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Nvidia is guaranteeing 105 billion dollars for one OpenAI Data centre

Nvidia is backing up to 105 billion dollars for one OpenAI Ohio data centre, an eight gigawatt campus where OpenAI has agreed to buy Nvidia chips ...

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AI

How much power do AI data centres actually use, and where does it come from

How much power do AI data centres use? A gigawatt in plain English, why sites are built next to power stations, and what the grid queue actually ...

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AI

What is a Vision-Language-Action model, and why robots suddenly got useful

What is a vision language action model? One network takes camera input plus a spoken instruction and outputs motor commands, replacing the old ...

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AI

OpenAI IPO valuation: what the confidential S-1 actually shows

OpenAI IPO valuation estimates run from $730bn to over $1tn. The confidential S-1 shows a negative 122% operating margin against a $25bn annual run ...

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Security

Lazarus used a Windows zero-day to drop a kernel rootkit on aerospace firms

CVE-2026-68820 is a Windows zero day Lazarus used to install the FudModule rootkit at defence and aerospace firms. Here is what it does and who was ...

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AI

Humanoid robots quietly stopped being demos this year

Humanoid robots factory deployment in 2026: Atlas at Hyundai, Optimus at Fremont, and the leasing maths that finally made the numbers work for ...

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AI

Apple new Siri reportedly runs on Nvidia chips in Google data centres

Apple Siri is reportedly moving to Google Gemini models on Nvidia B200 hardware inside Google Cloud. Three dependencies on two rivals, in one ...

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Security

The 3-2-1 backup rule, and how to actually do it in 2026

The 3-2-1 backup rule means three copies, two media types, one offsite. Here is how to actually build it in 2026, and why ransomware breaks the lazy ...

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Security

What is vishing, and how to prevent the call that got into Abbott

What is vishing? A voice phishing call captured an SSO login at Abbott and unlocked five connected systems. Here is how the call works and how to ...

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Computing

A quantum computer just modelled how a fusion plant would refuel itself

Quantum computing and fusion tritium research collided this month. IBM, Oak Ridge and the Cleveland Clinic ran the first known fusion materials ...

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Security

Microsoft patched 421 flaws in one day, and one of them is wormable

Microsoft August 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped 421 CVEs, the largest batch on record, with one exploited zero-day and a DNS Server bug analysts flagged ...

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AI

IBM just put OpenAI inside its consulting army

The IBM OpenAI partnership folds GPT-5.6 and Codex into IBM Consulting Advantage, giving OpenAI access to the enterprise last mile it has struggled ...

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AI

Grok 4.6 vs GPT-5.6, and why the gap at the top has basically closed

Grok 4.6 vs GPT-5.6: SpaceXAI's new model matches OpenAI on the Intelligence Index, and the frontier fight has moved to price, speed and agent ...

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AI

Big tech AI spending has hit 1.5 trillion dollars in commitments

Big tech AI spending in 2026 is nearing 1.5 trillion dollars in committed capacity, while around 80 percent of firms deploying AI report no profit ...

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Security

Hackers are already exploiting the Windows zero-day Microsoft just patched

Microsoft patched Windows zero-day CVE-2026-68820 this week, but attackers are already exploiting it, and a Cisco ASA VPN flaw is under attack too.

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EVs and Energy

Uber and pony.ai are sending 2,000 robotaxis to Europe

Uber and Pony.ai plan to deploy over 2,000 robotaxis across Europe, expanding from Zagreb into four more cities and the Middle East.

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Computing

Sony and TSMC are building a $6.4 billion factory for machine eyes

Sony and TSMC signed a $6.4 billion deal to build an image sensor fab in Kumamoto, Japan, targeting smartphones, autonomous vehicles and robotics.

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Computing

NAS vs cloud storage in 2026: Which actually saves you money

NAS vs cloud storage in 2026, compared on real costs over five years. See exactly when owning a NAS beats paying for Google One, iCloud or Dropbox.

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Security

Metabase zero-day exploited in the wild

A maximum-severity flaw in the Metabase business intelligence platform is being actively exploited. Patch immediately.

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Computing

Global chip sales just smashed every record with a $403 billion quarter

Global semiconductor sales hit $403.3 billion in Q2 2026, up 35% from Q1 with a 123% year-over-year spike in June driven by AI demand.

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AI

DeepSeek just quadrupled its API prices while everyone else is cutting theirs

DeepSeek is raising API prices by up to 4x from 16 August, introducing peak and off-peak tiers as demand outstrips its inference capacity.

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Security

A fake VS Code extension was quietly draining developer wallets

A malicious Visual Studio Code extension called Solidity Pro was caught stealing browser wallet credentials and API keys from developers who ...

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EVs and Energy

Sodium-Ion batteries are now powering mass-production EVs

CATL and Changan launched the first mass-production EV running sodium-ion batteries, with cells costing $55-70 per kWh, 40% cheaper than lithium iron ...

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Security

Clop just added Shell to its list of victims

Clop's ransomware crew hit Shell on 12 August 2026, exfiltrating engineering drawings and facility photos in its latest mass-extortion campaign.

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Security

The Open Secure AI Alliance's SAFE framework wants to make agentic AI honest about its risks

As AI agents become capable of taking real actions in the world, sending emails, executing code, managing files, making purchases, the question of ...

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