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One of the best wired headphones makers launches new ‘pro’ cans that are way cheaper than I expected — Beyerdynamic’s latest on-ears are lightweight, neutral and seem like a steal

* Beyerdynamic announces new DT 275 Pro wired headphones designed for use in "challenging" and noisy environments thanks to passive noise reduction * The have a frequency range from 5Hz to 24kHz, and weigh under 200g, so they're nice and portable — and their 45-ohm impedance means they'

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AI's energy crisis (2/3) - how soon for the nuclear option?

As seen in the pragmatic stance taken by the UK’s National Grid energy infrastructure provider, AI is no longer just a future-facing technology, especially for the energy sector. Rather, it is shaping urgent questions today around system operation, planning, forecasting, flexibility, and asset management, as well as customer engagement.

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Nvidia in talks to back OpenAI’s $500bn Ohio data centre

Nvidia is reportedly discussing a $250 billion financing guarantee linked to a 10GW data centre project that OpenAI is considering leasing in Ohio. The proposed arrangement would extend Nvidia’s role beyond supplying computing and networking equipment by adding financial support for the infrastructure project. The facility would be developed

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Zebra Study with Oxford Economics Shows AI-Enabled Workflow Modernization Improves Profitability and Productivity

Zebra Technologies Corporation, a global leader in digitizing and automating workflows to deliver intelligent operations, today announced the latest research findings from its collaboration with Oxford Economics. The global study, surveying leaders across retail, transportation and logistics (T&L), and manufacturing, demonstrates how organizations gain significant financial and operational

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ZuriQ raises $25.5M to scale its 2D quantum architecture

ZuriQ, a Swiss quantum computing company spun out of ETH Zürich, has raised $25.5 million in a seed round to scale the trapped-ion processors it is building on a new two-dimensional architecture. The money builds on the $4.2 million pre-seed round the company closed in 2025, and it

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Google’s rivals line up for damages after landmark EU fine

Less than a week after Brussels handed Google its first Digital Markets Act penalty, the company’s competitors are already turning the ruling into ammunition. The European Commission fined Google €890mn on 23 July, roughly $1bn at current rates, and the rivals who have spent years chasing the search giant

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Tennessee tells jury Meta knew Instagram harmed teens and stayed silent

A jury in Nashville heard this week that Meta once concluded, in its own internal language, that the features keeping teenagers glued to Instagram were “inherently at odds with well-being”, and that the company then chose to say nothing about it. The line comes from a 2017 document that the

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Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due in Senator Mark Warner’s office this week, and the meeting was arranged only days after one of OpenAI’s own models did something no frontier system had publicly managed before. Warner, the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee

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Nvidia is the mystery tenant behind Hut 8’s $50bn Texas data centre, FT reports

For the better part of a fortnight, the tenant behind one of the largest data centre leases in Texas history existed only in the negative, described in Hut 8’s own filings as an “unnamed, investment-grade hyperscaler,” and now the Financial Times says the name is Nvidia. The FT reported

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At a New Low, the Philips Evnia QD-OLED Is Practically Daring You to Upgrade

Save $240: The Philips Evnia 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor is down to just $400. That’s about 27% off its usual $640 price tag and $150 cheaper than its typical price. Much like the monitor’s blazing-fast 0.03ms response time, you’ll want to move quickly and grab this

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Google Adopts New Threat Actor Naming System

Google has announced that Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is adopting a new cryptonym-based naming convention for tracking threat actors. According to the internet giant, the schema moves away from sequential numbers and disparate identifiers, relying instead on two-word combinations for each activity cluster. The first word, Google explains, is

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AI's energy crisis (1/3) - why National Grid admits that renewable energy sources can't be the whole answer to AI power demands

Britain's National Grid recently announced plans to invest $1.75 billion for a 35% stake in US energy platform Joulent, a decision driven by a desire to plug further into the market for developing power infrastructure for AI data centers. In its corporate pitch, Joulent sets out its

One of the best wired headphones makers launches new &lsquo;pro&rsquo; cans that are way cheaper than I expected &mdash; Beyerdynamic&rsquo;s latest on-ears are lightweight, neutral and seem like a steal

AI's energy crisis (2/3) - how soon for the nuclear option?

Nvidia in talks to back OpenAI’s $500bn Ohio data centre

Zebra Study with Oxford Economics Shows AI-Enabled Workflow Modernization Improves Profitability and Productivity

ZuriQ raises $25.5M to scale its 2D quantum architecture

Google’s rivals line up for damages after landmark EU fine

Tennessee tells jury Meta knew Instagram harmed teens and stayed silent

Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach

Nvidia is the mystery tenant behind Hut 8’s $50bn Texas data centre, FT reports

At a New Low, the Philips Evnia QD-OLED Is Practically Daring You to Upgrade

Google Adopts New Threat Actor Naming System

AI's energy crisis (1/3) - why National Grid admits that renewable energy sources can't be the whole answer to AI power demands

One of the best wired headphones makers launches new ‘pro’ cans that are way cheaper than I expected — Beyerdynamic’s latest on-ears are lightweight, neutral and seem like a steal