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They might have grown up online — but Gen Z are apparently far less likely to use antivirus, study finds
Just 27% of Gen Z respondents use antivirus software for mobile devices, and are less likely to regularly change passwords 57% of Gen Z spend more time online than offline, Kaspersky finds And only 28% regularly backup important personal data stored on their phones Gen Z has no awareness of…
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Nvidia paid $20 billion for SRAM decode – AMD just partnered for it instead
AMD and Cerebras will split inference across two machines, with Helios racks handling prompt processing and the Wafer-Scale Engine generating tokens, available through Cerebras Cloud in H2 2026 Nvidia is also doing something similar by licensing AI chip startup Groq’s SRAM decode technology for $20 billion The move sees AMD…
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A 330 MW data center wanted to buy a farm, switch off the irrigation, and drink the difference — California’s most powerful irrigation district said no, so it sued
IVCM petition asked Imperial County judge to overturn IID’s refusal to sell it roughly 287 million gallons to cool a proposed 330 MW data center The company pledged in writing as recently as February that the project would not touch Colorado River water The case turns on whether fallowed farmland…
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Quote of the day by Bill Gates: ‘There’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it” — downplaying Apple’s foray into tablets
For a long period during the early 21st century, Apple was the envy of the technology industry – pumping out a series of excellent products and seemingly unable to put a foot wrong. When the iPad came along, it had many detractors, chief among them the former CEO of its…
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Today I learned the CIA hid a home movie camera inside a Xerox machine — and trained a real repairman to steal the film right in front of the KGB
The CIA has never confirmed or denied the following story. The only evidence we have that it happened at all is a 1997 article in Popular Science Vol. 250, Issue 1, where journalist Dawn Stover spoke to the mastermind behind one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War. We…
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Meta drops major climate pledge after a decade of membership, says it is still committed to renewable energy
Meta has funded multiple natural gas power plants over the past 12 months The corporate renewable energy initiative RE100 includes Apple, Google, and Microsoft among its 444 members Meta has previously committed to running all operations on renewables by 2020 Meta has confirmed it is withdrawing from the RE100 scheme,…
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