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French lawmakers have approved an amendment proposing a 0.055-per-gigabyte tax on digital content delivered to internet subscribers in France. The measure could generate an estimated 10 billion annually, with companies including Google, Meta, Netflix and potentially TikTok among those affected. However, the proposal still faces further parliamentary scrutiny, while government officials have raised concerns about its implementation, measurement requirements and potential impact on smaller providers.

Fraudsters are using the identities of high school graduates who skipped college to apply for student loans and steal the excess proceeds that do not go to schools. They use AI to keep the charade going and make it seem like the fake student is actually going to class.

Pick up a bargain 3D printer, thanks to these big discounts on resin and filament 3DP models from big names like Creality, Elegoo, Prusa and more.

Mac users sharing their compute for AI inference are seeing declining revenues as token prices continue to drop, with Anthropic token falling 77% in under five months.

Intel is expanding chipmaking and advanced packaging capacity across the U.S., Ireland, and Malaysia to meet surging AI-driven demand for data center CPUs amid shrinking PC market and persistent supply constraints.

A developer has created a full Intel 486 PC system, using 100% pure-JavaScript, in a browser.

Anthropic's Opus 5.5 model blocking attempts at videogame recreation - users also claim their non-malicious generic reverse-engineering tasks are block

The team had to use Sonnet after Opus 5.5 outright refused to run the experiment, while Opus 5 warned that it could stop working in the midst of the operation.

TrashBench repurposes a trash AC radiator for his test bench to see how well it can cool a PC - RTX 3080 didn't run much above ambient temperature

Researchers from Curtin University in Australia have come up with a way to potentially track down seized 3D-printed guns to their source by identifying differences in material properties in various PLA products.

PsiQuantum's eight-port optical switch typically loses 1.2 dB, under a quarter of its light, where data centers allow up to 3 dB.

An investigation revealed that thousands of drives have been lost, with officials having no idea where they could be.

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop processors will be the first client product to use Intel's enhanced 18A-P node, CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed in the company's Q3 2026 earnings call.

The properties will supposedly house SpaceXSI staff while also giving a chance to those who don't want to live near the data center to sell their homes.

The Sierra Club, one of the oldest environmental preservation organizations in the U.S., has now put forth an estimate that by 2030, U.S. data center buildouts will be outputting as much carbon dioxide as the entirety of Mexico.

It costs just as much to buy an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 right now as the launch price for the RTX 5090, with prices now at least two times higher for this high spec GPU.

Sources say that Alice Huang, a senior executive at an Nvidia cloud partner who has close ties with Jensen Huang, is suspected of passing information to Beijing.

Nvidia's near $13 billion buyout of Hugging Face has come under scrutiny over concerns that it will impact competition in the AI space.

Tech whizz' internet-accessible Synology NAS gets bit by transomware attack - security updates 18 months out of date in a series of catastrophic errors

Over the past six months, CPUs have taken center stage as agentic AI workloads evolve. Here's our first attempt at trying to measure CPU performance when running agentic workloads.

You can save $1,250 on this Alienware Aurora gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti and 32GB of DDR5 RAM, now priced at just $2,599.99.

Fujifilm plans to increase the production of magnetic tape by as much as 5x as it works to meet a newfound demand for AI data center storage.

This Newegg AM5 combo deal is $234 off. Priced at only $1,069, you get a Ryzen7 9800X3D, X870E Aorus Elite Wifi7 board, 32GB of G.Skill DDR5-6000 RAM and a free MSI AIO cooler.

Anthropic's S-1 splits its $8.9 billion H1 compute bill: most went to R&D, with less than a third estimated to serve Claude customers.

A research administrator at the University of Kentucky was granted a Title VII exemption, allowing them to not use AI tools as it goes against their moral beliefs.

Dayton, MN's city council removed Flock cameras and canceled its contract in August, but Flock reinstalled cameras anyway, almost a month after the program's suspension.

Malaysian customs seized 30 servers containing more than $12 million worth of advanced AI chips at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, as authorities investigate a suspected smuggling network linked to multiple previous seizures.

PC manufacturing in China tends to be cheaper because of an established supply chain and workforce. Smaller Chinese suppliers are also winning orders by offering easier access to domestic chip manufacturers like CXMT.

Amazon has published new engineering guidelines warning developers and managers against tokenmaxxing,' arguing that AI usage metrics are deeply flawed' unless tied to long-term outcomes. The move follows similar spending concerns at Uber and Accenture.

50 U.S. marines are joining a NATO mission to help protect and monitor undersea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.

Solidigm, an American subsidiary of SK hynix, is in discussions about potentially investing $45 billion in a new flash chip factory that would be built in the United States.