Singapore cops seize $42 million mansion, freeze $772k bank account of suspected Nvidia AI GPU smugglers — individuals alleged to have illegally exported data center servers to China charged with fraud, money laundering

Four individuals suspected of smuggling Nvidia AI GPUs into China by using Singapore as a transshipment point are facing multiple charges. Singaporean authorities say they are not obliged to enforce foreign export controls but expects businesses in its borders to abide by them.

Apple’s Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users’ actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it
 Apple’s Hide My Email service reportedly reveals users’ actual email addresses with little effort — Cupertino has seemingly known about the problem for a year but has yet to fix it

Apple’s Hide My Email service still reveals users’ actual email addresses with little effort — even though it’s been a year since the company was notified about problem.

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Intel expands production of photomasks in California: EUV and High-NA EUV in the focal point
 Intel expands production of photomasks in California: EUV and High-NA EUV in the focal point

Intel begins expansion of its Bowers Campus in Santa Clara to produce more photomasks in-house, which is set to be crucial as process technologies get more sophisticated.

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Google testing controversial webcam-based reCAPTCHA that asks for a hand scan to prove you’re human — testers beat it with a stock photo

Google is testing a reCAPTCHA check that switches on a user’s camera and asks them to wave or hold up an open palm.

Elon Musk categorically denies SpaceX is making an AI device with proprietary OS — says rumors of a handheld thinner than an iPhone are ‘utterly false’

SpaceX is reportedly working on a handheld device that runs a proprietary operating system and features advanced AI capabilities from xAI, but Elon Musk denies existence of the product.

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Tesla hires 17-year Intel veteran responsible for billion-dollar fab startups — Gary Jiang likely chosen to oversee fab efforts for Terafab’s licensing of 14A

Tesla hires an Intel veteran, who most recently was responsible for installing advanced tools at Intel’s Arizona fab that is now ramping production of chips using 18A fabrication process.

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Elon Musk offers Starlink discount to AI data center neighbors following air and noise pollution lawsuits — 50% off plans and free hardware rental

SpaceXAI is trying to win residents living close to the Colossus 1 and 2 data centers by giving them discounted internet access. However, critics say that this is just a PR stunt to help win the community, even as it battles two lawsuits based on air and noise pollution complaints from people living near its data centers.

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Anthropic restores Claude Fable 5 as US lifts export controls — single filter now blocks prompt that could identify software vulnerabilities and write code to exploit them

Anthropic has restored global access to Claude Fable 5, a day after the U.S. Department of Commerce withdrew the export controls.

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Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state’s 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing

Virginia county asks all employees including schools to save power, due to AI-driven power requirements— state’s 400-plus datacenters steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing

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New PC purchases see sharpest drop in nearly three years as memory and storage prices bite — shipments fall by 7%, analysts forecast 14% contraction that will hit budget laptops hard
 New PC purchases see sharpest drop in nearly three years as memory and storage prices bite — shipments fall by 7%, analysts forecast 14% contraction that will hit budget laptops hard

A research firm says that PC deliveries for the first quarter of 2026 fell by 7%, with the entire industry expected to ship 14.4% less units for the entire year.