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The state of Ohio — one of America's hot regions for data center construction — "is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states," reports the Associated Press.
The move "comes as tax breaks for energy-hungry AI data centers are increasingly playing a role in state budgets," the article points out. But they also note the expanding data center industry "is under pressure to pay the full costs"
The size of Ohio's tax break skyrocketed, dwarfing previous projections, as
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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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You can try 570 extinct operating systems at a new "virtual museum," according to a new article by ZDNet. Their reporter downloaded the ancient OS NeXTStep, and was "shocked" by how easy it was to run it, "and by the sheer number of operating systems to choose from." Essentially, what you do is download a zipped file, unzip it, change into the newly created directory, and run the executable. VirtualBox... Read more ›
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Scientists at Scripps Research have uncovered a molecular “switch” that appears to fuel the damaging brain inflammation seen in Alzheimer’s disease. They found that a protein called STING becomes chemically altered in a way that keeps the brain’s immune system stuck in overdrive, harming the connections between nerve cells. Read more ›
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13 new deals and $791M+ invested into NYC startups for the week to close out the month of May. NYC Tech News for the week ending 5/30/26 featuring news for Modal Labs, OpenRouter, Garner Health, and much, much more. Read more ›
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The backlash to Ferrari's new EV, the Luce, has been good for one collector, stirring fan passion and driving up the value of classic Ferraris. Read more ›
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Melanoma may not become steadily more dangerous with age as scientists once assumed. In a surprising discovery, researchers found that cancer spread was lowest in young mice, surged in middle-aged mice, and then dropped again in very old mice. The key appears to be a special type of immune cell that helps keep cancer dormant and prevents it from spreading. Read more ›
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Watch free streams from the IIHF World Championship 2026 Final as Switzerland face Finland – ice hockey TV channels, broadcasters. Read more ›
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Android has a lot of icons, not all of which have obvious meanings. That applies to this particular "N" icon, too. Here's what it indicates. Read more ›
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Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that chimpanzees and bonobos form close inner circles along with wider networks of weaker social connections. Chimpanzees focus on a few trusted partners and become more selective with age, while bonobos maintain a more egalitarian social style. Read more ›
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В этом выпуске продолжаем исследовать новинки I/O 2026 и переводить пользователей, прекращаем использовать .onAppear и лезем Gradle под капот, делаем приватность частью архитектуры, создаем систему привлечения пользователей, поднимаем Llama 3 в облаке и многое другое. Заходите! Читать далее Read more ›
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Newegg's ABS Cyclone Aqua prebuilt combines Intel's 20-core Core i7-14700F with Nvidia's RTX 5060, and 32GB of DDR5 memory for less than the cost of building a comparable system Read more ›
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AI researchers may have the hottest job in tech, but forward-deployed engineers who put the AI to good use are becoming indispensable too. The military-inspired job title, which Palantir began using in the context of business software more than a decade ago, has spread to all corners of the industry. Last week, for instance, Meta formed a new organization involving FDEs that aims to get more advertisers to also use... Read more ›
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The brokerage giant says the future of investing won’t be defined by asset access alone but by the quality of tools investors get. Read more ›
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My eyes have seen the PC gaming promised land, and it's a beautifully bright world without a shred of blurriness. It's warm, it looks lovely, and it's impeccably sharp. Also, it's expensive as hell. I've dipped my toe in this world by testing a pre-production version of the upcoming Asus ROG Strix Scar 18, which […] Read more ›
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Если вы работаете в большой компании и одновременно живёте там, где есть какие-то региональные ограничения на сервисы, у вас почти наверняка две VPN-конфигурации:рабочая — для доступа к внутренним ресурсам (GitLab, Jira, Confluence и т.д.)личная — для личных целейИ постоянное переключение между ними — это, мягко говоря, неудобно. Читать далее Read more ›
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SoftBank carries over $130 billion in debt and took a $40 billion bridge loan in March to fund its latest OpenAI investment. Read more ›
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Когда собственник бизнеса в Москве сталкивается с невозможностью исполнять обязательства, перед ним возникает не просто юридическая задача, а система взаимосвязанных решений. Ошибка на любом этапе — от оценки необходимости процедуры до выбора арбитражного управляющего — меняет траекторию всего процесса. Разбираем, как работает механизм банкротства юридического лица в столичной практике, и почему формальное следование шагам без понимания причинно-следственных связей ведёт к потере активов и субсидиарной отве Read more ›
