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Skilled trade workers are already in high demand, and researchers say the industry will continue to see steady job growth in the decade to come. The State of America's Skilled Trades report, published Wednesday, found that 1.7 million skilled trade jobs will open each year throug

Schneider Electric used YOTTA 2026 in Las Vegas to introduce what it calls the world’s first fully software-defined medium-voltage switchgear, already running in a live colocation pilot with Equinix, along with a 38 kV extension of its SF₆-free AirSeT gas-insulated switchgear and

Tesla sold 486,532 electric vehicles during the third quarter of 2026. That’s a 2.1 percent decrease on the same quarter in 2025, when the company found homes for 497,099 EVs, and one might think that would be bad news for a company valued on the premise of near-constant growth.

Dive Brief: - Ikea U.S. is closing a number of its plan and order locations in the coming weeks, the company confirmed to Retail Dive. - The retailer’s plan and order with pickup stores will close in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. on Oct. 18; Annapolis, Maryland, on Oct. 30; and Fa

Toshiba to double HDD production capacity amid devastating shortages — 65TB, 100TB drives on the roadmap for 2030 and beyond Toshiba reiterates plans to release 30TB-class HDDs, double HDD production capacity in Philippines in in 2027. Toshiba has spent approximately ¥60 billion

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS October 2, 2026 We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in ord

GKE CPU startup boost: Accelerate app starts without over-provisioning Abdel Sghiouar Cloud Developer Advocate Jakub Pawełczak Cloud Product Manager Whether you’re launching microservices in response to sudden traffic spikes, deploying new software releases, or scaling up applica

Announcing Spanner queues: Transactional messaging for agentic workloads and beyond Nitin Sagar Product Manager Matthew Mucklo Engineering Manager & Lead Cloud Spanner Data Streaming AI agents don't just answer queries — they can autonomously issue refunds, manage inventory, exec

Dive Brief: - Nike’s Q1 earnings report Thursday proved there’s more work ahead for the sportswear giant, which previewed an unspecified number of layoffs coming next year as the retailer overhauls its operating model. - Dubbed "Pace," the new restructuring plan includes consolid

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will operate as Skydance once their merger closes, Paramount CEO David Ellison announced Friday. Skydance is the name of Ellison’s original film production company. The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6. It will combine

Will Warrington or Wakefield be Super League's sixth winner? - Published Just five sides have lifted the trophy at Old Trafford in a Super League Grand Final. That exclusive club of Wigan, Leeds, St Helens, Bradford and Hull KR will gain a new member on Saturday as Warrington Wol

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 306.78 points, or 0.60%, to 51,233.34, the S&P 500 gained 78.31 points, or 1.02%, to 7,744.76 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 447.84 points, or 1.66%, to 27,319.43. Nike shares fell 5.6% after forecasting a sharp annual revenue decline, annou

Artificial Intelligence Sweep thousands of leases for compliance using Amazon Quick and the Adjudicated Query pattern Checking tens of thousands of apartment leases against constantly changing state landlord-tenant laws, and proving you actually checked all of them, has been beyo

AMD has started sampling the Versal AI Core XQRVC1902 adaptive SoC with early access customers in an enhanced space-grade package built for missions lasting up to 15 years. The package is an organic lidless design, and AMD is testing the device to MIL-PRF-38535 Class Y, which it

David’s view If the vice president delivers a campaign speech, does it make a sound? One irony of modern elections, when everything a politician says behind a microphone is livestreamed, is that few of his words get heard outside the room. Since the Republicans’ midterm conventio

Artificial Intelligence Add secure Web Search to Claude Desktop with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Claude Desktop on Amazon Bedrock provides powerful AI assistance, but without integrated web search, responses are limited to the model’s training knowledge cutoff. When you need current

Artificial Intelligence Fine-tune a search agent with multi-turn RL on Amazon SageMaker AI Search agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are transforming how enterprises retrieve information. Rather than requiring users to craft the perfect query, a search agent autonomou

Critics of AI-generated art have a powerful new ally: His Holiness the Bishop of Rome (Episcopus Romanus), Primate of Italy (Primatus Italiae), and Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church (Summus Pontifex Ecclesiae Universalis). In a post on X Friday morning, Pope Leo XIV detaile

CoreWeave used its Fully Connected 2026 conference in San Francisco to put NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 into production, with Cognition as the first customer running live workloads on it. Cognition’s engineers report up to 4.8x the total token throughput per GPU of a GB200 NVL72 basel

