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CUDA emulator for AMD GPUs Zluda loses funding with v6 release — embattled project goes back to hobby status but now includes 32-bit PhysX support The latest release will be welcome news for retro gaming fans. There's bittersweet news from the shore of the open-source Zluda proje

Micron Technology's monster post-earnings rally is almost gone. Shares of the maker of memory chips traded as low as $1,023.65 on Monday, down 18% from the 52-week high reached on Thursday. Monday's session low is also nearly $25 below the stock's closing level on Wednesday befor

Today, we are finally getting into what might be the biggest upheaval of a server product line, or a server socket, since the AMD EPYC 7002 “Rome” launch. The AMD EPYC 8005 “Sorano” uses the same AMD SP6 socket as the EPYC 8004 “Siena,” but it completely changes the performance p

Off the Wire Press Releases AutoLabs is a new agentic AI system that translates experimental goals into robot-specific language RICHLAND, Wash., June 29, 2026 — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) use a slew of autonomous robots

Europe’s push to rein in Big Tech is ramping up, with the European Commission planning to announce new regulations for Google next month. The rules could see Google forced to play nicer with its EU competitors, but the company has some concerns. Google is framing this not as a ma

Artificial Intelligence Implement a backup strategy for Amazon Quick Sight BI assets Amazon Quick Sight is a core feature within Amazon Quick — an agentic, AI-powered digital workspace designed to maximize end-user productivity— that provides AI-powered BI capabilities through na

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Anthropic have made a deal that allows California government agencies to use Claude at a discounted price. This agreement comes at a time when businesses are struggling to manage the hefty costs of enterprise subscriptions to AI tools. Under the d

The world’s two largest memory chip companies plan to invest $518 billion (~800 trillion won) to build four new memory fabs in southwestern South Korea, a region that has historically attracted little semiconductor investment. The announcement is part of the country’s sweeping na

A short time back, we covered an announcement by Amazon that it would be hosting a useful quantum computer from its partner QuEra as soon as sometime in 2028. The system promised some eye-popping numbers compared to anything on the market today: over 10,000 individual qubits, eac

The Delhi government on Monday approved a new Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy that is expected to accelerate electric two wheeler adoption through purchase incentives, mandatory EV only registrations from 2028 and a major expansion of charging infrastructure. The policy offers incen

Artificial Intelligence Pair Nova 2 Lite with Claude for cost-optimized document processing A scanned yearbook page contains 176 printed names, 4 portrait photographs, and zero machine-readable structure linking them. To digitize this page, you need reliable photo detection with

A fight between states and the federal government over who should regulate sports betting is heating up, as states accuse prediction markets like Kalshi of taking the exact same sports bets as gambling platforms without paying taxes or adhering to stricter controls. Last Tuesday,

Rack-Based Environmental Monitoring: Benefits, Insights, and Getting Started Rack-based environmental monitoring enhances data center efficiency by providing granular insights into temperature, humidity, and airflow. When data center operators think about how to optimize the perf

Artificial Intelligence Multi-tenant LLM analytics with row-level security: How we built a secure agent on AWS At PAR Technology Corporation, we build technology for the restaurant industry, supporting over 300 restaurant businesses, from independent operators to large, multi-bra

Just eight months after launching its commercial service, AI leaderboard provider Arena, which originated as a research project at UC Berkeley in 2023, has reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue. Arena is best known for its popular crowdsourced AI model performance l

JetCool has introduced a liquid-cooled version of the Dell PowerEdge XE7745, combining the server, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, rack infrastructure, deployment services, lifecycle support, and unified warranty coverage into a single integrated offering. The solution is delivere

Artificial Intelligence Build an agentic AI healthcare claims pipeline with Amazon Bedrock and AWS HealthLake Manually processing paper-based forms remains a significant cost in the healthcare industry. Despite advancements in data extraction of scanned documents and images, huma

Hyperscale Data has completed the acquisition of 48.5 acres of land in Michigan to expand its data center campus. The company first entered into an agreement to buy the property in March 2026, which more than doubles the land owned by Hyperscale Data, bringing it to 83 acres. The

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that President Donald Trump does not have the authority to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from the central bank for now. But the opinion leaves open the possibility of dismissing her in the future. The court did not rule whether Trump ultim

Valve threatens legal action against Dbrand over its unsanctioned Portal 2-inspired Companion Cube — edgy accessories manufacturer kills product after asking for licensing deal, admits it didn't have 'the right to make it' A characteristically dumb move by dbrand. When the Steam

Artificial Intelligence Debugging production agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability Production artificial intelligence (AI) agents can fail silently. They may return plausible but incorrect answers, enter infinite reasoning loops, or select the wrong tools without tri

