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Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer PC chip family that it says is “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made in partnership with MediaTek (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-1 Nvidia

Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, with an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-1 Microsoft Nvidia

Intel details its Crescent Island data center GPUs based on the Xe3P architecture, described as “built for agentic AI”; they use LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-6-1 Intel AI

Intel teases its Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids CPUs, built on 18A-P node, with PCIe 6.0, and 50% more cores and twice the memory bandwidth vs. Xeon 6, launching in 2027 (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-6-1 Intel

New Desalination System Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water and Useful Salts - Including Lithium (science.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1

Intel unveils six Xeon 6+ data center CPU SKUs, says the 6990E+ has 30% better single-thread performance and up to 30% more energy efficiency than AMD Epyc 9965 (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-6-1 Intel Energy AMD

TSMC's rally in Taiwan has outpaced its US-listed shares this year, narrowing its ADR premium to 13.7%, a two-year low, driven by local investor optimism (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 Taiwan

China issues new investment rules, expanding regulator powers to scrutinize overseas deals involving Chinese investors, tech, and data, effective from July 1 (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-1 China

Beijing-based Vast, which uses AI models to generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised ~$200M at a $1B+ valuation, and says it has 20M global users (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 AI Asset

US, Australia, and UK Plan New Unmanned Vehicles to Protect Undersea Data Cables (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1 Australia

Something Made Earth's Molten Core Reverse Direction In 2010 (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1

Solstice, which uses clinical and compliance documents and AI to accelerate advertising approvals for pharma clients, raised a $21M Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-6-1 AI

Daloopa, which structures financial data from filings, transcripts, investor decks, and other public sources for investment firms, raised a $47M Series C (www.axios.com)
2026-6-1

Dell introduces the $699+ Dell XPS 13, starting with 8GB of RAM, a six-core Intel Core 5 320 chip, and a 13.4-inch touchscreen, rivaling the MacBook Neo (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-1 Intel MacBook

AMD unveils the $330 Ryzen 7 7700X3D CPU, relaunches the 5800X3D as a $349 10th-anniversary edition, and plans to support the AM5 motherboard socket until 2030 (www.theverge.com)
2026-6-1 AMD

Twitch rolls out Dual Format, a feature that lets creators stream horizontally and vertically simultaneously, and 2K streaming for partners and affiliates (www.engadget.com)
2026-6-1

NYC-based Garner Health, which uses data analytics to help 2.5M+ workers find physicians, raised a $100M Series E at a $2.74B valuation led by Index Ventures (www.fiercehealthcare.com)
2026-6-1

'The Oral Tradition That Built Software May Not Survive AI' (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1 AI

US Teachers' Union Urges Schools To Curb AI Chatbots and Screen Time (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1 AI chatbot

Experts say ChatGPT, Gemini, and other Western AI models are turbocharging Iran's cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch phishing attacks (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-6-1 AI Iran

New Star Wars Movie Falls to #3 Behind Two Movies Directed By YouTube Stars (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1 YouTube

Renewable Energy is Surging in Africa (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1 Energy Africa Renewable

AI adoption follows the J-curve path of general-purpose tech, like early US factory electrification, requiring years of investment before noticeable ROI gains (www.exponentialview.co)
2026-6-1 AI

AI Agents Get Their Own Directory Built Atop DNS (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1 AI

Sources: Apple delays iPhone-connected smart glasses to late 2027, aiming to disrupt the mid-tier $200-$500 eyewear market the way it disrupted the watch market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 iPhone Apple

Ohio Suspends Data Center Tax Break as Opposition Grows (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1 Tax

'Virtual OS Museum' Lets You Try 570 Extinct Operating Systems (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-1

WP Maps Pro bug exploited to create admin accounts on WordPress sites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-6-1 WordPress

Get a lifetime of ethical hacking and Python security training for $15 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-31

A look at AMD CEO Lisa Su's and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's contrasting China playbooks, with Su keeping a lower profile; China accounts for ~20% of AMD's revenue (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-31 China Nvidia AMD

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