Summary Valve confirmed that PayPal payment processing has been unavailable for Steam purchases in most countries since early July 2025. The payment option remains functional only for transactions denominated in…
Apple Returns Blood Oxygen Monitoring to the Latest Apple Watches Summary Apple has restored blood oxygen (SpO2) monitoring for certain Apple Watch models in the United States by changing where…
Google Releases Pint-Size Gemma Open AI Model Summary Google has released Gemma 3 270M, a compact open AI model (~270 million parameters) built to run locally on devices. The company…
Impoverished Streaming Services Are Driving Viewers Back to Piracy Summary The Guardian reports that fragmented, ad-laden and increasingly expensive streaming services are pushing many viewers back to piracy, particularly illicit…
Dodgy Huawei Chips Nearly Sunk DeepSeek’s Next-Gen R2 Model Summary DeepSeek tried to train its next-generation R2 AI model on Huawei’s Ascend chips after pressure to use domestic silicon. According…
Trump Administration Considers Stake In Intel Summary Intel’s shares jumped about 7% after reports that the Trump administration is weighing a government stake in the chipmaker to bolster US-based semiconductor…
Plex Users Urged To Update Media Server After Security Flaw Exposed Summary Plex has quietly released a patched build of Plex Media Server after a security flaw was discovered via…
Russian Hackers Seized Control of Norwegian Dam, Spy Chief Says Summary Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) says pro-Russian hackers gained control of a small hydropower dam in Bremanger in April,…
Google Chrome Enterprise: Extend Protections From Browser to OS Summary At Google’s “There’s No Place Like Chrome” event, Loren Hudziak, head of customer engineering, explains how Chrome Enterprise and Chrome…
Big Tech’s AI Data Centres Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone Summary The Slashdot post links to a New York Times report describing how rapid expansion of AI data…
