/r/technology
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Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists
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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
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Sony is deleting 551 movies and TV shows you bought on PlayStation, because you don't really own your digital purchases
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Pennsylvania Just Voted to Pull the Plug on Big Tech's $517M Tax Break
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RAM prices expected to rise another 40-50% in Q3 2026, and then 30% more in Q4 as AI demand outpaces supply
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Bombshell lawsuit alleges that RAM manufacturers are colluding to drive up prices. Three companies that account for 90% of RAM revenue are being sued for anti-competitive practices. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron (the "DRAM Triarchy" controlling ~90-95% of the global DRAM market)
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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’ / 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.
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Price hikes pushing consumers to abandon their favorite brands
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WinRAR releases new update and says it’s thanks to people finally paying
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New Florida Law Bans Local Net-Zero Emissions Policies
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Kalshi sues Illinois over new tax on prediction market sports bets | Illinois now a key battleground in fight over prediction market sports bets.
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US lawsuit accuses Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron of worsening the RAM crisis by fixing memory prices and supply
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Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that Facebook, Instagram addict children
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House passes kids online safety package despite watchdog pushback
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Former Microsoft engineer rewrote Notepad in x86 assembly leaving only necessary functions and weighing only 2.7KB
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Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University: ‘Academic integrity is at risk’
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Legacy Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB returns to retail five years after original launch, priced at $339 — resurrected GPU strategy that Jensen called a 'good idea' apparently comes to fruition
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Stop Killing the Internet: inside the global movement that wants to save the open web
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Sacked Australian Amazon worker wins job back — ‘Smart-arse’ Slack messages to boss did not justify dismissal
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This summer's heat is a live stress test for data centers — here's what it's revealing in real time
Techmeme
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Filing: President Trump reports $1.4B+ in income from his family's crypto ventures in 2025, including $500M+ from WLF and $635M from the sale of his $TRUMP coin (Reuters)
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Sources: TikTok settles a lawsuit before a second California trial over social media harm to minors for an undisclosed sum; Meta and Snap remain defendants (Bloomberg)
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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, before directing Meta employees to build a prediction market app (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
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Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a $31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to $41.5M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
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Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pickers on platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
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Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens through August 31, after which prices rise to $3 and $15, respectively (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, saying it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices and is substantially better than Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work (Anthropic)
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A study of 22K US companies shows those spending most heavily on AI are adding workers faster than peers, but most gains are among tech companies and startups (Financial Times)
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Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
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Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
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Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which is building software, sensors, and drones to autonomously monitor the Arctic, raised a CA$139M Series A led by Georgian (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
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Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves (Kyle Baird/The Block)
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Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a $3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva (Frank Connelly/Bloomberg)
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SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 contempt ruling in its Epic case after a district judge found Apple violated an order to make App Store changes (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers (The Keyword)