ICYMI: the 7 biggest tech stories of the week

This week's tech highlights at a glance ...
Opinion

Meta's rumored humanoid robot is another AI services Trojan horse

If more than half of Americans are at least "concerned" about AI, companies like OpenAI, Meta, Claude, and others may soon face a backlash that results in people pulling away from the use of chatbots ...

Most data centers and servers on the planet could be vulnerable to dangerous UEFI firmware flaw — here's what we know

Virtually all modern servers today run UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), software built into the server’s motherboard that helps start the device and load the operating system. It includes ...

Forget Xbox, Sony just launched its own translucent controllers in the form of the PS5 Prism collection — and they’re a nostalgic hit of retro gaming aesthetics that ...

Translucent gaming hardware is having a moment right now, with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 and Microsoft ’s see-through Xbox ...
TechRadar

Anthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them — and tells junior engineers that 'hunger beats tenure'

Anthropic hiring manager Felix Rieseberg reveals that coding interviews are over In a blog post, the engineering manager explains that Claude codes better, making coding tasks obsolete Rieseberg ...

Built for speed: How simpler IT keeps high-performance teams moving

How McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team uses Freshworks to simplify IT, strengthen resilience, and keep operations moving at ...
TechRadar

'They're not done': Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison says AI can finally help us 'finish' building apps, dismissing SaaSpocalypse fears

Future apps will be fully tailored to geographies and industries Rather than making today's software redundant, Ellison believes AI will allow developers to make their apps far more comprehensive, ...
TechRadar

We can’t control AI if we can’t control where it gets its information from

In “An Alien Mind,” he argued that current alignment and monitoring techniques may soon prove inadequate for the pace at which machine intelligence is advancing. He also described a future in which AI ...
TechRadar

Nvidia forced to dial back key bandwidth targets on Vera Rubin hardware — tweaks will affect target specifications for memory and interconnect fabric

Nvidia has quietly cut Rubin's listed HBM4 bandwidth from 22 TB/s to 19.2 TB/s per GPU and NVLink 6 from 3.6 TB/s to 3 TB/s The eight-GPU HGX Rubin NVL8 fares worst, losing 26% of its memory bandwidth ...
TechRadar

TechRadar'It's 100 percent a national security threat': Accenture contractor connected an AI agent to the Pentagon's secure network, and then sent data to a high-risk website

The Claude Code agent then collected data from the network - which is used by multiple intelligence agencies - and sent it to a third-party website. Login credentials were confirmed to have been ...
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Amazon warns engineers just using more AI doesn't make them more productive, says they should avoid tokenmaxxing

In a memo sent to its workforce, the company warned against using “deeply flawed” metrics such as AI token usage or code generation as a measure of team success. It also cautioned against workers ...