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Utilities across the U.S. are demanding tech companies pay larger shares of electricity infrastructure costs as AI drives unprecedented data center construction, creating tensions over who bears the financial burden of grid upgrades.
Virginia utility Dominion Energy received requests from data center developers requiring 40 gigawatts of electricity by the end of 2024, enough to power at least 10 million homes, and proposed measures requiring longer-term contracts and guaranteed payments. Ohio became one o
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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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SpaceX is acquiring Cursor, the world’s fastest-growing software startup, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal, making a bold move beyond rockets, satellites, and AI models. According to a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on ... Read more ›
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Ornn, a startup that tracks the cost of computing power for artificial intelligence, has launched a service to track the price of tokens produced by the leading AI labs. The new benchmark comes as AI firms’ customers and financial backers search for better ways to track major AI costs. The Ornn ... Read more ›
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Most mechanical keyboards are great these days, with colorful looks and satisfying typing sounds - even in budget-friendly ranges. But every so often, one stops me dead in my tracks. In this case, two of them. I've been testing a pair of jaw-droppingly lovely keyboards that launched late last year. The Evoworks Evo75, a compact […] Read more ›
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Is the cat dead or alive? Either way, the cat is certainly weird, as a new study demonstrates. Read more ›
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Многие свежие SOTA-статьи по детекции аномалий во временных рядах заявляют F1 ≈ 99%. Мы проверили один из таких методов, и оказалось, что волшебство исчезает, если убрать из расчета протокол Point Adjustment. На датасете SMD разрыв между «бумажным» F1 и честным составил 47 процентных пунктов.В статье мы разбираем, как именно метрики искажаются, и представляем результаты нашего масштабного бенчмаркинга: 14 моделей (от LSTM-VAE до графовых сетей и нормализующих потоков), 7 датасетов, включая... Read more ›
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I went on a bucket-list trip with my 85-year-old dad to Katmai National Park in remote Alaska. He showed me that curiosity doesn't have an age limit. Read more ›
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Steam Next Fest is back on the PC's largest gaming store, offering a vast selection of demos for upcoming games. And many of these, it turns out, have generative AI disclosures present. Read more Read more ›
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HPE is offering Morpheus VM Essentials free for the first year, with a $1 migration add-on, to get customers away from VMware. Read more ›
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The global AI race just entered a new phase, and one of China’s most closely watched startups is making its biggest move yet. DeepSeek has raised more than 50 billion yuan, or about $7.4 billion, at a valuation exceeding $50 ... Read more ›
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SpaceX announced it agreed to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion on Tuesday. The announcement came only a few days after SpaceX went public at a valuation of about $1.77 trillion. Since the IPO, SpaceX stock has risen 42% to close on Monday at $193.50, valuing it at $2.5 trillion. The ... Read more ›
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Собеседование чаще показывает, как кандидат умеет говорить о себе, а не как он поведет себя в реальной роли. Поэтому психологический отбор кандидатов перестает быть экзотикой и становится способом снизить цену кадровой ошибки. Читать далее Read more ›
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has given Apple, Google, and other tech firms until September to introduce device-level protections that prevent children from taking, sharing, or viewing explicit images. "If businesses do not comply within three months, legislation will be brought forward requiring the protection to be added to all phones and tablets sold in the UK," reports The Guardian. "Tech firms that fail to do so could face fines,... Read more ›
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NHS England plans to roll out Microsoft Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff after a 30,000-person pilot claimed the AI assistant saved users an average of 43 minutes a day on administrative work. The Register reports: The rollout won't happen overnight. NHS England said that each trust will receive a central allocation of licenses based on headcount, typically starting with around 2,000 Copilot seats, and that more than half... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Microsoft has shut down a wave of its own repositories on GitHub, including those related to Azure and AI coding agents, as it investigates a data breach, according to research from cybersecurity researchers and a statement given to 404 Media by Microsoft. Hackers planted malware that would harvest peoples' credentials when they opened it in AI coding tools like Claude Code... Read more ›
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Meta says it will expand how it uses off-platform activity shared by other businesses to personalize Facebook and Instagram feeds as well as AI responses, not just ads. The change starts in July and can be disabled through the "Activity from other businesses" setting, though Meta says it is not collecting new data as part of the update. The Verge reports: For example, Meta says if you bought a tent... Read more ›
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The European Commission says Apple's decision not to launch Siri AI in the EU is Apple's alone, arguing that the company sought an exemption from Digital Markets Act interoperability rules instead of building a compliant privacy- and security-preserving solution. Apple, meanwhile, says regulators rejected its proposals and claims the DMA would require giving third-party AI systems overly broad access to users' devices. MacRumors reports: Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told reporters... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that's able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don't often see: a single errant character inside the kernel. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23111, is located in nf_tables, a subsystem of the Linux kernel that provides packet filtering capabilities. It's used to manage firewall rules and replaces older subsystems... Read more ›
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Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class AI model for enterprise customers and paid subscribers. The company says broader access is possible thanks to new safeguards that block high-risk requests in areas like cybersecurity and biology. "For us, it's really around what we call 'race to the top,' being able to provide this technology in a valuable fashion, and at the same time providing the right safety guardrails so... Read more ›
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The European Commission has ordered Meta to temporarily restore free WhatsApp Business API access for rival AI chatbots while it investigates whether Meta's ban on third-party assistants abuses its dominant position. Meta says it will appeal, calling the move "regulatory overreach" that would let major AI companies use a paid WhatsApp product for free. The BBC reports: The EU said it began its investigation, in December 2025, after Meta banned... Read more ›
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The Pentagon has added Alibaba, BYD, Baidu, Unitree, and other Chinese companies to its list of firms it says support China's military, barring them from U.S. defense contracts. The companies and China's embassy deny the allegations. The Associated Press reports: Created in 2021 by a congressional mandate, the list (PDF) seeks to identify Chinese companies that the Pentagon considers to have links to the Chinese military -- not only those... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phones -- a phone not explicitly linked to your identity at the point of purchase -- which would impact privacy-conscious people, to domestic abuse survivors, to journalists, and many more. The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country's telecoms... Read more ›
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