Ireland’s data centres used 5 per cent of the country’s metered electricity in…
A quiet infrastructure boom is quietly reshaping Ireland's energy future—and nobody planned for it.
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On 30 July, researchers tied a 1,082.65-BTC sweep from 1,196 addresses to a…
The theft exposed an entropy failure in affected Coldcard firmware, not a weakness in every hardware wallet or all cold storage. The 1,196 count referred to addresses, not confirmed devices or people.
Microsoft Japan gave roughly 2,300 employees five consecutive Fridays off in…
Microsoft Japan's 39.9% sales-per-employee comparison was real, but the company said the trial did not cause it alone. The meeting redesign is the experiment's more direct lesson.
In 1926, Henry Ford cut his factory workers from six days a week to five and…
Ford said its factories could produce at least as much in 40 hours as in 48. The claim came from repeated operating changes, not a controlled scientific trial.
AI’s hidden water footprint may have reached 765 billion litres in 2025 — consumed…
The 765-billion-litre figure is the upper end of a modelled range, not a global meter reading. Its size and uncertainty both point to the same problem: data-centre operators do not disclose enough to isolate AI's water use.
Epoch AI estimates that frontier models could fully use up the available stock of…
Epoch AI's 2026–2032 forecast is about effective public human text, not the end of new writing. The response may reshape data licensing, provenance and synthetic-data engineering.
The problem with being anti-woke is less about the concerns it raises, some of…
Opposing "woke" means fighting a concept so elastic it has become nearly meaningless—which leaves critics chasing shadows while their own position grows equally blurred.
European space-tech funding reached €2.9 billion in H1 2026, up 622%, but debt and…
Behind Europe's spectacular space-tech funding surge lies a simpler story: debt instruments and a few massive government-backed bets, not a sector-wide awakening.
Europe’s AI watermarking rules are now live, but visible labels, hidden…
A confusing patchwork of disclosure rules is now binding on AI companies across Europe, but compliance depends on what you build, who uses it, and what it creates.
AI helped solo professionals match two-person teams in a 776-person experiment…
The professionals who thrived with AI weren't necessarily the best prompt engineers—they were the ones willing to venture outside their expertise.
Consumer Reports found seven paid data-removal services removed 4% to 68% of…
In Consumer Reports’ small four-month field test, paid services removed 35% of tracked profiles overall, individual services ranged from 4% to 68%, and manual opt-outs reached 70%.
Trump refused to sign the housing bill Congress sent him in June, holding out for…
A president's silence can reshape legislation just as surely as his signature, especially when political leverage is at stake.