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AI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool development — "There is still a lot of human guidance" says Berkley researcher

… Analog design has long been seen as the last redoubt of human craft, but researchers have begun producing generative AI systems such as AnalogGenie , which uses a GPT-style model to discover new circuit topologies, and Princeton's AI-enabled design-space discovery for millimeter-wave and sub-terahe… …

May 22, 2026 · Chris Stokel-Walker
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Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' — private list 'a waste of time for everybody involved' in switch to new public system

Linus Torvalds declared the Linux kernel's private security mailing list "almost entirely unmanageable" on Sunday in his weekly post to the Linux Kernel Mailing List LKML , blaming a flood of duplicate vulnerability reports generated by researchers running the same AI tools against the same code. …

May 18, 2026 · Luke James
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First Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI, gives root access on MacOS — Claude Mythos helps security researchers bypass Memory Integrity Enforcement

… Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck The data center cooling state of play Massive AI data center buildouts are squeezing energy supplies Ultra Ethernet: The data center interconnection of tomorrow The researchers tested… …

May 16, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira
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Chinese military has been acquiring Nvidia chips, even post-Washington export controls, research claims — multiple institutions linked to the PLA asked for Nvidia AI chips, according to publicly available documents

… In one specific instance, a cybersecurity unit sought Nvidia A100-powered AI servers for a password-cracking tool called hashcat. The White House first put export controls on AI chips in 2022, citing fears that the Chinese PLA was using them to advance its own military research. …

Jun 2, 2026 · Jowi Morales
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Claude Fable 5 brings Mythos to the masses — Anthropic's new frontier model is 'state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks'

… According to its model card, Fable 5 will also be nerfed in instances where a user attempts to use it to further cutting-edge AI or ML research, which is likely not only motivated by the company's recent concerns around AI self-improvement but also likely to be motivated by competitive concerns wit… …

Jun 9, 2026 · Jeffrey Kampman
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Standard 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is likely dead thanks to AI, expert warns that AI can weaponize patches in 30 minutes — LLM-assisted bug-hunting ushers in a new cyberworld order

… For example, most every Linux distribution recently found itself on the wrong end of the Copy Fail and Dirty Frag privilege escalation vulnerabilities gaining administrator access with a local account , for which patches hadn't been made widely available as there wasn't enough time between their di… …

May 12, 2026 · Bruno Ferreira