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President Trump argued that communities blocking data center construction risk falling into economic decline, framing local resistance as a threat to competitiveness. His remarks come as polling shows most Americans are wary of having such facilities built near their homes.
European regulators have designated ChatGPT as a search engine under EU digital regulations, placing it under stricter oversight requirements. Reddit and Roblox have also received similar classifications, bringing them under the same heightened regulatory scrutiny.
A donor grant received in summer 2025 has enabled organizers to begin indexing the long-stored collection of the former Computer Museum of America and San Diego Computer Museum, which has sat in the basement of SDSU's Love Library for over two decades. The archive includes not just vintage computers and hardware but magazines, newsletters, software, books and manuals documenting the rise of the Information Age. Organizers are also launching fundraising and marketing efforts to raise awareness of the collection's existence and value.
Prediction market Kalshi has permanently banned former congressman George Santos and fined him $71,356, marking the platform's first-ever lifetime ban. Santos had allegedly profited over $17,500 by betting he'd skip the State of the Union due to travel issues, then selling those contracts after claiming publicly he would attend. Kalshi says it flagged the scheme to regulators and imposed the harsher penalty because Santos failed to cooperate fully with its internal investigation.
A developer released a free browser-based logic puzzle called 'Plan The Roadmap' on Show HN, part of a series called Corporate Mind Games. Players drag 16 tickets into four quarterly columns, each with a point target, while satisfying constraints set by simulated meeting participants, winning when all indicator faces turn from frowning to smiling.
VideoLAN's free, open-source VLC media player has now been downloaded more than 7 billion times across all platforms, according to an update from president and lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf. The milestone comes roughly 18 months after VLC passed 6 billion downloads in January 2025. VideoLAN also confirmed it has ported VLC to Amazon's new Vega OS for TVs and continues developing broader platform and codec support.
Amazon is selling SanDisk's 256GB microSD Express Card for $58.99, down 16% from its $69.99 list price. The card uses a PCIe/NVMe interface rather than standard UHS-I, enabling faster load times and support for high-bitrate video capture, while still remaining backward-compatible with older UHS-I devices.
Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, led by PhD student Alejandro Andrés-Juanes and professor Johannes Fink, built a prototype device that links two separated qubits using a bath of correlated light particles instead of active measurement or control. The work, published in Physical Review X, confirms a theoretical prediction made over two decades ago about self-sustaining entanglement generation.
Apple's upcoming September 9 event is expected to bring new iPhones, Apple Watches, and other devices, which will likely push more than ten current products out of the lineup. Items rumored for discontinuation include the iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3, AirPods 4 models, Apple TV 4K, and both HomePod versions.
Ernst & Young announced a $100 million bonus pool aimed at rewarding employees for critical thinking, judgment and other distinctly human capabilities. The initiative is designed to encourage staff to develop skills that complement artificial intelligence tools rather than compete with them.
Apple has published guidance explaining how iPhone users can add or remove debit, credit, transit and ID cards in the Wallet app using the Plus button, either by scanning a physical card or entering details manually. The guidance notes that cards must come from a participating issuer and may require extra verification from the bank before working with Apple Pay. It also clarifies that adding a card on iPhone doesn't automatically enable it on an Apple Watch, iPad or Mac—each device needs separate setup.
Clipto, a San Francisco-based startup with teams in Singapore and Hong Kong, closed a $15 million all-equity funding round that values the company at $250 million. The startup's software indexes videos, audio, images, and meeting recordings stored on a user's computer, letting people find files by describing them in natural language or through AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude. Founder Henry Kang, whose prior startup ZenVideo was acquired by Tencent in 2020, built Clipto around the idea that AI has created a glut of unused content rather than a shortage of it.