IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI
IBM and Arm are working together on getting software developed for Arm chips to run on Big Blue's enterprise systems, with an eye on future AI and data-intensive workloads.
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AI benchmarks are broken. Here’s what we need instead.
For decades, artificial intelligence has been evaluated through the question of whether machines outperform humans. From chess to advanced math, from coding to essay writing, the performance of AI models and applications is tested against that of individual humans completing tasks.
Dell PowerEdge R5715 Review: 2U Single-Socket AMD EPYC for Storage-Forward Workloads
The PowerEdge R5715 is the second part of Dell’s SMB-focused extension to the 17th Generation PowerEdge family, starting with different priorities than its 1U sibling.
IRGC claims to have attacked Dubai Oracle data center, US fighter jets at Jordan's Al Azraq base
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attacked Oracle's data center in Dubai on Thursday, according to state media. Dubai's media office, however, denied this claim later that day.
Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Tuesday that it plans to target major U.S. technology companies across the Middle East, including Apple, Microsoft and Google, on Wednesday amid the ongoing war.
ZT Systems Quietly Snaps Up Mega Georgetown Warehouse North of Austin
ZT Systems has quietly locked in a massive industrial lease north of Austin, taking down one of the region’s largest speculative warehouse buildings in Georgetown.
PC makers face shortages of Intel and AMD CPUs that stretch up to six months
Lead time for orders jumps from just two weeks in the face of AI demand.
AMD Exec: Intel’s Multithreading Misstep Will ‘Help Us Gain Even More Market Share’
The expectation for Intel’s next-generation Xeon ‘Diamond Rapids’ CPUs to lack multithreading came into view after its CEO said last year that he had ‘taken steps to correct past mistakes regarding multithreading capabilities on our P-cores’ by reintroducing the feature.
Intel Exec Confirms CPU Price Increases For OEMs Amid Supply Crunch
The confirmation about CPU price increases came as Intel and AMD reportedly informed customers about their plan to do so in March and April, respectively, with OEMs facing extended lead times for such products amid broader, AI-driven component shortages.
Iranian government's cyber warfare gets personal
Iranian hackers are now taking their psychological warfare tactics directly to government officials and employees at major companies.
State Department reissues $10 million reward for info on Iranian hackers
The State Department is looking for information on hackers connected to the Iranian group Handala as well as other cyber actors in the country.
Hackers now exploit critical F5 BIG-IP flaw in attacks, patch now
Cybersecurity firm F5 Networks has reclassified a BIG-IP APM denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability as a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw, warning that attackers are exploiting it to deploy webshells on unpatched devices.
Code red at OpenAI as it ‘pours money down a black hole’
The economics of Sora, a video app, were ‘completely unsustainable’. What about the rest of the business?
Citrix NetScaler Under Active Recon for CVE-2026-3055 (CVSS 9.3) Memory Overread Bug
A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway is witnessing active reconnaissance activity, according to Defused Cyber and watchTowr.
Microsoft takes over a Texas AI data center expansion after OpenAI backs away
Microsoft is taking over a data center construction project in Texas after OpenAI declined to pursue it, in a move that will make the two companies neighbors at one of the nation's largest complexes for running artificial intelligence.
Microsoft Freezes Hiring in Key Cloud and Sales Units
Microsoft has stopped hiring in some portions of its Azure cloud operation and North American sales department, according to a report.
The 1 Reason Arista Networks Is Quietly Winning the AI Race in 2026
The biggest reason Arista is quietly winning the AI race is its critical role in enabling high-speed, low-latency data center networking that allows thousands of GPUs to function as a single system. #AristaNetworks
After swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, AI data centers are now going for CPUs
AI-driven demand has caused severe shortages and price hikes in DRAM, NAND, and CPUs, with Intel and AMD struggling to supply enough processors.
Chip Security Bill Advances in House After Super Micro Case
A House panel advanced legislation that would require the Commerce Department to demand chipmakers do more to keep AI technology from being smuggled to China, an effort that’s gained new urgency after last week’s indictment of a Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder for allegedly diverting Nvidia Corp. processors to Chinese buyers.
US Senators call for a halt to Nvidia GPU exports in the wake of the Super Micro scandal
They don't believe CEO Jensen Huang's claims, either.