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Oklahoma farmer arrested and jailed for trespassing during AI data center town hall — removed by officers after going a few seconds over allotted speaking time, trying to hand paperwork to counselors

Darren Blanchard, a farmer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was arrested for going over the time limit during a town hall meeting to discuss residents' concerns about a potential data center project in the area.

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Virginia voter support for new data centers collapses from 69% in 2023 to 35% in new poll — Multi-gigawatt, 37-building Digital Gateway project abandoned

Just 35% of Virginia voters now say they would be comfortable with a new data center going up in their community, down from 69% in 2023.

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Struggling shoemaker and apparel brand Albird pivots to AI data centers, stock jumps 580% in a single day — sells core business and leveraging $50 million in financing to become a GPU-as-a-Service and AI cloud solutions provider

Allbirds announced that it's selling its core shoe and apparel business and will pivot to selling compute as a GPU-as-a-Service and AI cloud solutions provider at a $50 million infusion from an institutional investor.

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IPv6 usage reaches historic 50% across Google services, matching IPv4 — increased usage eases pressure on the IPv4 address market as 'new' protocol designed in 1998 finally hits its stride

IPv6 usage reaches 50% across Google services

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Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub

Open-source radar system is 95% cheaper than $250k commercial offerings

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Elon Musk demonstrates first sample of Tesla AI5 processor, accidentally thanks TSC rather than TSMC — claims 40X performance boost over the predecessor

As Elon Musk shows off the first Tesla AI5 sample with a 384-bit memory interface, he says next-generation AI6 and Dojo 3 processors are in the works.

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Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to Steam — feature is already available in some EU countries to spoof out fake discounts

Your Steam games are about to get some new glanceable information next to their price boxes, according to recent changes discovered in the client's backend. Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to the platform, letting you see if the game currently costs the lowest it has been in…

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Memory cards and flash drives prices rocket 124%, some products peak at 261% jump — increases from 2025 driven by AI chip shortage across a range of formats and capacities

USB flash drives, SD cards, and microSD cards are becoming expensive as the NAND chip shortage takes its bite and expands to other storage options.

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Netgear secures conditional approval from the FCC following router ban — company can continue importing foreign-made routers through October 2027

Netgear secured a conditional approval from the FCC to continue releasing new models of several router lines, with the company saying in its SEC disclosure that it can launch new models indefinitely provided it can maintain its approval.

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China tests deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters — state hails successful trial and hints at deployment readiness

China has successfully tested a "deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator" that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters.

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Iran reportedly bought an in-orbit Chinese satellite to target US military sites in the Middle East — purchase agreement included ongoing ground control services based in China

Leaked documents allegedly show that the IRGC Aerospace Force is using a Chinese satellite to observe U.S. bases in the Middle East and use it for targeting American assets with drones and missiles.

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Our lifestyle tech colleagues at Tom's Guide have overhauled their site for smarter shopping — more video and access to experts make it 'the biggest relaunch in our history'

Our tech colleagues over at Tom's Guide just relaunched their homepage, with destination-focused features like a dedicated live feed for news and expert reactions, AI-infused shopping and upgrading tools, and more short-form video.

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Nvidia releases open AI models for quantum computing tasks — 'Ising' said to be 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate than existing tools for decoding

Nvidia has announced Ising, a family of open-source AI models for quantum processor calibration and real-time error correction decoding that claims to offer substantial speedups over existing methods.

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Sony launches 720 Hz dual-mode OLED QHD gaming monitor — 27-inch Inzone M10S II is aimed at hardcore eSports gamers

The 27-inch Sony Inzone M10S II can crank all the way to 720 Hz at 720p resolution

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Intel's promising upcoming Nova Lake-S lineup reportedly includes an iGPU-focused SKU with 12 Xe3P cores — new leak claims a midrange 16-core CPU with powerful integrated graphics is in the works

A new leak claims Intel is prepping a 16-core CPU featuring 12 Xe3P iGPU cores, likely targeting the Ryzen G-series APUs. AMD's latest desktop APUs top out at only 8 RDNA 3.5 CUs, while the Arc B390M in Panther Lake already beats the Radeon 890M in Strix Point. That means…

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Nvidia quashes rumor it’s planning to purchase a major PC manufacturer — says that it’s ‘not engaged in discussions to acquire any PC maker’

Nvidia said that it wasn't in talks with another PC manufacturer to acquire it, despite rumors saying that it has been discussing the possibility since 2024.

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China's premiere memory-maker YMTC plans two additional Wuhan fabs using homegrown chipmaking tools — Phase 3 crosses 50% domestic tooling threshold

China’s Yangtze Memory Technologies plans to build two fabs beyond the Phase 3 plant that it’s due to complete in Wuhan this year.

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News outlets are blocking Wayback Machine from archiving their pages — 23 outlets concerned AI companies might abuse fair use and use it to train their models

Many major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine's crawler from archiving their pages, despite using the tool for their reporting. Their primary concern is that AI tech companies are breaking fair use and training their models on publicly available data.

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Mark Zuckerberg reportedly working on AI clone of himself — Meta insiders claim 3D photoreal animated Zuck will be able to engage with employees on his behalf

The very top job at Meta may periodically be delegated to an AI replica of Mark Zuckerberg. Will anyone notice?

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Veteran Windows dev shows off AI running on 47-year-old PDP11 with 6 MHz CPU and 64KB of RAM — 'gloriously absurd' project runs transformer model written in PDP-11 assembly language

Ancient 6 MHz ‘PDP11 can train a neural network’ says veteran dev.

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Half of all US employees now use artificial intelligence at work, crossing landmark threshold for first time — Gallup data shows daily and weekly usage hitting all-time high of 28% in Q1 2026, with 65% feeling positive about its impact on productivity

50% of American adults in employment use AI at least once a year, with 28% using it daily or weekly, according to a new Gallup survey. While AI-focused companies are seeing huge disruption, 65% of those employees felt positive about its individual impact on their productivity.

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China has spent 3.6 times more than the US on chipmaking subsidies over the past decade — $142 billion and counting, easily outweighs CHIPS Act

Semiconductor industrial policy spending in China totaled around $142 billion between 2014 and 2023, roughly 3.6 times higher than the $39 billion committed in the United States over the same period.

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FAA approves military use of drone-killing laser weapons in US airspace — decision comes after it was decided ‘systems do not present an increased risk to the flying public’

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decided to give carte blanche approval to the military’s use of laser weaponry to shoot down suspected errant drones in US airspace.

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Nvidia says AI cuts 10-month, eight-engineer GPU design task to overnight job — company is still 'a long way' from AI designing chips without human input

Nvidia widely uses AI for different stages of the chip design process, though it admits that AI is a long way from designing chips completely autonomously.

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Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts

Voters in Festus, MO ousted half of the city's council members following the approval of a $6 billion data center project.

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