Nvidia is buying a further $1.5B of SB Energy shares at 90% of the price of the data centre developer’s coming US listing, taking its total backing to $3B. SB Energy has 8.8 gigawatts in contract or under construction in Texas and Ohio, while its parent’s European capacity is not due before 2031.

Nvidia is buying a further $1.5B of shares in SB Energy at 90% of the price of the SoftBank-owned developer’s coming US listing, Bloomberg reported, citing a regulatory filing on Monday. That takes its total backing to $3B.

The discount is the interesting part.

The chipmaker is taking new N class nonvoting shares in a private placement, which buys the economics and not the votes. It is also the supplier whose processors create the demand SB Energy is listing on. Nvidia bought into three land and power companies in August alone, as its liquid-cooled Rubin chips push rack density from roughly 250kW to 600kW.

SB Energy has the sites.

It holds 8.8 gigawatts of data centre capacity in contract or under construction, including projects in Texas and Ohio. OpenAI, which is planning a listing of its own, is also an investor. SB Energy is targeting $5B to $7B of proceeds.

It paid to get that tenant.

SB Energy gave OpenAI warrants worth $5.5B to anchor a 20-year lease on a 10 gigawatt campus in southern Ohio, due to run in 2028. The warrants were issued in January at $3.6B and had gained about $1.9B by June.

Europe gets the other half of the same group.

SoftBank has promised up to EUR 75B for 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France, starting in Hauts-de-France at Dunkirk, Bosquel and Bouchain. The first phase is 3.1 gigawatts by 2031, and it sits in a separate vehicle from the one listing in New York. Schneider Electric is the strategic partner at Dunkirk, on a grid that is roughly 70% nuclear.

That is three years behind Ohio.

No European power developer is being financed this way. Nvidia is not buying discounted pre-listing stock in one, and no campus on this continent has a tenant paying its rent in warrants.

These economics have already failed here once.

OpenAI paused Stargate UK in April, a project it had announced with Nvidia and Nscale for northeast England, citing British industrial electricity prices more than four times those in the United States and uncertainty over copyright law. It said it would proceed when regulation and the cost of energy allow long-term infrastructure investment. Neither has changed since.

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Satire is dead. But it’s been dead since the first Trump administration, back when people were “owning the libs” with a combination of horse dewormers and willfully contracting COVID. Bleach consumption was discussed. It was a whole thing.

Not enough of those people died, apparently. We somehow got a second season of Trump and at this point, it looks like farce may finally have been killed off.

In addition to forming a white Christian nationalist death cult, Trump really wants history to remember him as one of the most self-aggrandizing people to ever serve as President of the United States. He would rather raze the Kennedy Center to the ground than have it continue without his name splashed all over it. He has literally gilded the lily all over DC, sending out his Parks and Rec folks to splash a bunch of gold paint over a bunch of monuments and statues.

In addition to constructing a hideous ballroom apparently inspired by the 1921 July 4th Ball held at the Overlook Hotel, Trump has held a military parade in his own honor and turned the 250th birthday of America into an MMA/White House crossover filled with mandatory attendees.

He also wants his own Arc de Triomphe. But while the French version celebrates the country’s military victories (both of them!) and is generally representative of national pride, Trump’s version would be all about Trump.

The problems are several. First, it’s the subject of litigation. Second, even his own National Park Service has pointed out that it would have an “adverse effect” on nearby historical monuments, including the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial (the one with the misbehaving pool). Trump’s own FAA expressed some concerns about the proposed arch’s interference with flight paths but ultimately did the let’s-give-Trump-what-he-wants thing and suggested the only alteration be some sort of a warning light on top for planes… perhaps some sort of “eternal flame.” [Vomits involuntarily.]

Trump is struggling to justify building a gaudy piece of white-and-gold bullshit as a paean to his superior mediocrity. So, he’s doing what he always does in situations like these: fire up Truth Social to deliver rants/statements that look like they were composed by someone on a cocaine-and-151 bender.

To wit:

If you can’t read/see the embed… oh man. You’re in for a treat. I’m just going to post the whole thing here because any cherry-picking of the best/worst parts might lead some people to believe that I’m just making this shit up.

Buckle up, buttercups:

At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World. Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

You’re seeing this too, right? It’s not just me who may or may not be on a cocaine-and-151 bender? This is a guy who thinks everyone respects him just out there on main claiming the “United States Military” has requested he turn his ego stroke of a monument into some sort of immobile war machine.

