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State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has clarified reports regarding the resumption of its overseas subsidiary ONGC Videsh Limited’s (OVL) oil and gas operations in Venezuela, saying the company is pursuing the required authorization from the U.S. Office of Foreign

OpenAI’s announcement yesterday that it will help build what could be the largest fossil-fired power plant in the US shows the scale that Big Tech and its financiers are chasing in the AI energy race. But the risk that such projects could turn into multibillion-dollar boondoggles

Overclocker updates Hydra overclocking tool with VRAM and power limit controls for RTX 50-series GPUs — new update gives up to +3000 MHz memory offset Up to 125% power limit on RTX 50-series GPUs. Computer enthusiast 1usmus has developed a new update for their Hydra overclocking

Amena’s view More than 170 days into the war between the US and Iran, one thing has become clear: Tehran is not prepared to let go of its leverage in the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump may claim that the US controls the waterway, but oil flows remain far below prewar le

China's homegrown AI accelerators to supply 90% of the country's domestic market, analysts suggest — Cambricon and Huawei expected to be the biggest winners in the shift away from Nvidia and AMD But the big question is whether China can maintain the number of AI accelerators it g

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The HP EliteBook X G2i is HP’s premium 14-inch business notebook, and the company is not shy about the AI branding: the formal model name is the EliteBook X G2i 14-inch Notebook Next Gen AI PC. Our review unit runs Intel’s Core Ultra 7 366H, a Series 3 Panther Lake part with 16 c

GameStop customer earned over $10,000 in store credit from a stack of broken consoles — traded 'hundreds' of PlayStations, Xboxes, Game Boys, Switches, and more Maybe ‘Josh’ can buy a couple of RTX 5090s now. One man’s trash is another’s treasure, and that certainly seems to be t

For the nation’s 2.4 million farmworkers, climate change is poised to exacerbate the harms of pesticides, a growing body of research shows. Heat stresses the body, making it more vulnerable to pesticides and other toxicants, and protective clothing worn in the heat only adds to t

Ecommerce enabler Shiprocket’s IPO has produced sharply divergent outcomes for its investors, with returns on the shares sold through the OFS component ranging from 0.6X to 77.6X. One of Shiprocket’s earliest backers, 500 Global, offered its entire holding for ₹16.3 Cr through th

Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized passenger records This treasure trove of data came at a relatively affordable $10 mi

Fairphone, the Dutch company known for its sustainable and repair-friendly phones, on Tuesday said its latest smartphone, Fairphone (Gen 6+), is now available in the U.S., starting at $649. The company previously had a partnership with French open source operating system maker e/

On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for around two hours. The outage disrupted more than 1,100 flights across the center’s 330,000 square mile, nine-state airspace sector. Elon Musk broke the FAA — Palantir is picking up t

Judge allegedly outsourced entire ruling to AI and still can't be sued — federal court upholds blanket judicial immunity Yet, this does not mean judges are allowed to use AI. It is not a secret that American judges have very broad judicial immunity. Apparently, even in cases wher

OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI tools affect younger users, as other platforms implement their own age checks and t

Reach Capital announced Tuesday the close of a $265 million Fund V. The thesis of the 11-year-old San Francisco firm is to back founders building AI applications that can “expand human potential,” Tony Wan, head of platform at Reach Capital, told TechCrunch. In practice, he added

Expand your NAS with a third off this Seagate 8TB IronWolf HDD — 32% discount in Best Buy's 60th Anniversary sale Fill up your NAS bays Storage prices are exceptionally high at the moment, with no end in sight to when the cost of a new drive will fall to the all-time lows of days

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Best Buy has slashed $1,350 off this 'outstanding' OLED RTX 5080 laptop — 16-inch Lenovo Legion Pro 7i features a 24-core Arrow Lake CPU and 32GB of DDR5 RAM A hefty configuration. Buying a gaming laptop is a great way to sidestep the exorbitant costs of RAM, SSDs, and GPUs that

Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does An operation exposed by an AirTag. AI companies are reportedly buying up millions of books, some of which are rare, and using t

Swedish electric and autonomous trucking company Einride said on Tuesday it plans to buy 500 Tesla Semis and make the electric big rigs available to its customers, which include Amazon. The Tesla Semis will be added in phases to Einride’s fleet over the next 24 months, starting i

Andy’s view The hallmark of Zhu Rongji, the former Chinese premier who died last week, was his fearless energy. “I have prepared 100 coffins,” he declared at the outset of his tenure, “99 for corrupt officials and one for myself.” For the nation’s workers, Zhu’s no-holds-barred a

Online travel aggregator (OTA) ixigo has entered into a partnership with ride-hailing major Uber to enable train-ticketing via the latter’s app. Launched today (August 18), the service would now allow users to book train tickets via the Uber’s app, check PNR status as well as boo

China reportedly orders state agencies to uninstall its government-only edition of Windows 10 — Beijing accelerates planned retirement over data security concerns The custom build from Microsoft's Chinese joint venture was scheduled to retire in February 2027. China's Ministry of

Chinese electric-vehicle makers have lost buyers at home and found new ones in Brazil, Thailand, and the Gulf. Some 540,000 EVs left China in July, a monthly record, while about 980,000 were sold at home, according to a report from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a London-based r

Firm test-fires 3D-printed, fully cryogenic reusable rocket engine — Indian startup leverages SLM printing to create its first working prototype After only two years in business, too. It's a safe bet that 3D printer aficionados would definitely own an industrial SLM (Selective La

Nvidia makes another deal, this time with a frontier lab; Anthropic’s revenue continues to amaze; and maybe data finally is oil. Subscribe to Stratechery Plus for full access. Already subscribed? $15 / month or $150 / year With Stratechery Plus you get access to the subscriber-on

This was a headline I’d been waiting to see. “Boiler room raised $74 million selling retirees SpaceX, Anduril, Anthropic, and Perplexity while reaping ‘massive hidden fees,’ SEC claims,” my colleague Amanda Gerut wrote last week, outlining a case that the SEC has brought against

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Nvidia crypto mining GPUs hacked to restore locked-away VRAM — software mod unlocks 64GB of VRAM on $250 CMP 170HX Now that the best graphics cards are worth a fortune for both gamers and AI enthusiasts, modders have resorted to hacking Nvidia’s older Cryptocurrency Mining Proces

We may have our first glimpse of Apple’s rumored camera-equipped AirPods, thanks to a video that MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate. The short video clip features a man — who is wearing the new AirPods — holding up a book with the cover displayed, so that V

Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration A third-party seller may be to blame Update 18 Aug 7:40 ET: This story has been updated with extra detail and clarif