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Trump announces $500B “Stargate” AI infrastructure project with AGI aims
Trump: "The largest AI infrastructure project in history, and it's taking place here in America."
Source: arstechnica.com
Reception: Neutral
The Internet is (once again) awash with IoT botnets delivering record DDoSes
Bigger, badder DDoSes are flooding the Internet. Dismal IoT security is largely to blame.
Source: arstechnica.com
Reception: Positive
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht pardoned by Trump 10 years into life sentence
Trump confirmed the pardon was partly to “honor” Libertarian movement.
Source: arstechnica.com
Reception: Positive
Google increases investment in Anthropic by another $1 billion
AI group is closing in on a $60 billion valuation.
Source: arstechnica.com
Reception: Neutral
All the things Nintendo didn’t tell us about the Switch 2
Some informed speculation on everything from price to battery life.
Source: arstechnica.com
Reception: Neutral
Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well
Security measure? Boxing out third-party tools? Or something more complex?
Source: arstechnica.com
Reception: Positive
New year, same streaming headaches: Netflix raises prices by up to 16 percent
The cheapest ad-free plan increases from $15.49 to $17.99.
Source: arstechnica.com
Reception: Neutral
RIP EA’s Origin launcher: We knew ye all too well, unfortunately
End of 32-bit Windows support offered an excuse to put the nail in the coffin.
Source: arstechnica.com
Reception: Negative
Apple Intelligence, previously opt-in by default, enabled automatically in iOS 18.3
Opting out is still possible in Settings, but only after setup is complete.
Source: arstechnica.com
Reception: Positive
Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download
DeepSeek R1 is free to run locally and modify, and it matches OpenAI's o1 in several benchmarks.
Source: arstechnica.com
Reception: Positive