2026-07-20
Prysmian signs €5.5bn fibre deal with Molex to wire AI data centres
Prysmian has signed a €5.5bn, 10-year agreement with Molex, the Koch Industries-owned connector and cable maker, to supply optical cable for use inside AI data centres. Unusually for a supply deal of this size, Molex is putting €550m on the table upfront, a rare piece of cash certainty in a market where most commitments arrive […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-20
An AI agent hacked Hugging Face. Another AI caught it.
The machines are now hacking each other. Hugging Face, the world’s largest hub for open AI models, says an autonomous AI agent broke into its production infrastructure. Its own AI defences spotted the intrusion and picked it apart. The company disclosed the incident in a statement on 16 July. It called the attack different from […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-20
Trump Media reportedly pitched traders a $100,000 feed of the president’s posts
Trump Media & Technology Group has reportedly been asking financial-trading firms for about $100,000 a month for the fastest possible feed of Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts, according to the Financial Times, a price tag that turns the president’s typing into a subscription product. The pitch, described to the paper by people familiar with the discussions, offers […]<br /> This [...]
2026-07-20
Samsung’s new laptop OLED hits 1,600 nits and lasts twice as long as the panel it replaces
Samsung Display has begun shipping tandem OLED panels for laptops that reach 1,600 nits peak brightness, more than 40% above the 1,100-nit ceiling of conventional single-layer OLED. The panels meet VESA’s new DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certification, announced this month, which requires 1,400 nits at 10% on-pixel ratio while maintaining black levels of 0.0005 nits […]<br /> This story co [...]
2026-07-20
SpaceX pushes Starship Flight 13 to Thursday after aborted countdown
SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice. The company had been targeting Monday evening from its Starbase site at Boca Chica in Texas, and said it needed more time to finish work […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-20
Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom
Blackstone is buying into Futronic, a South Korean maker of the high-precision actuators that let machines move, in a wager that the least visible hardware in a robot is where the next returns will sit. The firm did not disclose the size of the investment or the stake it is taking, saying only that the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-20
New X phishing scam copies real login alerts down to the pixel to hijack accounts
Scammers are sending phishing emails that are near-exact replicas of X’s legitimate login notifications, warning recipients of a login “from a new device” in a location they have never been. The emails include X’s logo, correct formatting, proper grammar, and the same colour scheme as real alerts. They ask the recipient to click a link […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-20
Avengers: Doomsday tickets are going on sale shortly — and some fans are convinced that Marvel will surprise us and reveal the new MCU movie's official trailer, too
Marvel fans have a new theory about Avengers: Doomsday's next trailer — but it's not one I can get on board with. [...]