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An unmanaged shutdown of the Secuda coal-to-liquids plant operated by South African energy company Sasol could wipe $550 million off the country’s $400 billion economy and cost nearly 25,000 jobs, researchers said. The facility, the world’s largest single-site greenhouse gas emit

The AI boom has made it possible for a significantly wider range of people to dip into development, create code, and launch software for the first time. There are pros and cons to this, even for established developers who are being pushed to use it to produce work faster. Replit

Intel’s Core Ultra series has done well with improving battery life and performance in mobile products. Wildcat Lake, or Core Series 3, aims to take those qualities and bring them into a lower cost product. Wildcat Lake brings in all the new technologies present in the Core Ultra

The News President Donald Trump’s escalating tariff threats against Canada are running headlong into one of his party’s top priorities: retaining Senate control. The new levies could have an outsized effect in three states that could determine the Senate majority next year: Maine

We’re getting close to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026! In less than two months, more than 10,000 innovators, founders, investors, and industry leaders will gather in San Francisco. You can meet up with that community the week of TechCrunch Disrupt, which runs from October 13-15. With ou

Charity? Acting? The Cotswolds? What will Harry and Meghan's UK life look like? - Published Within the next few days, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their two children will have departed California and become residents of the UK. Since news broke of the move, there has been s

The federal government is expanding a safety investigation into a number of vehicles manufactured by General Motors after receiving hundreds of reports of brake failure. The problem affects more than 1.1 million cars, including many of GM’s electric vehicles, as well as ones it h

Videos showing dangerous driving easily found on social media At least one of the young people killed in the Middlesbrough crash appears in multiple videos posted on TikTok depicting dangerous driving. BBC Verify has found dozens of videos on social media showing high-speed car c

Chinese retailer AliExpress has been caught fingerprinting visitors after one of the metrics—an outdated technique that measures inaudible sounds it sends to browsers—impeded a researcher’s ability to use his bluetooth headphones. Researcher Matthew Callaghan said he stumbled on

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK, - The U.S. dollar advanced on Monday, coming off its third weekly decline in four that sent the greenback to three-month lows after President Donald Trump's administration announced an expansion of sanctions on Iran and separate tariffs on goods fro

The MSI XpertStation WS300 is built on NVIDIA’s newest DGX Station architecture, the most capable generation yet, placing a full GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra node beside your desk. The headline number is 20 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute, delivered by a single Blackwell Ultra GPU tied t

Gold is up 15% this month, rallying alongside higher interest rates and quietly on pace for its best month since 2008. The biggest trade in the entire options market today says that run is coming to an end. Twenty minutes after the market opened Monday, someone sold almost 116,00

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is seeking to cap rising yields using a variety of tools at his department's disposal. However, traders on prediction market platforms think these moves won't lead yields to fall dramatically. Traders on Kalshi think there's a 56% chance that the

The Trump administration on Monday announced a plan to isolate Iran's economy by threatening to impose secondary sanctions on the "enablers" keeping the Islamic Republic afloat. "We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe," Treasu

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 24, 2026 — NVIDIA today announced that SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to accelerate its next generation of agentic AI applications, bringing the first CPU built for AI agents to one of the world’s most ambitious AI depl

At the Hot Chips conference, IBM revealed the industry’s first dual-architecture mainframe processor, engineered for future generations of IBM Z and LinuxONE enterprise systems. Developed through the joint collaboration between IBM and Arm in April 2026, the processor will allow

Episode details Available for over a year Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says "we cannot accept what they've offered, and we will not give what they've asked,” after trade negotiations with the US broke down over the weekend. Donald Trump has announced 50% tariffs on Canadia

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 24, 2026 — SiFive today, at an event coinciding with Hot Chips, introduced the SiFive BigSky SF-2U870 datacenter development platform. In collaboration with hyperscaler customers and leading ecosystem partners, SiFive has deli

Trump Media & Technology Group interim CEO Kevin McGurn on Monday defended his company offering faster access to President Donald Trump's Truth Social posts, and said more customers have signed up for the pricey and controversial service. "We're getting into the mid-teens now, an

Everyone is buzzing about Instinct, an AI personal assistant still in private access, not only for its incredible capabilities, but also for its potential privacy concerns. The agent, a veritable taskmaster, has been praised as feeling “like magic” and being one of the “most exci

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has disposed of proceedings against Max Financial Services Ltd (MFSL), Max Life Insurance Co. Ltd (MLIC) and Axis group entities, noting that allegations of fraud and inadequate disclosures were not established. The order

The News Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday threatened a wider range of secondary sanctions on countries that do business with Iran, stopping short of imposing them as the Trump administration continues its battle against inflation. “We are giving everyone the opportunity

Hot Chips 2026: SK hynix pushes hybrid bonding to HBM5 as AI memory hits 775-micron ceiling — firm extends MR-MUF through Nvidia Rubin Jaesik Lee laid out the physics capping HBM stack height and all-but-confirmed hybrid bonding misses HBM4E This Tom's Hardware Premium article is

AI - SYSTEMS What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gambleGemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators -

Hot Chips 2026: IBM's first dual-ISA core natively executes ARM and z/Architecture in the same core; all cores run at 5.7 GHz base frequency — next-gen mainframe AI processor is built on 2nm node with 11 cores Native AArch64 and z/Architecture support within the same core This To

Off the Wire Press Releases Diamond Rapids, Crescent Island and Wildcat Lake demonstrate how Intel is scaling Agentic AI from the rack to the edge. Aug. 24, 2026 — Intel is showcasing three architectures for Agentic AI and Enterprise-scale workloads, combining the Diamond Rapids

LG's native 1,000 Hz 1080p gaming monitor has a matching $1,000 price tag — preorders open for the 25-inch UltraGear 25G590B $1 per Hz is the going rate for the LG UltraGear 25G590B Earlier this year, we brought you news of the UltraGear 25G590B gaming monitor, which LG proudly c

Nvidia announced Monday that its Groq 3 LPX rack is in full production, marking the commercialization of technology from the company's largest acquisition on record. The Groq rack will be deployed alongside Vera central processors and Rubin graphics processors at neocloud Nebius,

Off the Wire Press Releases BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 24, 2026 — Micron Technology Inc. today opened a 60,000-square-foot Micron Training Center (MTC) in Boise, a strategic investment to strengthen the skilled talent pipeline, support advanced semiconductor manufacturing and expand educ

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Cooler Master Q300L V3 offers builders an excellent budget option in the Micro ATX space. Its improved airflow, flexible I/O placement, and 20 Gbps Type-C port are all positives for this sub-$45 budget chassis. Pros - +Sub $45 price - +20 Gbps USB Type-

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 24, 2026 — NVIDIA today announced that NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX, the interactive AI inference accelerator, is now in full production. An extension of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, Groq 3 LPX delivers a major boost in AI inference by enabling ultrafast