RC RANDOM CHAOS

The Wire

Curated cybersecurity and tech news — AI-summarized, source attributed.

aicloud

NVIDIA's Rubin Goes 100% Liquid-Cooled at 45°C, Slashing Data Center Water Use

NVIDIA's upcoming Rubin AI infrastructure is the first to drop fans entirely and cool every chip and networking component through a closed liquid loop. The key

via Hacker News ·
policy

Off-topic / no content: UN Gaza inquiry headline (not a tech story)

This submission could not be summarized. The pipeline supplied only a headline and no article body, so there is no source text to condense, and summarizing a co

via Hacker News ·
aicloud

Qualcomm Buys Modular for ~$3.9B to Crack Nvidia's CUDA Software Moat

Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Modular, the AI infrastructure startup founded by compiler veteran Chris Lattner, in an all-stock deal worth roughly $3.9 billion

via Hacker News ·
open-sourcetech-culture

The £40 Xteink X4: a pocket e-ink reader that custom firmware makes worth owning

The Xteink X4 is a tiny, ultralight e-ink reader that sells for around £40 and is marketed on the gimmick of magnetically sticking to the back of a phone. In pr

via Hacker News ·
tech-cultureprivacy

Why "Stating the Obvious" Is Often the Best Reason to Blog

Jim Nielsen picks up on a piece by John Gruber that rails against the now-ubiquitous newsletter and cookie-consent popups that bury the actual content a reader

via Hacker News ·
tech-cultureopen-source

A WYSIWYG Editor That Generates TikZ Code for LaTeX Figures

A new browser-based tool, posted as a Show HN, lets users draw figures visually and exports the result as TikZ — the LaTeX graphics language used to produce pub

via Hacker News ·
open-sourcetech-culture

Apple Absorbs the Community-Run Swift Package Index

The Swift Package Index, the independent, open-source directory that has become the de facto place to discover and vet Swift packages, is moving under Apple's w

via Hacker News ·
clouddevops

Bunny.net drops DNS query fees, makes its smart-routing DNS free

Bunny.net is eliminating usage-based charges for Bunny DNS, the routing engine that originally powered its CDN before becoming a standalone product four years a

via Hacker News ·
tech-culturedevops

Carmack's Quake Regrets: Too Ambitious, Pushed the Team Too Hard

John Carmack, reflecting on Quake's 30th anniversary, lays out what he considers his early mistakes at id Software. Chief among them: Quake was technically over

via Hacker News ·
aitech-culture

Elden Ring's Boss AI Is Just a Stack of States and Weighted Dice Rolls

FromSoftware's reputation for brutal, varied enemy encounters rests on a surprisingly simple architecture, as revealed by community efforts to decompile and rev

via Hacker News ·
aipolicy

Export Controls Cut NSA Off From Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI

Parts of the NSA lost access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 model after the Trump administration imposed export controls on the company this month, citing national sec

via Hacker News ·
vulnerabilityai

Filippo Valsorda: LLMs Have Ended the Era of the Special Vulnerability Report

Open source maintainers have long held vulnerability reports to a higher standard than ordinary issues or pull requests. Former Go Security team lead Filippo Va

via Hacker News ·