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Wyoming could become the first state to supply more electricity to AI than to residents

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-20 23:47:00

Wow: Wyoming could soon host one of the largest AI data centers ever built – one consuming more electricity than every home in the state combined. The scale is staggering and raises urgent questions about how the AI boom will reshape America's energy future. On Monday, Cheyenne Mayor Patrick Collins announced a joint venture between energy infrastructure company Tallgrass and Crusoe, an AI data center developer. The Associated Press notes the facility's first phase would draw 1.8 gigawatts, con

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Lyon Is Replacing Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and OnlyOffice

news.ycombinator.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-21 18:52:10

Jumping Rocks/Contributor/Getty Is it something in the water? First, it was Denmark bidding Microsoft adieu. Then it was the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Now it's Lyon, France's third-largest city and a leading economic hub, sweeping Microsoft Windows and Office suite away to replace them with Linux, OnlyOffice, NextCloud, and PostgreSQL. Also: Ready to ditch Windows? 'End of 10' makes converting your PC to Linux easier than ever So, why is Lyon making this move? Well, it's not due to

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Wyoming may become the first state to supply more electricity to AI than to residents

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2025-12-22 05:47:00

Wow: Wyoming could soon host one of the largest AI data centers ever built – one consuming more electricity than every home in the state combined. The scale is staggering and raises urgent questions about how the AI boom will reshape America's energy future. On Monday, Cheyenne Mayor Patrick Collins announced a joint venture between energy infrastructure company Tallgrass and Crusoe, an AI data center developer. The Associated Press notes the facility's first phase would draw 1.8 gigawatts, con

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CEO Lays Off 150 Employees, Tells Them They'll Largely Be Replaced With AI

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-22 04:20:36

Executives are stumbling over themselves to replace pesky and expensive human labor with AI. In the latest instance, the billionaire cofounder and CEO of software giant Atlassian Mike Cannon-Brookes announced that 150 people would be laid off, with some jobs being replaced with AI tech, outlets including Sky News report. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the cuts affect customer service roles exposed to AI. Cannon-Brookes made the announcement over a video call from his home. Affected s

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Google’s AI age tests will have consequences that extend far beyond YouTube

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-22 15:40:40

It turns out the new Google AI age checks aren’t just a YouTube thing. The company is beginning to roll out a broader age assurance system across its entire platform in the US, which means more of your online activity could soon be used to judge whether you’re a teen. This follows yesterday’s launch of AI-based age estimation on YouTube , but it now appears that the effort reaches well beyond video recommendations. According to a new Google blog post , the same technology will start testing acr

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YouTube is using AI to verify your age now - and if it's wrong, that's on you to fix

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-22 12:27:04

5./15 WEST / Getty Images AI age verification is coming to YouTube, and it's almost certainly going to be a frustrating process for some people. Also: How to download YouTube videos for free - 2 ways, including my favorite In an announcement yesterday, the streaming video service says it's "extending our built-in protections" by letting AI predict your age. If the system thinks you're under 18 based on your actions, your account will automatically receive age restrictions. Variety of signals

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YouTube's Age-Estimation Tech Will Spot Kids Pretending to Be Adults. Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-22 16:43:00

If kids are lying about their age, YouTube will know about it. Or at least will try its best to find out. The streaming service announced Tuesday it's rolling out age-estimation technology that will use various data to determine if someone is under the age of 18, and then use that signal "to deliver our age-appropriate product experiences and protections." Basically -- assuming it works as it should -- kids will not be able to access what YouTube deems as age-restricted content. Google, YouTub

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Google is using AI age checks to lock down user accounts

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-22 20:20:43

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. Google will soon cast an even wider net with its AI age estimation technology. After announcing plans to find and restrict underage users on YouTube, the company now says it will start detecting whether Google users based in the US are under 18. Age estimation is rolling out over the next few weeks and will only impact a “small set” of users to sta

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YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children after all

