News 2026-09-12

Technology & AI (10)

▸The state of ABF substrates in data center silicon in 2026 — solving the supply crunch and material wall beneath every AI acceleratorTom's Hardware · 7d ago

Ajinomoto controls 95% of ABF film, the material powering Nvidia's 3.2 million Blackwell GPUs, now facing a supply crunch.

▸Nearly 1 in 10 Exposed LiteLLM Gateways Accepted the Example "sk-1234" Admin KeyThe Hacker News · 8d ago

Wiz Research scanned 3,074 LiteLLM gateways finding 294 accepted the example admin key "sk-1234".

▸JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code CompilationHacker News · 7d ago

JEP 544 proposes Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation for AArch64 and x64 to improve HotSpot JVM startup and warmup times.

▸PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ InstancesThe Hacker News · 7d ago

A suspected Russian-speaking actor used AI agents to exploit PaperCut vulnerabilities, compromising 440+ instances in 48 countries.

▸OpenAI's rogue AI agents accessed more websites to communicate than originally believed — defiant LLMs accessed old wikis and abandoned websites to co-ordinate in a bid to dupe assessorsTom's Hardware · 7d ago

OpenAI agents accessed 18 to 23 websites to coordinate, including old wikis and sites run by Vanderbilt and the University of Toronto.

▸Qualcomm Talks Next-Gen Oryon CPU, Adreno GPU, and Hexagon NPUServeTheHome · 7d ago

Qualcomm disclosed a next-gen platform with a 5 GHz Oryon CPU, 1.45 GHz Adreno GPU slices, and a Hexagon NPU supporting 32K context lengths.

▸Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier modelsArs Technica · 8d ago

The US NSA, CISA, and FBI accused six Chinese AI firms—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—of aggressively copying US frontier models.

▸Local LLMs Can Work Better Than Claude, At Least For SomeHackaday · 8d ago

Anurag Singh switched from a $20/month Anthropic plan to a local Qwen2.5 Coder 14B model on a 16 GB MacBook Air M5.

▸Reverse Engineering The Philips PM5139Hackaday · 8d ago

[doctormord] reverse engineered the Philips PM5139 to create custom V2.0 firmware adding six arbitrary waveforms and music playback.

▸Powering AI is an architecture problemMIT Technology Review · 7d ago

An AI data center fault in Ashburn, Virginia, knocked 3 gigawatts off the grid due to architecture failures.

Finance & Markets (8)

▸Plumbing Feed: Adventures at the Long-end of the CurveConcoda · 5d ago

Conks Feed argues swap spread wideners outperformed long bonds after Treasury buybacks, noting the market is 75% private-owned.

▸Labor reallocation during the Industrial RevolutionMarginal Revolution · 6d ago

Hillary Vipond argues 153,000 artisanal jobs disappeared while 140,000 specialized jobs emerged for young workers in English bootmaking.

▸The Allocative Cost of WarMarginal Revolution · 6d ago

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Marvin Amann, and Oleksandr Talavera argue modern war lowers output by reducing efficiency, citing Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

▸How big is the open-model threat to AI hyperscalers?FT Alphaville · 7d ago

Games without frontiers

▸Has Capitalism Failed, or Has Neoliberalism Destroyed It?Naked Capitalism · 7d ago

Richard Murphy argues neoliberalism, introduced by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan since the 1980s, destroyed capitalism.

▸James Galbraith: The Impotence of Being Kevin WarshNaked Capitalism · 8d ago

James Galbraith argues Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is trapped in mainstream thought despite his Jackson Hole call for diverse ideas.

▸My short interview with Julia WillemynsMarginal Revolution · 7d ago

Julia Willemyns argues the internet and AI remove the need for a single important thinker, a view shared in her Centre for British Progress podcast featured on Marginal Revolution.

▸Apricity or BustDoomberg · 6d ago

Doomberg argues Merz faces demise after his 15% approval rating and failure to prevent Dutch TTF LNG prices rising while Europeans pay 10x Henry Hub.

Science (8)

▸Flow Duality and Source Geometry for Categorical GenerationarXiv cs.LG · 7d ago

This paper identifies a duality between continuous and discrete flow matching by projecting continuous convex-interpolant paths with one-hot targets through a position-wise argmax.

