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From heat maps to Signal chats to war rooms, volunteers across the US are ready to act if federal immigration agents show up on Election Day.
25,000 Dutch government jobs will be cut by 2035, new plans say The Netherlands is looking to save €3.5 billion by 2035 Selling off buildings, simplifying rules, and smaller desks will also contribute to the savings The Dutch government has announced plans to phase out 25,000 jobs by 2035 in an effort to increase efficiency with the end goal of saving €3.5 billion ($3.9 billion), amounting to abou…
Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg : A US federal judge orders the Trump administration to halt a ban prohibiting the Pentagon from doing business with companies lobbying for Alibaba — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. won a US court ruling in its challenge to a Department of Defense blacklist, testing Washington's ability to curtail Chinese companies' activities.
According to Ipsos , two-thirds of American marketers would fail a basic marketing test. The market research company’s study found that most marketers couldn’t answer even basic questions about the fundamentals of their own profession. Fully 40% didn’t know what “positioning” meant, 54% didn’t know what “above the line” meant, and half didn’t know what “penetration” meant. Not surprisingly, the st…
Researchers track animal movements through tags on their limbs, wings, and shells, but how do you track a creature that weighs less than a gram? To build a device tiny and light enough for a monarch butterfly, designers had to make the smallest wildlife tracking device on the planet. A tiny transmitter for butterflies designed by the New Jersey-based Cellular Tracking Technologies (CTT) is called…
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“Sovereign citizens” think they can live beyond the reach of the state. Now the movement has influencers—and they’re selling all sorts of anarchist courses to expectant families.
If there's one issue that seems to activate all kinds of voters in 2026, it's data centers. The rapid buildout of these massive server storage facilities - and the infrastructure construction and expenses that come with them - has sparked local opposition in communities across the country and become a major issue in many congressional and gubernatorial campaigns. At the same time, tech money has b…
Whitespace, a UK company that builds AI for defence and government, has hired former Meta product manager Mike Howard as its chief product officer. He will set the direction for its products and build the team behind them as the company prepares for its next funding round. Mike Howard has worked in technology and data […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Financial Times : S-1: Anthropic spent ~$2.50 on compute and infrastructure for every $1 of revenue in Q1 2025, falling to under 50 cents in Q2 2026, as it seeks profitability — Prospectus details AI lab's ‘mission’, $800bn data centre commitments and extraordinary governance structure
It's been several months since Acer unveiled its Predator Atlas 8 gaming handheld , but now we finally know that it's coming to the US, and how much it'll cost. The Intel Arc G3 Extreme variant - the more powerful of the two models announced in May - will be available exclusively at Best Buy on November 1st, priced at $1,299.99. For that, the Atlas 8 provides Arc B390 graphics with 12 Xe3 GPU core…
Apple released iOS 27.2 on Monday, the first big update to iOS 27, alongside new versions of iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS and tvOS. Most of the new features are for Siri AI, the rebuilt assistant Apple released in beta in September. Siri AI now works in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish as well as […] This story continues at The Next Web
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German chipmaker Infineon will invest about €1.1bn in its site in Villach, Austria, to make power chips from gallium nitride, the company announced on Tuesday. It says the plant will be the first in the world to make these chips in large volumes on 300mm wafers. Power chips control how electricity flows inside devices, from chargers to […] This story continues at The Next Web
The iPhone Duo is a whole new type of device in Apple's lineup, and the first thought that came to mind when I got it was, "This thing has to have a bunch of cool new hidden tricks." As it turns out, I was right. After 10 days with the Duo, I've found myself discovering new ways to do stuff almost every day. And it's not just easter eggs; I'm talking about features and tricks that have since becom…
Wall Street Journal : Sources: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan held 11th-hour talks and agreed to higher rates and loan guarantees to secure bank participation in the $63B Anthropic debt deal — The deal, announced on Monday, is the biggest ever to raise money for AI infrastructure — Hock Tan was running out of patience.
The Waterdrop X12 improved the taste of my tap water, but reverse osmosis comes with costs beyond the purchase price.
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I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.