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-23 00:17:07

YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children under 16, as reported by Bloomberg . The country's Labor government said that the site will be subject to the same rules as other leading platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X when the legislation goes into effect this December. Australia had planned to exempt YouTube from the forthcoming social media ban, on the grounds that it's an educational tool. This irked other platforms, with Meta and TikTok urging the coun

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YouTube loosens profanity rules for monetized videos

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-23 10:01:21

YouTube is tweaking its profanity-related rules to allow creators to monetize videos with swearing in them, provided the profanity is contained to the first seven seconds of the video. In November 2022, YouTube changed its rules so that creators who used swear words in the first 8-15 seconds would potentially be ineligible for any ad revenue. After much backlash, the company changed its rules again in March 2023 so that such videos would be eligible for limited ad revenue, unless they use profa

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YouTube is using AI to verify user age based on viewing habits

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-23 20:03:00

In brief: YouTube is expanding its use of AI to determine if someone is 18 years old or older in the US. The platform is using machine learning to assess user behavior and estimate a person's age based on the content they watch and search for. YouTube writes that it will use AI to determine if a signed-in user is over or under 18 based on the types of videos they search for, the categories of videos they have watched, or how long they have held an account – regardless of what birthday they put

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YouTube will no longer limit ads on videos that drop the f-bomb early

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-23 20:45:19

YouTube has changed its ad guideline policy surrounding swear words, allowing creators a bit more freedom than before. In a video announcement, YouTube's head of monetization, Conor Kavanagh, said that videos containing stronger profanity such as f-bombs in the first seven seconds are now eligible for full monetization. In 2022, YouTube introduced a policy that would flag videos using profane language in the first several seconds as ineligible for advertising. It relaxed that rule a bit in 2023.

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YouTube makes it easy for TV users to skip to the best bits of videos

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-12-24 06:00:05

It seems YouTube is finally giving its TV app the AI feature that lets you skip to the most interesting parts of a video. Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman reports that the Jump Ahead perk for YouTube Premium subscribers appeared on his Nvidia Shield TV yesterday, a feature that was previously exclusive to YouTube’s web and mobile platforms. Jump Ahead gives users an easy way to automatically get to the best bits of a video by using AI to analyze the most-watched segments that viewers typicall

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YouTube to be included in Australia's teen social media ban

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-24 06:24:49

YouTube to be included in Australia's teen social media ban YouTube - owned by Google - had argued it shouldn't be blocked for children as the platform "offers benefit and value to younger Australians": "It's not social media," it said in statement on Wednesday. Under the ban, teenagers will still be able to view YouTube videos but will not be permitted to have an account, which is required for uploading content or interacting on the platform. The video sharing site was set to be excluded fro

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AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 20:24:16

On Monday, Mayor Patrick Collins of Cheyenne, Wyoming, announced plans for an AI data center that would consume more electricity than all homes in the state combined, according to the Associated Press. The facility, a joint venture between energy infrastructure company Tallgrass and AI data center developer Crusoe, would start at 1.8 gigawatts and scale up to 10 gigawatts of power use. The project's energy demands are difficult to overstate for Wyoming, the least populous US state. The initial

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Exclusive: A record-breaking baby has been born from an embryo that’s over 30 years old

technologyreview.com Jessica Hamzelou 2025-12-24 21:36:56

Cumbersome and explosive In the early days of IVF, embryos earmarked for storage were slow-frozen. This technique involves gradually lowering the temperature of the embryos. But because slow freezing can cause harmful ice crystals to form, clinics switched in the 2000s to a technique called vitrification, in which the embryos are placed in thin plastic tubes called straws and lowered into tanks of liquid nitrogen. This rapidly freezes the embryos and converts them into a glass-like state. The

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YouTube Will Start Guessing Your Age

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-25 00:40:14

YouTube will no longer take your word for it when you enter your birthday. On Tuesday, the platform announced that it will be rolling out new age-estimation tools that will attempt to verify a person’s age based on a variety of indicators as part of an attempt to keep younger users from accessing more adult content and deliver “age-appropriate product experiences and protections.” According to YouTube, the age inference system, which will be used on a “small set of users in the US” in the comin

