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The U.K. electricity grid "was built to deliver power generated by coal and gas plants near the country's major cities and towns," reports the BBC, "and doesn't always have sufficient capacity in the wires that carry electricity around the country to get the new renewable electricity generated way out in the wild seas and rural areas.
"And this has major consequences."
The way the system currently works means a company like Ocean Winds gets what are effectively compensation payments if the system can't t
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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The classic image of a bottle of champagne being smashed against a ship before its maiden voyage has a long history. Here's where it all started. Read more ›
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My husband and I spent all the money our wedding guests gave us on our dream honeymoon to Daydream Island. We'd make the same choice all over again. Read more ›
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Some U.S. cities are more prone to car crashes than others. In one 2025 report by Allstate, one city outshone the rest in terms of riskiness. Read more ›
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In this Saturday edition of Business Insider Today, we're talking about how to prepare for Burning Man. Read more ›
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The Chevrolet Corvette is the undisputed champion of everyman performance, but a slew of other vehicles arrived packing a 'Vette engine under the hood. Read more ›
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Plus: Google wants billions of Chrome users to install an emergency fix, Kristi Noem is on the move, and North Korean IT workers are everywhere. Read more ›
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The language-learning app recently added a feature that teaches you how to play chess. I tried it, and now I’m hooked on those rooks, knights, and pawns. Read more ›
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Bender & Crane's Morgan Mazor frequently works with Gen Z clients seeking prenups. She said they're more likely to discuss finances face-to-face. Read more ›
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Nvidia and AMD hardware are both being used with Cadence tools to create the fastest GPUs yet. Read more ›
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Judy Koutsky's mom got dementia around when Koutsky had her first son. She never got to ask her mom about parenting so she gets help from strangers. Read more ›
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Four Seasons runs around-the-world trips on its private jet that can cost over $240,000. The onboard chef can cater custom requests. Read more ›
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A single searchable database of all Americans' sensitive information is the goal of the president and Palantir – and the dream of authoritarians. Read more ›
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After operating at a loss last year, ticket revenue and donations are looking better for the organization behind the annual music and art festival. Read more ›
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Halloween is on at Disneyland, as the park preps for an expansion next year while celebrating its 70th anniversary. Plus, everything to know about Disney World's new rides, lands, shows and lounges. Read more ›
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If you're in a pinch and considering cranking your car with the battery from one of your power tools, don't. It's actually an incredibly dangerous prospect. Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn't alone in thinking that investors are overhyping AI. Read more ›
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California scientists have potentially created a non-invasive method of reshaping the cornea. Read more ›
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CarPlay will look and feel very different when you plug your iPhone into your car later this year. Here are the biggest upgrades from iOS 26. Read more ›
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Slashdot reader darwinmac writes: Volkswagen is offering a subscription model for extra horsepower on its ID.3 electric cars. Want to bump your ride from the standard 201 bhp to the full 228 bhp? That will be about £16.50 per month or £165 per year, or a one-time £649 "lifetime" fee that is tied to the car, not you. If you sell it, you have to pay again. VW defended this... Read more ›
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A 22-year-old Oregon man has been charged with operating one of the most powerful botnets ever recorded. The network, known as Rapper Bot, launched over 370,000 DDoS attacks worldwide, including against X, DeepSeek, U.S. tech firms, and even Defense Department systems. It was allegedly operated by Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon. The Wall Street Journal reports: Foltz faces a maximum of 10 years in prison on a charge of abetting... Read more ›
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Matt Garman, Amazon's cloud boss, has a warning for business leaders rushing to swap workers for AI: Don't ditch your junior employees. From a report: The Amazon Web Services CEO said on an episode of the "Matthew Berman" podcast published Tuesday that replacing entry-level staff with AI tools is "one of the dumbest things I've ever heard." "They're probably the least expensive employees you have. They're the most leaned into... Read more ›
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A real estate developer searched Google for a cruise ship company's customer service number, reports the Washington Post, calling the number in Google's AI Overview. "He chatted with a knowledgeable representative and provided his credit card details," the Post's reporter notes — but the next day he "saw fishy credit card charges and realized that he'd been fooled by an impostor for Royal Caribbean customer service." And the Post's reporter... Read more ›
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Microsoft is testing a COPILOT function in Excel that uses OpenAI's gpt-4.1-mini model to automatically fill spreadsheet cells through natural language prompts. The function can classify feedback, generate summaries, and create tables based on specified cell ranges. Microsoft warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or scenarios involving legal, regulatory, and compliance implications because COPILOT "can give incorrect responses." The feature processes up to 100 functions every 10... Read more ›
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Sony will increase PlayStation 5 console prices by $50 across all models in the United States starting August 21. The standard PS5 rises to $550, the Digital Edition to $500, and the PS5 Pro to $750. The company cited navigating a challenging economic environment for the increases. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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"Phishing training for employees as currently practiced is essentially useless," writes SC World, citing the presentation of two researchers at the Black Hat security conference: In a scientific study involving thousands of test subjects, eight months and four different kinds of phishing training, the average improvement rate of falling for phishing scams was a whopping 1.7%. "Is all of this focus on training worth the outcome?" asked researcher Ariana Mirian,... Read more ›
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ChatGPT now has nearly 700 million weekly users, OpenAI says. But after launching GPT-5 last week, critics bashed its less-intuitive feel, reports CNBC, "ultimately leading the company to restore its legacy GPT-4 to paying chatbot customers." Yet GPT-5 was always about cracking the enterprise market "where rival Anthropic has enjoyed a head start," they write. And one week in, "startups like Cursor, Vercel, and Factory say they've already made GPT-5... Read more ›
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Intel and SoftBank announced on Monday that the Japanese conglomerate will make a $2 billion investment the embattled chipmaker. SoftBank will pay $23 per share for Intel's common stock. The investment is a vote of confidence in Intel, which has not been able to take advantage of the AI boom in advanced semiconductors and has spent heavily to stand up a manufacturing business that has yet to secure a significant... Read more ›
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A complete shutdown of encrypted web traffic isolated China from the global internet for 74 minutes Wednesday morning, blocking citizens from accessing foreign websites and disrupting international business operations that depend on secure connections to offshore servers. The Great Firewall began injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to terminate all connections on port 443 at 00:34 Beijing time on August 20, according to activist group Great Firewall Report. The standard HTTPS... Read more ›
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