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Chelsea agree £7.5m fee for Villa's Martinez - Published Chelsea have agreed a £7.5m fee to sign Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez. The Argentina international, 33, is set to undergo a medical in London and strengthen the goalkeeping group at Stamford Bridge. It follows co

NVIDIA has announced the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an updated system-on-module and developer kit engineered to run compact foundation models and real-time computer vision workloads at the edge. The release targets embedded robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles, and industrial edge devices

OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices and more than 100 other companies and entities signed a letter on Thursday calling on businesses and policymakers to prioritize cybersecurity and "act decisively" to bolster defenses in the age of artificial intelligence. "We h

OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices and more than 100 other companies and entities signed a letter on Thursday calling on businesses and policymakers to prioritize cybersecurity and "act decisively" to bolster defenses in the age of artificial intelligence. "We h

Allan Little: I met dangerously fanatical Mladić early in Bosnian war - Published Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladić, dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia" for his actions during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, has died in prison. BBC special correspondent Allan Little was there througho

TerraMaster is expanding its enterprise storage efforts around a group of rackmount and tower NAS systems designed for centralized backup, data protection, video surveillance storage, and other business workloads, a step up in ambition from the consumer NAS and Thunderbolt storag

SK Hynix, the South Korean memory maker that's emerged as one of the biggest winners in the AI boom, is bolstering its U.S. presence, with a new factory in Indiana that CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says will make the state a "key HBM production base in America" by 2030. Speaking at the grou

SK Hynix, the South Korean memory maker that's emerged as one of the biggest winners in the AI boom, is bolstering its U.S. presence, with a new factory in Indiana that CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says will make the state a "key HBM production base in America" by 2030. Speaking at the grou

Smith & Cox help England to 248-9 on truncated day one - Published Second Rothesay Test, Lord's (day one of five) England 248-9: Smith 61, Cox 55; Abbas 4-56 Pakistan: Yet to bat Jamie Smith and Jordan Cox battled difficult conditions and an improved Pakistan performance to take

The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, says a cyberattack on one of its systems has been declared a “major incident,” a formal, legally defined classification that prompts a formal notification to lawmakers in Congress. ATF said in a statement that

POWER POINT What I'm hearing from energy insiders The Great Hormuz Debate. Exactly how many ships - and how much oil - are getting through the Strait of Hormuz? With apologies to Shakespeare's Hamlet, that is the question. Let's start with what we do know. We know that the amount

Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats. The letter — which was also signed by prominent cyber fi

Man City and Aston Villa to face champions PSG - Published European champions Paris St-Germain will face Premier League duo Manchester City and Aston Villa as well as five-time winners Barcelona in the league phase of this season's Champions League. The back-to-back Champions Lea

Insurance broker Pluto Insurance has appointed Abhishek Singh as CEO, with around 23 years of experience in the insurance industry. Singh joins from Upstox, where he worked on its insurance business, and previously spent over 11 years at OneInsure, according to his LinkedIn post.

For the first time in decades, NASA has rolled out one of its iconic astronaut training aircraft with a bold, new look. The space agency debuted a new livery on one of its T-38 jets in celebration of its program to return astronauts to the Moon. The Artemis design retains nods to

Cloud and data centre company ESDS Software Solution has raised ₹216 Cr from anchor investors ahead of the opening of its ₹720 Cr initial public offering (IPO). In its filings with the BSE, the Nashik-based company said that it allotted 50.3 Lakh equity shares to 19 entities at ₹

Cisco is broadening its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA initiative by adding Supermicro as a compute partner, incorporating Supermicro’s liquid- and air-cooled systems into Cisco’s full-stack AI infrastructure architecture. The expansion targets enterprise, neocloud, and sovereign

Indian stock market investors are likely to track several companies on Friday, August 28, following key developments and announcements made after market hours. Hero MotoCorp, Tejas Networks, Zee Entertainment, ACME Solar Holdings, NBCC, RailTel, and RPP Infra Projects are among t

Dive Brief: - After not growing its e-commerce business since 2021, Bath & Body Works is seeing clear signs of progress in the channel, executives said on a Wednesday earnings call with analysts. - The retailer’s digital business returned to growth in the second quarter. - “Digit

