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Blue Origin provided its first substantive update this week on the cause of the catastrophic loss of the New Glenn rocket and most of its launch pad infrastructure at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in May. The space company’s chief executive, Dave Limp, said investigative work is conti

Off the Wire Press Releases SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 6, 2026 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. today announced the seventh annual Supermicro Open Storage Summit, a virtual event presented with theCUBE that will run from August 11 through September 3. The 12-session technical series brin

Before the mines, the drone strikes, and the tolls, the Strait of Hormuz functioned like a freeway, with two-mile-wide lanes for ships passing in either direction. A fifth of the world’s oil and LNG transited daily, alongside crucial foodstuffs, petrochemicals, and other goods, m

Off the Wire Press Releases Introducing Apache Fluss, a lakehouse-native streaming storage for real-time analytics and AI, and Apache Pony Mail, a web-based mail archive browser built to scale to millions of archived messages WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 6, 2026 — The Apache Software F

Off the Wire Press Releases RPI will lead one Phase I project and support a second, advancing AI applications in critical materials and particle accelerator research Aug. 6, 2026 — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) researchers will contribute to two projects selected by the

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 6, 2026 — Dark energy — the invisible force accelerating the expansion of the universe — remains one of the deepest mysteries in modern science. Unlocking its nature requires not only powerful telescopes but the ability to transform vast streams o

Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses - Published Artificial Intelligence has been used to design brand new viruses that are fully functional and can replicate in the laboratory, say US researchers. It is the first time whole genomes have been successfully desi

Shares of Airbnb Inc. declined on Thursday as investors awaited the company's second-quarter earnings report after the closing bell, with expectations running high given the stock's strong rally this year. At 12:55 p.m. EDT, Airbnb shares were down 1.91%, or $2.91, at $149.58. Th

Few automotive companies are as dependent on breakout hits as Ford. It’s almost as though it’s baked into the company’s DNA: From the Model T and the Taurus to the F-150 and the Explorer, Ford has lurched from one success to another. Recently, though, the automaker has been comin

Tinder isn’t the only major dating app turning away from the swipe and toward real-world events to attract Gen Z users who’ve grown tired of traditional online dating. On Wednesday, Bumble touted the early success of its newest app, Plans, designed to connect people “IRL” in low-

Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparency. In a lengthy blog post, CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman laid out the company’s principles and the next steps for the company as

South Korea space agency shares Moon images after SpaceX rocket debris crash - Published South Korea's space agency has released images that show the Moon after part of a SpaceX rocket crashed into its surface on Wednesday. The Korean AeroSpace Administration (KASA) said lunar or

NetApp buys JetStream Software for its Azure-focussed VMware DR-as-a-Service offering NetApp is acquiring VMware DRaaS supplier JetStream Software for its disaster recovery and VM migration capabilities. This follows on from NetApp buying Data Pelago, with its Nucleus Universal D

OpenAI is removing limits on text-based chats for all users on ChatGPT, which recently crossed the 1 billion weekly user mark, the company announced today. The new GPT-5.6 Luna model will power this experience and will be the default model for Free and Go users, replacing GPT-5.5

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AI - AI and ML How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI eraAI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem - AI and ML AMD acquires AI

Gold and silver prices surrendered all of their intraday gains in Thursday's trade, 6 August, as investors booked profits following the recent rally driven by easing concerns over inflation and US interest rates amid signs of de-escalating tensions in the Middle East. After climb

Ahead of the commencement of the bidding for its public issue on August 7, logistics tech platform LEAP India has raised ₹743.6 Cr from anchor investors. The startup allotted 4.67 Cr equity shares to anchor investors at a price of ₹159 per share, the upper band of its price spect

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House Judiciary Committee Republicans sent a letter to the South Korea's Media and Communications Commission on Thursday expressing their concern over recently adopted online regulations they say could allow the government to censor free speech and attack opposing viewpoints. The

