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Data Center Humidifiers: What They Do and How to Choose The choice of humidification system – whether isothermal, ultrasonic, high-pressure nozzle, or adiabatic – depends primarily on the facility's humidity gap and available power budget. If you live in a warm climate, you proba

Nearly a week after the makers of the popular web server management software cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) alerted users of a critical flaw in its software, hackers are now mass-compromising thousands of websites that rely on the vulnerable software. As of Monday, there are mo

Get a DDR5 starter build with a Ryzen 5 7600X and ASRock B650M Pro motherboard for 23% off — $430 bundle helps avoid inflated RAM prices This latest deal is one of the best ways to start a DDR5 PC build The AI industry continues to gobble up the DRAM industry, keeping memory pric

Scaling data and AI with Managed Service for Apache Airflow Piotr Wieczorek Senior Product Manager, Google Rafal Biegacz Lead Engineering Manager Orchestration is no longer just about moving data; it is about governing enterprise intelligence. To reflect our deep commitment to an

GameStop yesterday made an unsolicited offer to buy eBay for $55.5 billion. GameStop claims that eBay has underperformed and spends too much on sales and marketing and argues that it would become a stronger company if it cuts costs and is combined with GameStop’s physical retail

Secretlab launches Mandalorian Titan Evo gaming chair in Star Wars collection for May the 4th — collab builds with a new high-end themed chair Chrome leatherette mimics Beskar armor ahead of The Mandalorian & Grogu's May 22 premiere. Secretlab dropped a Mandalorian Edition to its

After an unanticipated five-week break in the season, Formula One resumed action this past weekend in Miami. Held at a temporary circuit around Hard Rock Stadium, the event is emblematic of the Liberty era of F1: a turbocharged marketing extravaganza crammed full of hospitality s

Artificial Intelligence Beyond BI: How the Dataset Q&A feature of Amazon Quick powers the next generation of data decisions Business leaders across industries rely on operational dashboards as the shared source of truth that their teams execute against daily. But dashboards are b

Artificial Intelligence Introducing the agent quality loop: AgentCore Optimization now in preview Generate recommendations from production traces, validate them with batch evaluation and A/B testing, and ship with confidence. AI agents that perform well at launch don’t stay that

Artificial Intelligence Agent-guided workflows to accelerate model customization in Amazon SageMaker AI Every organization has access to the same foundation models. The real competitive advantage comes from customizing them with your proprietary data and domain expertise. But get

When do we take AI doomers seriously? That’s a key subtext of Elon Musk’s attempt to shut down OpenAI’s for-profit AI business. His attorneys argue that the organization was set up as a charity focused on AI safety and lost its way in pursuit of lucre. To prove that, they cite ol

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Alienware 16 Area-51, even with a new processor, is effectively the same laptop as last year, with the exception of a new anti-glare OLED display panel. Pros - + Strong gaming performance - + $50 mechanical keyboard is definitely worth it - + Plenty of

AMD Ryzen AI 5 435G APU breaks cover in early benchmarks — six-core Zen 5 chip goes head-to-head with the Ryzen 5 8600G for budget PC builders AMD has already unveiled its latest Ryzen AI 400 desktop processors. These new Zen 5 chips are available exclusively to OEMs, but they st

Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people’s homes, is back with a new robot. But this one is designed as a companion, not a cleaner. The creator of Roomba is back with a furry robot companion Colin Angle revealed his l

Artificial Intelligence Generate dashboards from natural language prompts in Amazon Quick Building meaningful dashboards demands hours of manual setup, even for experienced BI professionals. Amazon Quick now generates complete multi-sheet dashboards from natural language prompts,

Bret Taylor’s AI startup Sierra is raising a $950 million funding round led by Tiger Global and GV, the company announced Monday, pushing its post-money valuation above $15 billion. The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to

Two days before the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial began last week, Musk texted the model maker’s president and co-founder Greg Brockman. Musk suggested to Brockman that OpenAI settle the suit. After Brockman replied by suggesting both sides drop their suits, the exchange went off th

Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved develope

Last year, we noted how the long-standing vagaries of HDMI licensing and open source AMD driver development combined to prevent the upcoming Steam Machine from receiving official support for the HDMI 2.1 display standard. Now, though, it seems that AMD is making real progress on

Artificial Intelligence From data lake to AI-ready analytics: Introducing new data source with S3 Tables in Amazon Quick Organizations today are increasingly looking to combine analytics and AI to accelerate insights and decision-making. Amazon Quick, a unified agentic AI-powered

Artificial Intelligence Introducing Dataset Q&A: Expanding natural language querying for structured datasets in Amazon Quick Every BI team knows this bottleneck: a business user has a question that falls outside existing dashboards, so they file a ticket. An analyst writes the qu

Artificial Intelligence Capacity-aware inference: Automatic instance fallback for SageMaker AI endpoints As organizations scale generative AI workloads in production, securing reliable GPU compute has become one of the most persistent operational challenges. Large language models

Firestore at Next '26: Unlock agentic development, search and MongoDB compatibility Minh Nguyen Group Product Manager, Google Cloud Patrick Costello Engineering Manager, Google Cloud In the era of AI agents, the distance between a big idea and a working application has never been

On Monday, Anthropic announced a joint venture focusing on deploying enterprise AI services. Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs will be founding partners in the new venture, which is backed by a group of VCs, hedge funds, and private equity firms, including Apollo

Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino FEATURE In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inco

A new project called Acorn has launched a way for organizations and creators to build their own online communities as an alternative to centralized social media platforms like Instagram, X, and Threads. It uses the same underlying technology that powers the decentralized social m

AI Data Center Boom Rewires US Power Supply Chain Rising demand for electrical equipment drives supply growth, but hyperscale construction accelerates and infrastructure challenges persist. The US data center electrical equipment market is projected to grow to $65 billion by 2030

Just days before the trial started, Elon Musk tried to settle his lawsuit, which alleges that under Sam Altman’s direction, OpenAI abandoned its mission to serve as a nonprofit making AI to benefit humanity. According to a Sunday court filing from OpenAI, Musk messaged OpenAI Pre

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs 'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect' When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a software bill of materials (SBOM) no longer provides

PARTNER CONTENT AI inference just plays by different rules Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently declared that we are entering the era of "AI factories," where the primary output of the global tech economy isn't software, it's intelligence. He's right. But while the world is obsessing

Apple’s Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops have been increasingly difficult to buy over the course of the year—multiple configurations are listed on Apple’s site as “currently unavailable,” which almost never happens, and others will take weeks or months to ship if you order them t

North Carolina Targets Hyperscale Costs with Proposed AI Infrastructure Bill Proposed legislation shifts the burden of power, water, and grid expansion costs onto large data centers, challenging long-standing incentive models and reshaping site selection strategies. North Carolin

CISA flags actively exploited ‘Copy Fail’ Linux kernel flaw enabling root takeover across major distros — unpatched systems may remain vulnerable to attack Researchers released a working exploit before patches were ready. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Almost all of the 20 U.S. state government-run health insurance marketplaces shared residents’ application information with advertising and tech giants, including Google, LinkedIn, Meta, and Snap, according to a new investigation by Bloomberg. The report drives home the privacy p

Intel's Arc Pro B70 workstation GPU with 32GB of VRAM gets tested in games — Roughly twice as fast as Arc B580 on average, beats RTX 5060 Ti in some titles The most performant Battlemage GPU out right now. It's been almost two years since the BMG-G31 silicon first showed up in th

Amazon is opening its global logistics network to all businesses, the company announced on Monday. The new service, called Amazon Supply Chain Services, pits the e-commerce giant directly against UPS and FedEx. The service opens Amazon’s freight, distribution, fulfillment, and pa

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Nvidia's exposure to Asian supply chains for components hits 90% of its production costs — marked increase from 65% could intensify as physical AI adds even more exposure Memory shortages are killing off older Jetson modules while newer ones compete for the same constrained suppl

The Trump administration has brought US onshore wind development to a halt citing national security concerns, representing a major escalation in the president’s crusade against renewable energy. Approvals for about 165 onshore wind projects on private lands are being stalled by t