"There's a revolution in battery technology hiding in plain sight," reports The Wall Street Journal. "The 3-D printing of batteries has the potential to put energy storage inside any device. "This will enable lightweight and long- lasting consumer gadgets, long-range military drones and even nanoscale robots." Almost all the innovations we regularly hear about from cheaper, tougher electric-vehicle batteries to "Holy Grail" solid-state batteries are about changing the chemistry of batteries. The ..

This T-Mobile deal starts late, but the rewards are big.

It sure seems a lot like the Trump administration is just bulling Anthropic for not acquiescing to its every move, and its the cybersecurity community who'll suffer for it

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Electrek reports: Tesla wants to sell modular AI data center hardware, according to a new trademark application for a product called "Megapod." The filing describes a complete, self-contained computing system for AI workloads... Tesla filed the "Megapod" trademark (serial number 99893717) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this month, through its longtime IP counsel. It's an intent-to-use application, meaning Tesla is claiming the name for a product it hasn't launched yet. The ..

Fraunhofer IPMS launches Q-Dice, a quantum random number generator designed to strengthen encryption, authentication, and future security infrastructure.

PC Gamer reports: The UK government is considering an Australia-style ban on social media for under-16s, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying that the ban could take effect as soon as spring next year. As for the much nearer future, Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall told BBC Breakfast earlier this week, "We will make further statements in July about VPNs and further restrictions." To be clear, no specific restrictions have yet been announced and Kendall sounded somewhat cautious ..

The Wall Street Journal reviewed 1,105 videos along with guidance given to creators for crafting their posts.

In this week's "Sunday Reboot," Beats subverts the World Cup, and GymKit and Malcolm's gym are updated in opposite ways. Jamal Musiala with some taped Beats - Image Credit: Instagram/Beats/Jamal Musiala Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get the next week underway with a good first step. This week, current Apple CEO Tim Cook warned of price increases , Brazil adopted EU-style App Store ..

Researchers develop a reactor system converting plastic waste into jet fuel, using advanced catalysts with estimated costs of $1.0$1.8 per kilogram.

404 Media remembers how a Florida police office looked up his ex-girlfriend's license plate in the Flock automated license plate reader system at least 69 times in 2024 even searching for her mom's license plate at least 24 times. The police office was charged with stalking and hacking-related offenses, serving one day in prison with five years of probation but his case "was not a one-off." [Alternate link via Bruce Schneier] Local news reports from around the country repeatedly detail police ..

Residential proxies are both a boon for threat actors and a detriment for their victims, and many of them exist due to a lack of awareness

Tech Times reports: Linux 7.2's merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy(), a C string-copy function that the kernel's own documentation labels "actively dangerous," from every subsystem, driver, and architecture-specific file in the kernel source tree. The merge landed June 20, 2026. After around 362 commits spread across six years of incremental work, no call site using the function ..

At least three coal plants have been repeatedly cited for violating environmental regulations.

Microsoft bundled Affinity with flagship Surface devices, increasing visibility for the Adobe alternative and fueling partnership speculation.

NBC News reports: A group of companies that specialize in tracking international shipments of sensitive technologies is backing a Capitol Hill bill that would require America's most powerful AI chips to incorporate stronger security mechanisms aimed at preventing the chips from reaching China and other adversaries. The letter, signed by six companies, says the Chip Security Act (CSA) would increase American chip companies' competitiveness and close key loopholes in the U.S. export control ..

Writers and creators now frequently simplify their work so that it doesnt sound too AI many would stop supporting others if they used undisclosed AI.

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Corsair just put a 20% discount on the 14.5-inch Xeneon Edge touchscreen display. This brings its price down to just $199.99, saving you $50 from its original purchase price.

While the Rust Foundation has a Security Initiative to protect its ecosystem, "the threats have expanded," they announced this week, "and so has the kind of help maintainers need." Much of this comes back to a single shift: Automated tooling (much of it now built on large language models) has gotten good enough to surface real vulnerabilities in open source code quickly and at scale. That is useful, and several large Rust projects have already received and fixed credible issues found this way. ..

