About 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved mountain road that passes cows grazing on open range, stands a cottonwood tree believed to be at least 200 years old. The "grandmother" tree, as some locals call it, is imperiled and already showing signs of stress, almost as […]
Lev Schlosberg is found guilty of "discrediting" Russia's army - a verdict he condemns as punishment for his political position.
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Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis says the decision allows North Korea to provide more support to Russia in Ukraine.
Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source developers and contributors. At the four-day event, community leaders and users of these Linux Foundation open source projects gathered to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push the projects forward. […]
Milestone marks widespread enterprise adoption for automating end-to-end AI and machine learning lifecycles on Kubernetes Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO — August 17, 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud...
While Moscow is stripping citizenship rights, European states are curbing access to legal status for Russian emigres.
Germany's Defense Ministry is reporting a comparatively rare success story in its bid to bolster troop numbers. At the end of July, the total stood at around 186,700, roughly 3,700 more than a year earlier — a 2% boost.
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Technology journalist Darryl K. Taft led a long and successful career at several first-rank tech publications and was a highly The post TNS journalist Darryl K. Taft leaves a legacy of respected work and quiet integrity appeared first on The New Stack .
FairSquare says the FIFA president should not be able to run again under the world football organisation's statutes.
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders for large volumes of books from apparently price-insensitive anonymous customers, widely suspected to be companies looking to scan them for AI training (see my previous coverage of Anthropic's book scanning from June 2025.) 404 Media investigated with an AirTag! In July, one bookseller told me they received a very large order of around 1,000 books on Biblio, one of these marketplaces. The seller agreed to put an Apple AirTag provided by 404 Media in one of the books included in this order so we could see where the book was going. And by extension, which company, AI or otherwise, was behind this massive order. The book ended up delivered to the VGT3 corner of the LAS8 Amazon facility in the north east of Las Vegas, where the entrance carried this on-the-nose logo of a dinosaur with a book! Photo credit: 404 Media Online forum discussions between Amazon workers confirmed that VGT3 destructively scans large volumes of books. Tags: amazon , journalism , ai , training-data , ai-ethics , 404-media
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
The head of Norway's sovereign wealth fund has warned that soaring AI-driven stock valuations could trigger a sharp correction. How exposed is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund to a market downturn?
Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of giving the prompts a design that favored its own apps. Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompts reportedly cost social media apps nearly $10 billion when they launched with iOS 14.5, making cross-app tracking of users largely opt in. But […]
Video footage released by police on Sunday shows Slovak bomb disposal experts executing a mine detonation.
President also claims US is in direct contact with IRGC, denies a rush to end conflict ahead of November's US midterms.
African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.
The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too.
Cloud-native platforms are becoming the foundation for AI transformation. Discover how Microsoft's Azure application platform helps organizations modernize, innovate, and operate AI-powered applications at scale. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
Amazon buys large quantities of printed books, scans them as AI training data, and destroys them in the process. The article AirTag reveals how Amazon destroys rare books for AI training appeared first on The Decoder .
Trump's threat on Oman, which has been holding its own talks with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, comes as a 60-day window for peace negotiations expires.
The smart speaker market is more or less dominated by major tech companies: Apple, Google, Sonos, and Amazon. But WiiM’s powerful 100W Sound smart speaker is an attractive alternative because it’s not locked down to play nicely with select music services. It supports over 20 services, and it sports Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 and ethernet, […]