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Episode details Available for over a year Today, Andy Burnham has set out his vision for the country should he become Prime Minister, including plans like setting up a ‘No10 North’ in Manchester. He said he wants to ‘take power out of the centre’ by transferring some powers from

Episode details News,29 Jun 2026,27 mins Has the Supreme Court just made Trump the most powerful president in history? AmericastAvailable for over a year SCOTUS overturns 90 years of legal precedent to expand US presidential power, handing Donald Trump a major victory. The court

Sony recently informed its PlayStation customers in the United Kingdom that they will no longer be able to watch previously purchased movies and shows from production and distribution company StudioCanal. As of September 1, affected customers will no longer be able to stream 551

Another challenger to the Amazon Kindle-Goodreads book-tracking empire has emerged. On Monday, the reading tracker StoryGraph teamed up with Rakuten’s Kobo, the maker of a more open e-reader (and Kindle alternative), allowing book lovers to automatically track their reading habit

The ban on ozone-depleting substances that successfully reversed the growth of the hole in the ozone layer isn’t seen as a missed opportunity. On the contrary, the quick global response is one of the best cases of common-sense environmental action. But what if it could have been

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, “Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade.” OpenAI is

Waymo robotaxis are no longer available on Uber’s ride-hail app in Phoenix, Arizona, ending a nearly three-year partnership in the city, both companies confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. Uber said it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city,

Off the Wire Press Releases AALBORG, Denmark, June 29, 2026 — VAST Data has announced that Aalborg University (AAU), one of Denmark’s leading research institutions, has selected the VAST AI Operating System (AI OS) as the data foundation for a new on-premises AI research environm

CUDA emulator for AMD GPUs Zluda loses funding with v6 release — embattled project goes back to hobby status but now includes 32-bit PhysX support The latest release will be welcome news for retro gaming fans. There's bittersweet news from the shore of the open-source Zluda proje

Micron Technology's monster post-earnings rally is almost gone. Shares of the maker of memory chips traded as low as $1,023.65 on Monday, down 18% from the 52-week high reached on Thursday. Monday's session low is also nearly $25 below the stock's closing level on Wednesday befor

Today, we are finally getting into what might be the biggest upheaval of a server product line, or a server socket, since the AMD EPYC 7002 “Rome” launch. The AMD EPYC 8005 “Sorano” uses the same AMD SP6 socket as the EPYC 8004 “Siena,” but it completely changes the performance p

Off the Wire Press Releases AutoLabs is a new agentic AI system that translates experimental goals into robot-specific language RICHLAND, Wash., June 29, 2026 — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) use a slew of autonomous robots

Europe’s push to rein in Big Tech is ramping up, with the European Commission planning to announce new regulations for Google next month. The rules could see Google forced to play nicer with its EU competitors, but the company has some concerns. Google is framing this not as a ma

Artificial Intelligence Implement a backup strategy for Amazon Quick Sight BI assets Amazon Quick Sight is a core feature within Amazon Quick — an agentic, AI-powered digital workspace designed to maximize end-user productivity— that provides AI-powered BI capabilities through na

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Anthropic have made a deal that allows California government agencies to use Claude at a discounted price. This agreement comes at a time when businesses are struggling to manage the hefty costs of enterprise subscriptions to AI tools. Under the d

The world’s two largest memory chip companies plan to invest $518 billion (~800 trillion won) to build four new memory fabs in southwestern South Korea, a region that has historically attracted little semiconductor investment. The announcement is part of the country’s sweeping na

A short time back, we covered an announcement by Amazon that it would be hosting a useful quantum computer from its partner QuEra as soon as sometime in 2028. The system promised some eye-popping numbers compared to anything on the market today: over 10,000 individual qubits, eac

The Delhi government on Monday approved a new Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy that is expected to accelerate electric two wheeler adoption through purchase incentives, mandatory EV only registrations from 2028 and a major expansion of charging infrastructure. The policy offers incen

Artificial Intelligence Pair Nova 2 Lite with Claude for cost-optimized document processing A scanned yearbook page contains 176 printed names, 4 portrait photographs, and zero machine-readable structure linking them. To digitize this page, you need reliable photo detection with

A fight between states and the federal government over who should regulate sports betting is heating up, as states accuse prediction markets like Kalshi of taking the exact same sports bets as gambling platforms without paying taxes or adhering to stricter controls. Last Tuesday,

