2026-07-14

No, NordVPN does not drain your phone battery

Always switching your VPN off to save your charge? New independent testing from West Coast Labs shows that notorious smartphone battery drain is mostly a myth, with NordVPN consuming under 2% of your daily battery life. [...]

2026-07-14

Co-existing with AI: why replacement narratives are holding the public sector back

Why fears of replacement are preventing public services from embracing AI. [...]

2026-07-14

I changed these 12 YouTube settings to limit Shorts, stop autoplay, protect my privacy, and more

YouTube works well with default settings, but I tighten some privacy controls and enable a few features to make it even better. [...]

2026-07-14

The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come. [...]

2026-07-14

Huawei Digital Power now rivals Tesla’s energy division in revenue

Ask most people what Huawei sells and you will get smartphones, or 5G, or a decade of geopolitical argument. Almost nobody says solar inverters. Yet Huawei Digital Power Technology, the division that makes them, along with battery storage systems and electric-vehicle charging kit, booked 68.7bn yuan of revenue in 2025, up 24.4% on the year […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-14

OpenAI wants its legal fees from xAI, while Apple comes for OpenAI

On Monday, OpenAI asked a federal judge in California to rule that xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit against it “should never have been filed,” and to make Elon Musk’s company cover more than $1m in legal expenses. The filing landed hours after xAI gave notice that it intends to appeal. The case has been dismissed twice; […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-07-14

Five reasons switching from IP VPN to SD WAN will help you build an AI-ready network

The scale, speed and complexity of modern cloud and AI workloads demand SD WAN. [...]

2026-07-14

'It's exploding now?' — Reddit user's Zotac RTX 5090 'explodes' while playing Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, and I'm starting to get worried that high-powered GPUs aren't safe

Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU melting issues aren't a big surprise anymore, but this latest case may be the worst of them all. [...]

2026-07-14

Britain's AI push is exposing a memory crisis inside business

AI is exposing a hidden organizational memory crisis that undermines productivity and customer experience. [...]