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China aims to reduce energy costs to push domestic AI chips Local governments now reward data centers running Chinese processors over imports Big tech companies face tough trade-offs between efficiency and political loyalty China is reportedly offering major homegrown cloud and internet companies including Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent electricity subsidies that can cut energy costs […]

Reddit and Kick are the latest platforms to be added to Australia’s age-restricted social media list. The law, which comes into effect on December 10, will fine platforms up to A$50 million for failing to block users under 16 from accessing their content. However, critics fear the required methods of age verification will compromise data

AI data centers overwhelm national grids and drive up energy costs Enterprises are turning to nuclear options to sustain power-hungry AI workloads OpenAI calls on the government to massively expand national energy production capacity Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has drawn attention to a less-discussed obstacle in the AI ​​race — a shortage not of processors,

Experts tore apart an MIT paper to make evidence-free AI claims Kevin Beaumont dismissed the findings as almost complete nonsense without proof Marcus Hutchins also mocked the research, saying he laughed harder reading its methods The MIT Sloan School of Management has been forced to retract a working paper which claimed AI played a “significant

Affordable RTX 5090 access is available via on-demand cloud GPU rental SaladCloud offers the lowest price at just twenty-five cents an hour Flexible GPU leasing provides users with powerful computing capabilities without upfront investment Developers and researchers are increasingly turning to short-term GPU rentals to handle demanding AI workloads without the high cost of ownership,

It takes a village to raise a child, but who’s to say said child won’t grow up to destroy everything? The drug operation takes a back seat after the discovery of an elderly woman, her body deliberately left exposed to the elements. Even as the residents of remote Lunniswick, on the southern peninsula of the

Journalists used data brokers to track EU commissioners in their daily lives This used free samples from brokers with 5,800 location pings This information would be invaluable in espionage campaigns targeting the EU If you’re worried that your phone is collecting outrageous amounts of data that could be used for nefarious purposes, you’re not alone—and

Club Brugge welcomes Barcelona to the Jan Breydel Stadium in hopes of making it to the 2025/26 Champions League. The Belgian side have endured a difficult run in Europe, suffering back-to-back defeats to Atalanta and Bayern Munich in their most recent group games. Things don’t get any easier though, with Hansi Flick’s Barcelona arriving in

Microsoft Teams flaw allowed editing of messages, spoofed alerts, and spoofed caller identities Attackers can exploit these flaws for phishing, wire fraud, and malware delivery Microsoft patched CVE-2024-38197; no user action required after October 2025 fixes Experts have found that Microsoft Teams contained several vulnerabilities that allowed threat actors to edit messages, spoof notifications, and

Local Copilot processing should be live in Australia, India, Japan and the UK by the end of this year Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to the EU sees a new Belgian data center on the way Azure Local customers get access to Nvidia’s latest GPUs Microsoft has promised to bring in-country processing to Copilot to 15 markets