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New Gas-Powered Data Centres Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
2+ hour, 36+ min ago (724+ words) As tech companies race to secure massive power deals to build out hundreds of data centres across the country, these projects represent just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the potential climate cost of the AI boom....
AI-Generated Images: How to Tell What's Real
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (125+ words) On the one hand, the latest Midjourney v7 version has raised the bar even higher (v8 has also recently become available), and then there are just as many good alternatives such as Flux. 2 or DALL-E 4. So, is there any way to detect…...
Agentic AI Needs Guardrails: Autonomy Without Accountability Is Liability
2+ week, 3+ day ago (585+ words) Most of the agentic AI debate is still framed as capability theatre: what it can do, how fast it can act, how many costs it can remove. But autonomy isn't the breakthrough. Accountable autonomy is. Because speed without control is…...
The Parallel Payment Rail: How Stablecoins Are Rewiring Cross-Border Payments
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (1067+ words) It's 4. 30pm on a Friday, and the banking cut-off is approaching. Miss it, and what should take minutes can slip into weekend limbo " not clearing until Tuesday. That is the problem Omer Kaya, a Dubai-based agency founder, kept running into. Now,…...
Stablecoins, Explained: Crypto Without the Chaos
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (702+ words) Stablecoins were created to solve that problem. They are a type of cryptocurrency designed to hold a steady value by being pegged to a more stable asset " usually a fiat currency like the US dollar, but sometimes commodities like gold…...
Meta's New AI Model Gives Mark Zuckerberg a Seat at the Big Kids' Table
1+ week, 6+ day ago (333+ words) Meta on Wednesday announced its first major model since CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebooted the company's AI efforts last year under a new division called Meta Intelligence Labs. The model, called Muse Spark, is a step towards Zuckerberg's vision of "personal…...
A Mysterious Farsi Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War
1+ mon, 2+ hour ago (951+ words) Tavajoh! Tavajoh! Tavajoh!" " Attention!" in Persian " a man's voice announces, before going on to narrate a string of numbers in no apparent order, slowly and rhythmically. After nearly two hours, it stops, only to resume again hours later. The broadcast…...
Beyond the Oscars, Arab Cinema Is Building Its Own Industry
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1663+ words) When the Academy Awards concluded this week, The Voice of Hind Rajab " a film documenting the killing of a six-year-old Palestinian girl during the war in Gaza " was the only Arab nominee for best international feature film. The film is…...
How Handala Became the Face of Iran's Hacker Counterattacks
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (158+ words) Within that effort among Iranian state-sponsored hacking agencies to achieve loud, publicly visible digital retribution, Handala has grown into "probably the most dominant group," says Shykevich. "They are the main face now." More likely, Check Point's Shykevich says, Handala hacked…...
Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (211+ words) Nvidia is planning to launch an open-source platform for AI agents, people familiar with the company's plans tell WIRED. The chipmaker has been pitching the product, referred to as Nemo Claw, to enterprise software companies. The platform will allow these…...