Italian court says Netflix must refund customers up to $576 over price hikes
An injunction action brought by consumer group Movimento Consumatori against Netflix Italia's price increases has been upheld by the Court of Rome.
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This Wi-Fi receiver can work inside a nuclear reactor, keeping robots connected
The research, presented at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco earlier this year, shows the receiver can continue operating after exposure to 500 kilograys of radiation. That level of endurance far exceeds what even space-grade electronics are designed to handle.
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Steam could soon show estimated FPS based on crowd-sourced player data
The feature would represent a significant step toward bridging the gap between official system requirements and actual in-game performance. Even as studios release recommended hardware specs, the experience on diverse PC setups often differs sharply from expectations.
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New Rowhammer attack can grant kernel-level control on Nvidia workstation GPUs
A study from researchers at UNC Chapel Hill and Georgia Tech shows that GDDR6-based Rowhammer attacks can grant kernel-level access to Linux systems equipped with GPUs based on Nvidia's Ampere and Ada Lovelace architectures. The vulnerability appears significantly more severe than what was outlined in a paper last year.
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Microsoft's AI in its own terms: "use Copilot at your own risk"
The Copilot terms of use, updated last October, draw clear limits around what the software is meant to do. The document states Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, adding that "it can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended." More notably, Microsoft explicitly advises against relying on it...
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Visa processed 106 million disputes last year, now wants AI to take over
Despite being the default for global e-commerce, digital payments still require a degree of "human touch" when disputes and complaints arise. That friction is becoming a growing cost center as online transactions scale, and Visa argues that shifting to AI-managed dispute handling could streamline the process, cut losses, and turn...
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US military deploys low-cost "Lucas" drone built from reverse-engineered Iranian tech
Senior defense officials told The Wall Street Journal that the autonomous attack drones have been used in strikes against Iranian military and IRGC targets, including weapons facilities, manufacturing sites, and air-defense nodes. They said this contributed to an 83% decline in Iranian drone attacks during the early days of the conflict.
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Nearly half of US data centers planned for 2026 are facing delays or cancellation
Analysts at Sightline Climate estimate that between 30% and 50% of AI data centers planned for deployment in the US this year will be delayed or canceled. The main constraints are difficulty sourcing key electrical equipment and securing enough power to operate new facilities.
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MLB's robot-assisted strike zone is exposing umpire errors in real time
The technology is designed to reduce strike zone disputes, long the source of baseball's most heated arguments. Under the new system, each team receives two challenges per game and only loses a challenge if it is incorrect. In practice, this incentive has quickly reshaped game-day strategy – and last Saturday's...
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Google's Gemma 4 AI can run on smartphones, no Internet required
The two largest Gemma 4 models – 26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense – require an 80GB Nvidia H100 GPU to run unquantized in bfloat16 format. Google claims these models deliver "frontier intelligence on personal computers" for students, researchers, and developers, providing advanced reasoning capabilities for IDEs, coding assistants, and agentic workflows.
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