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SpaceX said this week that it will build natural gas power plants to supply electricity to the Terafab semiconductor factory it plans to build in Texas, according to a report from Bloomberg.  Riley Trettel, who leads energy and data center development for SpaceX, said in a public meeting on Wednesday that his company will be “bringing our own power” for the project, which will also include “very large battery arrays.” Notably absent from the Bloomberg report — and other SpaceX announcements related to Terafab — is any mention of terrestrial solar power for the facility. Tesla, which is also a…

In this tutorial, we develop an end-to-end sentiment analysis workflow using the Stanford NLP IMDb Large Movie Review Dataset and compare classical machine learning with parameter-efficient transformer fine-tuning. We begin by establishing a reproducible environment and auditing the dataset for class ordering, review-length skew, duplicate leakage, and preprocessing artifacts before training a strong TF-IDF and Logistic Regression baseline. We then fine-tune DistilBERT with LoRA through PEFT, evaluate it using accuracy, macro-F1, ROC-AUC, confusion matrices, and ROC curves, and examine threshold selection and probability calibration through Expected Calibration Error and reliability analysis. Beyond headline metrics, we investigate confident errors, performance across…

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active “widespread email-driven phishing campaign” that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control of Microsoft 365 accounts with an aim to identify key personnel involved in financial workflows and gather related email. “The campaign uses residential proxies to disguise malicious sign-ins as ordinary consumer traffic,” Arctic Wolf Labs said. “Automated activity maintains compromised sessions at approximately eight-hour intervals.” The activity is assessed to impact organizations across healthcare, education, manufacturing, government, and professional services sectors located in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. It shares tactical overlaps with Payroll Pirate attacks tracked by Microsoft under…

In brief Deposits of tokenized real-world assets into DeFi lending venues and exchanges more than tripled to $7.4 billion over the year to Q2, CoinShares and Token Terminal said. Total DeFi deposits fell by approximately 15% across the same period, while RWA spot trading volumes rose roughly 220%. Almost 70% of that collateral sits on lending venues built on Ethereum, with Plasma and Solana behind it. Deposits of tokenized real-world assets into decentralized lending platforms and exchanges more than tripled over the past year, climbing from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion, while total deposits across DeFi fell by approximately 15%.The…

Ekaterina Alexandrov took down four-time Grand Slam singles champion Aryna Sabalenka in a three-set marathon in Toronto.Published On 9 Aug 20269 Aug 2026World number one ‌Aryna Sabalenka suffered a setback in her US Open ⁠build-up after ⁠she was beaten 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-4 by Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova in the fourth round of the Canadian Open ⁠in Toronto on Saturday.The 16th-seeded Alexandrova fought a hard battle, lasting nearly two and a half hours, to secure her quarterfinal berth.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listSabalenka, a four-time Grand Slam champion and reigning US Open winner, recovered from a set down to force…

You can tap the hamburger menu in the upper-right corner for a quick menu that includes books and pictures like you’d find in the All menu. There’s also Cloud Sync, which lets you see what’s being uploaded or was uploaded over Wi-Fi from the app; USB Drive, which turns on USB Drive mode to upload files instead of Wi-Fi; and Settings. The app is very straightforward, but you’ll need to create an account and pair your device by scanning the QR code displayed on the Xteink.The X4 Pro still tells me I need to pair it to an app (there’s…

Swati KhandelwalAug 07, 2026Network Security / Vulnerability Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network address translation (NAT) connection state to hijack active TCP sessions, spoof DNS responses, expose mapped ports, and exhaust NAT tables. Presented at Black Hat USA 2026, the research found affected behavior across independently developed implementations, including Windows and Linux. Two implementation-specific flaws have been assigned CVEs: CVE-2026-56181 (CVSS score: 8.3) in Windows NAT used by Hyper-V, and CVE-2026-63913 (CVSS score: 8.2) in Linux Netfilter conntrack. NatJack generally requires the attacker to have privileged access to a system behind…

In brief A wallet holding 49.97 BTC—received on July 16, 2011—moved the funds on Wednesday at block 961331. The stash is worth about $3.2 million now, a 634,347% gain on its roughly $10 average cost basis. The receiving wallet has previously routed funds to deposits tied to FalconX, a crypto prime broker, leaving open whether the old coins are being repositioned toward a trading venue. Another dormant Bitcoin whale has awoken.An old Bitcoin address holding millions in Bitcoin that had not made any transactions in over 14 years suddenly reactivated yesterday. Per Galaxy Research’s monitoring, the Bitcoin address beginning in…

The US blogger Perez Hilton is in a “serious but stable” condition after being admitted to hospital, according to his family.Emergency services were called to his Miami home on Tuesday after members of the public reported concerns while watching a TikTok livestream. The Miami sheriff’s office confirmed they attended a scene of a man “livestreaming acts of self-harm” on Tuesday. They did not confirm his name but said the man was alone in the house at the time.A statement released on the 48-year-old’s website said he “experienced significant blood loss” and his treatment and recovery would be a “long process”.If…

Airbnb might be taking slow steps to roll out AI features to its consumer-facing interface, but the company is rapidly adopting the tech to build product. Earlier this year, the company said AI is writing 60% of its code. In its latest earnings call, co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said AI is helping Airbnb create features a at rapid rate. Chesky said that because of AI, the company has reduced time from conceptualization to finally shipping features by 60%. “Today, we’re building, testing, and iterating faster than we could just a year ago. Across some of our key initiatives, we’ve…