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Hot Chips 2026: Nvidia touts benefits of its DSX MaxLPS site power management approach — tech allows for more compute from fixed data center power budgets Real-time monitoring, dynamic allocation, and smarter planning are all needed for maximum performance from a Rubin installati

Door was locked at Pakistan hospital where fire killed 14 babies, witnesses say - Published It was just after dawn on Wednesday morning at a maternity ward in the Pakistani capital when a horrific blaze erupted. It would go on to kill 14 infants as parents say they waited hours f

Bill Gates posted a long essay to his Gates Notes site today, showing just how much the Microsoft co-founder has been thinking about the social impacts of AI. Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, arguing that Pacing the Frontier, the open letter published by AI employees p

Dolly Parton’s America. If, unlike US President Donald Trump, you don’t have the power to lower flags across your country to half-mast for a week, we suggest instead marking the passing of American national treasure Dolly Parton by listening to WNYC’s podcast series Dolly Parton’

AI - AI and ML Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em looseEight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces -

Warner Bros. Discovery is feeling whiplash. It was only last summer that the company said it would split itself in two and began the process of creating separate, publicly traded entities: Warner Bros., which would have housed the streaming and film units, and Discovery Global, w

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said it has observed cyberattacks targeting over 100 internet-exposed systems across the U.S. water and wastewater sector, amid a wave of hacks targeting American critical infrastructure. The number of affected systems provides new context to the sc

US-based Capital Group, through its affiliate American Funds Insurance Series Global Growth and Income Fund, sold 67,64,623 equity shares, representing a 1.04 per cent stake in Mumbai-based Avenue Supermarts, as per bulk deal data on the BSE. The shares were offloaded at an avera

TAPE Folio Photonics optical archive tech is heading to Brazil Folio Photonics optical disk tech is being used by Savartus and OAIS Cloud to provide Archive-as-a-Service in Brazil. OAIS Cloud is a Brazilian digital storage cloud provider and will act as the strategic partner resp

Listen to this article in summarized format The personal consumption expenditures price index, the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, rose 3.7% in July from a year earlier, accelerating from a 3.6% increase in June, according to government data. The reading adds to the policy dilem

Over the weekend, the nerds were buzzing with speculation over which AI lab was behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious new open-weight AI model launched onto OpenRouter anonymously and already topping benchmarks and leaderboards against the best models. As many had expected, Ox Alpha wa

Shares of Navratna defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL) are likely to remain on investors' radar on Thursday, August 27, after the company announced a sizeable order win in post-market hours on Wednesday. In a regulatory filing, the company said it had secured additional ord

As part of its nuclear fusion processes, the Sun produces a particularly interesting isotope of helium, known as helium-3. Some of this helium-3 escapes the Sun’s gravitational pull as part of the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that emanates out across the Solar System

King and Queen to visit the Caribbean in autumn tour - Published King Charles III and Queen Camilla will travel to the Caribbean later this year, Buckingham Palace has announced. The royal pair will travel to Antigua and Barbuda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, w

The CEOs I have the most respect for today? The ones truly rebuilding their companies for the Age of AI. Not just sort of, kind of, doing so. Not the ones who shipped AI features and put them on the pricing page. I mean the ones tearing up how the product works, how it’s priced,

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Most forms of theft take something from you. You notice the car is gone, the account is drained, the files are locked. Brand impersonation is a strange one. Nothing of yours ever leaves. A copy of you, your company, your logo, your logi

Save $260 on this high-end AM5 gaming combo from Newegg — just $1,345.99 buys a Ryzen 9 9950X3D, 32GB Corsair DDR5 RAM, MSI X870E Carbon Wifi motherboard, along with a free 240mm AIO and AMD game bundle Premium Newegg combo nets 32GB of RAM for only $230 Newegg has come out with

The “bible” of clinical psychiatry—the DSM, short for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—is one of the most popular psychiatry reference books around the world. Clinicians use it to diagnose patients and scientists use it to guide research. Despite its wide

Electric mobility startup Hala Mobility’s operating revenue jumped 4.4X to ₹97 Cr in FY26 from ₹22 Cr in FY25, while its profit after tax (PAT) increased ninefold to ₹3.6 Cr from around ₹40 Lakh. The startup now expects its revenue to reach ₹250 Cr to ₹260 Cr in FY27, with its PA

