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China is reshaping its education system for the AI age. Beijing on Monday announced plans to integrate AI across all levels of schooling, while universities in recent years have revoked or suspended 12,200 so-called “obsolete” undergraduate degree programs, many of which were in

China does not have the capability to conquer Taiwan, a former commander of US forces in the Pacific wrote in Foreign Affairs, arguing that trends in military technology now favor the island and the US, its main backer. China’s rapid military modernization has merely brought Beij

Renewables were the world’s largest source of total energy supply growth last year for the first time outside a recession, according to a new Energy Institute report, with solar accounting for 72% of the total. China delivered another record year for both solar and wind — more th

Nearly a month has passed since the New Glenn rocket exploded on its launch pad in Florida, creating a massive fireball. It was likely the largest ever rocket explosion at the historic Florida spaceport, and we are still dealing with its implications today. The rocket’s explosion

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Nvidia reportedly cancels quad-die Rubin Ultra GPU in favor of dual-GPU design, report claims — complex design purportedly scrapped over 'manufacturing execution concerns' Fewer GPUs, more rack-scale systems? In a bid to offer unbeatable performance, Nvidia had planned to use fou

A new subsea cable in the Baltic Sea is being planned The Amber Cable is set to be 1,500km long, with nine cable landing stations in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Denmark along these countries’ Baltic Sea coast. The project is currently in ‘phase one’, which in

Digital Realty is acquiring a stake in three Virginia data centers from investment giant Blackstone. The US colo firm and Blackstone this week announced that Digital Realty has agreed to purchase a stake in three fully leased data centers in Northern Virginia totaling 288MW of to

China is nearing a key decision point, in which refurbishment of its steel sectors could lock in the high-emissions industry’s carbon output for more than a decade, a top expert noted. Blast furnaces must be “relined” every 15-20 years to ensure they can safely handle enormous te

The oil market is coming full circle as millions of barrels that were stranded in the Persian Gulf head to global markets, creating a sudden oversupply that has pushed prices to their lowest level since the US-Iran war began. Morgan Stanley analysts said in a note to clients that

More than 220 million people in the US will face dangerous temperatures this week, including over the July 4 holiday. Forecasters predict record-breaking heat across the East and Midwest — New York and Washington could see 100°F (37.7°C) — with a high-pressure system rivalling th

XRG, the international investment arm of Abu Dhabi oil company ADNOC, has agreed to take a 32% stake in three upstream blocks in Argentina that will supply gas to the country’s first LNG export terminal — adding to the growing list of overseas LNG deals by Gulf energy majors. XRG

Confusion reigned over whether the US and Iran will hold talks in Doha. Washington said they would meet; Tehran said its representatives would only see Qatari mediators. Iran insists vessels pass through its waters in the Strait of Hormuz as it seeks to maintain the control over

“There are a lot of people that are going out there and saying things like, ‘all jobs are going away,’ or ‘we're going to automate everything,’ or this language about the permanent underclass. And it really upsets me because not only is it inaccurate, but it's really harmful to t

The AI buildout is reshaping the global economy. Memory chip demand has already pushed consumer electronics prices up, and RAM prices are expected to increase a further 40-50% in the coming quarter. The three biggest memorymakers have seen profits and market caps surge, while sha

OVHcloud's CEO Octave Klaba reiterated the company's aim to take a piece of the AI pie during the company's Q3 2026 earnings call. Klaba has of late shown some interest in the development of its own LLMs. Earlier this month, the CEO was reported to have said that it plans to trai

JetCool has launched a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge server. The Dell PowerEdge XE7745 server apparently “combines a fully integrated, liquid-cooled system with commissioning, deployment, and ongoing maintenance services” across the server and cooling environment. “By bringing tog

Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman — the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures — was a bit like watching a toddler have a temper tantrum at his nursery school teacher. Savitt’s questions we

UK operator Virtus Data Centres is planning a new data center outside London. The company this week announced the development of London19. Located within the Slough Trading Estate, the facility will deliver 32.5MW of IT load. Planning permission for London19 has already been secu

Chinese Z.ai's latest model tops AI ranking charts amid Anthropic Fable 5 ban — blacklisted China firm's popular open-weight GLM-5.2 AI model powered by Huawei silicon Z.ai's open-weight model leads the accessible field on domestic chips. On June 12th, the U.S. Commerce Departmen

Taiwan raided the local offices of US IT firm Super Micro over allegations that it helped smuggle Nvidia chips into China, underscoring the geopolitical importance of the world’s most advanced semiconductors. Washington has banned the export of cutting-edge chips to China, citing

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China’s manufacturing activity expanded more than expected, cementing the country’s two-track economy with domestic demand still in the doldrums. The relatively upbeat purchasing managers’ index reading for this month was largely driven by the global AI investment boom and the br

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Cryptominer turned AI and HPC data center firm Ionic Digital has secured $400 million in equity investment. The company said the round was led by new investors Attestor, Oaktree Capital Management, and Sachem Head Capital Management, with participation from Citadel and Weiss Asse

Taiwan raids Supermicro and two supply-chain partners in widening Nvidia smuggling probe — nine sites hit as six people summoned for questioning Prosecutors searched six homes and three company sites. Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors' Office raided Supermicro Computer's Taiw

Don't believe the negative hype: At a time when consumer sentiment is near record lows, shift workers' attitudes towards their jobs has actually gotten better over the past year, according to a survey released Tuesday. Deputy, a global firm that helps small businesses with schedu

Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists — $300,000 worth of copper wire and $1 million worth of equipment recovered outside Chicago Dominic Toretto would be stealing servers, not TVs and VCRs, if The Fast and the Furious was set today. The boom in data

Meta fights soaring hardware costs by reusing old DDR4 server memory in new DDR5-only servers — custom CXL 2.0 chip marries legacy DDR4-2400 with cutting-edge DDR5-6400 CXL memory expanders give new life to DDR4 memory. The price of DDR5 memory is setting new highs these days as

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Raj and Sunny Singh Sandhu trace their origins to a 50-person Punjabi village. “We come from this multigenerational family of Indian Army and Air Force,” said Raj. “Everyone served, on one side. And then, everyone’s been farmers, in agriculture. So, when we go back it’s acres and

Andy’s view Like US President Donald Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has grand urban visions, a penchant for iconic projects, and particular tastes in architecture: Xi favors traditional Chinese aesthetics, Trump neoclassicism. Both are attempting historic makeovers of their cap

Samsung's 9100 Pro SSD 1TB is still available at its excellent Prime Day price thanks to 39% discount — cheaper and faster than the 990 Pro and the lowest price we've seen in months SSD pricing is still extremely tough. SSD prices remain absolutely exorbitant, but this discount o

HamsterOS jams a 32-bit GUI operating system in a single 1.44 MB floppy disk — retro OS for 386-era hardware should make for easy living with DOS machines and software And yet, let us not forget that the Amiga had preemptive multitasking in 1985. The appetite for retro computing