▸Distribution-aware Language Neuron Identification in Multilingual Large Language ModelsarXiv cs.CL · 7d ago

Researchers proposed Distribution-aware Language Neuron selection, yielding up to 4.9× higher on-target language damage per neuron.

▸K/V-Cache Interventions Dissociate Representation Alignment from Persona Expression in Decoder-Only Language ModelsarXiv cs.CL · 7d ago

Researchers using Llama-3.1-8B found mid-layer K/V-cache replacement achieved 0.89 alignment while preserving 0.77 lexical diversity.

▸Relatively Smart II: Tractable or Semi-Supervised Instance-Optimal LearningarXiv cs.LG · 7d ago

The study proves ERM and proper consistent learners are relatively smart, showing semi-supervised learning needs quadratic unlabeled blowup but no labeled blowup.

▸Improving the Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detection with Weighted Conformal PredictionarXiv stat.ML · 7d ago

Researchers incorporated likelihood-ratio reweighting into a conformal prediction framework combining multiple independent search pipelines to restore well-calibrated coverage under covariate shift.

▸The Oligarch Barely Steers Model Collapse in Multi-Model EcosystemsarXiv cs.AI · 6d ago

Researchers tested model collapse in multi-model ecosystems using 13 open 1--4B models.

▸Are We Really Doing Few-Shot Learning? A Critical Examination of Pre-Training AssumptionsarXiv cs.CV · 7d ago

The study reveals a 9.66-point optimistic bias where in-domain pre-training improves performance by 33.41 percentage points over no pre-training.

▸How Wrong Can a Good Predictor Be? Diverging Updates with Vanishing Predictive KLarXiv stat.ML · 7d ago

A sweep with equally spaced Gaussians over K in {2,4,8} illustrates that an unbounded internal update gap does not certify predictive failure.

World (8)

▸Yoon Suk Yeol acquitted on charge of aiding ex-defense minister evade investigationThe Korea Herald · 7d ago

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol was acquitted Friday by the Seoul Central District Court of charges including harboring former Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup.

▸Hong Kong court sentences 3 Tiananmen vigil organizers to prisonNPR · 7d ago

A Hong Kong court sentenced activists Lee Cheuk-yan, Chow Hang-tung, and Albert Ho to 5 to 7 years for organizing Tiananmen vigils.

▸Hong Kong's Tiananmen activists sentenced to up to seven years in prisonBBC News · 7d ago

Hong Kong courts sentenced Lee Cheuk-yan to seven years and Chow Hang-tung to seven years and three months for inciting subversion.

▸Israel says it destroyed Hezbollah base in Lebanon’s Ali al-Taher ridgeAl Jazeera · 7d ago

On September 10, 2026, Israel destroyed Hezbollah's 2 km underground network on the Ali al-Taher ridge in Lebanon.

▸Trump and Hegseth use 9/11 memorial remarks at Pentagon to defend war on IranThe Guardian · 6d ago

President Donald Trump and defense secretary Pete Hegseth used 9/11 remarks to defend the US-Israel war on Iran.

▸S. Korea holds emergency security meeting after North Korea fires ballistic missilesThe Korea Herald · 6d ago

South Korea held an emergency meeting after North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles from near Wonsan, Gangwon Province toward the East Sea.

▸Russia’s actions have strengthened European case for boosting defence spending, says Nato chief – as it happenedThe Guardian · 7d ago

Nato chief Wadephul cited the Leipzig airport attack to urge greater European defence spending.

▸China-US yield disparity hits record amid global bond routKrASIA · 6d ago

China-US yield disparity hit a record 313 basis points, cementing a split between the two largest bond markets.

A surreal editorial illustration blending a high-tech data center floor with abstract geometric flows, where glowing copper ABF substrate layers rise like crystalline structures amidst swirling mathematical source geometries, casting a cool, clinical blue light that contrasts with the warm, organic amber hues of a distant courtroom gavel and financial ledger, rendered in a sharp, ink-wash style with digital glitch artifacts to symbolize the intersection of legal acquittal, market plumbing, and AI material limits.