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The Download: a nuclear landmark, and China eyes Nvidia chips

The Download: a nuclear landmark, and China eyes Nvidia chips

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. …

Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again

Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again

Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-migrants-skilled-workers-integration-labor-market-bureaucracy-language-housing/a-77853162 Comments URL: htt…

US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge

US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge

Miners backed by Trump admin. sell to Japan, South Korea despite push to develop domestic supply chain.…

OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear

OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear

Scammers are hijacking government websites to upload ads for “leaked” OnlyFans content. Thousands of copyright complaints from adult creators are help…

This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster

This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster

Verity Harding tells WIRED that the US government’s nationalistic attitude toward AI is evidence that a worst-case scenario is taking shape.…

The Download: your stake in OpenAI, and the Treasury’s AI warning

The Download: your stake in OpenAI, and the Treasury’s AI warning

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. …

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees

A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is layi…

Sony’s PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed

Sony’s PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed

The video game disc is dead, and Sony's been planning to kill it for some time, according to a report out of Austria. The man who leads Sony's discmak…

Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself

Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself

Article URL: https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an-open-source-robot-vacuum-meet-oomwoo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755005 …

OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom

OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom

OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mountin…

I Tried Rips, the Card-Pack App Where Users Spend Thousands Chasing Pricey Pokémon

I Tried Rips, the Card-Pack App Where Users Spend Thousands Chasing Pricey Pokémon

I ripped open $892 worth of Pokémon packs on my phone in under 15 minutes and walked away with 62 cents. My adrenaline rush felt like the future of ga…

How Trump Helped China Make America’s Cheapest EV

How Trump Helped China Make America’s Cheapest EV

Slate is the latest automaker to transition to lower-cost batteries perfected in China, driven in part by the repeal of EV tax credits that required m…

UK likely to intervene in Paramount takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

UK likely to intervene in Paramount takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

The acquisition was approved without concessions by the Department of Justice in June.…

A space history mystery: What happened to the Viking arm used 50 years ago?

A space history mystery: What happened to the Viking arm used 50 years ago?

A timely tale about a 50-year-old robotic arm...…

Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration’s Good Graces

Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration’s Good Graces

The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached.…

NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late

NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late

Starliner's certification may be delayed to 2027, 10 years later than Boeing's original schedule.…

After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release

After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release

US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.…

Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk bein…

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