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Tech companies and terrorists have been called out by trio of GOP senators.

Amazon to launch $2 billion fund to invest in sustainable technology

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The Climate Pledge Fund is named after Amazon’s pledge to be net-zero carbon by 2040.

Nvidia and Mercedes to roll out software-defined autonomous vehicles by 2024

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Vehicles will receive over-the-air software updates to ensure they are equipped with the latest autonomous features.

Dell said to be looking into VMware spinoff: Report

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Dell is looking at what to do with its stake in VMware.

Safari 14 removes Flash, gets support for breach alerts, HTTP/3, and WebP

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Safari also gets support for WebExtensions, the same browser extensions API used by Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.

Twitter bans DDoSecrets account over ‘BlueLeaks’ police data dump

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Twitter said DDoSecrets account leaked and promoted BlueLeaks, a huge collection of files stolen from more than 200 US police departments and fusion training centers.

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Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns. [...]

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips. [...]

Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk. [...]

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak. [...]

Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture. [...]

Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue [...]

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using [...]

All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new [...]

Amazon knocks $150 off Pixel 11 phones, with up to $200 in gift cards

If you’ve been on the fence about Google’s latest Pixel phones, this might be your best chance to save some cash. Amazon is offering an extra $150 off the Pixel [...]

Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder

It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. "How was the [...]

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Gartner: Are the real cloud wars about to begin?

The lasting digital legacy of Covid-19 – The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload Podcast

Neurodiversity on the rise among career hackers

Twitter contacts business users over data exposure

US Republican Senators develop Bill to end use of ‘warrant-proof’ encryption

Amazon to launch $2 billion fund to invest in sustainable technology

Nvidia and Mercedes to roll out software-defined autonomous vehicles by 2024

Dell said to be looking into VMware spinoff: Report

Safari 14 removes Flash, gets support for breach alerts, HTTP/3, and WebP

Twitter bans DDoSecrets account over ‘BlueLeaks’ police data dump