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* US regulators approved TVA's first BWRX-300 construction project after 14 months * The 300MW reactor still needs another license before generating electricity commercially * TVA could eventually build four BWRX-300 reactors at Clinch River The United States has approved construction of a 300MW small modular reactor as electricity demand from
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San Diego County has sued AppLovin, a mobile advertising technology company. The county alleges that AppLovin bypassed parental controls to serve ads for adult dating services, alcohol, vaping and graphic sexual content in games played by children. The complaint was filed with San Diego Superior Court on Monday, Bloomberg reported.
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Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a woman in Florida after Anthropic reported her Claude conversation to law enforcement. In the chat she allegedly said she would “shoot up” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. WINK News first reported the arrest on 30 September. According to the arrest report, she wrote
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Security teams at Google, JPMorgan Chase, Weaviate, France’s interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) and the city government of Tangerang in Indonesia have each fixed the same type of flaw in their Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Independent researcher Syed Anas Mohiuddin reported all five, he wrote in an update published
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HP is behind some of our best-reviewed printers, but of all the early deals over at Amazon right now, the HP Smart Tank 5003 ink tank printer caught my attention. I'm a big fan of ink tanks, and this is one of the best-value models I've
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You know a piece of technology is good when it becomes a regular part of your life without you making an effort to include it. If you're reaching for it automatically, it's a success. The most recent example in my house is the JBL Go 5,
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* Google is accused of destroying 300 hectares of forest for a data center * Microsoft’s data center plans are ‘lipstick on a pig,’ a critic argues * Some residents are pushing back against further data center plans Big Tech firms like to tout their environmental credentials, positioning themselves as responsible stewards
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Sitting behind me in my office right now is a Sawyer robot arm that is currently unusable, because Rethink Robotics folded in 2018 and all of the robot’s control is hidden behind proprietary layers. This is a “cobot” that cost about $29,000 when it was new a decade
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The gap between Mac and PC is finally closing, but be careful before you pick a Mac as your primary gaming platform. Vladimka production/Shutterstock Macs have never exactly been gaming machines. For a long time, not only was the hardware lacking, but many developers never bothered to bring their
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Coding and agentic workloads are asking more of AI models than ever: refactor a repository spanning hundreds of files, sustain a multi-hour agentic workflow without losing context, and reason through complex systems problems with tool use at every step. Meeting those demands with open-weight models has historically meant provisioning and
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* Finland plans four connection categories, with facilities of 1MW or less getting priority * Large data centers could move further back in Finland’s electricity connection queue * Projects above 10MW would enter a separate category under Finland’s proposed system Finland's government has drafted an amendment that would end
