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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

Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that painstaking process with their new virtual violin. It’s a computer simulation tool that ca

DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create websites based on their app listings. The onboarding tool works similarly to the one Amazon launched in 2024. Merchants can point the tool to t

Refrigerators today run on the same basic technology as they did more than 100 years ago. You’d think we could have come up with something better by now. And we have, but nothing has been able to dethrone cheap, reliable vapor compression — the process that’s keeping your milk co

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Monday. Congratulations to Golden Tempo on winning the Kentucky Derby. However, as a financial journalist, I felt inclined to root for Emerging Market. Stock futures are falli

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Meta is back in a New Mexico courthouse on Monday as part of an ongoing child safety case that could determine whether the company is considered a public nuisance and must spend potentially billions of dollars to fix its products. The social media company lost the first round of

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 APU could arrive with 192GB of unified memory — leaked PassMark benchmarks suggest modest update over Strix Halo Incremental update to Strix Halo. AMD is potentially working on introducing a new flagship APU as the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 was recently list

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’

At the Consumer Electronics Show in 2020, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda pledged to build a city of the future, a place where researchers, engineers, and scientists could live and work together. It was framed as the start of a transformation for the world’s largest car company, moving it

Steam Controller interview full transcript — Valve programmer and engineer discuss design, latency, prototyping, and the joys of not having a kernel driver Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais and Steve Cardinali talked with us about the design and philosophy behind the Steam Controller.

Chrome Enterprise introduces new integrations for healthcare Ashley Moulton Healthcare Business Development Lead, Products & Devices, Google Empower clinical workflows with secure, modern browsing Special offer for healthcare organizations Chrome Enterprise Premium ensures secure

Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras aims to raise as much as $3.5 billion by going public on the Nasdaq. The company is looking to sell 28 million shares, for $115 to $125 each, according to an updated prospectus it filed on Monday. At that range, Cerebras could be worth u

Crushing shortages have pushed long-term supply agreements for SSDs and HDDs to record five years — large customers are signing large contracts Companies sign on the dotted line. In a world of rapidly developing artificial intelligence, the supply of computer hardware can barely

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The tech industry has spent the last decade asking whether self-driving cars need lidar sensors, cameras, or all of the above. Lidar company Ouster says it has a new answer: put them both in the same sensor. On Monday, the San Francisco-based company announced a new lineup of lid

AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D spotted on Passmark — company's first PRO chip with 3D V-Cache also bumps the lineup up to 16 cores The strongest Ryzen PRO SKU till date? A new AMD Ryzen "PRO" series processor has just shown up on PassMark, but this time it's an X3D part, which we've nev

Wall Street loved Google’s earnings, and hated Meta’s, even though the latter’s core business was more impressive. The difference is that Google is monetizing its investments now (and it might be all Anthropic). Subscribe to Stratechery Plus for full access. Already subscribed? $

If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows Your voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the family members of deployed military personnel

Agentic AI drives general server demand; global server shipments to top five million units in the second quarter of 2026. Table of contents Chart 1: Key factors affecting 2Q26 global server shipments: Supply/demand Chart 3: Global shipments by top-10 player, 4Q24-2Q26 (k units) C

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Nicolas Sauvage believes it takes four years for the best bets to look obvious — thinking that he shared on stage last week at StrictlyVC’s San Francisco event, which TDK Ventures co-hosted. It’s a theory he’s been working to prove since 2019, when he founded the corporate ventur

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Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble Who, Me? Monday is upon us once again and The Register hopes that when you arrive at your de

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Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Nordics, long seen as a magnet for data center investment thanks to their stable climate and abundance of renewable energy, are now weighing limits on the growth of the power-hungry facilities as surging energy demand forces a rethink. At the center of t