AI data center bans surge past 500 nationwide as local US politicians begin blocking new developments — growing public outrage and bipartisan pushback threaten big tech expansion plans
AI data center bans surge past 500 nationwide as local US politicians begin blocking new developments — growing public outrage and bipartisan pushback threaten big tech expansion plans

New AI data center development bans jumped to over 500 in July, according to recent analysis, with political and public pressure growing.

Political Identity Now Drives Billions In Consumer Funding

Wearables, wallets and scanners show political and lifestyle identity now drives billions in venture funding across a 2×2 consumer market map.

How To Build User Personas That Drive Better Tech Design Decisions

Genuinely useful personas are grounded in real-world context and flexible enough to account for changing needs, behaviors, circumstances and buying dynamics.

Why Explainability Is A Core Requirement For AI In Financial Services

The desire to move quickly with AI in regulated industries is understandable, but speed without traceability can bring more exposure than innovation.

Spotify quietly added a button to skip ads in podcasts, except for its own promotional content — and it’s sparked widespread concern for the future of podcasting

Spotify quietly added a new way for you to skip through ads in podcast episodes, but some fear it’s the beginning of the end for creators.

Windows 11’s RAM-hogging, advert-laden Weather app is the poster child for everything that’s wrong with the operating system
Windows 11’s RAM-hogging, advert-laden Weather app is the poster child for everything that’s wrong with the operating system

Worried about the RAM crisis? Microsoft isn’t, if Windows 11’s Weather app is anything to go by.

The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”
The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI for science needs reasoning, not just data —Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and the cofounder of Schmidt Sciences, and Suhas Mahesh, who leads the AI for science work…

What Recent Cloud Outages Teach About Reliability

When an outage occurs, it’s easy to blame the provider. The real issue is whether an application has been built to survive it.

Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to secure AI hardware and memory — Google leads $811 billion spending surge while Apple trails at $57 billion

As hyperscalers increase their long-term purchase commitments, the high-tech industry faces a tectonic shift as CSPs overwhelm consumer electronics companies.

GeForce NOW exploit lets you access the full Windows desktop through a simple file swap — Modder runs local AI models on Ultimate tier with 48GB of VRAM and no restrictions
GeForce NOW exploit lets you access the full Windows desktop through a simple file swap — Modder runs local AI models on Ultimate tier with 48GB of VRAM and no restrictions

Swapping the executable of a game with a modified file will fool Steam into thinking it’s opening that game when it’s really just giving you unrestricted desktop access. This is against GeForce NOW’s terms of service, though, so you run the risk of getting banned.