Let Tom Hiddleston be your guide to Pompeii’s final day
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it spewed molten rock, pumice, and hot ash over the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing thousands of
Category: Tech
Intel confirms more layoffs in its data center unit as stock rallies on turnaround momentum
Intel confirmed on Tuesday that it will cut an unspecified number of jobs in its data center group, the division responsible for Xeon server processors
Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen
Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that the San Francisco startup says matches or exceeds models several
GM beats Q2 earnings and announces gas-powered Cadillacs as nearly $11 billion EV retreat nears completion
General Motors beat Wall Street’s second-quarter estimates by 37 cents a share on Tuesday, raised its full-year earnings guidance for the second time this year
The biggest data-centre deal in history just closed, then got $5bn bigger
On Tuesday, a group of the world’s most powerful investors finished buying a company most people have never heard of. The price tag explains why
Apple and the changing of the guard
As Apple gears up to anoint John Ternus the new company CEO in September (while current leader Tim Cook takes a seat on the board) the company
US AI testing institute chief steps down within three months
The head of the US government’s AI testing institute, Chris Fall, has resigned about three months after taking charge of the Center for AI Standards
What Happened When Meta Used A.I. to Ban Accounts on Facebook and Instagram
Users said the technology mistakenly deleted their accounts. To resolve the issue, they still had to rely on A.I.
Google Releases Three New Gemini A.I. Models
The models include one that is the company’s most powerful and another that is fine-tuned for cybersecurity, as Google competes with rivals like OpenAI and
Google’s newest data pipeline runs beneath the Atlantic to Portugal
Google has connected Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable running beneath the Atlantic between Portugal and the United States, tightening its grip on the physical
OpenAI’s maths-cracking AI kept escaping its sandbox, so it pulled the plug
OpenAI has paused one of its most capable models after it repeatedly found ways to slip out of its sandbox. The company shared the story
Judge halts Paramount’s $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states
A federal judge today ordered Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $111 billion merger, handing an early win to states that sued
RIP bargain bin: The price impact of Sony’s disc-free PlayStation plan
Since Sony announced that it was planning to stop producing physical PlayStation discs in 2028, many people have been justifiably worried about how they will
When Listening to Music Was a Team Sport
An exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt celebrates the glorious machines that gave us the soundtracks of our lives before streaming sites shoved them toward obsolescence.