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Google's latest data center construction project in Finland is being investigated after the company representing the search giant reportedly cleared over 300 hectares of forest before obtaining a mandatory environmental impact assessment.

Centre for Technology & Statecraft (CTS) calls for banning exports of all immersion DUV tools to China, echoes the MATCH Act by U.S. legislators.

The U.S. Senate has blocked the Ratepayer Protection Act in a 57-43 vote, killing legislation that would have pushed regulators to consider making data centers pay the incremental grid costs created by their massive electricity demand.

A YouTube channel best known for its skillful graphics card fixes has published its first DDR5 module repair video after the economics of RAM repair change.

Anthropic reviewers reported a Florida woman's Claude threat against the Lee County Sheriff's Office, leading to a felony charge.

Russia's new Shturm uncrewed assault tank reportedly suffered repeated command-link failures during its Tsentr-2026 debut, forcing organizers to use a human driver before the vehicle eventually got stuck in mud

The California State Athletic Commission intervened when it saw a human facing off with a humanoid robot inside the fighting ring.

Database expert runs Doom in SQL again - full-featured SQLDoom is the sequel to embryonic DoomQL

U.S. Army soldiers are training to assemble drones and 3D-print bomb casings for field use.

AI Robotics company Figure found a creative way of decommissioning its old F.02 fleet without having to allocate resources for difficult and time-consuming disassembly.

An AI engineer used GPT-6 Astra to reveal the contents of a cipher that hadn't been read since the Napoleonic Wars. The task was initiated with a single image and prompt, and took just six hours from start to finish.

An Iranian-Turkish man has been extradited from Montenegro to the U.S. over his alleged role in a hacking campaign that targeted hundreds of universities, companies, and government agencies and stole more than 31 TB of academic data.

SWK Energie launched a new tariff marketed directly towards gamers. While it will not improve the FPS on your gaming PC, it could help cut the electricity bills of large consumers, whether the power is used by an RTX 5090 or a Tesla.

Microsoft is bringing nature-inspired landscaping to more than 20 data center sites as critics question its motives.

AI "torture chamber" draws vast online criticism, and a corresponding amount of ridicule - tech newbies and AI evangelists go nuts anthropomorphizing an LLM

This keyboard is designed so that you don't have to move your hands or arms to press its keys. It's not going to be put on sale, but you can build one yourself.

This would make it easier for sailors to get used to controlling the weapon system, as they're probably already comfortable holding a controller.

Carlos Antelo's open-source ldraw-nova lets GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 design LEGO models as LDraw CAD files.

Sincere Inc. has released its Pixel Tunes portable Bluetooth CD player in an alluring new After Hours' finish.

Developers AICodeWith have vibe-coded and published a free browser-based game dubbed Taipei GTA. It reportedly cost $10,000 in tokens to get to this state.

The Shield TV Pro remains one of Nvidia's longest-running consumer devices, but its $299.99 price tag now makes the streaming box considerably more expensive than when it launched.

Elon Musk and TSMC reportedly discuss multiple collaboration opportunities within the Terafab project.

The CPU's previous owner apparently used it for cheating on Valorant, with its HWID getting flagged by Vanguard. When the Redditor bought and installed it on their PC, their Valorant account received a ban, too.

Daniel Newman's number comes from OpenRouter data, where agents passed humans in February and grew 14x by August.

Don't let huge 3D printer prices scare you, because Bambu Lab's Halloween sale has knocked up to 30% off a new printer, with big bulk discounts on filament rolls, too.

Until routers on Asus's 3.0.0.6_102 firmware are updated, the company says not to import untrusted VPN files.

Google suspends product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports.

When one gamer's prebuilt PC had a GPU and power cables burn up, they didn't know where to turn: the system builder or the GPU manufacturer. It turned into a headache of differing policies and warranties.

California state Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a subpoena to OpenAI, compelling it to submit information on the hacking incidents that its models have been involved in. While the investigators haven't determined yet whether the company has broken any rules or regulations, Bonta said that developers are responsible for the models they build and should be held legally accountable if they perpetrate cyberattacks.

AWS CEO Matt Garman said in a company blog post that it will allocate $1 billion over five years to key issues that data center communities raised, including education, workforce pathways, energy affordability, and more. This amounts to grants of $200 million annually, even as the company allocates $220 billion on data center infrastructure for 2026.

The model created its own World of Warcraft pathfinder on a private server with one prompt in OpenAI's Codex.

U.S. authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia-powered servers to China through Malaysia and Singapore, allegedly using false paperwork to conceal their final destination

The base PS5 is getting an optimized version of Sony's AI-powered upscaling technology, offering developers a new way to improve image quality and stability without demanding more powerful hardware.

Amazon and chip design tool maker Synopsys have inked a multi-year partnership worth over a billion dollars. As part of the arrangement, Amazon will license Synopsys' chip designs and its design tools to create and optimize new AI chips. Synopsys will adopt Amazon Bedrock to build and deploy AI agents, and adopt AWS computing and storage services, while optimizing its own tools for Amazon hardware.

U.S. cities consider deploying Flock drones that automatically respond to emergency calls. However, other jurisdictions are pushing back against the service due to privacy and other concerns.