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China's Biggest Car Rental Company Now Offers Autonomous Cars

Three-seater from Baidu delivers itself, follows directions, then finds its way home China’s largest car rental opera... Read more

Intel's Leaders Have Stopped Pretending – And It's About Time

Not even in the top 10, CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly tells employees Comment  Pat Gelsinger's tenure as Intel's chief exe... Read more

Thousands Of NASA Senior Staffers Expected To Quit After Budget Slashed

It could have the same headcount as 1960 by the end of the month NASA senior staff are being offered the opportunity to... Read more

IBM Moves Scientists Out Of Almaden Research Center

Company mum on whether the site will be shuttered IBM, which employees say stands for "I've Been Moved" due to frequent... Read more

Slow Down On Building Power Plants For All Those New AI Datacenters, Report Warns

Projections are likely exaggerated, a new analysis from an environmental group says Datacenters are slurping ever more ... Read more

Please Don't Cut Funds For Space Traffic Control, Industry Begs Congress

TraCSS is like an FAA for space, and it's slated for the chopping block Space industry bigwigs have sent letters to Con... Read more

Trump Tariffs Turn Techies Topsy-turvy As US Braces For PC Tax

Shipments in America flat, surge across ROTW ahead of Win 10 support cutoff Tariff uncertainty caused by US President D... Read more

Microsoft Says Regulations And Environmental Issues Are Cramping Its Euro Expansion

'I don't think there's a spare megawatt sitting anywhere idle in all of Europe, or the US, as a matter of fact' Microso... Read more

Former Reality TV Star Appointed NASA Interim Administrator

Can Sean Duffy embrace the challenge? NASA has a new interim administrator. US President Donald Trump has announced tha... Read more

Sovereign-ish: Google Cloud Keeps AI Data In UK, But Not The Support

Processing and storage for Gemini 2.5 Flash to stay in Blighty Google Cloud is attempting to ease concerns about where ... Read more

Write-back To Aging UK Health Systems Lessens Benefits Of Palantir-based Platform

Controversial system requires local NHS investment to maximize productivity The benefits of the UK health sector's Pala... Read more

Swiss Boffins Just Trained A 'fully Open' LLM On The Alps Supercomputer

Source code and weights coming later this summer with an Apache 2.0 bow on top Supercomputers are usually associated wi... Read more

Chinese TV Uses AI To Translate Broadcasts Into Sign Language. Its Not Going Well

Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their t... Read more

AMD Warns Of New Meltdown, Spectre-like Bugs Affecting CPUs

Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly AMD is warning user... Read more

Shiny Object Syndrome Spells Doom For Many AI Projects, Warns EPA CIO

Chasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burn US Environmental Protection Agency CIO Carter Farmer ... Read more