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Sam Altman Says "Significant Fraction" of Earth's Total Electricity Should Go to Running AI

During a recent public appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that he wants a large chunk of the world's power grid to help him run artificial intelligence models. As Laptop Mag flagged, he dropped that bomb dropped during AMD's AI conference last week after Lisa Su, the CEO of the hosting firm who counts Altman as a client and friend, mentioned ChatGPT's recent outages. Though OpenAI hasn't revealed the exact causes of its massive June outage, there's a good chance it had to do with runni

Zoomcar discloses security breach impacting 8.4 million users

Zoomcar Holdings (Zoomcar) has disclosed that unauthorized accessed its system led to a data breach impacting 8.4 million users. The incident was detected on June 9, after a threat actor emailed company employees alerting them of a cyberattack. Although there has been no material disruption to services, the company’s internal investigation confirmed that sensitive data belonging to a subset of its customers has been compromised. Zoomcar is an Indian peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace that c

Amazon is selling this 230-piece Craftsman toolset for just $99

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My search for the ultimate keychain flashlight is over. This $11 model does it all

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests

A new benchmark developed by academics shows that LLM-based AI agents perform below par on standard CRM tests and fail to understand the need for customer confidentiality. A team led by Kung-Hsiang Huang, a Salesforce AI researcher, showed that using a new benchmark relying on synthetic data, LLM agents achieve around a 58 percent success rate on tasks that can be completed in a single step without needing follow-up actions or more information. Using the benchmark tool CRMArena-Pro, the team a

What makes TechCrunch All Stage different from other startup events? Answers to your most pressing questions

Tech and startup events have a formula. You know it. We know it. We’ve all done it. But TechCrunch All Stage 2025, which we’re hosting July 15 at the SoWa Power Station in Boston, is designed to break out of that rinse-and-repeat model — and focus on what early-stage startups actually need to know, right now. Plus, you can still get some limited-time pricing discounts, with Investor passes coming in at a $200 reduction, Founder passes discounted by $210, and our special $99 rate exclusively for

Car sharing giant Zoomcar says hacker accessed personal data of 8.4 million users

Indian car-sharing marketplace Zoomcar has revealed that a hacker accessed the personal data of at least 8.4 million customers, including their names, phone numbers, and car registration numbers. The Bengaluru-headquartered company identified the incident involving unauthorized access to its information systems on June 9, per its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company stated that it became aware of the incident after some of its employees received external communic

AMD unveils Epyc Venice with 256 cores and 2nm process for next-gen AI and cloud workloads

What just happened? AMD is preparing to shake up the data center landscape with its forthcoming Epyc Venice processor, a chip that promises to set new standards for performance and scalability in server computing. Announced at the company's recent Advancing AI event, the Venice CPU is built on AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture and is slated for release in 2026, targeting the ever-increasing demands of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and high-performance analytics. Venice makes

Musk's Daring Gambit Has Managed to Do Something Remarkable: Alienate Democrats AND Republicans

It appears that Elon Musk has seriously overestimated his sustained popularity among his right-wing fans. In another masterful display of cunning, the world's richest man turned coat and viciously lashed out at his former best-friend-in-chief Donald Trump this month. It was a very public affair, as both parties traded blows over social media — and Trump at his many press conferences — but it was Musk who came out looking worse for wear, unable to equal the president's threats, squirming at the

iOS 26 SDK offers strongest hint yet at a foldable iPhone

Apple’s WWDC sessions usually offer a mix of developer guidance and subtle hardware tea leaves. And last week, one passing comment during the explanation of an SDK change caught attention for what it might suggest about a particular future device. In a session called “Make your UIKit app more flexible,” Apple confirmed that starting with the iOS 26 SDK, apps will no longer be automatically letterboxed or scaled on new screen sizes when running on future hardware. Historically, when Apple intro

This MagSafe accessory just duped the most premium wallet I've tried for $30

ZDNET's key takeaways The Benks ArmorGo Magnetic Wallet and Stand is on sale for $30. It holds up to three cards, has a rotatable stand, is RFID blocking and extra durable. It's a great value competitor, but doesn't hold more than a few cards. $29.69 at Amazon It's not magic … it's MagSafe. From MagSafe batteries to MagSafe wallets, there are so many options out there to level up your phone. Also: 7 MagSafe accessories that I recommend every iPhone user should have As ZDNET's primary MagSaf

The best ad blockers of 2025: Clean up your browsing experience

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

Swearing Companies People Filesystems Love&Hate Blooeans 64bit archs Garbage Hacks *nix Custom Otherwise, you're stuck with If you enable Javascript, you can get nifty, interactive graphs!Otherwise, you're stuck with this old version that just shows an outdated, static png. How many times are words, names or functions found in the Linux kernel source code? Browse an example or write your own comma-separated list to find out! You can use * for wildcards, foo|bar for sums, and a word

How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous

If you want to see a tour de force of mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy and design, there’s no need to vis­it a Sil­i­con Val­ley show­room. Just feel around your desk for a few moments, and soon­er or lat­er you’ll lay a hand on it: the BIC Cristal ball­point pen, which is described in the Pri­mal Space video above as “pos­si­bly the most suc­cess­ful prod­uct ever made.” Not long after its intro­duc­tion in 1950, the Cristal became ubiq­ui­tous around the world, so ide­al­ly did it suit human needs at a p

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This Roku 2-in-1 Streambar Is Cheaper Than It Was on Amazon Prime Day, No Need to Buy a Separate Soundbar

