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In January, there was a lot of hype around an announcement from Finnish company Donut Lab: It claimed to have created the world’s first production-ready solid-state battery.The Donut battery, marketed as the energy source behind the Verge TS Pro motorcycle, was allegedly a “pioneer” in bringing this new battery technology to a production-ready electric vehicle. During CES 2026, Donut Lab’s phone-size powerhouse was even a finalist for CNET’s Best Transportation category, where we noted that the cell promised “huge improvements in energy density, charging speed and safety.”But it now appears to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The battery is allegedly…
The rise of artificial intelligence is riding on the back of an enormous data center expansion. Data centers are projected to account for anywhere from 9 to 17 percent of total electricity usage in the U.S. by the end of the decade. Today, around a third of data center electricity is devoted to cooling the chips that run AI models.That’s the process Ferveret is working to make more efficient. The startup, founded by Reza Azizian, a former MIT postdoc in nuclear engineering, and Matteo Bucci, MIT’s Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and…
A new analysis shows that most planned AI data centers in the US are being built in drought-stricken regions, creating an insurmountable challenge. The AI industry has been obsessed with one resource- compute. Who has the most GPUs? Who can build data centers the fastest? Who can secure enough power to stay ahead in the AI race? But a new analysis from The Guardian suggests the industry may have overlooked another resource that is becoming just as important: water. About two-thirds of planned AI datacenters in the US will be built in regions already experiencing severe drought conditions, even as…
1,000 breaches is one hell of a milestone. It's not just the process of getting data, verifying it, loading it, sending notifications etc, it's all the other stuff that goes into keeping the whole thing afloat. Legal docs. Trademarks. Accounting. Agreements. The most mind-numbingly boring stuff you can imagine happening in the background so that the stuff you see in the foreground can all work. And then there are those "other things" I had to deal with along the way, but more of that in this week's video. Thanks to everyone who has stuck around to see this thing reach…
Here’s what Shopee collection point hosts really deal with Shopee’s neighbourhood collection point network has quietly become part of Singapore’s daily landscape since 2023. The e-commerce firm has established over 2,800 collection points across Singapore as of today, including residential addresses, convenience stores, and lockers—placing most homes within 250m of their nearest pickup option. This kills two birds with one stone. For customers, it offers a more affordable and convenient delivery option, with savings of up to S$1.99 in delivery fees per item. For ordinary Singaporeans, it creates an opportunity to earn passive income by turning their homes or businesses…
Your next phone or EV could run on a recycled battery that performs nearly as well as a new one. Cornell University researchers have developed a new recycling technique that restores spent lithium-ion cells to up to 95% of their original capacity, while cutting recycling costs by 56%. A bath instead of a shredder Current battery recycling techniques are largely destructive. Spent cells are either smelted at extreme temperatures or crushed into a powder and processed with harsh acids to extract usable materials. The recovered components then have to be rebuilt from scratch before they can go into a new…
Ravie LakshmananJun 10, 2026Vulnerability / JavaScript Cybersecurity researchers have flagged half a dozen vulnerabilities in protobuf.js, a JavaScript and TypeScript implementation of Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution (RCE) and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. “In affected environments, a single malicious protobuf schema, descriptor, or crafted payload could be enough to trigger crashes, runtime corruption, or even code execution,” Cyera security researcher Assaf Morag said. The vulnerabilities have been codenamed Proto6. Protobuf is a free and open-source, language-agnostic mechanism for serializing structured data. It was originally developed and used internally by Google before it was…
Supporters of a permanent data center ban, including members of Kshama Sawant’s congressional campaign, hold signs reading “Stop the Data Centers & AI Layoffs” during public comment at Tuesday’s Seattle City Council meeting. (Screenshot via Seattle Channel) The city that gave the world cloud computing just hit pause on the machines that power it. The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to impose a one-year emergency moratorium on new large data centers inside the city limits, responding to concerns about the implications of AI for the city’s power grid, water supply, utility rates, and economy. The moratorium would take effect…
An encounter with a great white shark is undoubtedly a “thrilling” experience, considered especially rare in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The latest sighting, which has attracted media attention and made headlines around the world, occurred during a dive in the Strait of Sicily carried out by volunteers from Ghost Diving and Healthy Seas, organizations dedicated to protecting marine ecosystems.The encounter was documented by diver Derk Remmers, who told the BBC that he struggled to switch on his camera because of the excitement. The footage—the first ever recorded of a great white shark in its Mediterranean Sea habitat—shows a…
It’s no secret that the last few years have seen a massive explosion in the use of artificial intelligence for general information-gathering. An even more recent trend, though, is how large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly being used for verifying and consuming news; reports from the Pew Research Center over the last year found that one-in-five U.S. teens regularly use LLMs to get their news, while one-in-four young adults have reported using them for that purpose at least once. A new open-access study from the MIT Media Lab should give some of those users pause: Researchers found that, over the…