2026-06-29

Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are facing an antitrust class action over memory price-fixing

Seventeen plaintiffs allege the chipmakers coordinated a shift to HBM production to artificially restrict commodity DRAM supply and drive up prices [...]

2026-06-29

Comcast is splitting its media and broadband properties

NBCUniversal and Sky will be spun off into separate companies. [...]

2026-06-29

Windows 11's File Explorer is getting a long-awaited revamp — but here's hoping a future update doesn't ruin it

Windows 11's File Explorer is finally getting a speed improvement via Microsoft's latest update, but I can only hope a future update doesn't undo it. [...]

2026-06-29

New York is launching a $30 million program to compensate farmers for tariff costs

The Agricultural Resiliency Against Tariffs Program will offer direct payments of up to $25,000 to dairy, livestock, specialty crop, and aquaculture producers [...]

2026-06-29

USDA alerts Kroger shoppers to mislabeled chicken with undeclared egg allergen

The back label on Private Selection Honey Dijon chicken breasts lists ingredients for a different product, omitting a required egg allergen warning [...]

2026-06-29

As a deadly heatwave grips Europe, Rome leans on a bracelet to watch its elderly

Dina Gazzella is 85, and on her wrist is a small black band that looks like a watch and does rather more than tell the time. “If I feel unwell, this is a lifesaver,” she told Reuters. In a summer that has turned lethal across Europe, that is not a figure of speech.The bracelet is […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-06-29

Omen AI raises $31m to watch the water inside AI data centres

The unglamorous truth about the AI boom is that some of its hardest problems are plumbing. As data centres pack more GPUs into every rack and run them hotter, the fluid that keeps the chips from cooking has started, occasionally, to grow bacteria. That is the problem Omen AI has built a company around, and […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-06-29

Google Cloud will sell specialist AI models built for science

Google is adding SandboxAQ’s ‘large quantitative models’ to its cloud marketplace, pairing Gemini with AI trained on scientific equations and laboratory data. The large language models that power most of the AI industry are very good at words and surprisingly unreliable at numbers. Google’s latest move is an admission that, for science, a different kind […]<br /> This story continu [...]

2026-06-29

RELX lines up another £100M buyback as its 2026 repurchases roll on

RELX does not make headlines the way a chip foundry or an AI lab does, which is rather the point of the business. It sells data, analytics, and the dull certainty of recurring revenue, and it returns the proceeds to shareholders on a metronome. The latest beat of that metronome arrived this week. The company […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]