An interesting tug of war is happening in one of the market's hottest sectors: utilities. On hand, you have the historic AI buildout fueling an unprecedented earning boom in an otherwise stogy sector. On the other hand, you have fastest rise in Treasury yields since 1994 dimming

Leaked Intel Nova Lake product list has three 'BFC' chips with up to 144MB of game-boosting L3 cache — next-gen CPU lineup reportedly takes shape with up to 28 cores in Core Ultra 9 4970K BFC bLLC is now, apparently, BFC. A rumored SKU table for Intel's upcoming Nova Lake desktop

After Mozilla’s read-it-later app Pocket shut down in August, a number of alternatives popped up to take its place. But one newcomer, Laytr, is taking things further than offering a way to save things to read. The app lets you save anything on the web for later consumption, wheth

Intensified Russian strikes are tearing Kyiv apart, warns mayor - Published Intensified Russian drone and missile strikes are "tearing Kyiv apart", the mayor of Ukraine's capital has warned. Vitaliy Klitschko said the city was now in a "very dramatic situation" as Moscow was batt

AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

This report is from this week's The Tech Download newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. 2026 has been a turbulent year for Google's AI hopes and dreams. Things started well. Gemini 3, which launched towards the end of 2025, put Google very much in the frontier AI

NVIDIA has added a 64GB unified-memory configuration of the DGX Spark, starting at $4,999 and sold exclusively through Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, and MSI from October 23. The new SKU carries the same GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, ConnectX-7 networking, DGX OS, and NVIDIA A

The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi. India today commemorates the anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, so there is no better time to pick up a copy of his autobiography, characterized by The New York Times in a September 1948 review as containing “all the developin

Nasdaq, NYSE Arca, 24X National Exchange and Cboe EDGX have crafted plans to add an overnight session from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. in New York, on top of the regular hours and existing pre- and post-market periods they already operate. The expansion, set to take place on Dec. 6, seeks t

California tech CEO arrested, faces up to 20 years in prison for smuggling $300 million in Nvidia AI servers to China — federal prosecutors say chips were routed through Malaysia and Singapore using false paperwork Suspect faces 20 years in prison A California man has been arrest

The era of generative AI has upended technology supply chains, and there is one ironclad rule in 2026: If it has memory or storage, it’s getting more expensive. Even devices with years-old tech inside are still apparently subject to that unwritten rule. Nvidia has just announced

In not-so-surprising news, the .si domain name is seeing unprecedented demand after President Trump signed an executive order mandating all government agencies to refer to “AI” and “artificial intelligence” as “SI” and “super intelligence.” It echoes what happened at the start of

Sumeet Bagadia's stock/share recommendations: The key benchmark indices of the Indian stock market continued to bear the brunt of sharp foreign fund outflows and rising US bond yields amid the raging conflict in the Middle East. Investors are also perturbed by elevated crude oil

The fallout from Manchester City’s guilty verdict last week is threatening more than the club’s trophy cabinet: Billions in investment are now on the line. Emirati officials have reportedly warned the UK government that the ruling could reduce Abu Dhabi’s appetite for big commitm

The 80-kilometer stretch between Abu Dhabi and Dubai — a barren expanse of farms, factories, warehouses, and not much else — is now drawing multibillion-dollar property projects. Aldar, the capital’s biggest developer, and Sharjah’s Arada formed a 15 billion dirham ($4.1 billion)

Listen to this article in summarized format The US economy added 29,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported, well below economists’ estimate of 90,000. Payroll growth for August was also revised lower, while the unemployment rate edged up to 4.2% from 4.1%. For live up

AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

AI - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk - Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950

BiWin's CL 100 Mini is a particularly puny but potent SSD for portable gaming — tiny drive is only 15 x 17 mm in size, but up to 2TB in capacity It's destined for BiWin's gaming portables, but can probably be made to fit other gear. Owning a PC gaming handheld is quite handy, but

Two years ago, most companies didn’t have a GTM engineer. Now the role is showing up across tech, with practitioners using AI and automation to build revenue systems that once required multiple people, tools, and manual processes. What changed — and what does it mean for the way

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen on Friday said artificial intelligence companies must "step up and comply" with the spirit of their White House agreement to self-regulate, days after Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and other CEOs signed the document. "The history of tech companies e