The company has comitted to 10 natural gas plants since last year.

Hugging Face said the hack was done at superhuman speed by an AI with little or no human guidance.

Paramount Skydance has agreed to postpone its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger until five days after an antitrust trial or June 1, 2027, whichever comes first. The agreement with a 12-state coalition led by California effectively shelves the deal for months while states argue it would reduce competition in cable and theatrical markets. Variety reports: Paramount had been keen to close the deal before Sept. 30, when it will begin to incur a $7-million-a-day "ticking fee" to be paid to ..

Starship is carrying 20 V3 Starlink satellites as payload for its 13th test flight.

Moody's said AI spending is forcing even the world's most cash-rich corporations to lean heavily on debt, stock sales and off-balance-sheet moves.

The European Commission found Google's search ranking and anti-steering violated the Digital Markets Act.

Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips the region.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports. This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a so-called "duress" password built into a phone's software. According to The Guardian, ..

Tesla shares plunged almost 18% this week after the company missed on earnings and turned cash flow negative.

In Atlanta and Austin, Texas, Waymo driverless rides will be available on platforms other than Uber starting in 2028.

Roku has raised prices on several streaming devices, blaming memory and component shortages tied to the AI data-center boom. The Roku Ultra jumped from $100 to $150 and the basic Streaming Stick rose from $30 to $40. The Desk reports: In a phone call with The Desk on Friday, a Roku executive said the company made the tough decision to raise prices on its streaming hardware to address shortages in computer memory and other components caused by the artificial intelligence rush. [...] Still, the ..

The extended pause will give time to hear cases for blocking the deal from states and the WGA.

Big Tobacco studied nicotine analogs like 6-methyl-nicotine for decades but never marketed them. Now, Chinese vape makers are using them to sidestep US regulations.

The outage affected gamers' ability to launch games, apps or network features on their PlayStation.

The US president says fines against Google, as well as Apple, Meta and Amazon, should be "entirely reversed."

Google, Amazon and Meta are seeing credit spreads widen as fixed-income investors demand more reward on companies they lend to.

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, than 20 other tech companies signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose "premature restrictions" on open- weight AI models, warning that broad limits could "stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." CNBC reports: They wrote that open-weight models strengthen competition and ensure that the benefits of the technology are "broadly shared rather than concentrated in a few hands." "Relying solely on closed models is not inherently safe: they ..

President Donald Trump is escalating the fight over European Union antitrust penalties against Apple, Google, and other U.S. tech companies by opening a trade investigation that could lead to new tariffs. Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Donald Trump Trump announced the investigation in a social media post after the European Commission fined Google 890 million euros on July 23 for violating the Digital Markets Act. The fine included 460 million euros, or about $517 million, for favoring Google ..

"Capex trends are going to be the number one focus," Club portfolio director Jeff Marks said Friday ahead of next week's Big Tech earnings.

Trump on Truth Social railed against the European Union's new fine on Google and prior penalties against U.S. tech giants Apple, Meta and Amazon.

Co-Star CEO Banu Guler is also becoming the company's Chief Design Officer.

Anthropic has released Opus 5, a new Claude model that it says comes close to its higher-end Fable 5 model at half the price while improving on Opus 4.8 in knowledge work, coding, and scientific research tasks. "At the same time, Anthropic says it has managed to make the model more resistant to being tricked," notes Engadget. Additionally, the company says Opus 5 "exhibits the lowest rates of deceptive behavior." From the report: One important distinction between Opus 5 and Mythos, which is ..

The eight-episode series stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer.

This climate phenomenon could cause a massive global temperature spike and cause economic losses of $10 trillion by 2032.

A working 1977 Apple-1 expected to garner at least $300,000 leads RR Auction's sprawling sale of rare hardware, prototypes, and Steve Jobs memorabilia from Apple's earliest years. The 'Neumark' Apple-1 - 'Byte Shop'-Style. Image credit: RR Auctions The Apple-1 comes from Apple's second batch of 50 machines, according to the auction house. Known as the "Neumark" computer , it sits inside a modified Smith-Corona typewriter case and was restored to working condition by Apple-1 specialist Corey ..

PlayStation Network has been down for several hours now, leaving a large number of players locked out of Sony's online services. The timing couldn't be worse: the outage appears to have started right around the launch of the open beta for Sony's upcoming fighting game, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls. PlayStation Network Global Outage After several []

Signatories include chipmakers, server vendors, cloud operators, enterprise software firms, security companies, and venture funds

The different IMAX filming and projection formats have a dramatic impact on the theater viewing experience.

Chinese open-weight models aregaining steamagainst leading offerings from American companies. OpenAI and Anthropic did not sign the letter.

It features a 3.97-inch monochrome e-paper display.

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that Chinas Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.

Intel posts 25% higher year-over-year sales and above-the-guidance earnings, and confirms that its 14A technology is on-track to start high volume ramp in 2028.

Players may be unable to log into their account, play online or purchase games from the PlayStation Store.

Anthropic said Claude Opus 5 is its best performing and its most cost- effective offering.

Anthropic's latest model offers top-tier performance at a much cheaper cost.

Longtime Slashdot reader sandbagger shares the passing of John C. Dvorak, an early and influential technology journalist for PC Magazine. He was 80. Talking Biz News reports: Aric Mackey writes, "Widely recognized for his profound impact on the technology industry, John's career spanned decades of rapid digital evolution. He was perhaps best known for his influential, long- running column in PC Magazine and his groundbreaking work on the No Agenda podcast. Through his prolific writing, ..

The post-apocalyptic tale takes place after the events of The Legend of Korra.

A federal judge has ordered a public iPhone exploit taken offline after Magnet Forensics argued it wasn't independent security research at all, but instead a stolen trade secret. iPhone X U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert partially approved Magnet's request for a preliminary injunction . She directed Paradigm Shift and former Magnet exploit engineer Mario Del Gaudio to delete the usbliter8 article, code, technical details, and related materials in their possession by 11:59 p.m. Eastern ..

A lawsuit over Apple's failure to deliver Apple Intelligence and Siri features is moving closer to a conclusion as a judge has provisionally approved the company's settlement offer. Apple has settled a class-action lawsuit over its delayed Siri features. The class action suit filed in 2025 alleged that people had bought new iPhones expressly because of Apple's promoting of Apple Intelligence features that it then did not deliver. Apple admitted in March 2025 that the new Siri features were ..