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Elon Musk's space company to build new rocket launching site in Louisiana

What is virtualization modernization? SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Why you should take a long-term approach to rethinking your virtualization portfolio

Under Secretary of War Emil Michael: DOW's Budget Request Necessary to Modernize Defense - 'Most of the Systems We Have Today Were Designed and Built for the Cold War'

Breitbart - 2 days ago

Instagram head Adam Mosseri testifies in defense of Meta in child safety trial

NPR - 2 days ago

AI AND ML -- Australia's record industry won't chart tunes recorded in the key of AI -- This is basically a riff on 'You wouldn't steal a car' and means only the human league can have a hit

A Chinese humanoid robot sets a new 100-meter sprint record at Beijing Games

Toronto Star - 2 days ago

Exclusive — Innovation Council Action's Taylor Budowich: Data Centers 'Should Be Feeding Our Communities,' Start 'Listening to What People are Saying

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Uber Is Letting Parents Keep an Eye on Their Teens Through a Driver's Phone Camera -- Bruce Gil

Gizmodo - 2 days ago

N.B. cybersecurity firm gets $16-million investment

Toronto Star - 2 days ago

Legal Experts Are Alarmed the SEC Isn't Investigating Trump-Linked Crypto Venture -- Kyle Torpey

Gizmodo - 2 days ago

You Probably Forget How Cheap Memory Used To Be – And Is Not So Now

Aussie capitals 'will be driverless within a decade', says robotaxi pioneer

Sydney Morning Herald - 2 days ago

Have we reached the AI singularity? -- Talking Point -- Tech bigwigs like Sam Altman and Elon Musk say yes. Not everyone agrees. -- Theara Coleman, The Week US

The Week - 2 days ago

Exclusive – Wynton Hall on Arrogance of Big Tech Elite: Locals Have Every Right to Question Data Centers

Breitbart - 2 days ago

Google's anti-nausea Motion Assist dots finally rolling out on Android

Ars Technica - 2 days ago

Exclusive – Wynton Hall: We Want to Beat China in AI 'Without Becoming China'

Breitbart - 2 days ago

AI AND ML -- Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds -- Privacy? Not if you use hosted AI services

Ken Paxton Unveils Plan to Prevent 'Negative Impact' of AI Data Centers on Texas

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Australia's teens flock back to TikTok despite world-first social media ban

Los Angeles Times - 2 days ago

Bitcoin Tops $80,000 as the Treasury Secretary Weakens the Dollar -- Bruce Gil

Gizmodo - 2 days ago

Porsche Signs $1.5 Billion AI Deal with Indian Tech Giant Tata

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Watch Live – AI Is Here: What to Fear, What to Embrace

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A Chinese humanoid robot sets a new 100-meter sprint record at Beijing Games

ABC News - 2 days ago

SECURITY -- If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will -- Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst

A Look at How the Trump-Era EPA Is Working to Bring Down Energy Prices

Breitbart - 2 days ago

Leonard Morpurgo, Veteran Hollywood Publicist, Dies at 93

Hollywood Reporter - 2 days ago

4 Police Department Employees Arrested on Charges of Misusing Flock Camera System in Georgia

Breitbart - 2 days ago

122 Companies Are Quietly Sucking the West Dry, Study Finds

Gizmodo - 2 days ago

James Talarico Attacks Ken Paxton over Data Center Ties Despite the Democrat Receiving $11M in Big Tech Donations

Breitbart - 2 days ago

AI AND ML -- Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg -- Darkbloom distributed inference network promises to put underutilized Apple kit to work

Pezeshkian pledges full support for solar panel producers

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Apple readies new Mac mini as it gears up for foldable iPhone and a wave of gadgets

Los Angeles Times - 2 days ago

Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago -- So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks, and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it

OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast -- 128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin

North Sea Oil and Gas: Climate Damage will wipe out economic gains, study warns

International The News - 3 days ago

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Toronto Star - 3 days ago

A jungle grows in the Arctic, but warming is changing Earth's mini-greenhouse

ABC News - 3 days ago

Australia's music industry bans AI-generated tracks from official charts

Toronto Star - 3 days ago

CISO 3.0: Governing AI Agents at Machine Speed -- Join Snyk and AWS on 14 September to see what it takes to govern an agentic AI landscape at machine speed.

From flames to haze, wildfire smoke transforms as it travels, and it can harm your health in different ways -- Michael A. Robinson, University of Colorado Boulder

The Conversation - 3 days ago

OS PLatforms -- Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today -- The version that started to bring all Microsoft's pieces together

Gen Z's Analog Summer Filled With Throwback Tech and Hobbies

NBC News - 3 days ago

The Future Is Here: Air Taxis Unveiled in Downtown Los Angeles

NBC News - 3 days ago

Over a third of webpages created after ChatGPT's debut show signs of AI writing, study finds

New York Post - 3 days ago

Robotics -- The humanoid robot 'Olympics' is as ridiculous as it is impressive

Scientific American - 3 days ago

NASA's new telescope set to uncover mysteries of dark energy, dark matter and exoplanets

International The News - 3 days ago

Logging In Was Never Supposed to Be This Complicated

The Atlantic - 3 days ago

The County Prosecutors Who Became ICE Informants

Wired News - 3 days ago

Australia's music industry bans AI-generated tracks from official charts

The Globe and Mail - 3 days ago

Start-up cracks clogging challenge in coffee vending machines to serve kopi 24/7

The Straits Times - 3 days ago

Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck

Young people looking to 'AI-proof' trade jobs while employers want human skills

Evening Standard - 3 days ago

Keep It Real: AI-Generated Songs Banned from Australian Music Charts

Breitbart - 3 days ago

This Russian cartoon is a global hit. Ukraine calls it a national security threat.

