Part one of our Keep Calm and Count the Kilowatts series showed how AI prompts are only a small portion of a person’s daily power use. Part two explored how AI’s power, water and carbon footprints stack up on a global scale. But the real environmental impact here isn’t the tiny sip of power your…
Linux 590 driver no longer recognizes several GTX 900 and 10-series GPUs Windows update timeline remains unclear, causing Nvidia graphics card uncertainty Nvidia will only provide quarterly security updates for older architectures Nvidia has released the first driver in the 590 branch for Linux, signaling an important shift in support for older GPUs. Reports from…
Nevada-Oregon caldera hosts lithium clay estimated at 20-40 million tons Lithium discovery could reach $1.5 trillion at current market prices Quadruple-layered sediment and hydrothermal activity enriched clay with lithium elements A research team has identified a large concentration of lithium-rich clay within the McDermitt Caldera, a collapsed supervolcano along the Nevada–Oregon border. Current assessments suggest…
Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for $500 million to revive its operations The purchase price reflects a steep drop from Eventbrite’s 2018 IPO Eventbrite stockholders receive $4.50 per share, an 81% premium immediately Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire Eventbrite for approximately $500 million, marking another addition to its portfolio of well-known but stalled software companies….
Erbium molecular qubits provide precise optical and spin transitions for quantum control These qubits enable spin states to be accessed through telecom-compatible light High-resolution spin-photon interfaces could support scalable quantum network development Scientists have created an erbium-based molecular qubit that offers a way to interface quantum systems with existing fiber networks. These qubits combine precise…
AWS Graviton5 launches at re:Invent 2025 New CPU offers huge advances in efficiency and performance New Graviton5-based EC2 M9g instances show off the potential Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled its next big hardware advance with the launch of the AWS Graviton5 CPU. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2025 and aimed at tackling demanding workloads from…
The Mobile Eccentric Droid is going into production It is designed to operate indoors and on rugged outdoor terrain Hyundai promises automotive-grade engineering No, this isn’t the star of Disney’s latest animated movie – Hyundai has announced a fully-autonomous robotic platform that can be engineered for pretty much any use case, and it could be…
Rust on arm64 completed CPU-intensive tasks up to 5x faster than x86 Arm64 reduces cold start latency across all run times by up to 24% Python 3.11 on arm64 outperforms newer versions in memory-heavy workloads Benchmarking of AWS Lambda this year shows that arm64 architecture consistently outperforms x86 across most workloads. Tests covered CPU-intensive, memory-intensive,…
YouTube will comply with Australia’s new social media ban for under-16s The new law requires parental consent for teen users Privacy concerns are growing over age verification methods YouTube has confirmed it will comply with Australia’s controversial new social media ban, which will require the platform to prevent users under the age of 16 from…
It’s mile 22, the point in a marathon where my legs feel like concrete, my brain is foggy, and every part of my body is telling me to stop. Around me, the crowd noise blurs into white static as I hit the dreaded wall — the point in the race when your body starts to…