EVA Tech BriefIT/DevOps

2026-05-31 - 7:30 PM PKT

Frontier LLMs

Tesla's Own AI Trainers Won't Ride in Their Self-Driving Cars

Reuters interviewed nine former Tesla data labelers who trained FSD. Seven said they would not ride in a Tesla operating on Full Self-Driving. One said they wouldn't ride in a robotaxi 'if you paid me.' The people who labeled the training data have zero confidence in the output.

SoftBank Betting €75 Billion on AI Data Centres in France

Masayoshi Son's biggest European bet ever - 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in France. Announced at the Choose France Summit with Macron. For context, Utah just pushed back on a 9GW project from Kevin O'Leary due to community outrage.

GPUs and Silicon

Cloud and Infra

Pakistan Tech

Pakistan Finalizes Second National E-Commerce Policy

Government finalized the draft of its second national e-commerce policy to accelerate digital economy growth. Aims to expand online trade infrastructure, strengthen consumer protection, and bring more businesses into the formal digital economy.

Eidul Azha's Rs1,350M Cattle Trade: Cash Still King Despite Digital Push

Despite SBP deploying mobile ATM vans and enabling online payment at cattle markets, the overwhelming majority of transactions in the Rs1,350 million Eidul Azha trade were still cash. The cashless dream remains exactly that.

Security

1.5 Million Pakistani HEC Records Exposed in Massive Data Breach

A threat actor listed a dataset on a cybercrime forum claiming it comes directly from Pakistan's Higher Education Commission centralized database. Over 1.5 million citizens' sensitive personal records exposed. This is the same HEC whose digital attestation system was already failing.

Dutch Police Dismantle 17-Million-Device Botnet

Dutch authorities took down a botnet of at least 17 million infected devices - computers, phones, tablets, IoT. Over 200 servers located in the Netherlands served as command infrastructure. One of the largest botnet takedowns in history.

WordPress WP Maps Pro Plugin Exploited for Admin Account Creation

Active exploitation in the wild. Attackers creating rogue administrator accounts on WordPress sites running vulnerable WP Maps Pro versions - no authentication required. If you run WordPress, check your plugins now.

Dev Tools

DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 18% After Google Killed Blue Links

US app installs jumped 18% week-over-week between May 20-25. On Apple devices, the spike hit 70% single-day peak. Memorial Day Monday was the highest. Came days after Google announced its AI search overhaul replacing traditional results.

DuckDB Ships Quack Protocol - Client/Server Over HTTP

DuckDB's new remote protocol lets multiple instances connect to the same database over a network. Introduces client-server capabilities to what was previously an embedded-only database. Changes the game for analytics teams sharing data.