Welcome to another week's recap. Sharp has announced the Aquos R11, its latest flagship, with the headline upgrade being a new 38.5MP telephoto camera offering 2.8x optical zoom. The phone is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset and features a 6.5-inch 240Hz OLED display, a 5,000mAh battery, and Android 16 out of the box. It launches in Japan next month, with no global release plans announced yet. Xiaomi brought the Redmi Turbo 5 to India, with a massive 7,540mAh battery. It pairs ..

John Ternus has been talking about focusing on Apple's core strength of design once he takes over as CEO, and a now a questionable report extrapolates that this means he'll shake up the design team. John Ternus plans to concentrate on Apple's core strength of design John Ternus is now best known for taking over as Apple CEO from Tim Cook , but as recently as January 2026 , he took control of the firm's design team. Now according to Bloomberg , far from leaving that because of other CEO duties, ..

Apple's home automation updates and new product roadmap powered by Siri AI will kick off in 2026 with HomePod and Apple TV updates, but if you're excited for the robotic arm for a Home Hub, you're going to be waiting a while. A HomePod mini update should finally arrive in 2026 It's no secret that Apple's new AI push will include several new products like the long-rumored Home Hub. However, the timing of some of those products' releases remains in question. According to the "Power On" newsletter ..

Turns out, an ice machine can cool a GPU perfectly fine as long as you're willing to modify it to the extreme and are patient enough to deal with the leaks.

This week the Ubuntu desktop's director of engineering announced they're bringing speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop, aiming for an experience "that feels like a natural part of the desktop while respecting user privacy and running entirely on local hardware." "Speech recognition has become a common feature on modern platforms, and we think it should be a first-class experience on Ubuntu Desktop as well." More details from the blog It's FOSS: For Ubuntu 26.10, the initial version of ..

The Apple Store at Briarwood Mall in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is getting an upgrade. It's set to shift over to a larger space in the same mall at the end of July. Apple Briarwood - Image Credit: Apple The Apple Briarwood store is one of the smallest outlets in Apple's retail empire. However, that will soon change for the better. In Sunday's "Power On" newsletter for Bloomberg , Mark Gurman writes that the Briarwood Mall store is getting a major upgrade. It will be changing its spot to a larger ..

NVK, the community-built open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs in Mesa, has gained experimental DLSS support.

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot was killed when his twin-engine private plane crashed enroute to an airshow. Aside from building the French gaming empire, Guillemot was also a licensed and avid pilot.

Featuring a 32-inch 1000R curved QHD panel, 165 Hz refresh rate, 1 ms MPRT response time, and AMD FreeSync support, the Samsung Odyssey G5 G55C has dropped to its lowest price of $189.99 ahead of Prime Day.

Our favorite 60% budget gaming keyboard, the Royal Kludge R65, is back down to just $44 with coupon at Amazon, its lowest-ever price. This wired clacker delivers excellent sound and feel for the price, thanks to lubed switches, a gasket mount, and silicone pads. It also has a metal knob and QMK/VIA support.

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The Bank of Korea has named performance bonuses at Samsung Electronics and SK hynix as a risk to the country's inflationary stability.

"A grassroots movement is forming among everyday tech workers who are demanding their companies develop and deploy AI responsibly," reports TechCrunch. Hoping to leverage that discontent is a new super PAC called the Guardrails Alliance. The New York Times reports that it launched Thursday with backers that included tech employees and labor unions: Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom. The PAC has ..

Dr. James Ries says that his Razer Naga V2 MMO gaming mouse helps him treat patients by keeping relevant medical responses at his fingertips.

The Creality Falcon T1 is a galvo laser engraver that uses swappable diode, fiber, UV, and MOPA laser modules to engrave wood, crystal, metal, and a wide range of other materials. With a base price of $2,249, the Falcon T1 offers a promising platform for an ecosystem that includes a conveyor belt, rotary attachment, and an air filter. Only three of the five advertised modules are available for purchase at launch, so while the T1 is off to a good start, it may need more time to mature.

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