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Walt Disney Company is the most successful at monetizing human nostalgia [audio]

Walt Disney Company has demonstrated exceptional profitability compared to other Hollywood studios by successfully…

Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center.

Trump Orders Acceleration of Quantum Readiness as Bitcoin Faces Coming Risk

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders aimed at expanding U.S.

Jobs and Software Is Fucked

A software engineer with 10 years of experience describes a deteriorating job market following their 2025 layoff from…

AI has already killed academia as we know it?

Google Warns AI Consciousness Debate Could Become a Political Battleground

A new paper from Google DeepMind argues that disagreements over whether AI is conscious could spill into politics, law,…

Tata Electronics, a major tech supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirms data breach

The incident comes as Tata Electronics expands its role in global technology supply chains.

British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres

British Columbia's 2026 move to permanent Pacific Daylight Saving Time (UTC-7 year-round) creates a significant risk for…

Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components

Optocam Zero is a compact digital camera built around a Raspberry Pi Zero using readily available off-the-shelf…

Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs

Critics saw the move as an underhanded way to steer them toward more costly chips.

Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed

A police chief in Illinois was arrested in June 2026 for using a Flock license plate reader system to illegally track…

Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon

Due to an AI-driven memory crisis prioritizing production of high-margin HBM and server DRAM, hardware makers are…

Valve's Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won't be able to buy one yet

Valve says it's using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience "less frustrating and more fair."

A new unpatchable flaw in Apple chips opens the door to an iPhone jailbreak 

European offensive cybersecurity company Paradigm Shift released details of a flaw and a technique to exploit it that…

Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

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Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration

A Microsoft Secure Boot certificate used to sign Linux's shim bootloader is expiring in September 2025, after which…

Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID

Claude's chatbot may ask to verify your age and identity "in certain circumstances," such as with a passport or driver's…

A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi support

Amazon sent emails to customers inviting them to test Alexa+

The Studio Behind 'Ex Machina' Is Now Researching AI With Google

Google is investing $75 million in A24 as part of a new AI research initiative focused on filmmaking tools.

Steam Machine Launches Today

Steam Machine game testing

Valve's new Steam Machine (codenamed "GabeCube") is a compact Linux-based gaming device with an attractive modular…

Doorbell cam filmed Tesla Autopilot crash that killed woman in her home

Tesla touts Autopilot as lifesaving a day after grandmother died in crash.

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Blogger Defeats Photographer's Copyright Claim-Sokolskyfilm vs. Messiah

# Summary A federal court dismissed a photographer's copyright infringement claim against a blogger who used the…

Tata Electronics cyber breach claiming to expose Apple, Tesla trade secrets

Tata Electronics disclosed a recent cybersecurity breach after the ransomware group World Leaks posted over 200,000…

Charge Robotics (YC S21) Is Hiring Software and Hardware Engineers