Month: July 2025
How Trump’s war on clean energy is making AI a bigger polluter
At an AI and fossil fuel lovefest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last week, President Donald Trump — flanked by cabinet members and executives from major tech and energy giants like Google and ExxonMobil — said that “the most important man of the day” was Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin. “He’s…
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Starlink-powered ‘T-Satellite’ service is now live on T-Mobile
T-Mobile’s satellite service is now available to people across the US — and not just T-Mobile customers. On Wednesday, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert announced that the Starlink-powered service is officially out of beta, though it only supports text messaging and location-sharing for now. The new satellite coverage option is called…
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Trump is bringing back the AI law moratorium
The failed congressional moratorium would have stipulated that no state could regulate artificial intelligence systems for a 10-year period, on pain of being barred from a $500 million AI development fund and potentially losing rural broadband funding. Trump’s new plan has a similar, albeit more vague, provision buried within it.…
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Microsoft backtracks on $80 The Outer Worlds 2 pricing
There's hope that the gaming industry won't follow Nintendo's lead with $80 pricing. (Well, at least not yet.) On Wednesday, Microsoft backtracked on the price increase for The Outer Worlds 2. The game now costs $70, which itself was considered outrageous only a few years ago. Microsoft told Windows Central…
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Trump just unveiled his plan to put AI in everything
Ensuring AI reflects “objective truth,” slashing onerous regulations, disseminating US AI tools around the world, and fast-tracking AI infrastructure: this is all part of President Donald Trump’s vision for AI policy. The White House unveiled its “AI Action Plan” Wednesday ahead of a scheduled appearance by the president at an…
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Dangerous new malware exploits Windows accessibility tools to hijack banking accounts
Banking trojan Coyote now abuses Microsoft’s UI Automation framework The framework allows it to spot when a person opens a banking site It can cross-reference the data in the browser with a hardcoded list of banking and crypto apps Coyote, a known banking trojan malware capable of attacking dozens of…
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