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The Results Are In: Voters Hate Data Centers
From high-profile Senate races to local rezoning initiatives, data centers and their supporters did miserably on the ballot in the 2026 midterms.
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I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling
Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Why are premium domains so expensive?
Premium domains are expensive because each name exists only once, and short, memorable ones are long gone. Registries and owners price them on demand. They help brands get remembered, but they do not boost Google rankings, and some renew at premium prices. Registering a normal .com address is cheap.…
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Here’s how the candidates backed by AI super PACs fared
AI super PACs spent $79 million this cycle, most of it before November. Here’s what they got for it.
Business / Fortune ·
Crypto PACs spent $170 million on the midterms—and came up nearly dry
In Ohio, $40 million in support couldn’t save crypto PACs’ preferred candidate.
Business / Fortune ·
Michael Rubin wants Fanatics to be No. 1 in betting. Tuesday’s results in Nebraska and Congress made that climb steeper
Fanatics backed Nebraska's failed mobile betting push, and a projected Democratic Congress has prediction markets, Rubin's newest bet, in its sights.
AI / The Verge ·
17 better ways Elon Musk could have wasted $446 million
One of the basic problems of spending too much time on social media is that you are cooking your brain by reading posts from a pack of attention-seeking lunatics. If your social media of choice is the site formerly known as Twitter, and it is your main source of contact with the outside world, you…
Tech / Wired ·
‘You Don’t Put Your Head in the Sand for 4 Years’: Colossal CEO Ben Lamm on Working With Trump
The company’s cofounder recently convinced the Trump administration to support an initiative to gather DNA samples from endangered species.
AI / The Decoder ·
New open-source benchmark reveals reasoning as the biggest bottleneck for AI in cloud operations
CloudOpsBench is a new open-source benchmark that measures how well AI agents handle typical DevOps tasks in the cloud, from fixing services and removing resources to restricting access rights, rolling out updates, and decommissioning projects. The article New open-source benchmark reveals reasoning…
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How I learned to love an obnoxious phone grip
Much like a great recipe, it started with a stick of butter. This wasn't real butter; it was a friend's new phone grip, complemented by a phone case with bold stripes. Butter is in vogue now, or at least that's what a 12-year-old told me a few months ago. This stick of butter was labeled […]
Business / Fortune ·
James Talarico was a 23-year-old middle school teacher when an 11-year-old inspired him to run for office—now he’s making history in Texas as Senator
James Talarico is now Texas’ first elected Democratic Senator in nearly four decades. And it all started when one struggling student’s story inspired him.
AI / TechCrunch ·
Google faces backlash for plan that would turn off Search for schools that restrict AI
Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.
Tech / The Verge ·
Bose’s QuietComfort Headphones are more than half off
It’s not often that some of the best noise-canceling headphones you can buy are over half off. But right now, the first-gen Bose QuietComfort Headphones are on sale for $169.99 ($190 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Bose, matching its best price to date. The newer, second-generation version that…
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Rhode Island’s new Governor Helena Foulkes spent 25 years at CVS and lost her first election—she says failure and bad bosses made her a better leader
Helena Foulkes spent decades in corporate before making a run for governor: ‘You can go for something and it doesn't work, and yet other gifts come’
Tech / Wired ·
Voters Set $400 Million of Elon Musk’s Money on Fire
Elon Musk almost single-handedly funded the Republican midterms push. But of every traceable dollar Musk put into races that have been decided, more than 99 cents went to a race he lost.
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Binance says hackers who stole billions in crypto spent months planning heist
Techniques included laptop infections, compromised internal tooling, and fake job interviews.
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Tired of Roku and the like? Spain’s Titan OS just raised €40 million to provide you with an alternative.
Titan OS, a Barcelona-based technology, entertainment and advertising company, today announced a €40 million ($46 million) financing round to further develop their smart TV Operating System. The round saw participation from existing investors Highland Europe and Mangrove Capital Partners as well…
Business / Fortune ·
‘A massive rebuke of the last two years of the Trump administration’: elections expert stunned by Elon Musk lighting half a billion dollars on fire
Democrats took control of the House and Senate, flipping Senate seats in Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kansas and Ohio.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Adobe puts its marketing AI agent inside ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot
Adobe’s AI agent for marketing teams now works inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Databricks Genie, the company said on Wednesday. Adobe expects Amazon Quick, IBM and Snowflake to follow soon. The agent, CX Enterprise Coworker, plans and runs customer experience work across Adobe’s…
AI / The Decoder ·
GPT-6 Astra sees the matrix and reprograms other AI models directly through their weights
MIT researchers show that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can read and deliberately rewrite the weights of other AI models without traditional training. In one experiment, Astra boosted a Qwen model's math accuracy from 7.9 to 48.1 percent by changing just 0.016 percent of its weights. The approach could…
Business / Fortune ·
Ray Dalio: why I recommend being a catalytic leader
The World Economic Forum provides a great example of catalytic leadership in action via its Global Accelerator for Earth Action (GAEA) initiative.
Tech / Ars Technica ·
What I learned driving the Slate electric truck prototype
After 45 minutes behind the wheel, I am more optimistic about the $25,000 EV.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Apple opens Siri AI to every app, and plans a fee for expanded use
Apple has opened Siri AI to every app developer. A Developer Preview lets any app bring its content and actions into Siri AI, Apple said on Tuesday. It ships in the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3 and visionOS 27.3 betas. Until now, apps could only plug into Siri through categories that Apple…
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Election Deniers Not Contesting Their Massive Losses
For months, election deniers claimed without evidence that the vote would be rigged. Now they appear to be accepting crushing defeats.