2025-12-22

Google locks in new energy reserves for its AI expansion

Google is ramping up its AI infrastructure with a major energy acquisition. Parent company Alphabet is buying clean energy developer Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus assumed debt.<br /> The article Google locks in new energy reserves for its AI expansion appeared f [...]

2025-12-22

How U.S. tech built China’s surveillance state in Nepal

Intense surveillance has stifled the once-vibrant Free Tibet movement that had resonated around the world. [...]

2025-12-22

Motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, ASRock at risk from new UEFI flaw attack - here's what we know

Many popular devices are now vulnerable to direct memory access attacks, but there is a patch. [...]

2025-12-22

Large External SSDs are now cheaper than internal ones as 4TB SATA SSD face extinction due to negligible price difference

External 4TB SSDs costing less than internal SATA models shows shifting NAND priorities and increasing market pressures. [...]

2025-12-22

Arm sheds billions in market capitalization after Qualcomm hints at RISC-V adoption with Ventara Micro acquisition

Arm stock declines as Qualcomm picks up Ventana, raising questions about future customer reliance on Arm architectures. [...]

2025-12-22

Alphabet buys data center energy specialist Intersect for $4.75 billion to help power AI

Alphabet will allow Intersect to operate independently while continuing its efforts to secure the energy sources for AI data centers. [...]

2025-12-22

Spotify Says It's Shutting Down Access to Site That Scraped Its Music Library

After a shadow library site claimed to have created a metadata archive of 99.6 percent of Spotify's music, the streaming service said it's shutting down accounts and creating safeguards to protect its data. [...]

2025-12-22

GPT-5 allegedly solves open math problem without human help

GPT-5 solves an open math problem for the first time, and the mathematician behind it shows exactly which line came from which AI. Does science really need this level of transparency?<br /> The article GPT-5 allegedly solves open math problem without human help appeared fir [...]

2025-12-22

I've tested dozens of cheap multitools, and these are the few that I still use today

Seeking a premium multitool that won't disappoint? I've got two recommendations. [...]