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AI vendors are switching from subscriptions to consumption pricing. AI PCs are the hedge.

AI vendors are switching from subscriptions to consumption pricing. AI PCs are the hedge.

The AI pricing model is shifting. Major software vendors are moving away from per-seat subscriptions toward token consumption or outcome-based pricing for AI features. The flat-rate subscriptions that attracted early adopters were loss…

Heat Wave Threatens Further Wildfire Spread in France and Spain

The New York Times

Heat Wave Threatens Further Wildfire Spread in France and Spain

The record wildfires, which have destroyed more than 200 homes and prompted large evacuations, could intensify with the arrival of a new heat wave.

The New York Times

Spotify is experiencing another major outage

Spotify is experiencing another major outage

A second gremlin is rolling through Spotify this evening.

2 separate freight derailments prompt emergency responses

Mexico News Daily

2 separate freight derailments prompt emergency responses

In two separate incidents on Saturday night, a tank car on a freight train derailed, prompting the mobilization of emergency services while specialized personnel carried out containment efforts. Authorities declared a Code Red in the…

Mexico News Daily

Orange is building a €3bn French data centre business, funded from New Zealand

Orange is building a €3bn French data centre business, funded from New Zealand

Orange and Morrison announced an exclusivity agreement on Monday to create a jointly controlled data centre company in France, backed by a €3 billion investment programme combining Orange assets, Morrison equity, and debt. The venture…

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a…

Cotton growers race to treat leaf disease after mysterious arrival

ABC News

Cotton growers race to treat leaf disease after mysterious arrival

No-one knows how ramularia leaf spot got to Australia, but growers in Queensland are desperate for a treatment as the fungal disease wreaks havoc on their crops.

ABC News

PSA: your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

TechCrunch

PSA: your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Claude — were found publicly searchable on Google over the weekend, after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators…

TechCrunch

“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win

“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win

After a big court loss last week, Google has confirmed that it won’t give up its fight to block AI bots from scraping its search results. And Reddit is weirdly along for the ride. Curiously invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act…

Angola just raised $321m selling shares in a telco it seized from Africa’s richest woman

Angola just raised $321m selling shares in a telco it seized from Africa’s richest woman

Angola raised roughly $321 million on Monday by selling a 15% stake in Unitel, the country’s dominant mobile operator, in what Bloomberg reported as the largest initial public offering the nation has ever run. The proceeds go towards…

Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

Wired

Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.

Wired

iOS 26.6, macOS 26.6 and the rest are out, addressing security fixes

iOS 26.6, macOS 26.6 and the rest are out, addressing security fixes

Apple's latest software updates are primarily focused on security fixes.