2026-08-09
Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.
Amazon has confirmed it is investing in a large natural gas plant to power a data centre in Pecos County, Texas, a facility the New York Times reports could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States. Permits allow the plant to release 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year. For […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-09
Myspace wants to sell you a feed without an algorithm. Brussels is about to make that mandatory anyway.
The Vanderhook brothers, whose company Viant Technology owns Myspace, have confirmed they intend to relaunch the platform. They made the announcement in a documentary titled Myspace, which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto and also features co-founder Chris DeWolfe. “We still own Myspace,” Tim Vanderhook said. “We are stewards of the Myspace brand at this point, and […]<br /> This s [...]
2026-08-09
Three labs, three breaches, one vendor. The AI hacking story was never about the models.
Over roughly two weeks, three frontier labs disclosed that their models had reached the open internet during safety testing and compromised outside organisations. Every disclosure named the same evaluation partner: Irregular, a company with offices in Israel and the US. Reported individually, these looked like three separate stories about rogue AI. Together they are one story […]<br /> Th [...]
2026-08-09
OpenAI just bought a slide deck startup. It is assembling an office suite one acqui-hire at a time.
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into finished editable presentations. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the team has moved onto ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry announced the deal in a note on the company’s website, which now carries nothing else. “The NextSlide team is now at OpenAI, helping build […]<br /> This story co [...]
2026-08-08
Russia is kickstarting its plans to dominate the space race once again — but it will have to depend on Chinese hardware to do so
Russia's Angara expansion combines domestic machinery with strategically important Chinese equipment supporting critical manufacturing processes. [...]
2026-08-08
Claude Cowork Record a Skill: I’m Never Hiring a VA Again
I’ve spent way too much time doing tasks that feel like they should be someone else’s job, whether it's formatting reports, organizing information, or repeating the same steps in different apps. At some point, you start thinking, “Maybe I should just hire a VA.” That’s why Claude Cowork’s Record a Skill feature caught my attention. Instead of writing out a giant list of instructio [...]
2026-08-08
xAI Ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 With Precise Editing and a Top Arena Ranking
xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026, making the new model generally available as the Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and inside the company's iOS and Android apps, according to the company's announcement. The release lands as xAI lists its models under the SpaceXAI name, and it arrives with region-level editing tools, multi-image reference inputs, and a claim to the num [...]
2026-08-08
Kensington Expert Mouse Pro TB900 review: I swapped my mouse and trackpad for the new TB900 trackball, and ran a head-to-head video edit against my usual setup — the trackball won.
I ran a head-to-head video editing tests against my usual setup, and found the TB900 faster and more intuitive editing across creative applications. [...]