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Bringing gVisor sandboxes to distributed Ray clusters Andrew Sy Kim Staff Software Engineer, Google Philipp Moritz Chief Technology Officer, Anyscale The reinforcement learning (RL) ecosystem is rapidly adopting Ray as the unified compute runtime for complex post-training workflo

Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for $70 and start your AM5 gaming rig with this bundle — $568 for Ryzen 7 7700X3D, 16GB G.Skill DDR5 RAM, Asus TUF B650-E motherboard, and free AIO Get more frames for less We dug up another solid gaming combo from Newegg for the week; this one features an ex

India’s pet care ecosystem is undergoing a structural shift. What was once a fragmented market dominated by neighbourhood pet stores, a limited number of veterinary clinics, and imported pet-food brands is steadily becoming a broader consumer category. Today’s pet parents aren’t

Target removed a children’s Halloween costume from its assortment that sparked outrage online over the weekend. Criticism described the costume as evocative of racist stereotypes about Black people with imagery similar to that of historical minstrel shows. The mass retailer apolo

In the long wait for the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI, an open-world game about crime, some in the gaming community are being targeted by cybercriminals in the real world. Fans are still waiting for the game more than a decade after the release of GTA 5, which sold more

Hot Chips 2026: Intel details cutting-edge tech in entry-level Wildcat Lake — value-focused 18A chips necessitated UCIe integration Wildcat Lake is more advanced than it first appears. This Tom's Hardware Premium article is free to read with a Tom's Hardware account; no payment n

Episode details Available for over a year Today, we discuss China’s £14.7bn investment into AI and robotics in the hopes of overtaking the US as the world leader in innovation. China has two million robots already working in factories, and is investing heavily in the hopes that o

Consumer appliances brand Atomberg filed its draft IPO papers with market regulator SEBI, for a proposed public issue comprising a fresh issue of shares worth up to ₹450 Cr and an offer for sale (OFS) of up to 7.65 Cr equity shares. Institutional investors A91 Partners, Temasek H

Vodafone Idea on Tuesday clarified to the stock exchanges that the recent Delhi High Court directive ordering a ₹53.09 crore income tax refund pertains to a routine tax matter. The company stated that the amount involved does not cross the materiality threshold required for forma

NVIDIA is bringing the next wave of RTX gaming to the Gamescom conference running this week in Cologne, Germany, with support for new games, anti-cheat technologies and increased visual quality. Electronic Arts, Embark and Ubisoft are among the latest game publishers and develope

Pacific Fusion is one step closer to commercializing fusion power after breaking ground Tuesday on a facility in New Mexico designed to generate as much energy as it consumes. “It’s a huge step forward for commercial fusion power,” Carrie von Muench, co-founder and chief operatin

Swedish military seeks to take over Russian-owned estate near naval base - Published Sweden's armed forces have asked the government to expropriate a Russia-owned property near a naval base on security grounds. The military requested the seizure of the beach plot near Muskö base

The sale could be worth up to Rs 1,417.5 crore at the floor price of Rs 2,250 per share. The floor price is at a discount of about 4.1% to Welspun Corp’s last closing price of Rs 2,345.5 on the NSE on August 25, 2026. Welspun Investments and Commercials Ltd, part of the promoter

The debasement trade is gaining new traction on Wall Street as concern over the size and cost of the budget deficit mounts. The conventional wisdom behind the trade is that perceived hard assets, like cryptocurrencies and precious metals, gain as investors try to hedge against a

Best RAM deals 2026 — discounts on DDR5 and DDR4 to beat the memory price crunch We're keeping a close eye on deals that pop up, looking for any and all RAM bargains to be had and adding them to the constantly-updated list below. RAM is expensive right now, but the brutal fact is

Hot Chips 2026: Intel dives deep on Crescent Island AI accelerator — larger caches and deeper XMX engines target maximum AI FLOPS per watt Xe3P focuses on the most compute-intensive phases of AI inference. This Tom's Hardware Premium article is free to read with a Tom's Hardware

