Hidden backdoor in Tenda routers goes unpatched as company ignores warnings from cybersecurity researchers — Chinese company’s firmware allows admin access without a password

CERT/CC has disclosed a critical authentication backdoor affecting multiple Tenda router firmware versions. Tracked as CVE-2026-11405, the flaw grants full administrator access without valid credentials, and no vendor patch is currently available after CERT failed to reach Tenda.

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Power company hikes data center bills by 30%, cuts residential electricity costs by 1.3% — Oregon approves change through POWER Act, pushes developments using more than 20 Megawatts of power to pay their fair share

Oregon approves the 29.7% price hike that Portland General Electric (PGE), the state’s largest power provider, will impose on users that consume 20MW or more. This move is backed by Oregon’s POWER Act, which helps ensure that data centers in PGE’s coverage area pay their fair share.

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‘Slopfix’ software team charges $10,000 a week to delete AI-generated code bloat — ironically, the team uses AI agents to trim messy repositories by up to 65%

A software house known as ‘Slopfix’ has launched a fixed-price service that refactors AI-generated codebases, charging $10,000 for one week of work.

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Arrest and extradition of Scattered Spider hacker shines light on how Windows telemetry GDIDs can identify and track users — Microsoft device identifier is just one digital fingerprint in a software world rife with them

While the use of Windows’ GDID to catch Scattered Spider hacking group member Peter Stokes is unusual, that device identifier is only one bit of telemetry that can be used to fingerprint a user across the wider Internet these days.

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Space Force gets first mobile high-powered electromagnetic beam weapon to cripple enemy satellites — plans to deploy 32 ‘Meadowlands’ units to detect, deny, disrupt, and degrade hostile space assets

Space Force has announced that the first high-energy ‘Meadowlands’ electronic warfare system has been delivered for operational duty.

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South Korea’s $880 billion chip and AI plan faces big power and water challenges — a single megacluster requires a quarter of Seoul’s total power demand

The ₩1,350 trillion total combines a $520 billion semiconductor program with AI data center and robotics spending, mostly made up of corporate capex.

Chinese memory and storage firm expected to post more than 60,000% jump in profits due to exploding demand — Lexar owner Longsys forecasts nearly $1.5 billion profit for 1H26 compared to $2.1 million last year

Chinese memory and storage manufacturer Longsys expects to post a massive increase in profits due to the AI-driven chip shortage.

UK gives data centers option to apply for ‘national importance’ status that overrides local regulations, cuts timeline by a year — eligible projects to bypass local councils, save more than a billion dollars in NIMBY fights

The British government ruled that nationally significant infrastructure projects, which include data centers, can bypass local council approvals. This move is expected to speed up developments by up to a year and save more than a billion dollars.

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Intel patent reveals new XBM memory architecture that ditches HBM’s costly silicon interposer — backend-transistor DRAM stack uses UCIe links and built-in repair to ease AI’s memory bottleneck
 Intel patent reveals new XBM memory architecture that ditches HBM’s costly silicon interposer — backend-transistor DRAM stack uses UCIe links and built-in repair to ease AI’s memory bottleneck

Intel’s XBM patent proposes an HBM alternative that uses backend-transistor DRAM, UCIe chiplet links, and repair logic to reduce packaging costs and complexity.

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Samsung chip division’s single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined, due to increased memory and storage prices — Samsung passes Nvidia to become most profitable company in the world, notches 19x quarterly increase in profit
 Samsung chip division’s single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined, due to increased memory and storage prices — Samsung passes Nvidia to become most profitable company in the world, notches 19x quarterly increase in profit

Brokerage consensus puts Samsung’s full-year 2026 operating profit near 300 trillion won.