This sounds like it was written by a seven-year-old to explain the massive amount of hand-drawn violence currently covering the notebook paper he was supposed to be using to show his work during math class. I cannot imagine any healthy adult actually claiming a “triumphal arch” can — or even should! — house “large numbers of drones, plus Snipers… and… large quantities of sniper ammunition.”

Are we supposed to believe the “roof” of the monument will just be launching pads for drones — drones, I might add, that will be launched directly into the flight paths of descending commercial flights arriving at Dulles? Are the snipers just going to live there? Will the two towers of the arc act like extended clips for sniper ammo? Will it just be 250+ feet of belt-fed ammo accessed directly through “Freedom Slits” or whatever the fuck?

And what even is a “top grade Military Complex” in the context of self-gratifying embarrassment of a monument? And if it is actually going to be all of these things, why are we telling everyfuckingbody that we’re building a drones-and-bullets centerpiece in Washington, DC? Won’t that just make it one of the first targets in any invasion/terrorist attack/rummaging for pawnable goods after its erection? Speaking of erections, why can’t we have a president who gets off to normal things, like Marilyn Monroe? Or being cucked by Lorena Hickok?

All I can see now is some sort of drone-encircled, twin-towered .50 cal with Trump branding and a bunch of pissed off guys dressed like Solid Snake doomscrolling social media 250 feet above the ground. If for no other reason than Trump’s own Truth Social post, this abomination should never be constructed. But if we’re going to get blighted by the blightiest of self-declared urbanites, we may as well make it something everyone in the world will instinctively want to destroy.

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In a nutshell: AMD has become only the fourth US chipmaker to reach a $1 trillion valuation, following in the footsteps of Broadcom, Micron, and Nvidia. AMD’s stock entered 2026 at a price of $223.47 and would dip below the $200 mark a few times before climbing in April. As of writing, shares are trading at $607.24 – a healthy return for anyone that bought in early this year.

Nvidia eclipsed the $1 trillion valuation mark in May 2023, and has not looked back since. The company has continued to tack on value driven largely by the AI boom. Currently, the chipmaker has an incredible market cap of roughly $5.48 trillion, making it the most valuable company in the world by a sizable margin.

Apple, for comparison, is worth around $4.94 trillion. Google ranks third with a market cap of $4.29 trillion. Microsoft, another major player in the tech space, is worth $3.69 trillion as of today.

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AMD is not the only chipmaker to start the week strong. Shares in Intel are trading up more than 12% on the day, and Qualcomm’s stock is up nearly 8.3%. Broadcom is having a slower day, up just 1.22% as of this writing.

Intel, often considered AMD’s primary rival due to their long history in the CPU industry, is also having a stellar 2026. Share values are up 208% year to date, but the company’s market cap sits at just $643.5 billion – far behind AMD’s.

Last month, AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company expects to double data center sales in 2027. That was welcome news considering the stock’s dip in July and August.

Like others, AMD is benefiting from the ongoing AI boom. At some point, however, the demand for AI hardware will cool. Fortunately for AMD, the company has other divisions to lean on when the time comes. For others that are putting all of their eggs in the AI basket, the outcome could be far more catastrophic.

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“We have identified a single component issue affecting a small number of early batches,” Thomas says. “We have isolated those batches and are supporting affected customers.”

Thomas confirmed that Dyson would not answer questions on where—if anywhere—the Dyson CameraJet was still on sale worldwide. Nor would Dyson confirm when it stopped shipments of the product. Thomas also confirmed that Dyson refuses to detail what the faulty “single component” is, what problem it’s causing for the CameraJet, or how many units have been affected globally. Dyson also refused to comment on why it had not issued a formal recall of these faulty early batches of the $500 device.

Dyson Reddit forums have lit up, with names such as “ScameraJet” being bandied around, along with one disgruntled buyer commenting: “Bought two of these and both of them have stopped working. Since I bought it in the UK and wasn’t planning to return it and have thrown the packaging away, I can’t even return them. Disappointed that they scammed so good. Unbelievable that it lasted just two weeks.”

Kyle Wiens, CEO of the repair company iFixit, feels the problem may well be leaking.

