Anthropic signed a 20-year lease with TeraWulf for the Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, The Register reported. TeraWulf said the lease is expected to generate about $19 billion of contracted revenue over the initial term.
TeraWulf said the campus will provide about 401 MW of critical IT load, with initial capacity expected in the second half of 2027 and a ramp to full capacity by early 2028. The company also announced the sale of its 50.1 percent interest in the Abernathy joint venture to a Fluidstack-led investor group.
Featured source: The Register , TeraWulf .
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SK Hynix files for a Nasdaq ADS offering
TechCrunch reports that SK Hynix is preparing a US offering tied to nearly 17.8 million common shares. The company’s SEC filing says it is offering 177.9 million American Depositary Shares, with each ADS representing one-tenth of a common share, and that it has applied to list the ADSs on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol SKHY.
Filed from: TechCrunch , SEC filing .
Microsoft will enable Windows settings backup by default outside DMA regions
Microsoft will change Windows settings backup policy from disabled to enabled by default for eligible Entra-joined or hybrid-joined devices on Windows 11 version 26H2. The default applies only where admins have not explicitly configured the policy and outside regions covered by the EU Digital Markets Act, and Microsoft says restore behavior remains admin-controlled.
Filed from: The Register , Microsoft , BleepingComputer .
Citizen Lab reports Pegasus infections on former PEGA member’s phone
Citizen Lab found former Greek MEP Stelios Kouloglou’s iPhone was infected with Pegasus in October 2022 and March 2023, while he was a substitute member of the European Parliament’s PEGA spyware inquiry committee. Citizen Lab said it did not attribute the infections to a particular government and found no indication that Greece was responsible.
Filed from: The Register , Citizen Lab , Amnesty International .
Sysdig reports an agentic ransomware case with human setup
TechCrunch reports that Sysdig’s first documented case of agentic ransomware still depended on a person to choose the victim, provision infrastructure, and supply database credentials. Sysdig said the JadePuffer operation began through CVE-2025-3248 in an internet-facing Langflow instance, then moved to a production server running MySQL and Alibaba Nacos.
Filed from: TechCrunch , Sysdig , CyberScoop .
FCA publishes the Mills Review on AI in retail finance
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority published the Mills Review on AI in retail financial services, with recommendations for how the regulator could respond as AI systems become more autonomous by 2030 and beyond. The FCA says the review covers consumers, firms, markets, and regulators, and the report says 20 percent of surveyed consumers would use AI that acts autonomously within preset goals.
Filed from: Ars Technica , FCA , Mills Review PDF .
Tencent releases Hy3 on Hugging Face
Tencent published Hy3, an Apache 2.0 licensed mixture-of-experts language model, on Hugging Face. Simon Willison’s link note cites Tencent’s model card description of a 295 billion parameter model with 21 billion active parameters, a 3.8 billion parameter MTP layer, and a 256K context length.
Filed from: Simon Willison , Hugging Face .
NVIDIA and Hugging Face add Isaac tools to LeRobot
NVIDIA said it is bringing Isaac GR00T 1.7 and Isaac Teleop into Hugging Face LeRobot, the open source robotics library used for robot datasets, models, policies, and workflows. The company said Cosmos 3 support is planned, and said its physical AI dataset connected to LeRobot includes more than 350,000 real and simulated trajectories and 57 million grasps.
Filed from: NVIDIA , Hugging Face LeRobot .
IBM reports quantum fusion-material calculations
IBM announced that researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM calculated nine molecular configurations of FLiBe, a molten-salt candidate material for tritium production and extraction in fusion reactors, on quantum computers. The announcement says the work was published as an arXiv preprint and tied to the US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission.
Filed from: IBM newsroom , IBM Quantum blog .
Vercel says half of its deployments are now agent-triggered
TechCrunch’s interview with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch says Vercel is seeing 6 million deployments a day, with half triggered by coding agents, and more than 1 trillion tokens moving through its AI Gateway daily. Rauch described Vercel’s agent work around Eve, Sandbox, and AI Gateway.
Filed from: TechCrunch , Vercel .
Samsung guides higher Q2 operating profit
The Register reports that Samsung forecast second-quarter operating profit about 19 times higher than the same quarter last year. Samsung’s guidance says it expects consolidated sales of about KRW 171 trillion and consolidated operating profit of about KRW 89.4 trillion for Q2 2026, compared with KRW 74.57 trillion in sales and KRW 4.68 trillion in operating profit in Q2 2025.
Filed from: The Register , Samsung .
Microsoft fixes Windows 11 CapabilityAccessManager storage growth
Microsoft’s optional June 2026 Windows 11 preview update adds a storage fix for the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file. The Verge reports that users had seen the permissions-related file grow from dozens of gigabytes to hundreds of gigabytes on affected systems, and Microsoft’s KB5095093 release notes list the change as an improvement to disk space usage for that file.
Filed from: The Verge , Microsoft KB5095093 .
Fake IT support calls on Teams deliver EtherRAT
The Register reports that attackers are impersonating helpdesk staff on Microsoft Teams and persuading employees to give remote control before installing malware. Unit 42’s published notes say the attacker used a cross-tenant Teams account displayed as System Administrator, then guided the victim through HopToDesk and AnyDesk before installing EtherRAT.
