/r/technology
-
Pennsylvania Just Voted to Pull the Plug on Big Tech's $517M Tax Break
-
Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire
-
WinRAR releases new update and says itâs thanks to people finally paying
-
County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to âConserve Electricityâ / Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
-
Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it
-
Top AI Researchers Terrified of a âChernobyl Momentâ: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever
-
Old Reddit gets login requirement; Reddit âcanât promiseâ site will always exist
-
Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue
-
Chinese tech makes desalinating seawater cheaper than producing bottled water
-
Former Microsoft engineer rewrote Notepad in x86 assembly leaving only necessary functions and weighing only 2.7KB
-
Meta is adding ridiculous ârate limitsâ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses
-
Amazon sued in Australia after Prime subscribers were made to pay more to remove ads
-
Sony Just Killed Discs: Physical Disc Production to End January 2028 for New Games Releasing on PlayStation Consoles
-
Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles
-
Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Donât Exist
-
Microsoft plans another round of job cuts, impacting thousands of roles
-
âSlough is like an experimentâ: Europeâs largest datacentre hub leaves town sweltering â Datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C
-
Stop Killing the Internet: inside the global movement that wants to save the open web
-
Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University: âAcademic integrity is at riskâ
-
License plate cameras are scanning 20 billion vehicles a month, cities are starting to push back
Techmeme
-
B2B sales workspace startup Aligned raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to $73.8M, and says it has 1,000+ customers (Chris Metinko/Axios)
-
Oxmiq, which aims to combine GPUs, CPUs, and a tensor engine into a single block of IP that it can license, raised $35M led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fudomo (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
-
Abu Dhabi-based MGX raised a $49B AI-focused fund, exceeding its $45B target, and plans to spend as much as $10B annually over the next few years (Dinesh Nair/Bloomberg)
-
Letter: the US says Anthropic "agreed to proactively detect and address security risks" of Fable 5 and Mythos 5; a source says Anthropic developed a "safeguard" (Financial Times)
-
Sony says it is closing the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 ahead of global store closures for the PS3 and PS Vita in July 2027 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
-
Sources: Meta plans a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models, to compete with AWS and Azure; META jumps 8%+ (Bloomberg)
-
A researcher says a vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email tool lets anyone discover a real email address; first reported in June 2025, Apple is yet to fix it (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
-
Taiwanese authorities detain two Super Micro staff and an Albatron manager after a raid of Super Micro's local offices this week over Nvidia shipments to China (Bloomberg)
-
Sony says all new PlayStation games from both first- and third-party developers will be sold in digital formats from January 2028, ending physical game discs (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
-
Stockholm's Patent and Market Court orders Google to pay nearly $2B to Klarna's PriceRunner in a dispute over abuse of power in the shopping comparison market (Bloomberg)
-
Twelve Labs, which is building AI models to make video searchable and understandable, raised a $100M Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, and signs an AWS deal (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
-
Together AI, which offers access to open-source models, raised $800M led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 at an $8.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $1.3B (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
-
Wayve files to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange's new Private Securities Market, the first major company to test it, and let staff sell $85M in shares (Bloomberg)
-
A UN panel co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio warns that AI capabilities are outpacing scientific understanding, the "potential benefits of AI are enormous", and more (Andrea Shalal/Reuters)
-
How the rapid rise in US- and China-made AI abilities is leading to both a transformation in AI use at work, and sudden lurches in policies and markets (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)