Palworld's 1.0 launch is bringing back nearly a million players
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Gotta Shoot Them All: After two and a half years in early access, Palworld has graduated to its full 1.0 release. The "Pokémon with guns" experience is more popular than ever, with a massive influx of new and returning players arriving alongside an unprecedented list of improvements and in-game content additions.
Palworld 1.0 launched on July 10, and players showed their appreciation by flooding
Firefox 153 ESR arrives with major productivity, privacy, and enterprise upgrades
Firefox 153 is now the latest Extended Support Release (ESR), rolling up all improvements introduced since Firefox 140. Highlights include profile management, Split View, AI features, stronger privacy protections, web apps, PDF merging and image insertion, HDR video playback, browser-wide containers, and numerous platform and enterprise enhancements.
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The Marines' new AI gun can track and target people, even though it's marketed as anti-drone
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A hot potato: The US is adding another autonomous weapons system to its growing arsenal of similar tools. While the AI platform is designed to take down drones, it also appears capable of autonomously targeting ground targets, including humans, though its maker says an operator must issue the command to fire.
The Marine Corps has selected Allen Control Systems' Bullfrog M240 robotic weapon station for integration into its Light Marine Air
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Fold 8 Ultra debut with Flex Titanium displays and Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
With all the buzz of anticipation surrounding the rumored foldable iPhone that Apple is widely expected to announce this fall, it's hard not to wonder what the good people at Samsung are thinking.
After all, Samsung has had foldable phones since 2019, and at its recent Unpacked event in London, the company unveiled its 8th generation devices. That's a lot of iteration
Nvidia's first Windows on Arm GeForce driver confirms RTX Spark configurations
Nvidia has published its first native GeForce driver for Windows on Arm , and buried inside it confirms two RTX Spark configurations: a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU with a 20-core CPU, and a smaller 5,120-core variant with 18 cores, both supporting up to 128GB of unified memory.
The driver targets Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box for now, but it lets developers start porting Arm64 apps ahead of Spark's fall launch
Data centers on track to consume 20% of US power by 2035
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Looking ahead: Data centers are on track to consume 12% of the nation's total electricity supply by 2030 and one-fifth of US supply by 2035, according to the latest projections from BloombergNEF. For comparison, data centers today account for approximately 5.9% of power consumption.
The research firm estimates that US data centers will require a staggering 194 gigawatts by
Reddit and major publishers consider blocking Google as AI search continues destroying web traffic
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Ripple effect: Google's push to turn Search into an AI answer engine isn't pleasing a lot of people, not least the publishers it relies on for answers. Some could even decide that they'd rather disappear from Google entirely than continue handing over their data and losing traffic.
Reddit, USA Today, Reuters, Politico, The Economist, and People Inc. are among the companies reconsidering how much access
TSMC plans up to 10% price increases on advanced and mature nodes starting in 2027
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In brief: As AI-driven component shortages raise product prices at Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, and other companies, TSMC -- the source of many of their chips -- has kept its prices relatively steady until now.
Sources have informed Nikkei Asia that TSMC plans to raise prices for advanced and mature semiconductor process nodes by up to 10% at the start of 2027.
Iran claims it destroyed Amazon's main data hub in Bahrain with cruise missiles
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What just happened? Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it launched several cruise missiles at Amazon's data infrastructure in Bahrain, claiming the attack destroyed the facility. The alleged strike marks the latest escalation in the renewed conflict between Tehran and Washington, though neither Amazon nor US or Bahraini officials has confirmed that it actually happened.
The IRGC's Aerospace Force said it targeted what it described as Amazon's central
Watch Samsung unveil the Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 at Galaxy Unpacked, starting 9am ET / 6am PT
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In brief: Samsung will be hosting its next Galaxy Unpacked event very soon, where it's expected to reveal all the details of its next-generation foldable devices, including the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 8. The London event starts at 9am ET/6:00am PT, and you can watch the whole thing live right here.
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