NBC News - 3 days ago

What to know about the big 'Grand Theft Auto' leaks

Los Angeles Times - 3 days ago

AI AND ML -- Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks -- Or: Shock as users of world's largest slop repository report lots of slop

OS PLATFORMS -- Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot -- The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one... or does he?

US state of Alabama probes OpenAI over Hugging Face breach

Daily Sabah - 3 days ago

Freeview TVs are getting a channel upgrade that Sky won't currently match

Daily Express - 3 days ago

PATCHES -- Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia's Zoom) if you're using it -- Ukrainian hacktivists exploiting the bugs, but TrueConf's reach stretches well beyond home turf

ON-PREM -- US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years -- ... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping

All Android users must follow new advice as dangerous text threat confirmed

Daily Express - 3 days ago

SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year -- And fly 'significant scale' in 2028 – a claim that isn't entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt

Scientists discover new mechanism behind blood clot formation

Peninsula Qatar - 3 days ago

Amazon's steering wheel-free robotaxi expands to more cities

NBC News - 3 days ago

IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently -- Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere

Card skimming scam is stealing food benefits nationwide

New York Post - 3 days ago

Data centers become 'killer application' for new power transformer tech

Ars Technica - 3 days ago

SickKids children's hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in -- Toronto org says it wasn't the only one to be affected by the third-party software vulnerability

Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials -- Malicious updates turned routine builds into a delivery system for infostealer malware

Tesla Finally Sets a Launch Date for the Cybercab -- Bruce Gil

Gizmodo - 3 days ago

Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.

Ars Technica - 3 days ago

Taiwan charges 9 over illegal AI server exports to China, including Nvidia and Super Micro staff

Toronto Star - 3 days ago

Robots top human records at China's humanoid games -- speed read -- Usain Bolt's world record was beaten by a Chinese humanoid -- Peter Weber, The Week US

The Week - 3 days ago

Sunken WWI and WWII Ships and Subs Are Leaking TNT Pollution Into the Ocean

Gizmodo - 3 days ago

Why Data Lineage Is Becoming a Strategic Imperative for Enterprise Resilience

International Business Times - 3 days ago

Moroccans are wary of France's new anti-telemarketing law -- Under the Radar -- Some are concerned the law could affect Morocco's job market -- Justin Klawans, The Week US

The Week - 3 days ago

What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble -- Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators

YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs -- Dr. Semiconductor's latest project lights the path toward what he tells us he hopes becomes a cottage chip industry

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley Calls for 'Compromise' Between Safety and Privacy

Breitbart - 3 days ago

$10K phishing kit claims it can plant rogue passkeys for persistent access to pwned accounts -- Seller's demos show a browser-in-the-middle attack adding credentials seconds after authentication

Logitech hit by sueball over tariff refunds -- Complaint: Peripheral maker did not want to unplug itself from higher prices and hand back cash to customers

AI Data Centers in Suburban Chicago Enjoy Massive Tax Breaks, Shifting Burden to Homeowners

Breitbart - 3 days ago

AI-driven upgrade of communications energy storage empowers a new energy ecosystem for multiple industries - SPONSORED FEATURE: Embedding AI at communication sites to empower energy optimization, power grid stability control and low-carbon development

I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime... or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg -- Original author of legendary 1996 system utility tries to answer the question: 'How would I do it today?'

Family entertainment company WildBrain acquires Personality AI

Toronto Star - 3 days ago

AI Privacy Nightmare: Apple Welcomes ChatGPT into iMessage to Read and Write Text Messages

Breitbart - 3 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Casio decides it's about time the simple digital watch got a little smarter -- F-B100W adds Bluetooth and step tracking while keeping a two-year battery

TikTok reaches $400 million settlement with US Justice Department over children's privacy

One America News Network - 3 days ago

How to Watch Israeli TV Live Abroad in 2026

Gizmodo - 3 days ago

Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain -- Cloud giant allows customers to get more from Oracle hardware, but will try to gain more workloads on the side

TikTok reaches $400 million settlement with Justice Department over children's privacy

NBC News - 3 days ago

ai and ML -- AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing -- Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity

CYBER-CRIME -- Microsoft sounds alarm over perfect-10 Entra ID flaw -- Redmond says the cloud identity bug is already fixed

Modulus: Factory Automation -- Happy Volcano - Kwalee

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings

Phone Safety Settings Guide: What to Turn On vs. Keep Off

NBC News - 4 days ago

Ukraine Planned to Swarm Moscow Airports With AI-Guided Drones

The Atlantic - 4 days ago

Should Pluto be a planet again? Astronomers revisit its demotion

International The News - 4 days ago

More protein in your breakfast or snacks won't give you more muscle without more work – a biologist separates the science from the marketing -- Linda M. Boland, University of Richmond

The Conversation - 4 days ago

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