FAA approves military use of drone-killing laser weapons in US airspace — decision comes after it was decided ‘systems do not present an increased risk to the flying public’

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decided to give carte blanche approval to the military’s use of laser weaponry to shoot down suspected errant drones in US airspace.
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Nvidia says AI cuts 10-month, eight-engineer GPU design task to overnight job — company is still ‘a long way’ from AI designing chips without human input

Nvidia widely uses AI for different stages of the chip design process, though it admits that AI is a long way from designing chips completely autonomously.
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Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor’s removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts

Voters in Festus, MO ousted half of the city’s council members following the approval of a $6 billion data center project.
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NZXT to cough up $3.45 million over ‘predatory’ Flex PC rental scheme in RICO class-action settlement — in-debt customers to get up to $5,000 of relief, eligible renters to be granted ownership

The company allegedly engaged in just about every kind of deceptive business practice possible, and even targeted children.
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Approvals for Nvidia and AMD AI chip exports to China stall under government bottleneck — 20% staff turnover hobbles Bureau of Industry and Security

Staffing at the U.S. Commerce Department office that vets exports of Nvidia and AMD AI accelerators has collapsed over the past year.
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Iran’s forced nationwide internet blackout becomes second-longest on record as it passes 1,000 hours offline — possessing Starlink terminals punishable by death, country using ‘military-grade jamming’ against service

Iran’s nationwide Internet blackout has crossed the 1,000-hour mark and is now the second longest nation-scale shutdown ever measured.
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South Korea’s telecom giants surprise 7 million users with unlimited, universal internet — net access declared a ‘basic telecommunications right,’ 400 Kbps data after monthly plans run out

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said that the country’s three major carriers will provide more than seven million mobile subscribers with unmetered 400 Kbps data.
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Rockstar Games confirms it was hacked by malicious group — ‘ShinyHunters’ takes credit, gives until April 14 to pay ransom or it will release confidential data

The hacker group “Shiny Hunters” has been able to breach Rockstar Games by accessing authentication tokens and getting inside the company’s cloud infrastructure. The stolen data doesn’t include any sensitive company or pla…

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Chinese Nvidia Cloud Partner procured 300 servers with banned AI GPUs worth $92 million — shares of data center supplier Sharetronic plummet following Super Micro smuggling arrest

Publicly available documents reveal that a Chinese AI data center company sold servers that were designed for Nvidia H100 chips despite the U.S. export ban.
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HWMonitor and CPU-Z developer CPUID breached by unknown attackers — cyberattack forced users to download malware instead of valid apps for six hours

Unknown attackers compromised the CPUID website, redirecting users to malware laden versions of popular tools.

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