New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts
New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday paused incomplete state environmental permit applications for large datacenters while officials work out […]
Month: July 2026
If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic
Aware that AI models exhibit different values in different languages, Anthropic researchers have taken steps to map out how Claude […]
Welsh Doxbin admin jailed for egging on swatters from behind a screen
A Welshman was sentenced to prison on Tuesday for his role in numerous swattings in the UK, US, and Canada. […]
DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before it’s too late
Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis is calling for the US to establish a robust frontier AI model review process because, […]
RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet
Another month, another ambitious idea from Yuri Zaporozhets: a proposal for a standard PC-style BIOS for RISC-V computers. The Harmonic […]
Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they’re… quite good
Microsoft has made good on a promise to make Windows Search less of a chore to use, making tweaks to […]
Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud
The researcher who exposed Grok Build uploading users’ entire repositories to cloud storage says the transfers have stopped after a […]
Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole
“Can it run Linux?” has joined “Can it run Doom?” as the benchmark for coaxing unlikely hardware into doing complicated […]
Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy
NASA has performed a rocket switcheroo and will launch its SunRISE mission on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy instead of the […]
IBM’s mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic
IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory […]