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Bookstores in Europe receive massive online purchases for obscure titles that haven't seen interest in years. They fear that these orders were made by AI firms looking to find more data to train their LLMs.

Subco CEO Bevan Slattery said that the Australian Federal Police should determine what caused the shunt faults on two undersea cables, which happened in suspicious circumstances. They also noted that a vessel was passing over the area at the same time that the disruption happened.

The Greenlink Connector project, which will connect the grid of Ireland and Wales, had to reroute its path after Harry Potter fans complained that it would 'desecrate' the 'grave' of beloved character Dobby. The change of plans brought the undersea cable close to a few Bronze Age remains but allowed it to move forward without disturbing the free elf's "resting place."

Congressman John Moolenaar wants the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security to clarify whether Foundry Due Diligence Rule remains effective and continues to be enforced.

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Nvidia to arrange financing from major financial institutions at attractive rates for customers seeking to build AI data centers.

Japanese authorities have taken a big step in cracking down on piracy by arresting an initial-seeder at popular anime torrenting website Nyaa.

The campaign to recruit video gamers into Air Traffic Control jobs has been a resounding success, according to U.S. Department of Transport head Secretary Sean P. Duffy.

The custom machine uses an ESP32-C3, OLED display, and 16-key keypad while squeezing retro gaming into a tiny 150mW power budget.

After recent news of price hikes on RTX 50-series GPUs in other regions, those same increases now appear to have come Stateside, as Newegg prices for some Blackwell cards have spiked as much as 39% compared to June 2026.

Nvidia is reportedly testing at least three Rubin Ultra configurations that pack as little as 192 GB of memory, as opposed to the 1 TB of HBM4E originally announced.

A rogue OpenClaw tasked with booking a gym class for its user hacked into the system and removed another participant.

New AI data center development bans jumped to over 500 in July, according to recent analysis, with political and public pressure growing.

As hyperscalers increase their long-term purchase commitments, the high-tech industry faces a tectonic shift as CSPs overwhelm consumer electronics companies.

Swapping the executable of a game with a modified file will fool Steam into thinking it's opening that game when it's really just giving you unrestricted desktop access. This is against GeForce NOW's terms of service, though, so you run the risk of getting banned.

Steam hardware customers in Europe should 'expect fake messages' said Valve in an email bulletin, after a distributor's security was breached.

The public pushback against data center construction projects is only growing stronger, even as some protesting local residents have been arrested in the process.

Have you ever wanted a pocket gimbal camera and a selfie drone that follows your around autonomously in one device? That's what the HoverAir Versa offers with a transforming, two-in-one body that can make filming yourself from all sorts of angles as convenient as possible.

K3 Scout surveillance drones used by the UK's Royal Navy contain components that have been secretly transmitting data to China, according to reports.

MSN Weather acts as the native weather app for Windows 11 and all it does it run a bunch of Chromium subprocesses in the background to retrieve the forecast data. This causes it to use 5x more memory than the macOS weather app. And, oh, you also get to enjoy ads!

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A farmer in China followed an AI app's advice for his 25-acre farmland, resulting in the death of his entire crop of sesame seedlings. 67-year-old man was initially skeptical of the tool but eventually trusted it after months of using it.

Europe has finalized plans for its 15.6 billion IRIS^2 satellite network, expanding it to 348 satellites with first launches scheduled for 2029.

Users are asking why some measurements on Noctua's compatibility page are different from manufacturer spec sheets.

Elon Musk's Terafab will have at least 100 million sq. ft of interior space, making it the largest such structure on Earth by a big margin. It seems that it will need this amount of space, though, for Musk's ambitious plan of bringing multiple semiconductor manufacturing processes under one roof.

The 20-core SKU of the RTX Spark that we've known to exist for a long time scored 2,570 points in the single-core test and 23,126 points in the multi-core test. The second, 18-core cut-down SKU scored 2,541 points in the single-core test while its multi-core was 21,776 points.

The FCC is proposing a retroactive sales ban on previously approved foreign-made drones with LiDAR and other military-grade" features, potentially removing several popular DJI models from U.S. stores.

Amazon is reportedly building a 7.65GW natural gas power plant in Texas to feed a new AI data center, with permits allowing up to 33 million tons of CO emissions per year.

Emporia, Kansas, switched to virtual city council meetings after death threats intensified against city leaders. The move also canceled public comments, prompting some members of the public to ask why it was affected, too.

This USB looks like a standard 8GB drive, but it unlocks a hidden partition when you create a text file with the password inside. The password is never actually written to storage; it's instead intercepted by the custom firmware and copied into the microcontroller's SRAM during hashing.

A champion coder's latest confection is a Piet Quine - a GIF image that prints itself byte-for-byte.