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Modal Labs is closing in on a staggering seven hundred fifty million dollar funding round that would value the AI infrastructure company at fifteen point seven five billion dollars. That is more than triple its valuation from just four months ago, a signal of just how aggressively capital is chasing the AI inference market right now.
Shifting to security, a team led by UC San Diego researchers pulled off a genuinely unsettling feat: they impersonated a hardware security module without ever extracting its private key. The attack exploited RSA vulnerabilities to fool the device entirely, raising serious questions about how much trust we can place in the hardware vaults protecting our most sensitive cryptographic operations.
And over in the maker community, Raspberry Pi users are running into a quiet but deliberate wall. Since at least September two thousand twenty four, the Pi five firmware has refused to recognize RAM swaps, something a company engineer confirmed as intentional in June two thousand twenty six. The reasoning is anti-bootlegging, but for repair-minded users, it stings like a lock placed on something you thought you owned.
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