Musk’s minions seize control of US Treasury payment system
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No one can explain why

Swasticar maker Elon [Roman salute] Musk and his minions have been granted access to a sensitive US Treasury Department payment system that contains the personal information of every American who receives tax refunds, Medicare, Social Security, and other government payments. It also contains information about Musk's business rivals.

Nvidia’s Project Denver was going to be x86
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Legal constraints meant it went to Arm

Nvidia’s Project Denver was supposed to be based on x86 tech, but things took a turn thanks to legal wranglings involving Transmeta’s Tokamak technology. Instead, Nvidia had to pivot to Arm, and the rest is history.

Nvidia’s Blackwell chips on fire
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And not in a good way

Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell data centre processors have significant overheating problems when installed in high-capacity server racks.

D-Link refuses to fix vulnerable network-attached storage (NAS) Devices
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Says they need to be upgraded

D-Link has confirmed that it will not be issuing a fix for a critical command injection flaw affecting over 60,000 of its network-attached storage (NAS) devices.

SpaceX wants to increase its bandwidth
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Asked the FCC for permission

Elon [look at me] Musk has asked the FCC for permission to modify the second generation, Gen2, of Spacex’s  Starlink satellite system.