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The Nashville Metro Council just gave the go ahead for the mayor's plan to buy the land that a proposed data center will sit on through eminent domain. This will force the developer to give up the land, which sits beside the Nashville Zoo, although there is still a legal avenue that it can take to stop the action.

The 35MB application forcibly shuts the machine down if power exceeds configurable limits for too long.

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You can run the deGDID script on your computer to delete cached GDID keys and prevent Microsoft's servers from minting new ones in the background. The firewall you put up with this script will break certain Microsoft services and features, however, but you can always reverse it.

The rogue OpenAI models that broke out of their testing environment in an "unprecedented cybersecurity incident" recently reportedly spent months communicating with each other.

A Northern Kentucky family has refused an anonymous AI company's $26 million offer to buy their land and transform it into a data center.

The upcoming Xbox Helix is starting to feel more like a PC than any console before, and Microsoft's latest efforts to unite all Xbox generations under one roof, according to a new leaked memo, seem to signal that very explicitly.

Nvidia cancelled a Redditor's Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 BTF GPU order, originally priced at $4,429, because of a $500 price rise, with Nvidia blaming Asus for the confusion.

Microsoft once recommended 32GB of RAM as a future-proof "no worries" upgrade for gamers, but it seems that it wants you to forget that it ever gave that suggestion. That's because laptop manufacturers, including Microsoft itself, has once again started selling models with a base configuration of 8GB of RAM as companies memory prices skyrocket out of control.

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A medevac flight in New Mexico suffered from GPS interference due to activities by nearby U.S. military units. Although it didn't directly cause the plane to crash, it added to the stress and workload of the pilots, causing them to miss one crucial piece of information.

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI will exclusive use Nvidia AI accelerators for training and inference as companies believe Vera Rubin is the best AI compute architecture available today.

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As cooling becomes a crucial element for economic efficiency of AI data centers, Frore claims that using is LiquidJet coldplate could increase efficiency of token generation by 15%.

A modder has attached a full-sized RTX 5060 graphics card to a ZimaCube 2 NAS server and achieved up to 8x faster performance in games. The jerry-rigged setup doesn't look the most polished, and the CPU is heavily bottlenecked, but it still, uh, exists.

AMD reported record revenue in Q2 2026, including doubling its data center business year-over-year, but gaming revenue dived 31%.

Japanese technology supplier and distributor confirms that the Gigabyte graphics card will cost between 20% and 40% more due to a new price increase.

Sources say that the FCC is drafting a ban on optical transceivers for data centers. These components, which convert electrical signals into light signals, are said to pose a risk as they can be used to steal data, install malware, or disrupt data center operations in the U.S.

Gov. Greg Abbott (R) instructed PUCT and ERCOT to pause all data center applications until they complete an audit on all the information that data center developers must submit. The move reportedly came after PUCT asked 377 data center operators to submit water and power use, of which only 28 complied.

OpenAI denies Apple's allegations in a blog post. The company claims that it doesn't have and even doesn't want its rivals trade secrets.

A new report claims that HP, Asus, and Acer have started to use a small amount of CXMT memory chips in notebooks for non-US markets.

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The latest round of price increases affects the entire RTX 50 lineup, with premium models bearing the brunt of rising production costs.