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Pre-modded 22GB RTX 2080 Ti cards surface on eBay for $500 as VRAM-hungry local AI fans chase down every spare FLOP — Hong Kong-based seller offers AI-friendly memory mod for a reasonable price No FLOPS left behind as the AI gold rush revives eight-year-old hardware The AI boom m

Ford Motor announced Thursday that its new midsize electric truck will have a starting price of $28,350 and be called the "Fathom," as the automaker looks to offer an affordable option in the pricey EV truck market. Destination and delivery charges of $1,595 will bring the price

TikTok is laying off 250 employees and closing its Nashville office, which housed some members of TikTok’s content-moderation team. The news was first reported by The New York Times. Zanna Crowley, a spokesperson for the TikTok USDS Joint Venture, confirmed the news, saying that

Price rises drive WD's revenues higher and AI tailwind helps Cloud and AI market disk sales contributed to a good quarter for WD, with inferencing and agentic AI set to sustain strong disk drive demand for several years. Revenues in the quarter ended were $3.75 billion, at the hi

Guimaraes future decided before I arrived - Jaissle - Published Newcastle United manager Matthias Jaissle says a decision about Bruno Guimaraes' future had already been taken by the time he first met the club's departing captain. Arsenal are set to complete their protracted £75m

Advancing brain tumor research with privacy-first AI Rene Kolga Sr. Cloud Security Product Manager, Google Cloud Peter Mattson Software Engineer, Google The intersection of medicine and AI has led to remarkable innovations. However, developers now face the thorny challenge of bui

Google announced on Thursday that Google Wallet will now allow parents to set up a secure balance for children under 18. The tech giant says the new feature is designed to help parents teach healthy financial habits while maintaining oversight of their child’s spending through bu

Digital sovereignty in the age of AI: You don’t have to choose between control and innovation Ankur Mehrotra VP/GM, Distributed & Sovereign Cloud, Google Cloud For enterprises and governments with strict compliance and sovereignty requirements, keeping sensitive data on-premises

Agentic Future Ready With BigQuery: Continually Improving Price-Performance, Zero Effort Joe Yong Product Manager Manan Goel Group Product Manager In the modern data landscape, query performance tuning and managing system price-performance is challenging, especially as the number

Your agentic summer: No-cost lessons from Google experts to build and scale agents Gary Eimerman Managing Director, Google Cloud Learning I’ve talked to developers, IT leaders, and builders who all ask the same question: How do we actually get agents into production? The answer i

First OpenAI, now Meta - why do AI hacks keep happening? - Published Over the last fortnight, reports of AI models going beyond their expected bounds - be that technically or morally - have been seemingly unavoidable. What started with a trickle - ChatGPT-maker OpenAI admitting t

Dive Brief: - Etsy will lay off about 220 people, roughly 12% of its workforce, according to a letter to shareholders published Wednesday. - In a memo to employees made public the same day, CEO Kruti Patel Goyal said neither cost cuts nor artificial intelligence spurred the move.

The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has ruled that gains arising from the repurchase of vested, unexercised employee stock options (ESOPs) are taxable under the long-term capital gains (LTCG) bracket rather than salary perquisites. Gains taxed under the LTCG regime generally

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., one of the authors of the "AI Kill Switch Act," said Thursday that the ongoing hacks by rogue artificial intelligence agents are adding urgency to getting the bill passed. "We need to get this bill across the finish line this year because the advanced clo

This generation of twentysomethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they’ll try literally anything else — even an AI matchmaker. After dropping out of UC Berkeley, Ditto co-founders Allen Wang and Eric Liu set out to build something that would help their pee

Object First reported a 148% year-over-year increase in bookings during the second quarter of 2026, reflecting continued demand for the company’s Ootbi immutable backup appliances as organizations strengthen defenses against ransomware and other cyberattacks. Bookings in EMEA inc

The Lok Sabha on Thursday (August 6) passed the bill amending the Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026, to further amend the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007. The amendments clear the path for the central government to introduce merchant discount rates (MDR) on

After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ This move should prevent fu

Non-terrestrial networks (NTN) are extending 5G and future 6G service domains beyond terrestrial limits. As its capabilities evolve, performance expectations are shifting toward carrier-grade reliability. This report explores the emerging NTN industry, the 3GPP standards roadmap

Tesla and SpaceX said Thursday that “Terafab,” the advanced chip factory they are jointly developing, will be built in Grimes County, Texas, outside Houston, and that they will make an initial investment of $16.8 billion in the project. The factory will be “the largest and most v

Dive Brief: - Digital Brands Group is considering a proposal from one of its shareholders seeking to buy its remaining common stock for $77.58 per share in cash, the company said in a Wednesday press release. - The proposal would significantly exceed its stock price, which opened

Early SpaceX investors will have their first chance to cash out a portion of their holdings on Thursday as initial lockup restrictions expire, potentially putting pressure on a stock that's already more than 50% off its high from mid-June. Just over 911 million SpaceX shares will

Early SpaceX investors will have their first chance to cash out a portion of their holdings on Thursday as initial lockup restrictions expire, potentially putting pressure on a stock that's already more than 50% off its high from mid-June. Just over 911 million SpaceX shares will

RBL Bank, a private sector lender, has fixed Friday, August 14, 2026, as the record date for determining the shareholders eligible to receive the final dividend of ₹1 per equity share for the financial year ended March 31, 2026. The bank had announced the final dividend along wit

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

OpenAI’s motion to dismiss Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit, along with newly filed exhibits, reveals the company’s legal defense strategy. Rather than focusing on whether former Apple employees working at OpenAI had accessed certain information, the AI company argues that Apple’s o

Broadcom has issued updates for VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer, enhancing security, performance, deployment, and automation features for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 environments. These updates include vDefend SSP 5.2, vDefend 9.1.1, Avi Load Balancer 32.1.4, and the

Your Platform Was Built For A Different Era, And AI Just Exposed It The debate about whether enterprises need an internal platform is over. Google’s 2025 DORA research found that 90 percent of organizations now report using an internal platform, and 76 percent have established de

Serious questions for Cambridge after professor at centre of plagiarism row resigns - Published The University of Cambridge is facing serious questions about its academic standards and push for diversity after its youngest black professor resigned amid allegations of copying othe

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

partner content Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it The debate about whether enterprises need an internal platform is over. Google’s 2025 DORA research found that 90 percent of organizations now report using an internal platfo

$1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages — memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in Apple's launch plans Apple has the wafers ready to go. It's just waiting on DRAM like everyone else. Apple reportedly has around $1 billion i

Off the Wire Press Releases This post was contributed by Martin Schuetz and Ruben Andrist from the Amazon Advanced Solutions Lab, and Romina Yalovetzky and Atithi Acharya from Global Technology Applied Research at JPMorganChase. Aug. 6, 2026 — Quantum researchers at JPMorganChase

Wealth management startup Fisdom’s cofounders Subramanya SV and Anand Dalmia are set to exit Groww upon completing a one-year planned transition, following the listed fintech major’s acquisition of Fisdom last year. The company doesn't plan on appointing external replacements for

Mattress maker Wakefit saw its net profit for the June quarter (Q1 FY27) increase 19% to ₹23.4 Cr from ₹19.6 Cr in the year-ago quarter. The metric, however, declined 81% sequentially from ₹121.7 Cr. Operating revenue for the quarter increased 17% YoY and 18% QoQ to ₹404.9 Cr. Wh

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