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Exclusive: The tech keeping Disney Magic Kingdom's most iconic rides running night after night

At Disney World's Magic Kingdom, you're meant to lose yourself in the illusion. What you're not meant to think about is what happens after the park closes: the cranes, mechanics, overnight software updates, and engineering operations required to erase every trace of maintenance before sunrise.

But behind every seamless morning open lies a question worth asking: how does Disney keep rides that have been running for more than 50 years feeling like they've always been here — and always will be?

On a rare behind-the-scenes tour Disney granted exclusively to TechRadar, McLaughlin walked me through several attractions mid-third-shift — past the safety lockout boards at Mad Tea Party, through the Speedway garage, and deep into the original back-of-show building behind "It's a Small World." Her team was already at work when we arrived.

'I came by at 6 AM and everything was cleared out'

The first stop is Mad Tea...

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AMD Prices Its Ryzen AI Halo PC At $3,999, Unveils Ryzen AI Max 400 Chips

They're direct shots at NVIDIA's AI systems AMD's big pitch for 2026 seems to be: "Who needs cloud AI processing when you can do it all locally?" At CES this year, the company unveiled its Ryzen AI Halo PC, a Mac Mini-sized

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Announcing OpenAI-compatible API support for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints | Amazon Web Services

Today, Amazon SageMaker AI introduces OpenAI-compatible API support for real-time inference endpoints. If you use the OpenAI SDK, LangChain, or Strands Agents, you can now invoke models on SageMaker AI by changing only your endpoint URL. You don’t need a custom client, a SigV4 wrapper, or code rewrites. Overview

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Intuit axes 3,000 – without blaming AI

'Margin expansion' and a 'faster, leaner' company are CEO Sasan Goodarzi's goals Intuit has cut its full time workforce by 17 percent and is considering closing offices in some markets “to become “faster, leaner, and more focused,” company CEO Sasan Goodarzi told investors during

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AMD says its $4K Ryzen AI Halo workstation practically pays for itself

AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s DGX Spark AI workstations, codenamed the Ryzen AI Halo, will be available for pre-order later next month for anyone with $3,999 burning a hole in their pocket. That might sound like a lot for an AI mini PC, but don’t worry. Compared

'I came by at 6 AM and everything was cleared out'

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AMD Prices Its Ryzen AI Halo PC At $3,999, Unveils Ryzen AI Max 400 Chips

Announcing OpenAI-compatible API support for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints | Amazon Web Services

Intuit axes 3,000 – without blaming AI

AMD says its $4K Ryzen AI Halo workstation practically pays for itself