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• HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use

  Product development, internal operations among teams expected to be hit hardest.

• Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble

  Several companies are selling crypto stockpiles in effort to fund share buybacks, shore up stock prices.

• UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push

  Plan will offer guaranteed payments for British startups making AI hardware

• Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.

  Voting system required three keys. One of them has been "irretrievably lost."

• How to know if your Asus router is one of thousands hacked by China-state hackers

  So far, the hackers are laying low, likely for later use.

• Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand

  Google's AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.

• HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

  HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.

• Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size

  "I worry this is the big botnet flexing," CEO said. But outage was self-inflicted.

• Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data

  Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?

• Tech giants pour billions into Anthropic as circular AI investments roll on

  ChatGPT competitor secures billions from Microsoft and Nvidia in deal to use cloud services and chips.

• Bonkers Bitcoin heist: 5-star hotels, cash-filled envelopes, vanishing funds

  Bitcoin mining hardware exec falls for sophisticated crypto scam to tune of $200k

• Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean

  Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.

• 5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs

  Fleets of laptops run from US residences gave appearance workers were in the US.

• Oracle hit hard in Wall Street’s tech sell-off over its huge AI bet

  Company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts.

• Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

  Ongoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off.

• Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous

  The results of AI-assisted hacking aren't as impressive as many might have us believe.

• OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities

  New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.

• Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup

  AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta's shift from research to rapid product releases.

• ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of

  Relatively new technique can bypass many endpoint protections.

• Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

  Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.