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Global electricity consumption by data centres is expected to increase by 26 per cent in 2026, driven largely by the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence workloads, according to new research from Gartner. The research firm forecasts worldwide data centre electricity consumption will reach 565 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2026, up
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At RSAC 2026, the SANS Institute delivered a defining statement. For the first time in the conference’s 25-year history, every dangerous attack technique on its annual list involved AI. In live demonstrations, attackers moved from initial access to full domain control in less than a minute using AI-driven workflows.
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SpaceX is coming to market on Friday, and investors can barely contain their excitement. The $75 billion stock offering is reportedly deeply over-subscribed, with some institutional investors ponying up for $10 billion blocks of Elon Musk’s empire. There are lots of reasons to be skeptical of the investment — big
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7:34 AM PDT · June 10, 2026 Pinterest is expanding its partnership with Amazon. The social pinboard site said on Wednesday that it will now serve as a home for creators’ Amazon Storefronts. These online stores allow creators to generate income from affiliate links that direct their fans to products
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Microsoft's June update patches a record 198 security flaws. * Some 32 are rated critical, while three are zero-day flaws. * The update also adds several helpful new features to Windows 11. Microsoft's
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AI AND ML Productivity gains lost as staff spoon-feed AI and correct its cock-ups Almost all UK workers now have to deal with AI, but few firms report big productivity gains because of all the time lost in hand-holding the systems and cleaning up their mistakes. So says a report
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Linux Lite 8.0 is now available, rebuilt atop Ubuntu 26.04 and with its custom helper apps rewritten around GTK4. It arrives almost exactly two years after we looked at Linux Lite 7, itself two years after Linux Lite 6.0. The regularity of the release cycle is a
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Warner Music Music (WMG) announced on Wednesday that it’s acquiring AI attribution startup Sureel AI. Sureel’s patented technology creates “AI DNA” for songs and breaks them down into component parts to trace how AI models use those elements. Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways * Hermes is an AI desktop app with plenty of cool features. * You can easily select models and check agent progress. * Hermes learns as it goes and allows you to schedule queries. AI isn't everyone'
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The enterprise narrative around public cloud computing has been overly idealized, treating it as an intangible, failsafe resource. Boardrooms frequently discuss geographic regions and compute instances as if they exist purely in the ‘digital ether’, divorced from the vulnerable reality of concrete, copper wiring and power grids. However, as the
