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In Brief 1:37 PM PDT · June 22, 2026 Microsoft and Chevron announced plans on Monday to develop a 2.67-gigawatt natural gas power plant in West Texas to serve the tech company’s AI and cloud data centers. Under the 20-year power purchase agreement, the plant will provide dedicated
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Gettyimages.com/ sefa ozel ByNick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology June 22, 2026 04:30 PM ET Four proposed rules covering 13 Federal Acquisition Regulation parts are to be published Tuesday. Small business rules and others are on the way. * Contracts The government is finally dropping a large batch of proposed
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Meta left potentially sensitive information collected from employee laptops accessible to anyone inside the company, according to an internal security notice seen by WIRED and three current employees familiar with the issue. The data, which was collected as part of a divisive initiative to train artificial intelligence models, is believed
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Amazon Prime Day is imminent, but Argos has beaten Amazon to the punch with its catchily named 'Seize the sale' event, which includes offers on home tech, toys, garden essentials for the summer weather, and more. You can view the full Argos sale here. • See all early Prime
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Amazon Prime Day is almost here, and while I'm busy browsing Amazon's plethora of deals on smart speakers, smart displays, and e-readers, I'm also keeping one eye on the range of accessories it has on offer. • Browse the full Amazon Prime Day sale Aside
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What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals, where a rival pays investors a hefty IP “licensing” fee while poaching its critical talent? For AI chipmaker Groq, the answer appears to be raise more money from investors — who were said to have profited handsomely after a
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Spoiler: It’s more Siri stuff. Apple is trucking ahead in preparation for the launch of iOS 27 this fall. Today, the company seeded the second beta of its upcoming operating systems to developers. The latest version expands on some of the features discussed during WWDC 2026, most notably those
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Acer's 16-inch Predator Helios Neo is a gaming laptop with high-end hardware, currently on sale for Amazon's Prime Day event for just $1,749. To put that in perspective, it's $450 off the regular
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Nvidia just announced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically reduce the amount of water a data center uses — eliminating “pretty much all water usage” inside the data center itself, according to an Nvidia executive in a press release. “The water consumption challenge for data centers is largely
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Amazon Prime Day deals are here, and it's easy to fall for marked-up products, illegitimate discounts, and faux savings. That's why I vet and write about the best chances you can save on expert-tested products across
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Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn’t think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn’t think it’d be “hell.” After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she described as “shitholes,” Joyce found her dream apartment: a reasonably priced
