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Trump scraps power plant emissions rules and AI data centres win
The Trump administration has scrapped the last federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions from US power plants, and the immediate beneficiary is the ...
ComputingRAM and SSD prices rose 130 percent. Your next PC costs 17 percent more.
Gartner puts the RAM and SSD price increase for 2026 at 130 percent, pushing finished PC prices up 17 percent. AI data centres are taking the memory ...
ComputingNvidia's RTX 5090 now costs more than a decent used car
RTX 5090 street prices have passed five thousand dollars as AI buyers absorb consumer Blackwell stock, and Nvidia's own MSRP programme only covers a ...
ComputingApple just loaded ten new products into one September week
Apple's September event confirmed the iPhone 18 Pro line, a two thousand dollar crease free foldable, Apple Watch Series 12 with Gemini powered ...
ComputingApple's iOS 27 is out and Siri has finally had its glow-up
iOS 27 landed this week with what Apple is billing as a fully rebuilt Siri that can handle multi-step tasks, read your screen, and act across apps ...
ComputingY Combinator's summer 2026 Demo Day: Floating reactors and brain chips made the shortlist
Y Combinator's Summer 2026 Demo Day is done, and VCs are naming floating nuclear reactors and brain chips as the pitches that actually got them out ...
ComputingNvidia built a laptop chip with an Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB of RAM
RTX Spark pairs 20 Arm cores with a Blackwell-class GPU and up to 128GB unified memory at 80W. First laptops ship this autumn from six OEMs.
ComputingJohn Deere's self-repair programme exists. Farmers don't trust it.
John Deere now has an official self-repair programme that lets farmers diagnose and fix their own tractors. Ars Technica put it through its paces and ...
ComputingLarry Ellison just cancelled a 7.5 billion dollar Oracle stock sale
Larry Ellison was set to sell 50 million Oracle shares worth 7.5 billion dollars. He just cancelled the sale with no detailed explanation. Whether it ...
ComputingNvidia shipped zero new gaming GPUs this year, the first time since 1999
A global HBM shortage forced Nvidia to prioritise AI accelerators over consumer graphics cards, pushing the RTX 60 series to 2028 at the earliest.
ComputingHow to block ads on every device in your home with a Raspberry Pi
Pi-hole turns a Raspberry Pi into a network-wide ad blocker that covers every phone, laptop, TV and smart speaker in your house. Here is how to set ...
ComputingOracle is promising 2 gigawatts of renewables to silence Stargate data centre critics
Oracle has pledged two gigawatts of renewable energy to offset the Stargate AI data centre project's emissions, amid growing pushback from ...
ComputingLinkedIn found 46% more fake activity in six months, most of it AI-generated
LinkedIn reported a 46% jump in detected inauthentic activity in H1 2026, driven by engagement pods, fake profiles, and low-quality AI-generated ...
ComputingNvidia forecasts 70% growth and Jensen Huang has receipts
Jensen Huang laid out Nvidia's case for 70% revenue growth next year, and the reasoning is more grounded than you might expect. Sovereign AI ...
ComputingChina's drones airlifted bodies and food in Nepal while the west watched
When Nepal was hit by severe flooding this week, it was Chinese drones that were airlifting food and recovering bodies from inaccessible areas, while ...
ComputingAmazon is paying Qualcomm in stock warrants, up to 60 billion dollars of chips
The Qualcomm AWS AI chip deal carries a 60 billion dollar ceiling and pays partly in warrants for 25 million Qualcomm shares. Only 3.75 million ...
ComputingThe board took Automattic from Mullenweg. It could not take WordPress.org.
Automattic's board placed Matt Mullenweg on paid leave and made CFO Mark Davies interim CEO. He still personally owns WordPress.org, which is the ...
ComputingQualcomm handed Amazon a 4 billion dollar warrant to win one customer
Qualcomm and Amazon signed a multi generation AWS inference silicon deal worth up to 60 billion dollars, and Qualcomm granted Amazon warrants for 25 ...
ComputingNvidia won training. Inference is a different problem entirely
AI training vs inference explained: training rewards raw compute, inference is bottlenecked by memory bandwidth. That is why every new chip leads ...
ComputingSamsung and Mistral AI just made a very interesting bet on European AI chips
Samsung Electronics and Mistral AI have signed a strategic partnership to use AI in semiconductor engineering and manufacturing, with the ...
ComputingMeta's Muse agent wants your inbox, your calendar and your card
Meta launched Muse on 8 September 2026, a personal AI agent that books, buys and negotiates. It asks for email, calendar and payment access. The ...
ComputingThe 12-inch photomask is what makes ASML's $400 million machine worth buying
TSMC, Samsung and Intel have agreed to move from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks, raising high-NA EUV throughput by around 40 percent. A standards ...
ComputingYour Windows 11 upgrade checklist, eleven months into an unpatched Windows 10
A Windows 11 upgrade checklist for an old PC. Windows 10 lost security patches eleven months ago, and for some machines the honest answer is not ...
ComputingSony's WH-1000XM4C: Six years on, a legend gets a comeback
Sony is revisiting one of the best-loved headphones ever made: the WH-1000XM4C brings back the beloved folding design that the XM5 controversially ...
ComputingSonos Beam Ultra undercuts its own flagship by $400
Sonos Beam Ultra brings nine drivers and true 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos to a $699 soundbar, sitting between the $499 Beam and the $1,099 Arc Ultra. It ships ...