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning “godfather of AI,” predicted that radiologists—the physicians who read X-rays, ultrasounds, and other images to help make medical diagnoses—would find themselves replaced by computers within five years. Today the field can retort by quot

Who does Iran trade with and what could Trump's 'economic D-Day' mean? - Published The US has said "the single greatest financial offensive ever" will help it and Israel end their ongoing war with Iran. However, Iran is no stranger to these tactics. The regime has faced near cont

For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to write an extension, set up a build toolchain, and maintain bindings back to Python, which most people never did; or move up the stack and let someone else’s library do i

Presentation startup Gamma has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica in a bid to build out its own design research lab, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. Lica’s co-founders will lead the effort. Lica started off as an app that could turn screenshots and recordings into proj

Dive Brief: - Walmart on Monday started giving customers more ways to pay by tapping their phones, smartwatches or cards, including those in a digital wallet such as Apple Pay or Google Pay, the retailer said. - The company is accepting the tap-to-pay payments at some Walmart and

Nvidia has been the profit engine of the artificial intelligence boom, filling up data centers with its graphics processing units, which are also powering the biggest AI models. But if there's one persistent concern among investors regarding Nvidia's ability to build on its $5 tr

Nvidia has been the profit engine of the artificial intelligence boom, filling up data centers with its graphics processing units, which are also powering the biggest AI models. But if there's one persistent concern among investors regarding Nvidia's ability to build on its $5 tr

Apple has reneged on a planned change to its Hide My Email feature that users said would have made the privacy tool less effective. Hide My Email is a privacy feature for paying iCloud+ users that generates a unique and disposable email address to give websites instead of a perso

US judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's 'frivolous' appeal against conviction - Published Ghislaine Maxwell's latest bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction has been rejected by a US judge, who dismissed her claims as "frivolous" and "meritless". The 64-year-old is serving a

Andrew Tate exaggerates and did not own supercars in photos, his lawyers say - Published Controversial influencer Andrew Tate portrays himself as "uberwealthy" but did not own cars and a yacht featured on his social media and exaggerated his lifestyle for online attention, his le

The much-anticipated US sanctions against Iran fell short of market expectations, causing crude oil prices and bond yields to moderate from their recent peaks. This relief in energy costs aided a moderately positive close today on the monthly expiry day. Outperforming the broader

Apple price hikes continue as Mac mini with 16GB RAM and 256GB is now $899 — 1TB storage option adds $500 to entry-level headless system What's worse than a major price hike? Another one exactly two months later The AI-apocalypse is upon us, and regular consumers are paying that

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Tuesday barred Varanium Cloud Ltd (VCL) and its promoter Harshawardhan Sabale from the securities market for seven years and ordered Sabale to disgorge ₹128.77 crore in alleged unlawful gains. The regulator has also dir

Off the Wire Press Releases TORONTO, Aug. 25, 2026 — Xanadu Quantum Technologies Limited has announced the next phase of its collaboration with Mitsubishi Chemical to advance semiconductor fabrication technologies using quantum computing algorithms. This next phase is supported b

At the Hot Chips conference on Tuesday, OpenAI shared a more detailed look at Jalapeño, including the first batch of benchmark results for the new system. Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt

Varun Beverages, one of PepsiCo's largest franchisees globally outside the US, is continuing to diversify its product portfolio beyond soft drinks and non-alcoholic beverages. In its latest move, the company said on Tuesday that its board had approved the incorporation of a wholl

Apple announced two new processors on Tuesday, which power its new Mac Mini and Mac Studio models: the M5 Ultra and M6 chips. The M5 Ultra, which Apple deems its “most powerful chip ever,” fuses two dual-die M5 Max chips to form Apple’s first quad-die chip, designed to manage hef

Henry Schuck, CEO of ZoomInfo, just posted his read on where B2B pricing is going. His summary, after talking to the world’s most expensive consultants and hundreds of his own customers: nobody knows. Not the experts, not the customers, and the answer keeps changing week to week.