Bengaluru-based Curaa has raised ₹40 Cr ($4.2 Mn) in a Series A funding round led by 3one4 Capital, with existing investors Kae Capital, Lumikai Fund and Better Capital doubling down on the D2C kitchenware startup as well. The two-year old startup intends to utilise the fresh cap

Chipmaking giant and ‘Magnificent Seven’ favourite Nvidia is scheduled to announce its financial performance for the June-ending quarter today, 26 August, with the earnings coming at a time when the company's share price has faced pressure on Wall Street. The chip giant is set to

Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle claims from 29 U.S. states over children’s safety. The lawsuit alleged that the social media giant knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about the harms the platforms could p

Zerodha posted a net profit of Rs 4,283 crore in FY26, up around 1.2% from Rs 4,231 crore in the previous fiscal, even as its revenue remained around the same level, co-founder and CEO Nithin Kamath said in the company's latest update. Kamath said Zerodha's revenue has not grown

Listen to this article in summarized format The S&P 500 was little changed, holding near its record high reached earlier this month. As of 11 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 113 points, or 0.2%, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.2%. The latest inflation data

Prices consumers pay for a variety of goods and services rose slightly in July, according to the Federal Reserve's main inflation gauge. The personal consumption expenditures price index, which the Fed uses as its preferred forecasting tool, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.2% f

Central bankers, policymakers and economists will gather in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Thursday for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's annual economic policy symposium. Markets are closely monitoring the event for Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's keynote speech after long-term borro

Alexis’s view The most significant impact of record-breaking IPOs by Anthropic and OpenAI may be felt thousands of miles from Silicon Valley, in towns and cities across Africa — cementing a link that has been years in the making. Anthropic’s IPO looks set to value the AI company

AI - AI and ML Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em looseEight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces -

Physical AI is one of the hottest sectors in venture investing, with companies raising billions to apply the tools that gave large language models to robotics. That excitement helped deliver a big IPO for Unitree, China’s leading robot maker, which saw the company valued at $66 b

Hot Chips 2026: Fujitsu's Monaka CPU stacks its entire cache on a separate 5nm die and narrows to 256-bit SVE2 — 350W and 500W SKUs due in 2027 Fujitsu details its Monaka server CPU This Tom's Hardware Premium article is free to read with a Tom's Hardware account; no payment nece

Crypto bro faces 280 years in prison for defrauding investors with promises of an 'AI supercomputer' for mining — jury convicts businessman of running $24-million Ponzi scheme, claimed up to 30% APR and a 100% money-back guarantee He told investors that he’s using an AI supercomp

HCI Nutanix adds more rooms to its agentic AI building Nutanix announced the general availability of Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) 2.8, and the upcoming general availability of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) 2.19. It said its core Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) offering is being e

Edtech unicorn LEAD School managed to narrow its FY26 net loss by over 20% to ₹34.5 Cr from ₹43.3 Cr reported in the year-ago period by focusing on cost optimisation over the past fiscal. Operating revenue for the fiscal grew by 10% to ₹386.7 Cr from ₹351.8 Cr reported in the pre

Social network Bluesky said on Tuesday that it is now increasing video limits on the platform to 10 minutes. Previously, the platform allowed three-minute videos, a limit that it raised last year. This makes it more competitive with other text-based platforms that by default allo

Xbox marks 25 years with eye-catching translucent green PC accessories — Razer mouse, keyboard, and earbuds available to pre-order now Razer PC peripherals, mobile controllers, and a bag for the ROG Xbox Ally make up the licensed lineup. Microsoft has opened preorders for the Des

AI - AI and ML Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em looseEight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces -

Off the Wire Press Releases The combination brings together complementary expertise in quantum computing, sensing, materials science, and advanced technologies to accelerate future innovation ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 26, 2026 — IBM today announced it has completed its acquisition of HR

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Chuwi UniBook gets a lot right for $449, combining a thin metal design, excellent battery life, a backlit keyboard, and a superb port selection for a bargain price. Its biggest compromise is a washed-out display, but also watch out for warranty shipping

Abu Dhabi healthcare company M42 signed a 10-year contract with the government of Botswana to roll out a national genomics program, digitize health records, and bolster access to medicines. The deal comes as the G42 and Mubadala-backed firm has sought to expand in the Global Sout

Shapor Naghibzadeh learned the value of a good story in 2009 as a Google SysOps engineer. When hackers backed by China set their sights on the search giant as part of an effort dubbed Operation Aurora, he was called in to a hastily assembled war room to explain what exactly was g