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Microsoft to spend $4 billion on second Wisconsin data center

Microsoft plans to match the amount of energy it consumes from fossil fuel sources with carbon-free energy it will contribute to the grid, said Smith, who spent part of his childhood in Mount Pleasant. Cloud infrastructure providers are racing to build capacity to meet the needs of companies that want to run AI models. More than 700 million people use OpenAI's ChatGPT, which draws on Microsoft's Azure cloud, and software providers from Adobe to Salesforce have been adding AI feature enhancement

Coinbase CEO says banks are fighting stablecoin rewards with 'boogeyman' issues

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and other crypto executives took to Capitol Hill this week as part of a regulatory showdown between the industry and banks with potentially trillions at stake. Banking advocacy groups are urging lawmakers to prohibit crypto exchanges like Coinbase from offering customers rewards that are structured like interest payments banks offer. "I'm not sure why the banks would want to bring that up again at this point, but they should have to compete on a level playing field

CEO of DeepMind Points Out the Obvious: OpenAI Is Lying About Having "PhD Level" AI

British researcher and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, a luminary of AI research who won a Nobel prize last year, is throwing cold water on his peers' claim that AI has achieved "PhD-level" intelligence. During a recent appearance at a summit put on by the "All-In" podcast, Hassabis was asked about what was holding us back from reaching artificial general intelligence (AGI), the hypothetical point at which an AI matches or surpasses human-level intelligence. Hassabis said that current AI "

Android 16 QPR2 may let you flip your Pixel’s navigation bar like on Samsung phones

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is adding a long-awaited option to Pixel phones that lets users reverse the order of the three-button navigation bar. This feature allows users to switch to the “Recents, Home, Back” layout, which is the default on Samsung Galaxy phones. We discovered evidence for the new setting in Android 16 QPR2 Beta 2, but the setting isn’t live yet. For years, Samsung phones have defaulted to a three-button navigation layout where the back button is on the

Missing your pre-order promo credit on T-Mobile’s Go5G Plus plan? Check your email for the fix

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile customers on the Go5G Plus plan reported missing part of their promotional credits during iPhone 17 pre-orders. Apple has informed affected customers that they will receive the remaining balance via billing once their device trade-in is complete. T-Mobile offers up to $1,100 off when trading in devices for the new iPhone 17 series. Apple launched the iPhone 17 series last week, and it’s got a few Android users tempted to make the switch. For

Google is bringing the fun of custom Androidify bots to your Wear OS watch face

TL;DR Google is updating its Androidify app with Wear OS support, letting users create custom watch faces with their personalized Android Bot. The new feature lets you select a watch face design and send your custom bot directly to your connected smartwatch from the phone app. This functionality requires Wear OS 6 because it uses a new API, and while it works, it has not officially rolled out to users yet. Earlier this month, Google brought its Androidify app back from the grave. The company

Massive collection of Apple gear on sale this week: M4 MacBooks, Mac mini, iPad Air/mini, accessories, more

Pre-orders for iPhone 17 are about to come to a close ahead of delivery day tomorrow, alongside pre-sale listings on the new AirPods Pro 3, Apple Watch Ultra 3, and Apple Watch Series 11, but there are a ton of notable deals live right now across the Apple lineup. From M4 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models through to M4 Mac mini, we are also tracking solid price drops across the M3 iPad Air and iPad mini lineups, not to mention some notable accessory offers – Apple’s new 2025 model 25W Qi2 MagSa

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First iPhone 17 and iPhone Air pre-orders now say ‘Shipped’

The iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, and iPhone Air all arrive in stores tomorrow, September 19. Now, Apple has begun notifying the first pre-order customers for the new iPhones that their devices have shipped. Apple’s website now says iPhone 17 has officially shipped for at least some buyers If you were among the first to pre-order the iPhone 17 or iPhone Air, your new iPhone might now be marked as ‘Shipped.’ Users have begun reporting that the Apple Store shows their new device as havi

Apple's 25W MagSafe charger is on sale for $35

Just ahead of the iPhone 17 lineup arriving on Friday, you can pick up Apple's 25W MagSafe charger for a song. The two-meter version of the more powerful charging cable has dropped by 29 percent from $49 to $35 . That's a record-low price. As it happens, that actually makes the two-meter version of the cable less expensive than the one-meter variant. The shorter cable will run you $39 as things stand. If you have an iPhone 16, iPhone 17 or iPhone Air, this cable can charge your device at 25W a

Samsung’s very expensive Family Hub fridges will now treat you to ads on their displays

If you’ve just shelled out thousands of dollars on one of Samsung’s smart fridges , you’d be forgiven for expecting it to leave you alone, rather than encouraging you to spend even more money. But that is no longer the case — following a recent update, you’ll start seeing ads on the fridge’s display. According to Android Authority , the new software update is being rolled out to Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators in the US, and will now display ads and promotions while the display is idle. In a