The parasitic fungi in the Cordyceps genus are a favorite subject of nature documentaries. They’ve also infiltrated popular culture via the zombie-apocalypse video game The Last of Us (2013) and its TV adaptation, in which a parasitic fungus mutates to infect humans. Scientists a

Off the Wire Press Releases Projects will accelerate innovation in critical scientific and engineering challenges Aug. 6, 2026 — Researchers at the University of Minnesota have had three projects selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s inaugural Genesis Mission program, unde

Fox won't negotiate a new NFL media rights deal until closer to 2030, when its current contract with the league expires via an opt-out clause, Chief Executive Officer Lachlan Murdoch said during a Thursday earnings conference call. The NFL has held preliminary discussions with bo

Developers detest drudgery. The entire field of programming is proof of how hard people will work to automate away the boring tasks involved in building things. And, as vibe coding has proved, they’ve even managed to find ways to not do most of the work of putting products togeth

OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits if you do too many text chats on those tiers

Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng Clash Over AI Risks and Regulation at Ai4 AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng sparred over jobs, regulation, and AI’s future as infrastructure spending continues to surge. LAS VEGAS — Three influential AI researchers offered sh

AMD, Spectro Cloud, and Supermicro have announced AMD Instinct Coder, a validated enterprise inference platform intended for AI coding workloads. The solution combines AMD Instinct GPU accelerators, Supermicro AI infrastructure, and Spectro Cloud’s PaletteAI Inference Launchpad t

Alphabet Inc. is looking to raise as much as $25 billion from its latest US investment-grade bond offering, a deal that is testing investor appetite for AI-related debt following a July selloff. No final decision has been made on the size, according to people familiar with the ma

AI - AI and ML How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI eraAI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem - AI and ML AMD acquires AI

Connor Moucka, a 26-year-old Canadian citizen, has pled guilty to hacking more than 165 companies, stealing billions of records, and extorting several companies and individuals. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the guilty plea in a press release. Moucka was

The Federal Communications Commission voted 2–1 today to eliminate the National Television Ownership Rule, claiming authority to repeal a limit that was set by Congress over 20 years ago. The rule prohibits any single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed sweeping changes to settlement and risk management rules, aiming to hand greater operational responsibility to clearing corporations, eliminate outdated regulations and reduce compliance and reporting requirements for

The Scoop Heading into last week’s Federal Reserve meeting, Wall Street’s favored betting parlor — the Fed funds futures market — put two-thirds odds that the central bank would hold rates steady. Over at Kalshi, the prediction market, the chances were as much as 10 points higher

Despite significant drama from Trump officials this year, the Food and Drug Administration has for the first time approved a flu vaccine that uses mRNA technology. On Thursday, vaccine maker Moderna announced that its flu shot, mRNA-1010, aka mFLUSIVA, had earned approval for use

Appeals filed against Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) orders before the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) fell to 429 in 2025-26 from 533 a year ago, according to Sebi’s annual report for the fiscal year. In the same period, the market regulator's settlement colle

Shares of SpaceX rebounded 7% on Thursday, 6 August, rising to an intraday high of $115.75 as the stock recovered part of the steep losses from the previous session when the company's massive AI-related spending overshadowed an otherwise strong quarterly performance. Despite the

Google Builds A New Gemini Model Team As AI Investments Accelerate Despite the enormous progress that has been made in generative AI frontier models in the past four years, attaining artificial general intelligence or superintelligence is not an easy goal. Very few of us are behi

CoreWeave Enters APAC Data Center Race With Indonesia Expansion As AI adoption accelerates across Southeast Asia, CoreWeave’s entry into Indonesia signals a strategic shift toward regional AI infrastructure and sovereign compute. CoreWeave is expanding its AI cloud platform into

Cloudflare has open-sourced its Cloudflare OS platform, which it first developed as an internal workspace for employees to build apps using AI agents—including people who are not software developers or engineers. The company also touts a security framework designed to reduce the