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Google announced a record €13bn investment in Finland to build three new data centres, expand its existing Hamina facility, and support energy infrastructure for AI growth. As part of the deal, Google signed a 22-year agreement with Fortum to purchase up to half the electricity output from the Loviisa nuclear plant.
CERT/CC disclosed that Skullcandy Dime 3 earbuds running firmware 1.0.0.28 accept Bluetooth pairing from nearby devices without any user approval, due to a flaw in the Airoha Bluetooth Audio SDK tracked as CVE-2025-20701. Skullcandy has released firmware 1.0.0.30 to fix the bug, but there is no way for users to update their earbuds manually or through the companion app.
A Maine business that sold fox and coyote urine to hunters as a cover scent noticed an unusually large order from a lawn and garden store outside hunting season. A phone call revealed the retailer's customers were gardeners using the same product to scare rabbits away from vegetable patches, uncovering an entirely new customer base the founder hadn't realized existed.
Jacob Coxon left his role at Anthropic and publicly stated that frontier AI labs are knowingly gambling with humanity's survival by racing toward self-improving superintelligent systems. He argued these future systems could hack any infrastructure, seize resources, and cause catastrophic harm by decade's end. Anthropic's own Alignment Science lead, Evan Hubinger, backed the warning, estimating over 10% odds of AI causing human extinction within ten years.
Douglas Yao, a self-taught chemist working outside any pharmaceutical company, says he used ChatGPT to design a new compound called PAC-3310, targeting the same receptor as the approved antipsychotic Cobenfy. He claims to have built a chemistry lab in his garage, synthesized the compound himself, and is now testing it in cell lines and mice, part of a broader effort to generate thousands of AI-designed drug candidates.
A team tasked with speeding up ClickHouse for its largest customers found a critical dashboard query taking over 85 seconds and scanning nearly 2 billion rows across 198GB of data. Over four months, they applied a series of incremental, non-flashy optimizations—tackling issues like the overhead of ReplacingMergeTree's FINAL clause on mutable event data and an inefficient partition key—to bring the query down to sub-second response times.
Plaion Replai has pushed back the launch of its Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System+ remake from November 2025 to September 16, 2027. The company cites overwhelming demand plus a global memory chip shortage fueled by AI infrastructure investment as reasons for the delay. Pricing remains unchanged, with the standard edition at $250 and the 35th anniversary bundle at $350.
Steven Spielberg's new science-fiction film, titled 'Disclosure Day,' is heading to Peacock this October. The project stars Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colman Domingo, and Colin Firth in a story centered on an alien mystery.
Apple released a document detailing how its newly announced Audio Intelligence features—Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition—process audio without storing or exposing raw recordings. The company says these features rely on a hardware-isolated 'Secure Exclave' in the Apple Watch's S11 chip, which processes sound locally and never creates an accessible audio file. Any data transferred to iPhone is encrypted between Secure Exclaves, and users must manually activate features like Live Rewind and choose what text to retain.
Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at its 'Surprise and shine' event, adding upgraded health sensors, audio transcription and summary features, and a new ceramic case option for the Series 12. Both models retain the same starting prices as their predecessors, with the Series 12 at $399 and the Ultra 4 at $799.
Prime Video has released the official trailer for Mike Flanagan's six-episode Carrie miniseries, based on Stephen King's novel. Flanagan says the series isn't a straight remake of the 1976 story or Brian De Palma's film, but instead expands the world of Carrie White and her tormentors for a modern audience. The cast includes Summer H. Howell as Carrie, Siena Agudong as Sue Snell, and Amber Midthunder as Miss Desjardin.
The Commodore 64, launched in 1982 for $595 with just 64 kilobytes of memory, went on to sell roughly 12.5 million units and become the best-selling desktop computer ever. Its combination of an inexpensive industrial CPU, a music-synthesizer sound chip, and a game-oriented graphics chip made it unusually capable for its price, despite being seen at the time as a mere 'game machine.' That gaming-friendly hardware ended up enabling some of the earliest persistent, open-ended online multiplayer worlds.