.

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OpenAI says its next-generation processors could be made at Samsung — double-sourcing with TSMC hints at massive volume requirements [Updated]
 OpenAI says its next-generation processors could be made at Samsung — double-sourcing with TSMC hints at massive volume requirements [Updated]

OpenAI deepens chip cooperation with Samsung, possibly prepares to Double source AI ASICs from two foundries in a bid to get more in-house silicon to its data centers.

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OpenAI’s breakthrough solution for the elusive Navier-Stokes problem overshadowed by plagiarism controversy — researcher says OpenAI scraped Codex session and issued career threats

OpenAI announced that a team using one of its internal frontier models has solved the Navier-Stokes problem. However, the announcement has been mired in controversy.

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LG strongly denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns ‘not true’ — online investigation claims 216,000,000 TVs spy and record audio

LG has strongly denied recent security and privacy concerns raised regarding its smart TVs.

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