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Honda's lineup looks like it'll be without a pickup truck for a few years, as reports suggest it's temporarily halting production of this popular offering. Read more ›
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Как компания, чьи чипы изначально предназначались для отрисовки полигонов в видеоиграх, стала главным бенефициаром ИИ-революции и пробила потолок капитализации в $5 трлн? Это не просто история удачного стечения обстоятельств или криптобума. В этой статье мы разберем инженерную анатомию монополии NVIDIA: от едва не обанкротивших стартап «квадратных» полигонов в чипе NV1 до многомиллиардной ставки на платформу CUDA, которая превратилась в самый надежный вендор-лок современной индустрии. Читать далее Read more ›
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Last month saw a world first, reports Electrek. Wind and solar generated more power globally than gas: According to new analysis from independent energy think tank Ember, wind and solar produced 22% of the world's electricity in April 2026, compared to 20% from gas. Together, the two renewable sources generated a record 531 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity during the month, 54 TWh more than gas plants generated globally, at 477... Read more ›
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Apple just registered a new subdomain record: genai.apple.com. The domain was spotted by a MacRumors contributing researcher, and though it doesn't yet lead to a live web page, they believe it's tied to Apple's annual developers conference WWDC which starts June 8, "where the company has promised to announce 'AI advancements' across its software platforms." The blog 9to5Mac speculates that "All signs point to WWDC 2026 being Apple's major AI... Read more ›
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It's "the first time in seven years that a new Star Wars film has launched on the big screen," writes CNBC . And Variety notes it's expected to earn $102 million through Monday. [B]ox office analysts are mixed on the results. On one hand, it's significant for any film to debut above $100 million in post-pandemic times. On the other, "Star Wars" is one of Hollywood's preeminent film properties, so... Read more ›
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The Web Serial API lets websites write to (and read from) serial devices using JavaScript, including USB and Bluetooth devices with virtual serial ports. And this week's Firefox 151 release introduced support for the Web Serial API on desktop. "Most folks won't use this API," acknowledges Mozilla's blog, "but for our community of builders and tinkerers, it unlocks the ability to use Firefox to communicate directly with compatible hardware devices... Read more ›
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"Canonical says Ubuntu Pastebin will be decommissioned at the end of May 2026," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "as part of an infrastructure modernization effort." The announcement only appeared this week, giving the Linux community barely any warning before a service that has been tied to Ubuntu support culture for years suddenly disappears. Ubuntu Pastebin has long been used for sharing logs, crash reports, config files, and terminal output across IRC,... Read more ›
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Phoronix reports on a presentation about trying FreeBSD on modern Framework laptop from last week's Open Source Summit hosted by the Linux Foundation: With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops... With the Framework Laptop,... Read more ›
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AI "crashed the party" at this year's Cannes Film Festival, writes The Hollywood Reporter. The festival exposed "the fault lines reshaping cinema," their article argues, including how "AI is here — and the industry has stopped pretending otherwise." A humanoid robot spotted marching up and down the Croisette seemed to sum up the worst AI fears of the film industry — the machines have arrived and they are taking your... Read more ›
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Thursday California's governor issued an executive order "directing state agencies to prepare workers and businesses for AI-driven workforce disruption," reports San Francisco's KQED. In a statement the governor said "This moment demands that we reimagine the entire system — how we work, how we govern, how we prepare people for the future." The order mandates agencies to explore a range of policy options, including severance standards, expanded unemployment insurance, job... Read more ›
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"Think Olympics on steroids. Literally," quips the BBC, describing Sunday's controversial Enhanced Games event in Las Vegas featuring dozens of athletes "using performance-enhancing drugs to try and break world records in track, weightlifting and swimming. Some $25m (£18.6m) in prize money is up for grabs — with cash prizes for winners... The drugs they use must be legal, and approved by the Federal Drug Administration. But substances like testosterone and... Read more ›
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Tech industry layoffs may be worse at large tech companies than the rest of the IT industry. The New York Times argues those layoffs have now shifted the culture at Big Tech companies, after interviewing more than two dozen of their workers. "Cooperation and collegiality are on the wane; chumminess between employees and managers has cooled as mutual suspicion pervades their relationships; and a throbbing economic anxiety infects almost every... Read more ›
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