Filed from: The Register , BleepingComputer , Unit 42 .
UK MPs press for clearer technology sovereignty planning
The Register reports that UK MPs told the government to set out a more concrete technology sovereignty plan after a brief US restriction on Anthropic model access exposed reliance on foreign-controlled AI services. A House of Commons Library briefing says the UK does not have an overarching digital sovereignty policy, while the government has pointed to a sovereign AI unit and planned investment in AI hardware capability.
Filed from: The Register , House of Commons Library .
Google adds platform properties to Search Console
Google is adding platform properties to Search Console so creators and publishers can see how Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube content performs in Google Search and Discover. Google’s Search Central post says platform properties will roll out gradually over the coming weeks and include performance metrics, account-level insights, and achievement milestones.
Filed from: The Verge , Google Search Central .
DRAM prices pressure low-cost smartphones
The Register reports that rising DRAM costs are pushing up the bill of materials for low-cost smartphones. TrendForce’s July memory pricing survey says conventional DRAM contract prices are forecast to rise 13 to 18 percent quarter over quarter in the third quarter of 2026, while smartphone vendors are expected to raise retail prices to offset high LPDRAM costs.
Filed from: The Register , TrendForce .
VodafoneThree says banking SMS filter blocked 2 million fraud messages
VodafoneThree said its banking-sector SMS fraud process blocked more than 2 million fraudulent messages in a proof-of-concept trial. The company says the process was created with Barclays and partners including Mobile Ecosystem Forum and Cyber Defence Alliance, later expanded to The Co-operative Bank and TSB, and produced an estimated 25 percent increase in blocked banking scam messages on its network.
Filed from: TechRadar , VodafoneThree .
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KVM/x86 guest-to-host escape vulnerability disclosed after 16-year dormancy
A use-after-free vulnerability in the shadow MMU emulation of KVM/x86, tracked as CVE-2026-53359 and named Januscape, allows a guest VM to escape to the host kernel using only guest-side actions. The bug affects both Intel and AMD architectures and has been present in the kernel since 2010, and a patch identified as commit 81ccda30b4e8 has been released.
Filed from: GitHub advisory , oss-security disclosure .
Anthropic finds a silent internal workspace in Claude’s neural network
Anthropic researchers identified a small set of internal neural patterns in Claude, called the J-space, that acts as a privileged workspace for deliberate reasoning. The research post says the patterns emerge during training, allow the model to report and modulate internal thoughts, and causally affect outputs when researchers intervene in the space.
Filed from: Anthropic , Research paper .
Kapa.ai prunes RAG context with a small LLM
Kapa.ai added a listwise LLM call between retrieval and generation in its RAG pipeline. The company says a small model grades each chunk against a five-level relevance scale, dropping about 68 percent of chunks while preserving 96 percent of recall, cutting per-query cost by roughly a third, and running in about 0.7 seconds per query.
Filed from: Kapa.ai blog .
OfficeCLI ships an open-source Office suite for agents
OfficeCLI is a single-binary, dependency-free tool that gives software agents control over Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. The project includes HTML and PNG rendering, deterministic JSON output, path-based element addressing, a formula engine covering more than 350 Excel functions, pivot-table creation, and an MCP server.
Filed from: GitHub , Website .
Small AI models gain traction in low-infrastructure regions
IEEE Spectrum reports on the use of small AI models in regions with unreliable networks and limited data-center infrastructure. The story cites on-device medication authentication with a handheld spectrometer, drone-based disease detection in cashew plants, Arduino-based ECG analysis, and World Bank grants and policy support for small AI projects.
Filed from: IEEE Spectrum .
Linux boots on the Atari Jaguar console
A developer booted Linux on the Atari Jaguar, a 1993 console with a Motorola 68000 CPU, 2 MB of RAM, and no MMU. The port uses the nommu configuration, splits the kernel between ROM and RAM through execute-in-place loading, and implements a serial console driver using the Jaguar’s DSP pins.
Filed from: Blog post , GitHub repository .
Riddle turns reMarkable Paper Pro into an interactive diary
Riddle is an open-source project that turns the reMarkable Paper Pro into an e-ink writing surface where handwritten input fades, a vision LLM reads the handwriting, and a reply appears in animated cursive script. The Rust-based app runs in developer mode with a C/C++ display host that takes over the vendor UI and supports OpenAI-compatible APIs or a local inference server.
Filed from: GitHub .
Analysis says GLM 5.2 pressures frontier inference pricing
An analysis of GLM 5.2 from Z.ai says the open-weights model competes with frontier API models while costing less than 20 percent of their retail API prices. The author reports compatible endpoints for migration and notes that GLM 5.2 lacks vision support and has poor web-search capabilities.
Filed from: Martin Alderson .
Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming remains in active publication
Donald Knuth’s multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming continues to be updated, with new volumes and fascicles still in progress. Knuth’s Stanford page lists translations in dozens of languages, authorized PDF editions, and the work’s selection by American Scientist among twelve notable physical-science monographs of the 20th century.
Filed from: Stanford page .