Google is giving Pokémon fans a new reason to wear a Fitbit. The company announced Thursday a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with Pokémon Sleep, combining Fitbit’s health and fitness tracking and the sleep-focused Pokémon game. The announcement comes as Pokémon celebrates

Weekly quiz: Who is taking over as Gilderoy Lockhart in HBO's Harry Potter series? - Published This week, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama died, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on each other's countries after trade talks collapsed,

Fashion startup Atorie announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round with investors, including a16z speedrun, Night Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures’ Jeremy Liew. The company says shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same materials — and

Summary This post is for technical decision makers evaluating where to run production PostgreSQL workloads. It compares two valid operating models—self-managed PostgreSQL and a managed database service—through business and operational outcomes: control, engineering capacity, resi

NVIDIA's second-quarter (Q2) results exceeded expectations, and its revenue guidance for the next financial year beat estimates. But experts say the chipmaker now faces a tougher challenge; rising costs and pressure on profit margins could test how long its AI-fuelled growth can

China's YMTC aims to become the world's largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix The Entity-Listed chipmaker told investors it plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix as it prepares a $4.9 billion Shanghai IPO. Yangtze Mem

Dogs are amazing. But as many pet parents will tell you, they can be remarkably good at hiding when something is wrong. My Labrador-Great Dane mix, for example, contracted tick fever several times over his 14 long years, and it was always at least a couple of weeks before I suspe

Data Center Backlash Reaches the Ballot Box Data center development is becoming a campaign liability for politicians who once sold it as an economic development win. At least 18 incumbent officeholders lost elections between August 2025 and August 2026 after taking documented act

In the wake of news on Tuesday that two people in Pennsylvania died from measles, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been posting a slew of anti-vaccine rhetoric and misinformation on social media—marking a resurgence of his old ways as a fervent opponent of lifesaving im

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IBM has announced the IBM Storage DS8000 Release 10.2, an update to its flagship enterprise storage platform tailored for IBM Z, IBM LinuxONE, and high-performance, mission-critical environments. The release targets large-scale enterprise demands by focusing on increased drive de

On Nvidia’s earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had “achieved AGI,” one of the tech industry’s ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as “senseless.” Jense

Oxmiq Labs is presenting HBF in AI Compute at Hot Chips 2026, making the case for high-bandwidth flash as a capacity tier for AI inference. This ended up being a major discussion topic, so we wanted to get this one out and its own day to give it a bit more exposure. We did this o

Tracing the deadly path of the Nepal-Tibet flash flood Floods have devastated the Nepal-Tibet border region which have destroyed towns and swept away bridges. Hundreds of people have been reported dead and hundreds more missing. BBC Verify has traced the path of the deadly flash

Trump administration weighs expanding chip tariffs to laptops, consoles, and servers, report claims — January's data center exemptions may be scrapped Commerce is considering a duty-free chip quota pegged to each company's pledged U.S. production. The Trump administration is weig

Hospitality technology firm Prism, the parent company of OYO, closed FY26 on a solid note, with its net profit surging more than fourfold, driven largely by growth in its North American business. The company reported a net profit of ₹994 crore in FY26, marking a 305% jump from ₹2

Artificial Intelligence Deepgram deepens Amazon SageMaker AI observability with Enhanced Metrics Self-hosted speech AI has historically carried an observability trade-off. The service can tell you an endpoint is up and how many requests it served. The questions that actually driv

The Scoop The Senate’s bipartisan college sports bill is getting more air support as it faces resistance from the Congressional Black Caucus. Saving College Sports, a group founded by wealthy businessman and Texas Tech University Board of Regents Chair Cody Campbell, is launching

Dive Brief: - In a significant miss, Build-A-Bear’s second quarter total revenues dropped 7.2% year over year to $115.3 million, according to a Thursday press release. Net retail sales declined 7.1% to $106.5 million and pre-tax income fell 24% to $11.6 million. - The retailer lo

Artificial Intelligence Reduce ASR inference costs by 75% with NVIDIA MPS on Amazon EC2 This post is a collaboration between AWS, NVIDIA and Heidi. Reducing automatic speech recognition (ASR) inference costs on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) becomes critical when GPU u