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Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull

Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks Opinion I'm at the Linux Foundation Members Summit , and Sonatype 's CTO Brian Fox introduced me to a new open source problem. I wouldn't have thought that was p

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Flux nabs $37M to automate printed circuit board development with AI

Flux, a startup with a platform that speeds up the development of printed circuit boards, has raised $37 million across two funding rounds. The company disclosed the investments today. Flux, officially Defy Gravity Inc., raised about two-th

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Internet under fire: Will Section 230 live to see another birthday?

It’s only 26 words in a 60,000-word act, but Section 230 has proven to be one of the most significant, and controversial, pieces of law ever passed in the United States. Contained in the Communications Decency Act of 1996, Section 230 was o

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Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic products

U.S. President Donald Trump today ordered federal agencies to stop using technology from Anthropic PBC. The ban will also have to be upheld by military suppliers, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced separately on X. Both moves are

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Double whammy: Steaelite RAT bundles data theft, ransomware in one evil tool

Credential and cryptocurrency theft, live surveillance, ransomware - an attacker's Swiss Army knife A new remote access trojan (RAT) being sold on cybercrime networks enables double extortion attacks on Windows machines by bundling ransomwa

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Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government

Without a single 'You're Fired' joke updated President Trump has escalated Anthropic's dispute with the Defense Department with a social media post ordering the entire federal government purge the company's software from its systems. …

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PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought

'This is perhaps the biggest challenge the industry has faced since its inception' The next wave of smartphones and PCs will have less memory and fewer capabilities, yet are likely to cost consumers 14 percent more as AI ambitions eat all a

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Inside GlobalAI’s bet on next-generation data centers

AI isn’t just adding horsepower to data centers — it’s redefining what they are built to do. The shift is structural, not incremental. Traditional racks and retrofit upgrades can’t keep pace with large-scale AI workloads, forcing a redesign

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OpenAI raises $110B at $730B valuation, expands AWS and Nvidia partnerships

OpenAI Group PBC today announced that it has raised $110 billion in funding at a pre-money valuation of $730 billion. Nvidia Corp. and SoftBank Group PBC provided $30 billion each. The remaining $50 billion came from Amazon Web Services Inc

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For imagination-speed animation, Pixar depends on lightning-fast storage infrastructure

Pixar Animation Studios’ storage infrastructure has taken them from animation house to something of a data factory. But to maintain the artistic standard set by films such as “Toy Story”, the studio must now process billions of pixels and t

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Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on

ChatGPT maker announces $110B in new investment amid flurry of self-serving deals The headlines say OpenAI on Friday announced $110 billion in new investment from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, though te

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AI at scale is demanding a fundamentally different data architecture

Organizations adopting artificial intelligence soon discover the twin challenges of AI-scale data performance and global data orchestration. At that level, only a unified data platform can control capacity and policy across distributed envi

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Suspected Nork digital intruders caught breaking into US healthcare, education orgs

Who is knocking at the Dohdoor? Digital intruders with possible links to North Korea have been infecting US education and healthcare sectors with a never-before-seen backdoor since at least December, according to security researchers.…

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You can share your real-time location via Google Messages now - here's how

You can choose how long you want to share your location or turn it off at any time.

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Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge

Lab aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US grid Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is hoping to turn its technical expertise to the problem of growing electricity demand from AI datacenters.…

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AI workloads are exposing the limits of the cloud, demanding a total stack overhaul

Artificial intelligence deployments aren’t just adding load to the cloud — they’re reshaping it from the inside out. As graphics processing unit clusters scale and inference workloads multiply, the abstraction layers that once made cloud co

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Microsoft HoloLens finds second home in the military after failing battlefield tests

Let’s hope air cargo checks don’t trigger the same headaches The US Army's attempt to turn Microsoft HoloLens headsets into battlefield kit may have failed, but the AR goggles aren't going into the garbage. Instead, they're being repurposed

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Ultrahuman takes aim at Oura with new ring's 15-day battery - but not everyone can buy it

The Ultrahuman Ring Pro also packs a new safety feature that makes the smart ring easier to cut off - just in case.

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Harvard boffins finally crack the mystery of squeaky sneakers

Are they shoe-ins for an award? Hard to say It is a sound evocative of high school: the characteristic squeak of sneakers on a basketball court. UK readers may, however, be familiar with the same sound from their trainers while playing badm

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7 ways Nano Banana 2 just got better and faster - how to try Google's latest image model

Google's new default model for generating images, Nano Banana 2 offers faster speeds, better text rendering, and higher resolutions than its predecessor.

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The best satellite phones of 2026: Expert tested and reviewed

I went hands on with the best satellite phones and communicators from companies like SpaceX, Garmin, and Inmarsat. These devices offer features like messaging, live tracking, and SOS capabilities.

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The best Samsung TVs of 2026: Expert tested OLEDs, big-screens, and more

Samsung offers everything from high-end OLED TVs to budget-friendly options, and we've tested them all to help you find the best fit for your home theater.

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The AI boom is turning flash storage into a critical infrastructure battleground

An AI-driven flash shortage is emerging as one of the defining infrastructure challenges of the machine learning boom. More than a problem solved by waiting out the typical hardware cycle, the shortage is forcing a larger rethink on how ent

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Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users, researcher claims

Who's to blame – the vibey platforms or the humans who ignore security warnings? Vibe-coding platform Lovable has been accused of hosting apps riddled with vulnerabilities after saying users are responsible for addressing security issues fl

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Vast Data bets big on unified AI and cybersecurity with expanding partner ecosystem

Enterprises pushing artificial intelligence from trial to production are learning that infrastructure and cybersecurity are no longer distinct, isolated disciplines. Now, Vast Data Inc., a provider of disaggregated, high-performance data so

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Destroyed servers and DoS attacks: What can happen when OpenClaw AI agents interact

By testing agent-to-agent interactions, researchers observed catastrophic system failures. Here's why that's bad news for everyone.

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What to expect at MWC 2026: Best phones I'm anticipating from Xiaomi, Motorola, and more

Mobile World Congress 2026 kicks off next week, but Samsung, Nothing, TCL, and others have already hinted at what's to come in Barcelona.

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I'm a Linux power user, but NixOS has made me rethink what an operating system can be

Experienced Linux users looking for a new approach should check out NixOS, which offers a thoughtful design with extensive customization.

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I bought this bizarre wireless charger for my Apple Watch, and it's already saved me multiple times

If your Apple Watch is just as important as your iPhone, this snap charger by Iniu is a compelling power solution.

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Is Microsoft really spying on you with Windows telemetry?

Some Windows customers are convinced that Microsoft's diagnostic data collection for Windows is a secret spy network. I've been investigating this topic for a decade. Here's what you need to know.

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