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California Assembly passes 3D printer bill that would criminalize bypassing mandated gun-blocking software AB 2047 advances to the state Senate. California's Assembly has passed AB 2047, the California Firearm Printing Prevention Act, sending the amended bill to the state Senate

A robot startup is wreaking havoc on short-term rentals in San Francisco — Airbnb hosts allege 'guests' secretly tested robots indoors, left the units completely trashed A $12,000 lawsuit has been filed by one of the hosts. A $2 billion San Fransico startup called "The Bot Compan

The ASUS XA NB3I-E12 is a huge server. Occupying 9U of rack space, it brings a cutting-edge NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra subsystem along with Intel Xeon processors and over 6.4Tbps of networking in a form factor that is relatively easy to integrate into data center racks. Today, we are

A group of 20 Snap alumni has come together to launch a fund called Ghost Angels to back the next generation of social media. The fund declined to disclose how much it has raised so far, but says it has backed at least five companies and plans to deploy the remaining capital with

The golden age of Microsoft’s Github Copilot appears to be at an end — for the little guy, at least. The company is switching its billing system from a flat subscription rate to a token-usage system that has the potential to bill users at a significantly higher rate. Bigger enter

Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing in the next year, according to a memo viewed by The Information. This device would presumably build on the work of Limitless, an AI device startup that Meta acquired at the end of 2025. The startup made an AI

Gemini Spark is Google’s new 24/7 agentic assistant, designed to help you help you “navigate your digital life,” which essentially means getting your online to-dos done, summarizing the things you don’t have time to read (like the entirety of your inbox), or organizing something

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and Nvidia RTX 5060 combo is only $439 — deal includes a free CPU cooler, totaling out to $150 in savings for a great budget setup The perfect gateway for 1080p gaming. The PC-building hobby we all hold near and dear is going through a bit of turbulence at the m

This week at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in Athens — part of the Panathenea festival taking place in the city — I sat down with Niko Bonatsos of Verdict Capital, Andreas Stavropoulos of Threshold Ventures, and Ben Blume of Atomico to ask about the current state of venture inves

ATX12VO V3 standard shrinks the connector and maximizes power efficiency — new 8-pin connector also brings smarter power supply monitoring ATX12VO evolution continues. Intel is reportedly planning to introduce a third revision of the ATX12VO (Advanced Technology eXtended 12-Volt

MSI's new 32-inch OLED monitor can switch between 4K 360 Hz, 1440p 520 Hz, and 1080p 680 Hz — featuring a 'Penta Tandem' QD-OLED panel with RGB stripe subpixels A true flagship in every way. MSI just unveiled a beast of a monitor ahead of Computex 2026, with truly flagship specs

Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: “Even as a black woman, I have more faith that white

Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website. How one founder’s bet on ‘the old school web’ is paying off In 2022, Craig Campbell walked away from a ‘blank check’ to start, of all things, a website. And his bet is

Although TikTok is widely described as a social media giant, it’s been gradually moving beyond that category. Over time, the video app added TikTok Shop, a map for local discovery, robust search, games, and so much more. Now, it has recently added hotel booking capabilities and i

If you enjoy homemade pizza but don’t love the hassle that comes with it, an electric pizza oven may be the ideal upgrade. The Ninja Artisan Outdoor Pizza Oven is aimed at people who want delicious pizza nights without having to deal with things like propane or wood pellets, unli

Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari currently dominate the web browser market, with Chrome holding a significant share due to the tech giant’s ongoing innovations, particularly in integrating generative AI into its search functionalities. However, users seeking alternatives will fin

Nikon weaponizes lower prices to break ASML's lithography monopoly — tech giant leverages in-house manufacturing to slash prices to lure back American chipmakers New CEO says in-house parts give a cost edge. Nikon will try to win back lithography customers by selling argon fluori

Kevin O'Leary claims Chinese propaganda is to blame for anti-datacenter backlash, 'hundreds of millions of dollars' being spent to kill US dominance in AI — industry proponents and Trump administration reinforce claims of foreign interference Just because you're paranoid doesn't

Meta is once again trying to prove it can make money by doing something other than selling ads. It's not a strategy that's worked in the past, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting artificial intelligence will bring better results. The company said this week that it will begin testi

I haven’t seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time — that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke. SpaceX is a threat. And if Musk and his bankers have their way, you are going to be their bagholder. The SpaceX IPO is great

Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged China’s semiconductor industry — Washington’s export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech Was Jensen right all along? Hua

Sellers circumvent Lenovo’s retro handheld ban with cheap wholesale storefronts — $41 gray-market G02 units pop up on Alibaba following initial storefront purge, systems were pulled from sale amid copyright drama and regional restrictions What initially seemed like a promising an

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Stanley Plotkin, 93, was instrumental in developing a number of vaccines over the course of his career. He recently said that he’s “beginning to regret having lived so long—because we’re going downhill.” How could we possibly have gotten here? Maybe we’ve always been here. It tur

Lucky PC builder snipes $2,000 ROG Astral RTX 5080 on Facebook Marketplace for $500 — gets a nearly 75% discount card that 'works perfectly' The deal almost got away, too. An enthusiast who has a habit of browsing Facebook Marketplace for great bargains just stumbled upon a deal

Pentagon eyes 3D-printed military boats made from volcanic fiber — non-conductive hulls add stealth capabilities while replacing a 6,545-mile supply chain, could scale to 25,000 vessels a year at forward bases These inflatable boats use basalt fiber to reduce radar returns and RF

At a virtual public comment hearing hosted by the US Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, a long line of environmental advocates voiced strong opposition to proposed new regulations weakening requirements that utilities must follow in cleaning up toxic coal ash residue at

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A recent Indian court ruling against Google’s keyword advertising practices has gained fresh attention after founders said competitors have long used the system to siphon off customers and force companies to pay to protect their own brands. The ruling, delivered by the Delhi High

Qualcomm is launching a new low end laptop CPU line, the Snapdragon C. Details are something between sparse and non-existent but SemiAccurate can fill in a lot of the blanks. In a Computex pre-briefing, Qualcomm surprise launched the Snapdragon C platform for $300 and up PCs. If

I am sitting in the sweltering Nevada heat watching a man struggle to lift a bar over his head. If the man manages to do it, he will win $250,000. The man is Boady Santavy — a two-time Olympic weight-lifting contestant from Canada — and he has muscles that look culled from the Ma

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Artificial Intelligence Comprehensive observability for Amazon SageMaker AI LLM inference: From GPU utilization to LLM quality Deploying large language models (LLMs) at scale on Amazon SageMaker AI Inference makes observability a critical pillar of any production machine learning

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