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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Winners & losers: In the latest episode of what's getting more expensive this time, Intel is reportedly set to increase the price of its CPUs by another 10%. The hike could be
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Last October, Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now, the facility’s owner, NextEra Energy, has received a $1.9 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to finance the refurbishment. The sizable loan is the second of its kind,
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Cybersecurity startup Cylake has raised $245 million to accelerate the development of its sovereign security platform, bringing the company’s total funding to $290 million only six months after its launch. Cylake said the investment will be used to develop its platform and expand its team ahead of a beta
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With programmable controls and dedicated workflow features, Logitech’s MX Keypad aims to reduce repetitive actions for developers, creators and other power users. Prefer HTon Google Logitech has launched the MX Keypad in India as a new accessory for developers who regularly work across coding tools and AI assistants. Rather
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Britain’s publicly owned energy system operator has handed Palantir a £21.2m contract with no competition. The justification it filed is a plain description of why leaving will be difficult. Lindsay Clark reported the award for The Register on Tuesday. The underlying transparency notice sits on Find a Tender.
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A San Francisco startup has raised $4M to help software get chosen by AI agents. Lightsage calls the category Agent-Led Growth, the company said. Nexus Venture Partners led the round. Angel backers include former Salesforce chief technology officer Steven Tamm, Postman chief executive Abhinav Asthana, Apollo chief executive Matt Curl
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A Welsh chipmaker has just posted a 40% jump in revenue. Its shares are up 849% this year. And its chief executive has told an interviewer that the industry has a supply problem it cannot fully solve. Sofia Gerace reported the interview for Bloomberg. Jutta Meier runs IQE, based in
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China’s effort to build its own chipmaking machines finally has a coordinator. It is Huawei. And the flagship machine it is coordinating still runs on German lenses. Eleanor Olcott and Zijing Wu reported the arrangement for the Financial Times, citing multiple people familiar with the matter. TNW has not
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An Australian company will build data centres in Malaysia and fill them with American chips. It will sell the output to an American company. Its co-chief executive calls this the moment Asia-Pacific stops consuming intelligence and starts producing it. Firmus announced the partnership from Sydney on Tuesday. OpenAI will contract
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Industry push aims to eliminate stitching constraints and ready high-NA EUV systems for production by 2033 ASML and chipmaking giant TSMC have launched an industry-wide push toward 12-inch photomasks, saying the larger format could lower costs and overcome some limitations of high-NA EUV lithography. Dutch firm ASML, the only commercial
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Chrome has officially switched from a four- to a two-week release schedule, as Google promised earlier this year, with Tuesday’s launch of Chrome 153 on desktop, iOS, and Android. The shift to faster releases is tied to Chrome’s evolving security strategy in the AI era, the company explained.
