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AI

Midjourney is asking Hollywood to come clean about how it uses AI

Midjourney has made an unusual move: the AI image generation company is asking Hollywood studios to publicly disclose how they are using AI in their.

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AI

Google's AI buildout drove a 37 percent jump in its electricity use last year

Google consumed 37 percent more electricity in 2025 than it did in 2024. That is not a number that appears buried in a footnote.

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AI

Google made a Fourth of July ad about AI helping write the Declaration of Independence

Google released a Fourth of July commercial this week that depicts an AI assistant helping someone draft what appears to be an early version of the.

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AI

Claude Sonnet 5 is now the default model for every Free and Pro user

Claude Sonnet 5 became Anthropic's default model for Free and Pro users on July 1, running agentic tasks near Opus 4.8 at a lower price.

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Security

A Linux kernel bug called Bad Epoll lets any user become root

CVE-2026-46242, nicknamed Bad Epoll, lets an unprivileged Linux user jump straight to root. No malicious click needed. Here is what to patch.

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AI

Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code, and the timing tells a story

Alibaba has reportedly told its employees they are no longer allowed to use Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding assistant.

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Security

World Cup fans are being watched by hundreds of federal drones and cameras

If you are heading to a World Cup match this summer, you might want to know that the experience comes with an invisible extra: a surveillance ...

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Space

SpaceX has now launched 1,000 rockets. Here is what that number actually means.

SpaceX has reached 1,000 rocket launches, a milestone so large it requires a moment to actually absorb.

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Space

The Sun threw ten flares in 24 hours, and the aurora could reach unusually far south this weekend

A sharp spike in solar activity, ten flares in a single day, is raising aurora chances across northern latitudes for the July 4 weekend. Here is how ...

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AI

Nvidia's Rubin platform just moved AI from software into hardware

Nvidia's Rubin platform claims a 10x cut in cost per AI token. Here's what the six new chips actually do and why three rivals moved the same week.

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AI

Tool of the day: NotebookLM turns your own documents into a research assistant that cites its work

NotebookLM grounds its answers in the files you give it and links every claim back to the source. Genuinely useful for study and research, less so as ...

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Computing

Meta just launched its cheapest smart glasses yet, and the price is the point

Meta introduced its most affordable smart glasses to date, a clear push to move the category out of early-adopter territory and onto ordinary faces.

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Space

Astronomers just found a habitable-zone planet 25 light-years away, and that distance is the whole story

A newly confirmed planet sits in its star's habitable zone just 25 light-years from Earth, close enough for the next wave of telescopes to actually ...

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Computing

Gen Z's anti-tech rage has its own festival now

There is a festival circuit for almost everything now, so perhaps it was inevitable that the growing anti-Big Tech sentiment among younger people ...

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EVs and Energy

Chevrolet built a genuinely American EV truck. So why is nobody buying it?

The Chevrolet Silverado EV should, by most accounts, be a success.

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Computing

The browser wars are back, and this time they are not about search

The first browser war, fought in the 1990s between Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, was about which company could control the web's front ...

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Computing

Best budget 4K monitors in 2026: the ones actually worth buying

The best budget 4K monitors in 2026, tested and compared. Real prices, real specs, and which panel wins for work, gaming, PS5, and Mac.

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AI

Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs, not just help others make them

Anthropic has been quietly making a move that shifts it from AI toolmaker to something considerably more ambitious.

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Security

AirDrop and Quick Share both have unpatched flaws that let strangers push files at your phone

Six issues were disclosed across Apple AirDrop and Android Quick Share that could let a nearby attacker drop files on a device. Here is the simple ...

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AI

AI is quietly gutting entry-level tech jobs, and this week's jobs report shows the strain

Tech layoffs have hit 142,000 in 2026, with roughly 88,000 US cuts tied to AI. The roles vanishing first are the entry-level rungs, and that is a ...

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AI

Zuckerberg admits Meta's AI agents are behind schedule

Mark Zuckerberg has told Meta staff that AI agents have not progressed as quickly as he had hoped, in a candid internal admission that cuts against ...

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EVs and Energy

Tesla FSD driver faces manslaughter charges after fatal Texas crash

A Tesla driver in Katy, Texas is facing manslaughter charges after a crash involving the company's Full Self-Driving software killed a woman inside ...

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Computing

Sony's austrian disc factory is being converted as physical media dies

Sony's disc manufacturing plant in Thalgau, Austria is being converted away from game disc production, a concrete milestone in the long death of ...

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Security

There's a SharePoint bug hackers are already using, and the US just gave itself one day to fix it

CVE-2026-45659 lets attackers run code on SharePoint Server with no login needed. CISA gave US agencies until July 4 to patch it.

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Space

Private pilots are now flying orbital missions for the US Space Force

The line between commercial spaceflight and national security operations has officially blurred further.

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