AMD FSR 4.1 update leaks with big image quality gains for Radeon GPUs
Could land with AMD's next major Adrenalin release
Trump calls on Big Tech to supply their own electricity for AI data centers
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others are expected to participate
The big picture: With electricity bills rising due to surging demand from AI data centers, President Trump has called for technology companies to either build their own power plants or help finance new power generation facilities. The directive comes amid growing protests from rural communities over energy-intensive AI data centers that have been rapidly expanding across the country.
Amazon's wishlist update could expose users' home addresses
Amazon might want to reconsider
Microsoft Office is down to $35 for a lifetime license
TL;DR: If you're looking for a powerful productivity suite without paying any subscriptions, Office 2021 is now available for just $35. All the essential tools you need for work or personal projects at over 80% off the regular price.
Genshin Impact quietly removes voice data clause after fan scrutiny
The change follows questions over how player audio might have been processed
Simple blood test could dramatically boost Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy
A potentially massive win for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease
The humble PDF is becoming a problem for AI
PDFs are structurally hostile to large language models
Looking ahead: Three decades after Adobe introduced the Portable Document Format – a design intended to preserve the appearance of printed pages across devices – PDFs are facing pressure from a completely different kind of reader: artificial intelligence. The same fixed layouts that made PDFs indispensable to human users now make them difficult for large language models to interpret. Unlike web pages or plain-text files, columns, embedded graphics, and hidden metadata in PDFs often confuse machine parsing systems trained to process linear text.
Pentagon threatens to cut Anthropic off unless it drops AI guardrails
Ditch safety or face sanctions
What just happened? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in Washington this week in an effort to break an impasse over military use of AI models developed by Anthropic. The Pentagon is seeking broad operational access to the company's Claude model for classified applications, but Anthropic has resisted approving certain use cases.
Google prepares search overhaul in Europe, will boost rival services to satisfy EU rules
EU scrutiny forces Google to rethink how its engine ranks rivals in travel and hospitality
HP warns RAM now makes up 35% of the cost of building a PC
HP expects a double-digit drop in PC shipments
New York sues Valve, arguing loot boxes cross the line into gambling
Counter-Strike, Dota 2, and the business of chance
PC builder orders one DDR5 kit, receives 10 worth $3,000 by mistake
He plans to sell the extra kits below today's sky-high DDR5 prices
Microsoft clarifies Windows 11 legacy printer driver support after user concerns
Windows Update will no longer distribute new third-party printer drivers
Google ships the AI assistant Apple promised but hasn't delivered
Apple's Siri promised these AI capabilities first, but Google is delivering them now
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says no one wants "sloppy" AI after urging critics to drop the term
Nadella previously asked people to move beyond the "AI slop" debate
Modders unlock FSR 4 support for Vulkan games with OptiScaler
OptiScaler 0.9.0 preview enables FSR 4 in Doom, Indiana Jones, and No Man's Sky
Simulated war scenarios reveal AI's tendency to push toward nuclear strikes
Winners & losers: In a world where military planners are increasingly turning to AI for strategy modeling, a recent experiment from King's College London offers a serious warning: when left to their own devices, AI systems tend to go nuclear. Dr. Kenneth Payne, a defense studies scholar at the university, tested three of the most advanced LLMs: GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Google Gemini 3 Flash, by placing them in a series of simulated global crises. The results revealed alarming patterns of aggression and miscalculation that challenge assumptions about AI's potential role in warfare management.
Nvidia's blockbuster quarter eases AI spending fears as data center revenue explodes
But graphics card supply constraints remain a major hurdle
US grid battery storage hits record, even as clean energy incentives are rolled back
America's power grid just crossed a battery tipping point
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SCHOOL TECH
After $30 billion, the laptop classroom experiment may have backfired
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CONTROVERSY
Microsoft replaces head of Xbox with AI exec, zero gaming background
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NO SECURITY
A developer accidentally gained control of more than 10,000 DJI devices
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INCOMING
Dell and Lenovo to launch Copilot laptops with Nvidia Arm CPU soon
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FAKE AI
Sam Altman compares AI energy use to the cost of "training" humans
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DEEPFAKES
Fake faces generated by AI are now "too good to be true"
Someone built an x86 CPU emulator using pure CSS, for science
CSS was never meant to do this, but it actually works
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra's privacy screen is the most interesting upgrade this year
The rest of the lineup starts at $900 with modest hardware upgrades, plus more AI
AMD is selling $60 billion worth of GPUs – and a piece of itself – to Meta
Any lingering hope for affordable gaming GPUs just took another hit
Editor's take: AMD and Meta have joined the growing circus of reciprocal deals Big Tech is using to bootstrap what it hopes will become a self-sustaining "AI economy." Under a new multi-year agreement, the two companies will closely align their technology roadmaps – though AMD's role comes with strings attached, including hitting specific performance targets in the stock market.
YouTube adds downloads and background play to Premium Lite plan
You'll still need the more expensive plan to access YouTube Music
Sony's "soft pause" patent would let AI step in when players get distracted
Just an idea for now, but Sony is imagining a pause button that never fully pauses
Apple is quietly assembling a US chip supply chain, one layer at a time
New fabs, wafer plants, and packaging campuses show Apple reshoring high-value silicon work while iPhone assembly stays overseas
Uber previews air taxi booking ahead of Dubai rollout with Joby
Flying taxis won't be autonomous or cheap at launch
New Android app alerts you when someone nearby is wearing smart glasses
The app tracks Bluetooth signals to expose hidden recording devices like Meta's Ray-Bans
OpenClaw creator says "vibe coding" is a slur against AI-assisted development
Peter Steinberger said using AI code editors is like learning to play the guitar
This Quake-style shooter fits in just 64KB
Developer built his own image editor and programming language to save precious bytes
WTF?! While the latest AAA first-person shooters usually require over 100GB of storage space, and even retro-style indie titles consume a gigabyte or two, a solo developer recently released a project that resembles the original Quake but could comfortably fit on an NES cartridge. The creator built most of the development tools himself, including the programming language.
Washington tells Silicon Valley the Taiwan chip risk is no longer theoretical
Taiwan's chip dominance has become America's biggest economic vulnerability
Why it matters: In closed-door briefings in Washington and Silicon Valley, national security officials have been blunt with executives from Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm: China is making plans to retake Taiwan, and even a blockade could choke off the island's chip exports and bring the US tech industry to its knees.
Apple set to launch first touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED and Dynamic Island this year
Featuring a "Dynamic Interface"
Death Stranding 2 on PC adds Guerrilla's Pico upscaler alongside DLSS and FSR
Reasonable system requirements: RTX 3070 required for 60 FPS gameplay at 1440p
Farmers are rejecting massive offers as AI data centers hunt for land
For many landowners, this isn't a real estate deal – it's a legacy
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