Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers… Some critics question whether states have the spine to take a hard line against tech behemoths like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta. [T]he Data Center Read more…
They haven’t built a spacecraft for travelling to our nearest star system. But engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri. The craft, called Chrysalis, could make the 25 trillion mile (40 trillion kilometer) journey in around 400 years, Read more…
One of America’s largest solar + battery storage projects is now fully online in Mojave, California. Arevon Energy’s Eland Solar-plus-Storage Project combines 758 megawatts (MWdc) of solar with 300 MW/1,200 megawatt hours of battery storage. Eland 1 reached commercial operation in December 2024, and Eland 2 recently commenced full operation. Read more…
Grow a Garden, a Roblox game created by a 16-year-old in just a few days, has shattered records for the most concurrent players in gaming history, surpassing Fortnite with over 21.6 million concurrent players at once. The Associated Press reports: Grow a Garden is as simple as its name suggests Read more…
Two different firms have tested the newly released GPT-5, and both find its security sadly lacking. After Grok-4 fell to a jailbreak in two days, GPT-5 fell in 24 hours to the same researchers. Separately, but almost simultaneously, red teamers from SPLX (formerly known as SplxAI) declare, “GPT-5’s raw model Read more…
They are supposed to monitor you throughout the working day and help make sure that life is not getting on top of you. But a study has concluded that smartwatches cannot accurately measure your stress levels — and may think you are overworked when really you are just excited. Researchers Read more…
California’s biggest electric utilities pulled off a record-breaking test during the 7pm-9pm window that is typically its time of peak demand as people come home from work. Pacific Gas & Electric and other top California power companies switched on residential batteries in more than 100,000 homes and drew power from Read more…