Microsoft will end official support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 on October 14, 2025. Unlike Windows 10, the company will not offer a paid extended patching plan. Office customers will soon need to upgrade to a newer version, move to the cloud, or rely on third-party patching services such...
Forget herbicides, this AI-powered laser robot uses Nvidia GPUs to torch weeds
Designed to be towed in fields behind a tractor, the contraption uses raw compute power mated to 36 high-resolution cameras to identify and incinerate weeds on contact using 24 240W diode lasers. It may sound like science fiction, but it's already proven itself on hundreds of farms. According to Carbon,......
Intel shareholders uneasy after Washington converts CHIPS funding into ownership
Last Friday, the White House announced that Intel will receive $11.1 billion in CHIPS Act funding in exchange for giving the Commerce Department a 9.9 percent equity stake. Reuters cites a securities filing that says the department won't get board seats, though it must support Intel's board nominees and proposals......
Chris Roberts believes his game Squadron 42 could be as big as GTA VI, set to release in 2026
According to a recent interview with La Presse, Chris Roberts expects Squadron 42 to finally become a "real" gaming product in 2026. The single-player space adventure, set in the Star Citizen universe, was originally slated for release in 2014 but instead became part of the ongoing crowdfunding campaign Roberts launched......
AMD is discontinuing its Wraith Prism and Wraith Spire coolers, no replacement planned
AMD did not announce the change via press release or blog post, instead updating the product IDs of affected SKUs with a new suffix. The company explained that the SR4 (Wraith Prism) and SR2 (Wraith Spire) coolers have reached their end of life after seven years and will no longer......
Anthropic reaches settlement with authors in landmark copyright case
Anthropic has reached a settlement in a sweeping copyright class action that alleged the company unlawfully collected and stored millions of pirated books to train its AI assistant, Claude. The agreement, revealed in a court filing before US District Judge William Alsup, avoids what could have been a trial with......
More records from Uvalde, Texas school shooting are being released after law firm error
Thousands more pages of records related to the 2022 Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, were being released this week after the school district's lawyer said his firm mistakenly failed to make public all documents as promised in a legal s...
The Latest: Trump effort to control U.S. capital expands to Union Station
As President Donald Trump asserts his power to control the nation’s capital, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that his department will manage Union Station taking control away from Amtrak
CDC director Susan Monarez is out after less than one month on the job, federal officials say
The director of the nation’s top public health agency is out after less than one month in the job
A look at Nvidia’s latest results and its prominence in the stock market, by the numbers
Nvidia reported a 56% increase in second-quarter revenue Wednesday and a 59% rise in net income compared to a year ago