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China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offshore wind for power The subsea facility reportedly achieves a PUE below 1.15, far

The march of time, and what counts for progress in the automotive industry, has not been particularly kind to the driving enthusiast. Our vehicles have gotten bigger and heavier. Touch-sensitive panels and screens replaced buttons. Steering feel evaporated about a decade ago. And

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When he was 12 years old, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman attended the weeklong “Aviation Challenge” program at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. “For the first time, I got behind the controls of an airplane when I attended Aviation Challenge,” Isaacman said on Friday evening

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Grafana Labs, the maker of its eponymous popular open source web visualization software, confirmed it had been hacked but that it refused to pay the hackers who had threatened to release the company’s codebase. In a series of posts on social media, the lab said its investigation

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Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' — private list 'a waste of time for everybody involved' in switch to new public system New kernel documentation now formally requires AI-

At VeeamON 2026 in New York City, Veeam Software announced Veeam Intelligent ResOps, a new resilience capability designed to unify data context with recovery operations. The offering targets environments where AI-driven activity and automation are accelerating change across enter

Last week, we had the opportunity to attend NerdioCon, held May 4–6, 2026, at the La Quinta Resort & Club in Palm Springs. The conference focused on Nerdio’s products and other cloud technologies, specifically Microsoft Azure, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), and Intune. It had keyno

Companies that pay hackers to find flaws in their software are being inundated with low-quality reports generated by AI, forcing some to suspend the programs altogether. Businesses that run “bug bounty” schemes have long relied on independent security researchers to spot vulnerab

Redis agentic AI flowers with Iris In-memory database supplier Redis is launching Iris, a Context Engine, a single context and memory layer, that makes enterprise data usable by AI agents, along with a Flex SSD-based version of Redis. Redis is heading full tilt into AI. It announ

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There are two stories in the Dell Pro Max 16 Plus, and they pull in opposite directions. One is a top-tier mobile workstation: Intel’s 24-core Core Ultra 9 285HX, up to 256GB of CAMM2 memory, three M.2 slots, NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics up to the 5000-series with 24GB of GD

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Monday. My half marathon in Brooklyn over the weekend ended on Coney Island, and all the signage for hot dogs reminded me of a not-so-fun fact: Frankfurters are over 10% costl

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he should have asked for a bigger stake in chipmaker Intel, nine months on from a landmark deal that saw the U.S. government take a 9.9% holding in the company. Describing his interaction with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Trump told Fortune in an int

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Tom's Hardware Verdict The LG UltraGear 52G930B is expensive to buy and expensive to drive. But if you have the means, it provides a gaming experience like no other. Pros - + Very colorful, bright and sharp - + Pro-level color accuracy out of the box - + Massive screen real estat

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These days, one would be forgiven for forgetting that SpaceX is, at its core, a rocket company. Consider the company’s mega deals over the last year. SpaceX paid $17 billion—more than it has spent developing every one of its rockets—to EchoStar for wireless spectrum to boost its

Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn. No phone, no dashboard. Just your helmet, and a lens the size of a thumbnail. This is not a concept video. It’s heading to European

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AMD's flagship RX 9070 XT GPU hits an all-time low $629 in Amazon lightning sale — Gigabyte's Gaming OC graphics card now $110 off Pump up the graphics Get your hands on AMD's flagship Radeon gaming graphics card whilst it's at its lowest-ever price on Amazon. The Gigabyte Gaming

Samsung granted court injunction against imminent strike action in last-minute reprieve — talks resume as unions barred from occupying or locking facilities, obstructing workers A court also ruled that staffing was required for safety and to prevent facility damage Samsung has be

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Samsung meeting transcripts show memory workers offered incredible 607% bonus worth $477,000, while logic chip staff get as little as 50% — union says misbalance 'creates a retention crisis the company cannot afford' A huge pay gap. Internal Samsung wage negotiation transcripts o

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Enthusiast crams reversed-engineered PS2 into a handheld, designs custom motherboard — bespoke "PlayStation 2 Portable" pairs modern features with original silicon The entire project is open-source and available on GitHub. A modder by the name of tschicki has built a custom "Play

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Hollow-Core Fiber: Faster, Greener, but Is It Worth the Cost? Hollow-core fiber promises faster speeds and energy efficiency, but high costs and limited benefits may keep it from revolutionizing data centers. When it comes to the fiber cables that provide network connectivity to

AI Demands Stretch the Limits of Data Center Retrofits Operators are racing to retrofit aging facilities for AI workloads, but many legacy data centers are running into hard limits around power distribution, cooling, and rack density. The AI infrastructure boom is usually framed

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