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Off the Wire Press Releases May 27, 2026 — The Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin (Climate DT) has produced a new set of simulations which represent a significant step forward in producing high-resolution climate information within the European Commission’s Destination Earth

A website called UK Visa Portal publicly exposed thousands of passports and selfie photos of applicants who paid the site to obtain a U.K. immigration visa, TechCrunch has learned. An anonymous person notified TechCrunch about the security lapse, saying that the website was expos

SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing and targeting data, forming the “backbone” of a rearchitected network after separate Pentagon initiatives stalled, officials announced Tuesday. Space Systems Command, t

Off the Wire Press Releases Enabling enterprises to seamlessly extend file workloads into the cloud instantly, avoiding multi-month hardware lead times without disruptive migration or application refactoring SEATTLE, May 27, 2026 — Qumulo today announced a new joint Bridge-to-Clo

Off the Wire Press Releases SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, 2026 — Tensormesh today announced $20 million in new funding from investors including AMD Ventures, CoreWeave, NVIDIA’s NVentures, Valley Capital Partners, and Laude Ventures, extending its seed round and bringing its total fundi

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Off the Wire Press Releases SAN JOSE, Calif., May 27, 2026 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. today announced that Verda, a leading European AI cloud provider, has selected Supermicro’s NVIDIA GPU-accelerated, rack-scale systems to power its modern AI cloud infrastructure across Europe

Artificial Intelligence Powering agentic AI sales strategy with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore As agent adoption scaled, we saw a common pattern emerge across enterprises, including our own sales organization: specialized agents deliver value, but without orchestration, users carry the

Meta is doubling down on its subscription offerings. On Wednesday, the social networking giant announced it’s now rolling out its consumer subscription plans globally for its flagship apps, Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, and beginning tests of new subscriptions for businesses

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Thea Energy has raised an oversubscribed $100 million Series B led by U.S. Innovative Technology Fund, the fusion startup told TechCrunch. The sum places the company among the better-funded fusion startups, giving it an improved chance at achieving a commercial reactor. The new f

Universal Pictures has released one last trailer for Disclosure Day, director Steven Spielberg’s hotly anticipated return to his “aliens are among us” summer blockbuster roots. And the director features prominently, offering his thoughts on the existence of aliens in between foot

AI content creation tools like Google’s new Omni model threaten to make reality even harder to discern from AI fantasy, but YouTube is taking an important step toward verifying video origins. After debuting wishy-washy AI content labeling in 2024, Google will begin using more pro

A Guide to AI Cold Starts on Cloud Run Shir Meir Lador Head of AI Engineering, Google Cloud Developer Relations I saw a developer asking on Reddit if there was any “sane way” to manage Cloud Run cold starts for AI across multiple regions. They were experiencing startup latencies

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Smart lighting manufacturer Govee is apologizing after a pair of books showing only the words “white supremacy” were featured in a marketing image on its website. The books were visible in an image (shown above) on Govee’s US website for bedroom lighting. Disturbingly, the books

NVIDIA RTX provides game developers with direct paths to AI-driven characters, frame generation, and ray-traced rendering. This post walks through a meaningful set of recent updates across the RTX ecosystem. NVIDIA ACE expands its multilingual AI character capabilities, making it

CrowdStrike, working with Google and Shadowserver, a nonprofit organization that scans and monitors the internet for cyberattacks, took down a botnet that cybercriminals used to push malware and steal passwords from open source software developers. The takedown operation had the

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Italian council sets 200% tax on data center development in agricultural zones — aims to spur the use of old industrial areas instead and limit environmental impact No place for data centers in rural areas The region of Lombardy, Italy, which has Milan as its capital, just approv

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AI factories are a new class of infrastructure built to manufacture intelligence that’s always on and in real time. In the industrial age, power plants converted energy into electricity. In the AI age, AI factories convert energy into tokens — the unit of production for reasoning

Cognition, the makers of the autonomous AI software engineer named Devin, has raised more than $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation ($26 billion post money), the company announced on Wednesday. That’s a major leap from its $10.2 billion post-money valuation when it clo

By the time that the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th congressional district wraps up in June, Anthropic and OpenAI will have spent millions on their battle over the political future of AI: who gets to regulate it, or who will be punished for trying to regulate it. But the

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered SpaceX to investigate why its Starship booster failed during the company’s May 22 test flight, according to a statement released to TechCrunch on Wednesday. This means SpaceX will have to pause any further Starship test launch

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Shiny new Nvidia apps like the GeForce Experience and the “Nvidia app” have come and gone, but the old Nvidia Control Panel and its rotating green Nvidia logo have existed as an option for managing basic settings since it was originally introduced in 2006. That’s ending with vers

AWS Compute Blog Migrating your Java applications to AWS Graviton using AWS Transform custom For Java applications, modern JVMs like Amazon Corretto and OpenJDK are highly optimized for Arm64 and modern applications that are pure Java often require zero changes to run on Graviton

Off the Wire Press Releases BOSTON, May 27, 2026 — Zapata Quantum today announced the return of two of its co-founders to the Company’s leadership team: Yudong Cao, Ph.D., former Head of Quantum at BCG X, as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Jonathan Olson, Ph.D., J.D., as Vice

Volvo Cars got some welcome news from the US Department of Commerce yesterday. The government has told the Swedish automaker, which is partly owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding, that it may import connected cars into the US, despite a ban on such vehicle software with Chines

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