Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

By registering the LongCat-2.0 repository under the open-source MIT License, Meituan positions the architecture with maximum ...
Tech Times

Baidu OCR Breaks Long-Document Memory Wall: New Architecture Beats DeepSeek

Open-source OCR from Baidu eliminates the GPU memory wall that limits long-document parsing. Unlimited OCR uses a constant KV ...

Stealthy Mistic backdoor linked to ransomware access broker KongTuke

A new backdoor dubbed Mistic has been observed in financially motivated attacks targeting organizations in the insurance, ...
thepricer

How Much Will Trump’s Record July 4 Fireworks Show Cost?

This article was researched using 9 sources. See our methodology and corrections policy. Trump’s planned July 4 fireworks show is being priced in public records and news reports as a federal event, ...
Microsoft

Guarding AI memory

Microsoft takes a defense-in-depth approach to protect AI memory spanning every layer of the stack: storage, retrieval, model ...

Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI ...
Security Boulevard

Securing AI pipelines against data poisoning: a practical guide for technical teams

Securing AI pipelines against data poisoning: a practical guide for technical teams Data poisoning is one of the more practical risks in AI security because it targets the pipeline rather than the ...
The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...
Reason

Data Centers Use Less Water Than Almond Farms—and Do More Good

California's almond farms consume 4.2 billion gallons of waters per day, according to Reason's Christian Britschgi. Data centers consume just 46 million gallons per day. Those numbers will certainly ...
Ars Technica

FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants “data in near real time”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced plans to buy nationwide access to a network of license plate readers, saying it will award contracts to one or more vendors that can offer “near real time ...
The Verge

Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard

Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. Knowledge is power, so here’s how to find power-gobbling data centers near you. is a policy reporter at The Verge ...
WXII 12 NEWS

Rural Hall residents voice data center concerns at Forsyth County commissioner's public input session

Forsyth County Commissioner Dan Besse hosted a public input session in Rural Hall, where residents shared their concerns about the potential impacts of a proposed data center. AND THAT IS WHERE WE ...