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Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash

Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

That free VPN Chrome and Firefox extension may be reading your clipboard every half a second, researchers warn

Researchers found "VPN Go" extensions for Chrome and Firefox secretly harvesting copied text The clipboard theft was not there at launch and arrived through a later update Anything copied while the extension was active should now be…

Apple's AI Push Isn't the Only Thing Getting Users Excited About iOS 27

Hey Hackers! Welcome back to another edition of HackerNoon’s 3 Tech Polls Newsletter —a weekly retrospective on timely debates shaping the global tech ecosystem. Results from our Poll of the Week anchor the newsletter, supported by related…

Xjenza Malta International Partnerships Are Benefiting Malta-Based Researchers

International collaboration plays an increasingly important role in helping researchers access expertise, training opportunities and professional networks. Building on an already established relationship, Xjenza Malta and Italy’s National…

Govt, app companies agree to protect online transportation ecosystem

The government, application companies, and online motorcycle taxi drivers have mutually agreed to maintain a fair and ...

Rocket Lab halts Japanese radar satellite launch seconds before liftoff

Portugal among Europe’s Top Five growth markets – but living here is the problem

Portugal has been ranked among the five European countries with the strongest growth potential for 2026, driven by a growing working-age population, an expanding startup ecosystem and increasing employment in The post Portugal among…

NIH unveils the world’s largest genomics-and-health database

The US government has just handed scientists the largest map of human health ever assembled. It pairs more than half a million genomes with real medical records, and it arrives as the programme behind it faces deep budget cuts. The…

Degrees of denial: Paris blames US for climate change in heated exchange

A transatlantic debate ignites as Paris blames America's heavy air conditioning use for contributing to Europe's heatwave deaths. While the US mocks France's lack of AC, experts highlight America's significant emissions. The article…

The Download: Anthropic launches Claude Science, and California’s carbon manure math

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an event for pharmaceutical executives…

“BioShocking” tricks AI browsers into leaking your passwords

Security researchers convinced six AI browsers they were playing a game. The browsers then handed over their users’ passwords and treated it as a win. The firm behind it, LayerX, calls the technique BioShocking, and says it worked on every…

Anthropic is bringing back Claude Fable 5 globally after US lifts export control order

Anthropic is restoring global access to its most powerful generally released AI model yet, Claude Fable 5, today, after the U.S. Department of Commerce withdrew emergency export controls that led the company to suspend all access to both…