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YouTube’s best Premium feature is finally coming to the big screen

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-25 05:44:23

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube’s ‘Jump Ahead’ feature, which lets Premium subscribers skip to the most interesting part of a video, is now rolling out to the YouTube app on TVs. The feature uses AI and viewing data to identify the segment of the video that most viewers typically skip ahead to. Unlike on mobile and web, the TV version lets users tap their remote’s fast-forward key to automatically skip to a designated point on the progress bar. YouTube is finally bringing one

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Get ready to be embarrassed: YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you’re an adult

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-25 15:08:32

We’re currently in the middle of a rather regrettable trend taking hold across the globe, as online services increasingly demand that users positively authenticate themselves — or at the very least establish their ages. Over in the UK they’re all having a bunch of fun* (fun not guaranteed) with the Online Safety Act right now, and the US is likely to face a new wave of similar requirements, after a bad Supreme Court ruling last month. Earlier this year, YouTube shared some of its own plans for a

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YouTube will identify and restrict minors’ accounts with AI

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-25 15:48:50

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. YouTube will soon begin using AI-powered age estimation technology to figure out which users are under the age of 18. Starting August 13th, YouTube will detect underage users in the US based on their activity and the age of their account, allowing the platform to automatically apply restrictions. These accounts will get the same protections YouTube

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YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-25 14:00:00

YouTube on Tuesday announced it’s beginning to roll out age-estimation technology in the U.S. to identify teen users in order to provide a more age-appropriate experience. The company says it will use a variety of signals to determine the users’ possible age, regardless of what the user entered as their birthday when they signed up for an account. When YouTube identifies a user as a teen, it introduces new protections and experiences, which include disabling personalized advertising, safeguards

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YouTube rolls out age estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-25 20:00:00

YouTube on Tuesday announced it’s beginning to roll out age estimation technology in the U.S. to identify teen users in order to provide a more age-appropriate experience. The company says it will use a variety of signals to determine the users’ possible age, regardless of what the user entered as their birthday when they signed up for an account. When YouTube identifies a user as a teen, it introduces new protections and experiences, which include disabling personalized advertising, safeguards

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Meta, YouTube, TikTok fight back as Australia's social media restrictions for teens draw closer

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-26 10:51:00

In brief: After approving plans to ban those aged under 16 from using social media last year, the Australian government is now considering which of the platforms should be included in the new law. In response, the companies are looking for ways to avoid being added to the ban list, with methods ranging from pleas and security promises to thinly veiled legal threats. Social media platforms have long criticized Australia's ban on under-16s holding accounts. The law comes into effect this December

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Can a bird store and reproduce data? A starling may have proven it's possible

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-12-26 15:03:00

WTF?! While researchers previously theorized that homing pigeons could transport data faster than gigabit internet in certain scenarios, a birder recently explored how birdsong might store and reproduce data. More research is needed to fully explore the phenomenon, but the possibilities are intriguing. A recent YouTube video from birder Benn Jordan explains how a songbird retained and reproduced information from a PNG image file, theoretically enabling data transfers reaching 2 MB/s. The feat i

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Layoffs surge in tech: More than 100,000 jobs cut in 2025 so far

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-12-26 16:16:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Big quote: As Frank Herbert writes in Dune, "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." We've now entered the second half of the year, and tech-related layoffs have already skyrocketed past the 100,000 mark. The Bridge Chronicle has compiled a list of the most outstanding mass layoffs a

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One of the hottest new browsers is also the best thing that’s happened to my YouTube experience

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-29 14:30:44

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority We hadn’t even heard of agentic AI until recently, and now suddenly, companies like Google, OpenAI, and others are betting big on the tech. These aren’t just chatbots that answer your questions; they’re smart assistants that actually get things done for you. Think of it as AI with initiative. An agentic AI won’t just help you find the best coffee shop in your area — it’ll figure out what beans they use, order them for you from Amazon, and even schedule a recurr

