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Amazon’s Texas data center will lean on a gas plant permitted to out-pollute every US power station Amazon has confirmed it is behind one of the largest natural-gas power projects in American history: a 7.65-gigawatt plant in West Texas built to run an AI data center campus that, at least initially, will draw nothing from […]

AI coding tools have a trust problem, and a Reddit-scale study just quantified it Developers are increasingly convinced that AI-powered coding tools are a liability, and now there is a peer-reviewed-size dataset to back that up. A new study mined 1.1 million Reddit posts to catalog exactly how LLM-native IDEs (LIDEs) such as Cursor, Claude […]

The end of Gmail the universal inbox: Google sets January 2027 as the deadline for Send As, POP import, and Gmailify For twenty years, the quiet superpower of Gmail was that it could be the one place where all your email lived: messages from Yahoo, Outlook, Hotmail, work, and a dozen abandoned ISP accounts, pulled […]

When a tropical depression gathered over the Caribbean in October 2025, the forecasters watching it had a tool most had never used: a machine-learning model from Google DeepMind. That model (now formally published in Nature on August 6) called Hurricane Melissa’s explosive strengthening and its landfall on Jamaica well before conventional systems did, giving the […]

The ‘no-logs’ VPN that allegedly logged everything: what the SplitVPN leak actually shows On July 21, a vendor on the Altenen cybercrime forum put up an SQL archive weighing 17 gigabytes, said to have been lifted from the infrastructure of SplitVPN, a Russian service that previously operated as NotVPN. The listing promised 23.4 million user […]

Two frontier AI labs made safety announcements on the same Friday that point in opposite directions. Together they sketch the awkward arithmetic of capability management in 2026. OpenAI said it cannot rule out that its upcoming Astra model possesses what its own Preparedness Framework classifies as critical cyber capabilities, and that it is tightening security […]

For all the industry’s attention on AI agents breaking out of test environments, the old-fashioned business of digital extortion quietly had one of its best months of the year. Ransomware attacks jumped nearly 19 percent in July, with the UK research firm Comparitech counting 799 publicly claimed incidents against 668 in June, roughly 26 attacks […]

OpenAI has removed the last visible barrier between free users and its current-generation models: the text chat cap. Announced on August 6, the change lets ChatGPT Free and Go accounts carry on unlimited text conversations, while the lightweight GPT-5.6 Luna becomes their default model, replacing GPT-5.5 Instant. Until now, free users hit rate limits of […]

The most interesting superconducting materials are also the most fragile, and for years that fragility has kept them confined to the lab. Atom-thin superconductors, sheets of material just one or a few atoms deep, can carry current without resistance while storing far more energy per unit area than their bulk counterparts, which makes them attractive […]

Inside the tech industry, the agent era is treated as settled fact. Companies are designing payment systems for AI agents to spend money on their own, engineers are handing agents whole jobs to automate, and security teams are now occupied with stopping agents from hacking other organizations. Outside that bubble, the reality is nearly the […]