Month: June 2025

Netgear enters the business VPN game – and wants to replace it with SASE

Netgear’s Exium acquisition targets SMEs with powerful all-in-one security Traditional VPNs may vanish as Netgear pushes SASE into its next-gen business offering Netgear’s hardware gets smarter, bundling security directly into routers for out-of-the-box protection Netgear has entered the business cybersecurity market by acquiring Exium, a company specializing in secure cloud-based…

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Sam Altman claims an average ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon’ of water

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a blog post published Tuesday, says an average ChatGPT query uses about 0.000085 gallons of water, or “roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.” He made the claim as part of a broader post on his predictions about how AI will change the world. “People are…

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Build your own superfast virtual 32TB Gen5 SSD with this RAID PCIe Gen5 card, but expect to fork out nearly $4000

Rocket 7604A delivers 32TB RAID setups and smashes 50GB/s SafeStorage encryption protects your data from unauthorized access with hardware-level security Broadcom’s PEX89048 switch IC powers four full x4 Gen5 lanes per drive HighPoint Technologies has launched the Rocket 7604A RAID AIC, a PCIe Gen5 RAID card designed to transform four…

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Android 16 is here, but its big redesign isn’t ready

Google rolled out a bunch of new features with Android 16 on Tuesday, but the company appears to be saving its big Material 3 Expressive redesign for a future update. The update doesn’t feature the design language’s revamped elements, and a source tells Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman that Google is…

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Google is offering employee buyouts in Search and other orgs

Hey all– It’s been an incredible few months — we shared our vision at I/O and GML, and we’ve been shipping at a dizzying pace. We’ve seen a super positive response to AI Mode including our shopping announcements, heard excitement about our new ads experiences directly from businesses, and are…

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More than a million people now have Alexa Plus

While a smarter Siri may have been a no-show at WWDC, Alexa Plus, the generative AI-powered overhaul of Amazon’s voice assistant, is finally appearing in the wild. No one at The Verge has access yet, but Amazon spokesperson Eric Sveum tells me over a million people now do — up…

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