We live in a golden age of entertainment, and most of the time, we don’t even need to leave the house to enjoy it. Sure, the cinema is good and all, but being able to curl up at home and enjoy your favorite films and TV shows in your PJs is not to be trifled with. If you want that experience to be as good as possible though, then you should probably invest in both a good streaming device and a good soundbar. Better yet, get a device that do both, like the Roku Streambar. See at Amazon That’s r

Best Internet Providers in Centennial, Colorado

What is the best internet provider in Centennial, Colorado? When it comes to internet, residents of Centennial, Colorado, have a few choices. The region is well connected with fiber, but if that’s not an option for you, there are also cable networks. CNET picks Quantum Fiber as the best internet service provider overall for most households in Centennial. It uses a fiber-to-the-home connection, so you’ll get fast, symmetrical upload and download speeds. The price is reasonable and guaranteed for

Acefast Acefit Air Review: Sleek Style, Solid Substance

In the swelling tide of open earbuds, it can be easy to overlook an underdog. When Acefast’s Acefit Air first came to my attention, they seemed like any other pair of budget ear hooks, the baseline design for buds that let you listen to tunes while keeping your ears open to the world. I was delightfully surprised once I got them out of the box, starting with their spyware-thin charging case harboring stylishly slim buds with a touch of metallic flair. The Acefit Air’s daily performance is simil

Nintendo announces a Donkey Kong Bananza Direct

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Nintendo will offer an early look at Donkey Kong Bananza during a livestream on Wednesday, June 18th at 9AM ET / 6AM PT. The company announced the upcoming Direct event through its Nintendo Today app and on X, saying the livestream will feature 15 minutes of information about the Switch 2 game. Donkey Kong Bananza was announced on April 2nd and lau

Alta raises $11M to bring ‘Clueless’ fashion tech to life with all-star investors

Throughout her years working in technology, Jenny Wang, 28, always found herself stumbling back to one idea — a personal styling agent to help users decide what to wear and buy based on their budget, lifestyle, weather and calendar. She has tried to build such a product numerous times in the past, “but the AI technology was not yet mature enough,” she told TechCrunch. That’s changed so a few months ago she announced the launch of her dream company, Alta, followed by the announcement today of an

Nintendo Switch 2 survives over 50 hammer blows in brutal durability test

What just happened? While many new Nintendo Switch 2 owners are handling their consoles with extreme care, fearful that a single accident could spell disaster for the prized device, JerryRigEverything's Zack Nelson took a very different approach. In a recent video, Nelson subjected the handheld to a series of punishing durability tests, pushing the limits of Nintendo's latest hardware to see just how much abuse it could withstand. The centerpiece of Nelson's test was a dramatic sequence in whic

5 laptops, 1 charger: UGREEN’s latest GaN charger is built for a whole household of power users

UGREEN TL;DR UGREEN has launched the Nexode 500W Desktop Charger, which it claims is the most powerful GaN charger in the world. It supports 240W on a single USB-C port and can charge five laptops and a phone simultaneously. The $249.99 charger features adaptive power distribution, wide protocol support, and real-time heat monitoring. UGREEN has announced the Nexode 500W Desktop Charger, a six-port desktop charger that it claims is the most powerful GaN charger in the world. With a total out

Forget Anker, UGREEN 4-Port USB-C Charger Drops to Almost Free and Has the Amazon’s Choice Badge

Do ever find your different devices fighting for that one available outlet? It’s annoying having to make the tough call to which you’ll plug in, your phone or your laptop. You can connect one and then go plug in the other into a different outlet I suppose, but then it’s all the way on the other side of the room sometimes. Utterly useless. Get yourself a solid wall charger block that can handle all your devices at once. The UGREEN 65W USB-C charger has multiple ports to plug into and can recharge

ChatGPT Plus Review: A Feature-Rich AI Chatbot That's Great for Research

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. 9.0 / 10 SCORE ChatGPT Plus Review Pros Very accurate Powerful reasoning models that are great for research Voice mode for long chats Long-term memory Robust image generation Document and image analysis Custom GPT creation Suite of tools for more niche tasks Cons Can still hallucinate ChatGPT has completely changed how I do my job. Over the past ye

How AI can help make cities work better for residents

Shortly after joining MIT in 2012, Williams created the Civic Data Design Lab to bridge that divide. Over the years, she and her colleagues have pushed the narrative and expository bounds of urban planning data using the latest technologies available—making numbers vivid and accessible through human stories and striking graphics. One project she was involved in, on rates of incarceration in New York City by neighborhood, is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Police seizes Archetyp Market drug marketplace, arrests admin

Law enforcement authorities from six countries took down the Archetyp Market, an infamous darknet drug marketplace that has been operating since May 2020. Archetyp Market sellers provided the market's customers with access to high volumes of drugs, including cocaine, amphetamines, heroin, cannabis, MDMA, and synthetic opioids like fentanyl through more than 3,200 registered vendors and over 17,000 listings. Over its five years of activity, the marketplace amassed over 612,000 users with a tota

Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why

querbeet/Getty Images "We're done with Teams!" declared Digitalisation Minister Dirk Schrödter, speaking via an open-source video platform, in his announcement that the German state of Schleswig-Holstein will phase out all Microsoft software from government workplaces. The goal is to fully transition from Microsoft programs to Linux and open-source programs within the next three months. Also: I found a Linux distro that combines the best parts of other operating systems (and it works) The dec