Nvidia will put $3bn into Meta and work more closely with it on Muse, Meta’s personal AI agent, the two companies announced today. The money is part of the share sale Meta launched on Monday to pay for its growing AI spending. Since then, Meta has raised the common-stock portion of the sale to $25bn […] This story continues at The Next Web
The best wireless earbuds range anywhere from $10 to $1,000, especially if you're going for professional-grade studio earphones. And if you care about active noise cancellation, you can easily spend $300 — that's the price of peace and quiet. You can also get hyperspecialized models like sleep earbuds , bone-conduction earbuds for working out , and open earbuds for transparency. SEE ALSO: I…
If you've grabbed drinks with any single friend lately or scrolled through TikTok, you know the general consensus: dating apps are exhausting . App fatigue is very real, and it makes finding a genuine connection online feel like a second full-time job. As someone who's been testing and reviewing dating apps for years, I get asked one question over and over: Which dating apps actually work? My answ…
After more than a decade of making content online, MeganPlays has learned she doesn't need an elaborate creator setup to get the job done. In fact, when Mashable asked the gaming creator what essential tech and tools she keeps in her bag, she had a pretty simple answer. "I raw-dog it," Megan said. "I just have my cell phone." Fair enough. SEE ALSO: How MeganPlays has adapted through every era of Y…
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Astronomers caught something unusual about the ice of a comet that came from another star system. A Southwest Research Institute team pointed NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS three times between Aug. 2025 and April 2026, catching it before and after its closest pass by the sun. The space telescope spreads a comet's light into a rainbow, including infrared light tha…
When former Harvard squash cocaptain Will Ahmed developed the idea for wearable company Whoop in the early 2010s, he was focused on helping serious athletes like himself optimize their performance. The wristband he designed tracks activity, sleep, and recovery. But in August, the Whoop founder and CEO turned his attention to a very different audience: Medicare recipients. The Whoop Connected Care…
One of the biggest reasons most Americans don’t want a data center built nearby is that they worry it will drive up their utility bills. But whether those bills rise, and by how much, depends on the local power grid and the terms of the deal. In fact, the impacts have at times been counterintuitive, with new data centers in some cases actually driving down utility bills for other customers on the…
Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply. And given that their basic design hasn’t changed much for about a century, they could use an upgrade. As the world races to meet rising electricity demand from EVs, data centers, and more, researchers and companies are looking…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/aws-ai-agents-linux-kernel-cves/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1793031817205.jpg"/><p>Engineers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) have described how the team that maintains the Linux kernel for EC2 infrastructure handles kernel CVEs. The process combines an automated filter, an AI agent and human review. The team also argues that it needs to move to n…
The COVID-conscious lesbian bar in Western Massachusetts is closing. Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue went viral after the Boston Globe reported on conflict sparked by the relaxation of its KN-95 mask policy. SEE ALSO: How this lesbian watering hole became the most (in)famous bar in the world Last Ditch announced the closure in an Instagram post on Monday, effective immediately (though excluding even…
Instagram is introducing longform video. Called Features, the new format will allow users to upload videos up to 90 minutes long. SEE ALSO: Instagram will now edit the first draft of your Reel for you "So many creators are producing longer videos, and they're using clips of those videos to drive discovery on Reels and help build their audience," said Instagram VP of Product Tessa Lyons , announcin…
What would technology look like if it were built by communities rather than controlled by a handful of companies? That question sits at the heart of this year’s Mozilla Festival, which returns to Barcelona from October 28 to 30. Organised by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation with the City of Barcelona, the festival is taking place […] This story continues at The Next Web
Wall Street Journal : Nvidia and Meta expand their Muse partnership, including Meta deploying more Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs; Nvidia will invest $3B in Meta's planned equity fundraise — Investment comes as Facebook's parent seeks up to $95 billion via stock offerings — Nvidia and Meta Platforms are expanding …
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/cloudflare-tsrs-ai-typescript/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1793039825386.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare, VoidZero and Max Schwenk announced tsrs, an experimental Rust port of the TypeScript compiler, built with the TypeScript team's involvement. Cloudflare claims up to 8x faster checking and 70% less memory than TypeScript 7.0, though one test against 7.1 b…
Ethan Klein has spent years dissecting other people's internet scandals on the H3 Podcast , the comedy and commentary show he built with his wife, Hila. Now, their own relationship is at the center of the conversation. Hila has accused Ethan of having an affair lasting more than six months, leaving the couple's marriage and the future of their show in question. Fans are trying to make sense of the…