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Jess Weatherbed

Jess Weatherbed

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    Things go from bankrupt to worse for Swedish EV battery manufacturer.

    After filing for Chapter 11 in the US in November, Northvolt — which worked with Volkswagen, Volvo, Audi, Porsche, and BMW — has now filed for bankruptcy in Sweden. The company was founded by two ex-Tesla executives and was one of Europe’s leading efforts to rival US and Asian battery manufacturers before racking up billions in debt.

    “As the bankruptcy process unfolds, the court-appointed trustee will determine the future of Northvolt’s businesses and their assets, including technology and production facilities.”

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Security experts dug into the X DDoS attack.

    While Elon Musk claimed the “massive cyberattack” impacting X’s service had originated from Ukrainian IP addresses, security researchers note that this isn’t conclusive as attackers often obfuscate their true locations via compromised devices, proxy networks, and VPNs.

    Analysts told Wired that there’s also evidence that some of X’s servers were publicly visible before being secured behind the company’s Cloudflare DDoS protection, which may have exposed the platform to direct attacks.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Artists and CERN explore the quantum realm.

    The “Quantum Visions” art exhibition being hosted at Tabakalera in San Sebastián, Spain celebrates 2025 being proclaimed the “International Year of Quantum Science and Technology” by the United Nations. Eleven artists, including former CERN artists-in-residence, are featured at the exhibit, with works in a variety of mediums that have been inspired by the subatomic world of quantum theory. It sounds like a neat experience, even if my brain hurts just thinking about it.

    “Entangled binary network (Hello, world!)” by Joan Heemskerk
    One of the exhibits is “Entangled binary network (Hello, world!)” by Joan Heemskerk, which “speculates on a quantum internet network connecting two entangled fields.”
    Art: Joan Heemskerk
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    Jess Weatherbed
    Meta is testing its first AI training chip.

    The custom chip is designed to train Meta’s artificial intelligence systems and reduce the company’s dependency on third-party suppliers like Nvidia, with Meta aiming to use its own in-house chips by 2026.

    The company is already using a previous-gen chip to train its ranking and recommendation algorithms, but this would be its first used to train generative tools like Meta AI.

    X is having an up and down MondayX is having an up and down Monday
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    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Elon Musk blames X outages on ‘massive cyberattack.’

    The platform has been going down intermittently since around 5:40AM ET on Monday, with no official ETA for when the outages will be resolved, and no details provided about what’s causing the issues. Musk made similar claims about cyberattacks impacting X’s services last year when Spaces crashed out during a scheduled conversation with Donald Trump, though X staffers at the time told The Verge that an attack hadn’t occurred.

    A screenshot taken from X of Elon Musk blaming recent outages on an ongoing cyberattack.
    At least things have been a little quieter today.
    Image: X
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    Jess Weatherbed
    The Apprentice comes to Prime Video.

    Season 1-7 of Donald Trump’s competition reality TV series will be available to stream starting today until April 27th via Amazon’s video platform, which is also paying $40 million to license Melania Trump’s documentary after Jeff Bezos started sucking up to the President.

    Producer Mark Burnett says The Apprentice is “one of the best shows” he ever created. “The charismatic onscreen presence of President Donald J. Trump made it a bona fide hit. Now, thanks to Prime Video, a whole new audience will experience a new season every Monday.”