A Poisoned Python Package Turned a Developer Laptop Into a Credential Haul
The installer looked routine. A developer on a Windows machine ran a Python command to add an unrelated dependency, and the collector started. There was no import of the compromised…
Micron’s Two-Year Memory Bet: Thicker Stacks, Wider Pipes
Scott DeBoer opened the section of Micron’s technology briefing that analysts had come for with a sentence that was not on his slides. Asked when memory supply would finally catch…
Korea’s Memory Duopoly Heads for a $139 Billion Quarter
SEOUL—Two earnings calls, 24 hours apart, and a number that would have read as a typo a year ago. SK hynix reports on Wednesday and Samsung Electronics on Thursday, and…
SoftBank’s Son Picks Malaysia for a $50 Billion AI Bet, Anwar Says
MALACCA, Malaysia—The number came from a political stage, not from a term sheet. Speaking on Oct. 24, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Masayoshi Son had chosen where in Malaysia to…
Finland Suspends Google’s Data Center Work After 400,000 Trees Come Down
MUHOS, Finland—The clearing runs to the edge of the Oulujoki river and stops about 400 metres short of the water. Machinery tracks, exposed roots and standing puddles mark where spruce…
Huang Puts a Number on Nvidia’s Software: $2,000 a GPU
Jensen Huang rarely gives a price without a product attached. At GTC Berlin on Oct. 22, asked how Nvidia intends to charge for software, the chief executive offered a figure…
AWS Sells Out Three Years of Capacity, and Verizon Moves In With Fiber
The Verizon release that landed on Monday morning read like a telecom document: a raised subscriber forecast, a simplified rate plan, a quarter that beat on profit and missed on…
Elvis Presley’s Rights Holders Sue Anthropic Over 274 Songs
Two hundred and seventy-four songs. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars each, the maximum a court can award for a willful copyright violation in the United States. The arithmetic comes…
Claude Requests a Token, and Georgia’s Paywall Opens
Georgia’s Election Data Hub publishes aggregate vote counts on a dashboard that any visitor can reach. The underlying voter data is sold by the secretary of state’s office for a…
Texas Sues OpenAI and Its Chief Executive Over Safety Claims
The complaint opens with a quotation, not a statute. “AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.” Texas…