“This sounds like a waterproofing issue. Making products at scale with the tolerances required to waterproof are hard,” he says. “My guess without getting a chance to look at a failed unit is that we either have a tolerance issue where some parts aren’t mating perfectly, or a failure in the adhesive curing process, either during manufacturing or in shipping.”

Wiens says this adhesive-curing failure can happen in such a way that a product can pass factory testing fine, but then heat or humidity (or both) during shipping causes a problem.

Adam Toner, founder and technical director of Ripcord Designs, a UK-based electronic design consultancy that has worked with multinational companies including Formula One Management and Panasonic, also thinks water is the CameraJet’s problem.

“On a product like this, there just should never be any water ingress into the internals,” he says. “I don’t have one in front of me, but I’ve seen a few videos and people explaining how you change the battery. Once you pull the battery off—which is where people say they’re seeing water—it looks like there is probably access from that battery compartment into all of the internals of the device.”

The CameraJet not charging, overheating, or failing to start—all of that can be explained by water getting into the device, Toner says. He suspects the problem could be as benign as a faulty gasket or O-ring.

If water getting in does turn out to be an issue for the CameraJet, as these experts suggest, this begs the obvious question: How on earth has Dyson managed to spend six years developing a teched-up toothbrush, designed to be dunked in water every use, and that carries liquid around in it, yet fail to make it waterproof?

Wiens believes the CameraJet chaos could force a well-overdue rethink for Dyson.

“Clearly they didn’t plan for this to happen,” he says. “They should take this opportunity to invest in repairability. Making products easier to fix also makes them easier to rework when manufacturing defects occur. Dyson is way behind the industry on making repair parts and information available for their products. This should be a wake-up call for them to step up.”

Nissan spent years selling e-POWER overseas before it finally landed on a U.S. compact SUV, and the 2027 Rogue Hybrid is the first American application of that third-generation series setup. Dual electric motors do all the driving. A turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine never turns the wheels. It only feeds a 1.67-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion pack and a generator so you refill at a regular pump and skip any charging cable. Combined output is 225 horsepower, with a 202-horse front motor and a 134-horse rear motor giving the crossover standard all-wheel drive and instant pull from a stop.

Drivers who have seen the prototypes claim the response is much closer to a Leaf than a normal hybrid. Without a transmission, acceleration is smooth and linear, and the engine may run quietly while the battery is fully charged. Nissan claims 40mpg in the city, 36mpg on the highway, and 38mpg combined in their internal testing for the mid-range SR, which puts it right in line with a Honda CR-V Hybrid and only a few miles per gallon behind a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid 4WD. With a 14-gallon tank and a towing capacity of 1,500 pounds, it sounds more like a family automobile than a work truck, which is unlikely to accomplish much heavy lifting.

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The cabin is far quieter than the old gas Rogue, and in some intense mountain driving, even quieter than a modern RAV4. Front headroom is 40.9 inches without a sunroof (which Nissan claims puts it ahead of the competition in the hybrid class), and front legroom is 41.5 inches. The rear doors swing back 90 degrees on their hinges, there are 5 LATCH hooks for a child seat in the middle, and cargo space is 31.1 cubic feet behind the second row or 65.9 if the seats are folded down. The old climate and volume controls remain on the dashboard rather than disappearing into a screen.

The standard gear already includes wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on a 12.3-inch touchscreen, as well as a world-first magnetic wireless phone charging. SR variants with the tech pack and up to the Platinum have a 14.3-inch display with Google and Gemini, and as if that wasn’t enough, the Platinum also gets a 10-speaker Bose system and a second wireless pad for charging another phone. Nissan’s e-Pedal keeps the SUV rolling gently into a stop with a single pedal, and the Smooth Stop technology ensures there’s no jerking forward in traffic as you come to a halt. The improved ProPILOT Assist now allows for automatic lane changes and hands-off assistance in slow traffic congestion.

The SV all-wheel-drive model starts at $35,490 before a $1,575 destination charge, for an all-in price of $37,065. There’s also the SV Premium package, a basic SR, an SR with the tech pack, and a Platinum model, all priced at $43,490 before destination. The well-equipped SR Technology package will be available for $41,490 in the fall of 2026, with the rest of the range following in early 2027. The first cars will be exported from Japan before moving to Smyrna, Tennessee in 2027, which could assist improve US manufacturing without the need to create a brand new plant.