Rack-Based Environmental Monitoring: Benefits, Insights, and Getting Started Rack-based environmental monitoring enhances data center efficiency by providing granular insights into temperature, humidity, and airflow. When data center operators think about how to optimize the perf

Artificial Intelligence Multi-tenant LLM analytics with row-level security: How we built a secure agent on AWS At PAR Technology Corporation, we build technology for the restaurant industry, supporting over 300 restaurant businesses, from independent operators to large, multi-bra

Just eight months after launching its commercial service, AI leaderboard provider Arena, which originated as a research project at UC Berkeley in 2023, has reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue. Arena is best known for its popular crowdsourced AI model performance l

JetCool has introduced a liquid-cooled version of the Dell PowerEdge XE7745, combining the server, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, rack infrastructure, deployment services, lifecycle support, and unified warranty coverage into a single integrated offering. The solution is delivere

Artificial Intelligence Build an agentic AI healthcare claims pipeline with Amazon Bedrock and AWS HealthLake Manually processing paper-based forms remains a significant cost in the healthcare industry. Despite advancements in data extraction of scanned documents and images, huma

Hyperscale Data has completed the acquisition of 48.5 acres of land in Michigan to expand its data center campus. The company first entered into an agreement to buy the property in March 2026, which more than doubles the land owned by Hyperscale Data, bringing it to 83 acres. The

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that President Donald Trump does not have the authority to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from the central bank for now. But the opinion leaves open the possibility of dismissing her in the future. The court did not rule whether Trump ultim

Valve threatens legal action against Dbrand over its unsanctioned Portal 2-inspired Companion Cube — edgy accessories manufacturer kills product after asking for licensing deal, admits it didn't have 'the right to make it' A characteristically dumb move by dbrand. When the Steam

Artificial Intelligence Debugging production agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability Production artificial intelligence (AI) agents can fail silently. They may return plausible but incorrect answers, enter infinite reasoning loops, or select the wrong tools without tri

Trump accounts — set to officially launch July 4 — are aimed at helping the youngest Americans get an early start on building long-term financial security through investing. Whether that will reduce the retirement savings gap that women face is less certain, experts say. Research

Legacy Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB returns to retail five years after original launch, priced at $339 — resurrected GPU strategy that Jensen called a 'good idea' apparently comes to fruition Ampere rides again for almost the same price as RTX 5060s Back at CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Hu

Cursor isn’t letting the $60 billion SpaceX acquisition slow it down. On Monday, the company announced a new app called Cursor Mobile, designed for users who want to prompt coding agents directly from their phone. The app ties into the Cursor 2.0 changes unveiled in October, whic

Google has reportedly limited Meta's use of the Gemini AI models due to compute capacity constraints for the cloud provider. According to a report from the Financial Times, three people familiar with the matter said that Google told Meta in March that it could not purchase all th

Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry — hosted on Microsoft Azure and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs — are now generally available, giving Azure-native enterprises a powerful new way to build autonomous and domain-specific AI agents. As agentic AI continues

Claude in Microsoft Foundry is the production path enterprises have been asking for: true frontier model choice, Azure-native controls, simplified procurement, and faster time to value. Most enterprise AI projects do not stall because of model quality. They stall because of every

Permitting delays pushed by the Trump administration threaten to derail 92 gigawatts of clean power, even as electricity demand from AI data centers skyrockets. Already, permitting changes and federal funding withdrawals have led to the cancellation of 7 gigawatts of generating c

Ukrainian telco Kyivstar has announced plans to develop an AI data center in Ukraine. In a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with the country’s Ministry of Economy, the firm said that the facility would help to strengthen Ukraine’s technological sovereignty and boost forei

A data center developer has filed a legal challenge to overturn a moratorium in Eagan, Minnesota. First reported by local press, Eagan Capital has filed a lawsuit against the City of Eagan, challenging a temporary ban on data center developments, according to a legal complaint fi

A 900-acre data center could be built in Salix, Iowa. Energy company MidAmerican is interested in developing a campus on the land parcel, which was annexed by the Salix City Council from Woodbury County back in April. In a letter sent to the Salix City Council on June 8, MidAmeri

Music streaming service TIDAL is the latest to take aim at AI-generated music with the introduction of a new policy that will prevent fully AI-generated music from making money on its platform. In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts

Dive Brief: - During Amazon’s Prime Day dates — June 23 through June 26 — online U.S. retail spend grew about 9.3% year over year to $26.4 billion, according to data from Adobe shared with Retail Dive on Saturday. - Discounts across online retail in the region were mostly on par