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Pentagon to loan billions of dollars to a neocloud startup. Just what could be the underlying intention here- beyond tech advancement? The Department of Defense is negotiating a massive $5 billion loan to Fluidstack, a fast-growing neocloud startup that rents out high-performance AI computing power. Here is the twist: Washington isn’t cutting this check so Fluidstack can buy shinier NVIDIA chips. The money instead targets the unglamorous, physical bottlenecks holding back the AI race: power equipment and liquid cooling systems. AI development currently faces a wall that software alone can’t fix. Modern data centers are straining power grids and running…

Lenovo’s upcoming Googlebook 15 just got its latest and most comprehensive leak, and woof — this is not the affordable Chromebook you’re used to if the specs are accurate. The leak comes from MacObserver, which has the full purported specs sheet, showing that the Lenovo Googlebook 15 is very much going to be a premium laptop, though the leak doesn’t reveal a price or exact launch date. A Google representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Under the hood, we’re apparently looking at an Intel Core Ultra 5 325 processor, 16GB or 32GB of LPDDR5x RAM, 256/512GB…

September is typically the time when television gets serious again. The summer’s biggest TV shows have aired their finales, the fall schedule is kicking into high gear, and streamers are rolling out everything from high-concept sci-fi to prestige dramas. There’s plenty of familiar IP in the mix, but also some genuinely original shows worth putting on your to-watch list.While plenty of outlets will tell you what everyone is watching (see: Reacher), that’s not our goal. As always, the TV shows we’re watching this month reflect the kinds of stories WIRED covers every day—shows that explore technology, science, politics, culture, and…

Singapore Hawker Haven’s offerings are stocked in Australia and the US For Singaporeans who’ve moved abroad, a craving for fishball noodles is never just about food. It’s a memory that reminds them of home—the kind of hunger that other food can’t seem to satisfy. It’s a craving shared by a growing number of Singaporeans scattered across cities with no hawker centre on the corner. For most of them, the only real fix has been asking a relative to smuggle it over in their luggage, making do with instant noodles, or settling for whatever comes closest at a local Asian supermarket.…

It depends on scope and deployment model. Open source platforms carry lower upfront costs but hide real expense in setup, tuning, and ongoing management, plus the risk of a project losing support down the line. Commercial platforms cost more to start, but they come with documentation, defined service levels, and automation that cuts the staff time needed to run the program day to day. The honest way to size total cost is licensing plus deployment effort plus tuning, weighed against what an undetected breach actually costs, which averaged $4.99 million globally last year, a record high, per IBM’s latest figures.…

Salesforce Inc. today introduced a series of artificial intelligence agents designed to make sales and technical support teams more productive. The agents are rolling out alongside a new version of Agentforce Coworker, an automation tool built into several of the company’s cloud services. Most of the new features are generally available today. The rest will launch by year’s end. Salesforce’s first new agent, Hunter, helps business-to-business salespeople find leads and craft outreach emails. It can also streamline the subsequent phases of the deal-making workflow. Salesforce says Hunter automates tasks such as preparing salespeople for presentations and creating proposals. Some business-to-business…

The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) selected AI-GUIDE, a medical device developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for its 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. This award recognizes federal laboratories and collaborators who have accomplished outstanding work in the process of transferring technology. With funding from the U.S. Army’s Combat Casualty Care Research Program (CCC), Lincoln Laboratory and MGH developed AI-GUIDE and are in the process of transferring the prototype to the startup company AutonomUS Medical Technologies, Inc.”This recognition reflects what effective technology transfer looks like — aligning the Army’s operational need with Mass General’s clinical expertise…

Frank X. Shaw addresses the media at Microsoft on May 18, 2025, in advance of the Build conference. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) It’s the end of an era at Microsoft: Frank X. Shaw, the executive who oversaw the tech giant’s communications for nearly three decades, first at an external agency and for the last 17 years as one of its senior leaders, is leaving at the end of the year. Shaw, 64, said he’s not retiring, although he doesn’t have another job lined up. He plans to stop working for a while, do some of the things he hasn’t…

I think what really resonates with me this week is being able to completely turn the tables on perceptions around things like AI being the big bad hacking tool the news would have you believe. There's the stat I talk about where it's had literally 0% impact on insurance payouts, the Dutch bloke who's now being tracked down based on his voice and Scott's MAG breach teardown that ultimately pointed to exposed keys rather than anything sophisticated. Then the mention in there about the Aussie headline where ChatGPT has hacked a court system down here when, in fact, a bloke…

Data governance tools can improve trust and protect sensitive information. But which platform fits your stack, scale, and working style in 2026? Numerous data governance conversations start with a feature list. But that choice often creates trouble. Teams compare catalogs and lineage maps. They debate policy engines and AI assistants. Yet they have not defined the problem. A team may buy an enterprise platform for a narrow need. Another may choose open source without enough engineering support. Months later, people ignore the tool. The original data issue remains. A poor match often does. The platform may not fit the data…