The exterior design is more aggressive than the previous Rogue, with a narrower grille and lighting that wraps around the headlamps, as well as an optional full-width taillamp. The curb weight for the lightest SV model is 4,065 pounds, which is approximately 400 pounds more than the previous gas-powered AWD Rogue with an 183.1-inch body and a 106.5-inch wheelbase. Ground clearance ranges from 8.4 to 8.5 inches, depending on the trim level. There are eight color options available, five of which have a black roof, including a few new ones such as Horizon Blue Pearl Metallic.

Christian Meunier, chairman of Nissan Americas, called hybrids the powertrain more U.S. buyers now want and framed this launch as a way to pull in shoppers who had stopped looking at the brand. e-POWER has already moved nearly two million vehicles worldwide across three generations. American buyers now get the dual-motor version tuned for local speeds and roads, with a 148-horse generator engine that Nissan says reaches 42 percent thermal efficiency when it is making electricity rather than turning tires. If the quiet cabin and one-pedal manners hold up once EPA numbers and real winter testing arrive, Nissan finally has a compact hybrid that feels distinct from the RAV4 and CR-V crowd instead of arriving late to the same formula.

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that hackers are exploiting three Linux kernel vulnerabilities, one of them rated critical.

The three security issues were added separately last week and have severity ratings ranging from medium to critical. One of them, tracked as CVE-2025-39964, existed in the Linux kernel for 14 years.

CISA marked all three flaws with the highest priority for federal agencies, ordering them to apply available security updates and mitigations by the end of today.

The three vulnerabilities are:

• CVE-2025-39964: a race condition in the kernel’s AF_ALG cryptographic socket interface that allows concurrent writes to corrupt per-socket state and potentially crash systems or alter cryptographic results.
• CVE-2026-53266: an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s ebtables SNAT implementation that can cause an ARP address rewrite to modify shared file-backed memory without first making the affected packet range writable.
• CVE-2025-39682: a Linux kernel TLS receive-path logic flaw that mishandles zero-length records queued for later processing, potentially allowing different TLS record types to be processed together when kTLS is in use.

CISA says [1, 2] the vulnerabilities have been exploited in attacks but has not revealed any details about the incidents or the nature of the threat actors.

Offensive security company STAR Labs found CVE-2025-39964, saying that its researchers found the issue with no help from an AI system. They demonstrated the vulnerability by achieving privilege escalation and container escape in Google’s kernelCTF.

For CVE-2025-39682, there are public exploits available, as also confirmed by Red Hat in its security bulletin. Red Hat also confirmed a known exploit available for CVE-2026-53266.

Researcher Kimmo Suominen has published a technical analysis and patch-status tracker for CVE-2026-53266 on GitHub, outlining a potential privilege-escalation path involving modifications to file-backed memory.

However, the researcher notes that the proposed exploitation chain is inferred by analogy with Dirty Pipe and has not been demonstrated with public exploit code.

CISA has marked all three flaws as requiring “forensic triage.” This means that for every affected asset, federal agencies need to examine it for signs that exploitation already occurred.

Currently, none of the three flaws is flagged as exploited by ransomware groups.

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On Monday, OpenAI announced a new independent advisory group hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Called the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, the group is meant to give mathematicians more input into the company’s math-oriented research.

“This group will serve as a bridge to the mathematical community and broader public, giving mathematicians a voice in how we move forward,” the post reads.

The announcement comes after the abrupt publication of a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem. As part of the announcement of the new group, OpenAI also claims that the same internal model has resolved more than 100 additional open problems across most areas of mathematics.

Many prominent mathematicians have taken issue with the frenzied pace of those results. Earlier this month, 25 Fields Medal-winning mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work as they seek to one-up each other with solutions to famous math problems.

True to its name, OpenAI’s new group will mostly serve in an advisory capacity, assessing the significance of new results and coordinating their release. While members won’t be paid, they can offer unsolicited advice, go public with their views, and control their own membership, giving them a measure of independence from the company.

However, the group won’t be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI’s ongoing mathematical research. As the blog post puts it, “the group will not be responsible for advising us on how to pace our internal progress on mathematics.”

The Institute for Advanced Study emphasized this point in its own announcement. “Although we will give advice, we do not have decision making power at any AI company, and the responsibility for the decisions made by any company will rest with that company,” said the institute in a press release.

Nine prominent mathematicians have been named as initial members of the group. Notably, only one of the members — IAS’s Camillo De Lellis — also signed the Fields Medalists’ letter.