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It’s no secret that AI is a hog, consuming energy and water like no digital technology before it. Now we know just how much Big Tech’s pursuit of AI is costing the environment. Both Google and Amazon released their sustainability reports this week, and the numbers aren’t pretty.

Move over, guys. Iconic apparel brands that have historically been more popular with men are turning to women to help drive a new leg of growth. The CEOs of Timberland owner VF Corp., Levi's, and Columbia Sportswear have all recently highlighted women as a key focus as they look

Meta is getting into gaming with the launch of a new app called Pocket, which allows people to generate small, interactive apps and games using AI prompts. The software, a result of Meta’s acquisition of the team at the vibe-coded gaming platform Gizmo earlier this year, describe

Hopper, the travel app known for its AI-driven flight and hotel price predictions, has agreed to a $35 million settlement following a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The lawsuit accused the company of misleading users by imposing hidden fees and misrep

Back in April, Reuters reported that Anthropic was toying with the idea of producing its own AI chips as a means of responding to chip shortages. Now, it would appear that the company is getting serious about this idea. On Thursday, The Information reported that Anthropic was in

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Amazon said it now has enough satellites in orbit to begin "initial service" of its Leo internet-from-space network later this year. The company shipped 29 satellites into orbit around 12:30 a.m. ET on Thursday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The mission brings Amaz

Off the Wire Press Releases CAMPBELL, Calif., July 2, 2026 — OXMIQ Labs Inc., a unified GPU and AI architecture company founded by Raja Koduri, has closed its $35 million Series A financing, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $60 million. The funding will scale OxCore

On the surface, a June drop in the unemployment rate helped provide some upside to what was an otherwise downbeat jobs report — but it was for all the wrong reasons. That's because the decline in the jobless level to 4.2%, the lowest in a year, came largely from an exodus of work

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course - AI and ML Companies that add more AI also add more people But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs - ai and ml Sof

Nasuni sorts out large remote file SMB/NFS access pain Nasuni contrasts its high-performance edge caching-based remote file access with WAN optimization tools that make CAD assemblies replication of large files between sites take hours. We asked its CTO, Jerry Carter, some questi

Artificial Intelligence How Amazon Bedrock catches AI-generated phishing Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose a new challenge for security teams managing email systems,

The Switch Is the Bottleneck: Why AI Infrastructure Has a Network Problem AI workloads are outpacing network capabilities, leaving expensive chips idle. Mark Rushworth explains why the switch is the bottleneck and how to fix it. July 2, 2026 The rapid growth of AI workloads is ex

Artificial Intelligence Best practices for multi-turn reinforcement learning in Amazon SageMaker AI Training a multi-turn agent in Amazon SageMaker AI to resolve support tickets or moderate content means handling a sequence of dependent steps, not a single response. These agents

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Sandwich chain Jersey Mike's filed for an initial public offering on Thursday, reporting that its same-store sales cumulatively climbed 50% from 2020 through 2025. Jersey Mike's plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "JMKE." The company reported net income

Wisk Aero, the electric air taxi company owned by Boeing, has been hit with a lawsuit from a former employee, who claims she was fired after raising safety concerns. Former software manager Briahna O’Neill sued Wisk in Santa Clara Superior Court earlier this week, alleging discri

A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration. That could pave the way for the possible return of commercial supersonic airliners—as long as such aircraft can reduce

The Premier Lacrosse League wants to begin selling its teams to individual owners or groups by 2028 "or soon thereafter," league co-founder Paul Rabil told CNBC. In the next decade, Rabil said, he wants the league to expand from eight teams to as many as 16, with each franchise o

Storage News Ticker - 2 July 2026 Japan’s NTT DOCOMO is using Dell PowerMax and PowerStore, paired with APEX Subscriptions and Dell Managed Services behind in its internal private cloud supporting its SmartLife services wit 100 million users. It gained: 50%+ reduction in seven-ye

The US snapped its hiring hot streak in June, a weakening that will complicate the Federal Reserve’s path forward on interest rates. Employers added 57,000 jobs last month, about half of what economists had expected. That puts more pressure on new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and his co

President Donald Trump's crypto-related income and holdings in companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia netted him many millions, according to his annual financial disclosure report. "You know why I'm profiting? Because the stock market's going up, everybody's profiting," Tr

Weekly quiz: Why did the princess climb the UK's three highest peaks? - Published This week, the rescue and recovery effort in Venezuela continued following last month's devastating earthquakes, the King and Queen revealed they would not be moving back into Buckingham Palace, and

A few weeks ago, we published our Fortinet FortiGate FG-40F Review: Leveling Up Firewall Testing. At the same time, we were testing it with the Fortinet FortiGate FG-60F in back-to-back mode. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the units are similar in many ways. Still, many have not seen in

Lawmakers in Congress have taken a bipartisan step toward better protecting vulnerable adults from financial fraud. In a 414-2 vote, the House last week passed the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act of 2025, H.R. 2478. The bill would allow open-end funds — mutual funds, most e

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The U.S. economy saw job creation cool sharply heading into the summer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday. Nonfarm payrolls for June increased by a seasonally adjusted 57,000 for the month, slower than the downwardly revised 129,000 added in May and worse than the

This week Ars hosted a live discussion with two space industry experts about the aftermath of the catastrophic explosion of the New Glenn rocket in late May. Along with Ars Technica Space Editor Eric Berger; the director of research at Quilty Space, Caleb Henry; and the host of t

Dive Brief: - StockX has introduced a StockX Listings feature, which integrates used sneakers and vintage apparel into its marketplace, the fashion platform announced on June 24. - StockX Listings uses AI photo analysis and proprietary data, along with pricing guidance, so seller

With Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O’Driscoll We recorded this on the last day of June, and one theme ran through almost every story: Companies quintupled their token spend in the first half of the year. Almost nobody can point to the revenue lift that justified it. Tha

When Plex launched in 2012, it sold lifetime access to its media server software for $75. In 2014, Plex raised the price to be more sustainable for the company, it said, and for years, Lifetime Plex Passes cost $120. Even the pricier $250 rate, which Plex offered from March 2025

Traditionally, achieving the American Dream usually means going to college, getting married, buying a house and then having kids. Gen Z may be more inclined to skip the marriage part, according to a recent CNBC and SurveyMonkey American Dream Pulse Survey. Among the survey's 4,13

As the United States turns 250 this weekend, and with gas prices pressuring travel, boutique outdoor hospitality brand AutoCamp has a pitch for American travelers. The high-end camping company offers Airstream suites, polished cabins, fire pits, design-forward amenities and acces

Amid disease surveillance for the ongoing Ebola outbreak, Ugandan health authorities identified a case of Marburg virus disease in a one-and-a-half-year-old child, who has died, according to Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Ugandan health officials appear re

SK hynix to invest $712.5 billion in South Korean operations — Cheongju NAND expansion, Yongin Semiconductor Cluster for DRAM detailed Over the next decades. SK hynix this week announced that it would invest an additional KRW 100 trillion ($64 billion) in its Cheongju campus to e

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course - AI and ML Companies that add more AI also add more people But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs - ai and ml Sof