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Computing

US data centres could burn more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035

A sobering new analysis projects that US data centres could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035, driven almost entirely ...

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Computing

Cornelis put processors inside the network to stop GPUs sitting idle

Cornelis Networks raised 205 million dollars for Active Compute Fabric, embedding RISC-V cores in NICs and switches to cut GPU time spent waiting on ...

· 3 min read
AI

Cloudflare's AI crawler wall went live, and Googlebot is caught in it

Cloudflare now blocks AI training and agent crawlers by default on ad pages. Mixed use bots like Googlebot get caught, which can quietly cost you ...

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Security

Cisco's email gateway is under attack, and CISA added seven more flaws

CVE-2026-76461 gives unauthenticated attackers root on Cisco Secure Email Gateway. CISA added seven exploited flaws with a 16 September remediation ...

· 2 min read
Security

Boston dumps Flock Safety after firm shared licence plate data nationwide without consent

Boston has cut ties with surveillance firm Flock Safety after discovering the company enabled nationwide licence plate lookups in direct violation of ...

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AI

As AI competition heats up, industry leaders clash over regulation and control

Major tech players diverge sharply on AI governance while the sector grapples with safety concerns and consolidation pressures.

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AI

Apple shipped the new Siri, and Google's model is doing the talking

The Gemini powered Siri is now in public beta, with a standalone app and twenty plus dialogue turns. Apple built the models with Google and said so ...

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Computing

Agility's new humanoid robot kneels down to avoid hurting people

Agility Robotics has updated its Digit humanoid to automatically stop and squat when it detects an imminent collision with a human coworker, a small ...

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Space

The comet passing through our solar system is probably older than the Sun

3I/ATLAS formed below minus 240C, and its dinitrogen reading points to an old star system. These are the first measurements of their kind for an ...

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Computing

Xiaomi's new Fold is aimed directly at Samsung's best phone

The Xiaomi 18 Fold launched 7 September with a wider cover screen and faster charging than Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8, and marks Xiaomi's first real ...

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Computing

Unitree's 16,000 dollar robot was built by an obsessive cost-cutter

Unitree is selling a humanoid robot for 16,000 dollars, and the reason it can do that comes down to one founder's near-pathological obsession with ...

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Computing

Trump scraps power plant emissions rules and AI data centres win

The Trump administration has scrapped the last federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions from US power plants, and the immediate beneficiary is the ...

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Space

Rocket Lab is furious about NASA's Mars mission decision

Rocket Lab has gone public with its frustration over a NASA Mars mission decision, a bold move for a company that still needs the space agency as a ...

· 4 min read
Computing

RAM and SSD prices rose 130 percent. Your next PC costs 17 percent more.

Gartner puts the RAM and SSD price increase for 2026 at 130 percent, pushing finished PC prices up 17 percent. AI data centres are taking the memory ...

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AI

OpenAI buys camera startup Glass Imaging for 300 million dollars

OpenAI has reportedly paid 300 million dollars to acquire Glass Imaging, a startup founded by the engineers behind Apple's Portrait Mode. It is a big ...

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Computing

Nvidia's RTX 5090 now costs more than a decent used car

RTX 5090 street prices have passed five thousand dollars as AI buyers absorb consumer Blackwell stock, and Nvidia's own MSRP programme only covers a ...

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AI

Jensen Huang tells Trump live on stage that AI will not slow down

Nvidia's Jensen Huang took a live call from President Trump on stage at the All-In Summit and told the crowd that an AI slowdown is simply not ...

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Security

Six checks that tell you if your phone is being monitored

How to check if your phone is being monitored: six practical checks covering battery drain, the Android Privacy Dashboard, permissions and Apple ...

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Space

Gaia found dormant black holes closer to their stars than physics allows

Gaia has found three dormant black holes with a surviving stellar companion. Two of them sit closer than stellar evolution should allow, and nobody ...

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Security

CVE-2026-73009 hits the Windows SSTP service and needs no password

CVE-2026-73009 is a CVSS 9.8 RCE flaw in the Windows SSTP service that needs no password. If your server terminates VPN traffic, check this one first.

· 3 min read
Computing

Apple just loaded ten new products into one September week

Apple's September event confirmed the iPhone 18 Pro line, a two thousand dollar crease free foldable, Apple Watch Series 12 with Gemini powered ...

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Computing

Apple's iOS 27 is out and Siri has finally had its glow-up

iOS 27 landed this week with what Apple is billing as a fully rebuilt Siri that can handle multi-step tasks, read your screen, and act across apps ...

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Computing

Y Combinator's summer 2026 Demo Day: Floating reactors and brain chips made the shortlist

Y Combinator's Summer 2026 Demo Day is done, and VCs are naming floating nuclear reactors and brain chips as the pitches that actually got them out ...

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AI

Waymo's robotaxi pulled over and called the cops on its own passengers

A Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco stopped itself mid-ride and called the police on its passengers this week. Officers arrested two juveniles who were ...

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AI

Trump and Congress say the AI industry is overreacting to its own warnings

The CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI, plus Elon Musk, publicly called for slowing down AI development this week, citing genuine safety concerns about the ...

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