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👀 Qualcomm wants to buy Intel
🚚 Fedex uses AI to deliver 'high-quality service' after firing 22,000 humans
🙄 Cards Against Humanity takes SpaceX to court over trespassing
🏴☠️ Snowflake hacker remains active and uncaught
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
👀 Qualcomm wants to buy IntelLINK
Qualcomm recently approached Intel about a potential acquisition, which would be significant given Intel's historical dominance in the chip industry with its x86 processor technology.
The Wall Street Journal reported the news, which was corroborated by The New York Times, noting that Qualcomm has yet to make an official offer for the company.
If the acquisition happens and passes regulatory approval, it would be a major victory for Qualcomm, especially as Intel is currently struggling with financial losses, strategic shifts, and increased competition.
🚚 Fedex uses AI to deliver 'high-quality service' after firing 22,000 humansLINK
FedEx is implementing an AI transformation that uses a model called "Shipment Eligibility Orchestrator" to handle tasks previously done by humans, following the firing of 22,000 employees globally.
This AI model dynamically routes packages in real-time and has been applied to prioritize shipments such as high-priority healthcare deliveries.
Despite technological advancements and cost-cutting measures, FedEx reported a decline in revenue and net profit in Q1 2025, worsened by weaker-than-expected U.S. domestic package market demand.
🙄 Cards Against Humanity takes SpaceX to court over trespassingLINK
Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for $15 million, alleging that SpaceX trespassed on and damaged its property in Texas by using it without permission for six months.
The property was originally purchased by Cards Against Humanity in 2017 as a stunt to obstruct former President Donald Trump's wall construction efforts, and the alleged trespassing has reportedly harmed the company's customer relationships.
The lawsuit claims SpaceX's construction activities, including clearing vegetation and compacting soil, have changed the environment and damaged Cards Against Humanity's land, while also creating a false impression of association between the two companies.
🏴☠️ Snowflake hacker remains active and uncaughtLINK
A hacker who impacted up to 165 companies this summer is still active and has recently targeted new organizations, as reported by a cybersecurity expert from Google's Alphabet Inc.
The hacker, previously involved in breaching Snowflake Inc., is now targeting American firms in various industries and critical infrastructure organizations in Russia and Bangladesh.
Despite boasting about the attacks to journalists, the hacker has evaded law enforcement, illustrating the difficulty of combating international cybercrime because of anonymizing tools and a growing market for stolen credentials.
Other news you might like
Meta has a major opportunity to win the AI hardware race.LINK
NASA has a fine plan for deorbiting the ISS—unless Russia gets in the way.LINK
SEC seeks sanctions against Elon Musk over Twitter investigation.LINK
After X’s ban in Brazil, Tumblr reports ~350% user growth.LINK
Google calls for halting use of WHOIS for TLS domain verifications.LINK
MIT engineers develop 3D-printed glass bricks for sustainable construction.LINK
Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating.LINK
Why social media companies keep copying each other.LINK
Latest research and tools
Kamal Proxy: a minimal HTTP proxy that facilitates zero-downtime deployments by allowing web applications to update without interrupting current traffic, requiring no specific cooperation from the application itself.LINK
AIQ: a no-frills command-line interface that enables users to label text streams, train text classifiers, embed texts, and classify them using locally run models or APIs, streamlining the text processing and machine learning pipeline.LINK
SSHFS-Win: allows Windows users to mount and work with remote filesystems via SSH directly in Explorer, using a simple network drive approach for easy access and management.LINK
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