Trump accounts — set to officially launch July 4 — are aimed at helping the youngest Americans get an early start on building long-term financial security through investing. Whether that will reduce the retirement savings gap that women face is less certain, experts say. Research

Legacy Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB returns to retail five years after original launch, priced at $339 — resurrected GPU strategy that Jensen called a 'good idea' apparently comes to fruition Ampere rides again for almost the same price as RTX 5060s Back at CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Hu

Cursor isn’t letting the $60 billion SpaceX acquisition slow it down. On Monday, the company announced a new app called Cursor Mobile, designed for users who want to prompt coding agents directly from their phone. The app ties into the Cursor 2.0 changes unveiled in October, whic

Google has reportedly limited Meta's use of the Gemini AI models due to compute capacity constraints for the cloud provider. According to a report from the Financial Times, three people familiar with the matter said that Google told Meta in March that it could not purchase all th

Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry — hosted on Microsoft Azure and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs — are now generally available, giving Azure-native enterprises a powerful new way to build autonomous and domain-specific AI agents. As agentic AI continues

Claude in Microsoft Foundry is the production path enterprises have been asking for: true frontier model choice, Azure-native controls, simplified procurement, and faster time to value. Most enterprise AI projects do not stall because of model quality. They stall because of every

Permitting delays pushed by the Trump administration threaten to derail 92 gigawatts of clean power, even as electricity demand from AI data centers skyrockets. Already, permitting changes and federal funding withdrawals have led to the cancellation of 7 gigawatts of generating c

Ukrainian telco Kyivstar has announced plans to develop an AI data center in Ukraine. In a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with the country’s Ministry of Economy, the firm said that the facility would help to strengthen Ukraine’s technological sovereignty and boost forei

A data center developer has filed a legal challenge to overturn a moratorium in Eagan, Minnesota. First reported by local press, Eagan Capital has filed a lawsuit against the City of Eagan, challenging a temporary ban on data center developments, according to a legal complaint fi

A 900-acre data center could be built in Salix, Iowa. Energy company MidAmerican is interested in developing a campus on the land parcel, which was annexed by the Salix City Council from Woodbury County back in April. In a letter sent to the Salix City Council on June 8, MidAmeri

Music streaming service TIDAL is the latest to take aim at AI-generated music with the introduction of a new policy that will prevent fully AI-generated music from making money on its platform. In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts

Dive Brief: - During Amazon’s Prime Day dates — June 23 through June 26 — online U.S. retail spend grew about 9.3% year over year to $26.4 billion, according to data from Adobe shared with Retail Dive on Saturday. - Discounts across online retail in the region were mostly on par

A data center built inside an active mine in the Dolomites, in northeast Italy, has officially launched. The Intacture data center is located 100 meters (328 feet) underground in the Tuenetto di Predaia quarry, in the Val di Non, next to rooms that have been used for decades to s

Crusoe is set to invest around $10bn in data centers in Israel over the next ten to 15 years through leases. As reported by Globes, the US-based neocloud has signed another 100MW in data center leases in Israel, which, combined with its existing capacity agreements in the country

In late 2024 Saks Global started out with grand ambitions, forging a $2.7 billion deal that brought together luxury department stores Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus Group and Bergdorf Goodman under one umbrella. On Friday, the company wrapped up the bankruptcy that became neces

The company behind a massive planned power cable to the UK is pivoting to plans for a large data center campus in Devon. Announced this week, Xlinks has proposed a large AI data and energy storage development at Alverdiscott, Devon. The campus comprises two separate planning prop

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited the law enforcement use of “geofence” search warrants, in a major legal ruling that is likely to have broad ramifications for privacy rights and law enforcement across the United States. In the 6-3 ruling, the U.S. top court said that “an

Formula 1 raced at the Red Bull Ring in Austria this past weekend while the region sweltered under a heat dome. It was a weekend of unmet expectations: After such a strong performance in Barcelona, pundits were ready to declare Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton a proper title contender. T

A church close to a planned Amazon data center campus is considering selling up to a data center developer. As reported by the Prince William Times, the Manassas Church of the Brethren is reportedly weighing up an offer to sell its land to a data center developer. The land the ch

WhatsApp to let people chat without swapping phone numbers - Published WhatsApp is set to let people chat without having to reveal their phone number - by exchanging unique usernames instead. It will be rolled out globally to the platform's three billion account holders over the

A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans’ health and location information to data brokers — including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data A revamped data privacy bill would limit

WhatsApp today announced a much-awaited feature: usernames, which will allow users to share their profiles without disclosing their phone number. However, WhatsApp will still require a phone number to create an account on the chat app. WhatsApp has been working on adding username