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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. As component and RAM shortages drive prices higher, Apple is reportedly launching an “Apple Upgrade” program for leasing new devices. According to Bloomberg’s
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Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Kindle before school starts, or for your next vacation, now’s a good time to do it. As part
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* Zhejiang University researchers warned GPU workloads could destabilize local grids and cause blackouts * Attackers could exploit ~1,000 GPUs to drain current and generate excess heat in systems * Theoretical attack dubbed Bit2Watt; mitigations include detecting malicious patterns and energy buffering systems Whenever an AI data center thinks really, really hard,
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On Tuesday, Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google’s “workhorse model” that promises improved capabilities in coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance while reducing token usage by up to 17%, making it cheaper than its
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The $3,000 per book payment could be the ‘largest known copyright recovery in history.’ by Emma Roth Jul 21, 2026, 4:53 PM UTC Image: The Verge Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was
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AI AND ML Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI Oracle says that it could face more than $100 million a year in financing costs to guarantee the power commitments behind a nearly 1 GW datacenter campus it is
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Presented by Atlassian Most companies are approaching AI adoption backwards by optimizing how individuals use AI instead of how teams work together, said Dr. Molly Sands, head of the Teamwork Lab at Atlassian, during a fireside chat with VentureBeat senior technology contributor Sam Witteveen at VB Transform 2026. Sands leads
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Android users have long got the rougher version of X. After nearly a year of work, the company has stopped patching the old app and rebuilt it from scratch. The new version ships as a normal update through the Play Store, X said, so there is no separate app to
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TL;DR Apple is launching Apple Upgrade on July 28, a Klarna-backed leasing program for iPhones, Macs, iPads, and Apple Watches that replaces its current financing. Apple is preparing to launch Apple Upgrade, a device leasing program backed by Klarna that will mark one of the biggest changes to how