Target-rich environment: Why Microsoft 365 has become the biggest risk

Microsoft 365 has become the central nervous system of modern business — and cybercriminals know it. Just as Windows became the primary target for attackers because of its market dominance in the 1990s and 2000s, Microsoft 365 now finds itself in the crosshairs for having "won" the email and collaboration war. With over 400 million paid Office 365 seats worldwide and countless organizations relying on its integrated suite of applications, Microsoft 365 represents the ultimate target-rich envir

SystemBC malware turns infected VPS systems into proxy highway

The operators of the SystemBC proxy botnet are hunting for vulnerable commercial virtual private servers (VPS) and maintain an average of 1,500 bots every day that provide a highway for malicious traffic. Compromised servers are located all over the world and have at least one unpatched critical vulnerability, some of them being plagued by tens of security issues. SystemBC has been around since at least 2019 and has been used by various threat actors, including several ransomware gangs, to del

UK arrests 'Scattered Spider' teens linked to Transport for London hack

Two teenagers, believed to be linked to the August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London, have been arrested in the United Kingdom. Believed to be members of the notorious Scattered Spider hacking collective, 18-year-old Owen Flowers from Walsall and 19-year-old Thalha Jubair from East London are scheduled to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court today. Flowers was previously arrested for his alleged involvement in the TfL attack in September 2024, but was released on bail after being que

Windows Paint just got a major Photoshop-like upgrade you'll want to try - what's new

Microsoft / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Windows 11 Paint can now save your work with all edits intact. Paint also now lets you adjust the transparency of your strokes. The new features are rolling out to Windows 11 insiders. One of the many handy features in Adobe Photoshop is the ability to save your work as a PSD file with all your layers, edits, and adjustments intact. You can then open that file when you want

An Afternoon at the Recursive Café: Two Threads Interleaving

An Afternoon at the Recursive Café: Two Threads Interleaving Scene: A cozy coffee shop called "Lambda Grounds" where the Wi-Fi password is "currying123" and the baristas wear t-shirts with arrows pointing right. ALEX, a curious philosophy student, sits across from CLAUDE, a mysterious figure who might be an AI, a very pale computer science professor, or possibly a sentient stack overflow answer. Steam rises from their cups in patterns that look suspiciously like lambda calculus expressions. AL

Automatic Differentiation Can Be Incorrect

ISCL Seminar Series The Numerical Analysis of Differentiable Simulation: How Automatic Differentiation of Physics Can Give Incorrect Derivatives Scientific machine learning (SciML) relies heavily on automatic differentiation (AD), the process of constructing gradients which include machine learning integrated into mechanistic models for the purpose of gradient-based optimization. While these differentiable programming approaches pitch an idea of “simply put the simulator into a loss function a

TernFS – An exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem

TernFS — an exabyte scale, multi-region distributed filesystem September 2025 XTX is an algorithmic trading firm: it builds statistical models that produce price forecasts for over 50,000 financial instruments worldwide. We use those forecasts to make trades. As XTX's research efforts to build better models ramped up, the demand for resources kept increasing. The firm started out with a couple of desktops and an NFS server, and 10 years later ended up with tens of thousands of high-end GPUs,

Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua

In addition to a completely custom front end that implements parsing, linting and type checking, Luau runtime features new bytecode, interpreter and compiler that are heavily tuned for performance. Luau interpreter can be competitive with LuaJIT interpreter depending on the program. An optional component for manual Just-In-Time compilation is also available for x64 and arm64 platforms, which can considerably speed up certain programs. We continue to optimize the runtime and rewrite portions of i

Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation Today The Perl and Raku Foundation is thrilled to announce a donation of USD 10,000 from Geizhals Preisvergleich. This gift helps to secure the future of The Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Perl has been an integral part of our product price comparison platform from the start of the company 25 years ago. Supporting the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund means supporting both present and future of a substantial pillar of Modern

Zach Cregger’s ‘Resident Evil’ Movie Adds an Intriguing New Star

Dave Bautista and Vincent D’Onofrio want in on the DCU. Chainsaw Man the Movie: Reze Arc drops a hot new poster. Plus, go behind the scenes on the return of Netflix’s One Piece in a new featurette. Spoilers get! Resident Evil Deadline reports Paul Walter Hauser has joined the cast of Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil in a currently undisclosed role (start your Barry Burton speculation now). The DCU Dave Bautista confirmed he’s still eager to join James Gunn’s DCU in a new interview with Screen Ra

Nvidia Appeals to Trump With a $5 Billion Intel Stake

Nvidia became one of competitor Intel’s largest shareholders on Thursday with a $5 billion stake. The two companies will collaborate to jointly develop PC chips and data centers. Once the dominant name in chips, Intel had been in a steady decline in recent years as it failed to keep up with peers like Nvidia in the AI race. The company started its official turnaround strategy last year by ousting its previous CEO Pat Gelsinger, who was eventually replaced by Lip Bu-Tan a few months later. Las

Can Police Take Your Home Security Videos? 3 Ways It's Legal

Home security cameras and video doorbells provide many ways to protect privacy, from end-to-end encryption to the ability to use local video storage instead of storing on the cloud. But when the cops get involved, it's another story. Law enforcement has several options to take home security videos that you've recorded. That can include videos held in the cloud by your security company and even videos you may be keeping in a local hub that you own. It's important to know your rights, know when t

44 of the Best Movies on Netflix You Should Stream Right Now

In the 10 years since releasing its first original film, Beasts of No Nation, Netflix has evolved into a power player in the movie scene. It's earned honors at award shows including the Oscars, Golden Globes and Emmys. The streaming giant won three Oscars in 2025, and action-thriller Rebel Ridge just nabbed an Emmy Award this week for Best TV Movie (the sentimental Vince Vaughn comedy Nonnas was nominated in the same category and is worth a watch, too). Popular films like KPop Demon Hunters, wh

I Love Hallmark Movies, but This New Netflix Flick Shakes Up the Rom-Com Formula

You could argue that the newly released Miranda Cosgrove romance movie, The Wrong Paris, which arrived on Netflix last week, could have been a Hallmark movie. As someone who covers a lot of streaming and television content, I've watched at least 100 Hallmark movies over the course of my career, and the plot of The Wrong Paris, at least on paper, is the perfect Hallmark film. In it, a broke artist named Dawn (Cosgrove) applies to a dating show, thinking it takes place in Paris, France, but to he

Luma AI's New Ray3 Video Generator Can 'Think' Before Creating

Reasoning models are not uncommon in the world of AI. Many companies have them, including OpenAI's GPT-o3 and Google's Gemini 2.5. But AI image and video company Luma AI just dropped its first AI reasoning video model, named Ray3, and it's available now. A reasoning model is a kind of AI model that uses more computing time to process requests and can go back and check its answers. Typically, reasoning models give you better responses, whether that's more detail or a lower rate of errors. For R

The iPhone Air Is Sturdier Than It Looks. But Is It Klutz-Proof?

Apple's thinnest ever phone, the iPhone Air, is here. I was excited to see Apple depart from its usual Plus model lineup for the iPhone 17 family, but I was more than a little nervous at the prospect of an ultrathin model. The device is only 5.6 mm thick, about the size of three stacked credit cards. But I have to ask: Did anyone really ask for a super-thin iPhone? Apple's iPhone Air engineering claims sound promising... Apple has loaded up the iPhone Air with better battery life and faster p

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How weak passwords and other failings led to catastrophic breach of Ascension

Last week, a prominent US senator called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for cybersecurity negligence over the role it played last year in health giant Ascension's ransomware breach, which caused life-threatening disruptions at 140 hospitals and put the medical records of 5.6 million patients into the hands of the attackers. Lost in the focus on Microsoft was something as, or more, urgent: never-before-revealed details that now invite scrutiny of Ascension’s own security

Meta’s $799 Ray-Ban Display is the company’s first big step from VR to AR

At last year's Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg focused less on the company's line of Quest VR headsets and more on the "Orion" prototype see-through augmented reality glasses, which he said could launch in some form or another "in the next few years." At the Meta Connect keynote Wednesday evening, though, Zuckerberg announced that the company's Meta Ray-Ban Display AR glasses would be available starting at $799 as soon as Sept. 30. To be sure, Meta's first commercial smartglasses with a built-in

How to Trade In or Sell Your iPhone (2025)

Whether you’re in the market for the super-slim new iPhone Air or planning to go big with the iPhone 17 Pro Max, don’t just toss that old phone in a drawer when you upgrade. Sell your iPhone! That old hunk of glass is more valuable than you might think. A handful of services offer cash or store credit for used iPhones. We’ve compared some popular options for trading in an old device. Most of these services accept Samsung and Google devices, and all of them take iPhones. Updated September 2025:

25 Amazon Prime Perks You Might Not Be Using (2025)

It’s common knowledge that a Prime membership gets you free two-day shipping. But there are Amazon Prime perks that make the service more worthwhile—and considering the cost of a yearly membership, you're doing yourself a disservice if you aren't taking advantage of all of them. Below, we've listed some of the perks you should be using as an Amazon Prime member. Arguably, these incentives alone aren't worth the cost of a membership, but chances are at least one of them will come in handy. Amazo