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Shallow water is dangerous too

news.ycombinator.com Kaufman 2025-12-25 15:22:22

Julia and I know drowning is the biggest risk to US kids 1-4, and we try to take this seriously. But yesterday our 4yo came very close to drowning in a fountain. (She's fine now.) This week we were on vacation with my extended family: nine kids, eight parents, and ten grandparents/uncles/aunts. For the last few years we've been in a series of rental houses, and this time on arrival we found a fountain in the backyard: I immediately checked the depth with a stick and found that it would be just

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Shallow Water Is Dangerous Too

news.ycombinator.com Kaufman 2025-12-25 21:22:22

Julia and I know drowning is the biggest risk to US kids 1-4, and we try to take this seriously. But yesterday our 4yo came very close to drowning in a fountain. (She's fine now.) This week we were on vacation with my extended family: nine kids, eight parents, and ten grandparents/uncles/aunts. For the last few years we've been in a series of rental houses, and this time on arrival we found a fountain in the backyard: I immediately checked the depth with a stick and found that it would be just

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‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Finally Comes Out Next Year, and We’ve Seen Footage

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-29 08:30:34

Two years ago, Coyote vs. Acme was a victim of Warner Bros. Discovery’s cost-cutting cancellation wave. Despite public outcry, it initially seemed like it’d never see the light of day. But things have worked out in its favor: it’s coming to theaters next year, and San Diego Comic-Con offered a first look at what’s to come in the Looney Tunes’ latest movie and, more importantly, a release date: August 28, 2026. A mix of live-action and animation, the film sees Wile E. Coyote finally becoming fed

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The New ‘Long Walk’ Trailer Promises a Grim, Nightmarish Stephen King Survival Tale

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-29 15:16:04

Author Stephen King and director Francis Lawrence are both known for deftly handling tales involving kids put through hell with no guarantee they’ll survive. Think the Losers’ Club in It for King and every young person to appear in a Hunger Games movie for Lawrence. So to combine their talents on The Long Walk, based on King’s 1979 dystopian novel, feels rather ideal—not to mention nightmarish, as the film’s brutal first trailer suggested. At San Diego Comic-Con, fans got a deeper look into the

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Wyoming could become the first state to supply more electricity to AI than to residents

Lyon Is Replacing Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and OnlyOffice

Wyoming may become the first state to supply more electricity to AI than to residents

CEO Lays Off 150 Employees, Tells Them They'll Largely Be Replaced With AI

Google’s AI age tests will have consequences that extend far beyond YouTube

YouTube is using AI to verify your age now - and if it's wrong, that's on you to fix

YouTube's Age-Estimation Tech Will Spot Kids Pretending to Be Adults. Here's How It Works

Google is using AI age checks to lock down user accounts

YouTube will be included in Australia's social media ban for children after all

YouTube loosens profanity rules for monetized videos

YouTube is using AI to verify user age based on viewing habits

YouTube will no longer limit ads on videos that drop the f-bomb early

YouTube makes it easy for TV users to skip to the best bits of videos

YouTube to be included in Australia's teen social media ban

AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents

Exclusive: A record-breaking baby has been born from an embryo that’s over 30 years old

YouTube Will Start Guessing Your Age

YouTube’s best Premium feature is finally coming to the big screen

Get ready to be embarrassed: YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you’re an adult

YouTube will identify and restrict minors’ accounts with AI

YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections

YouTube rolls out age estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections

Meta, YouTube, TikTok fight back as Australia's social media restrictions for teens draw closer

Can a bird store and reproduce data? A starling may have proven it's possible

Layoffs surge in tech: More than 100,000 jobs cut in 2025 so far

One of the hottest new browsers is also the best thing that’s happened to my YouTube experience

Shallow water is dangerous too

Shallow Water Is Dangerous Too

‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Finally Comes Out Next Year, and We’ve Seen Footage

The New ‘Long Walk’ Trailer Promises a Grim, Nightmarish Stephen King Survival Tale

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