Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks
Siemens and fellow German engineering biz Reinhausen are developing a solid-state transformer (SST) to deliver 800-volt DC power directly to […]
Month: August 2026
Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales
Payments biz Stripe has reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for at least $7 billion, signaling a shift in […]
Be a hater all you want, AI’s here to stay
AI gets things wrong, it kills jobs, and when the bubble bursts, it will take the economy down with it. […]
Excel’s Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin
Microsoft will retire Excel’s COPILOT() function on September 14, barely a year after its preview debut. Introduced in August 2025, […]
Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants
A cybercrook claims to have siphoned millions of employee records from the Microsoft Azure environments of major companies including McDonald’s, […]
Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028
The cost of agentic AI workflows is forecast to increase more than fivefold by the end of 2028 as users […]
Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures
Despite the outcry over Capita’s performance on the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS), the UK government has awarded the beleaguered […]
Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release
Windows 11 has moved one step closer to matching Windows 10 after Microsoft slid a movable taskbar into the Release […]
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers
Do you love lasers and hate mosquitoes? For $1,000, you can install your very own bug-zapping surface-to-air missile rig at […]
GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate
Microsoft’s GitHub source shack is reporting a 50 percent error rate on repository content downloads. GitHub Copilot is also “experiencing […]