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Dylan Field ‘Got a Real Kick’ Out of This Week’s Enron Relaunch
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, the Figma cofounder said he’s “fascinated” by whether it’s possible to build a new company on the back of the tainted brand. Read more
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With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’
At WIRED’s The Big Interview event, the president of the Signal Foundation talked about secure communications as critical infrastructure and the need for a new funding paradigm for tech. Read more
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AWS Unveils Hosted Apache Iceberg Service on S3, New Metadata Management Layer
AWS today unveiled a new S3 bucket type that’s optimized for storing data in Apache Iceberg, which has become the defacto standard for open table formats. AWS will not only automate the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” of table maintenance with the new S3 bucket type, but it will deliver a massive speedup in analytics using the… Read more
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AWS and Riot Games name winner of Valorant Champions Tour Hackathon
AWS and Riot Games have revealed the winners of their Valorant Champions Tour Hackathon: Esports Manager Challenge.Read More Read more
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FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient. Read more
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He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too
When programmer Micah Lee was kicked off X for a post that offended Elon Musk, he didn’t look back. His new tool for saving and deleting your X posts can give you that same sweet release. Read more
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Global AI computing will use ‘multiple NYCs’ worth of power by 2026, says founder
AI computing will continue to soar with inference, requiring completely new multiple-gigawatt AI data centers. Read more
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This Gemini update for Android lets you do more without unlocking your phone
Replaced Google Assistant with Gemini? You’ll soon be making calls and sending messages without unlocking your phone. See if the feature’s on your device now. Read more
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AWS SageMaker is transforming into a combined data and AI hub
The next-generation of SageMaker will make accessing data assets and wide-ranging tools to make the most of them faster than ever.Read More Read more
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Third-party support: a cure for convoluted database costs
Gone are the days when companies used a single database and had a straightforward cost structure, including hardware and software costs and number of users. Today’s cost equation is far more complicated, with IT leaders facing Albert Einstein levels of mathematics to unravel their cost picture, topped off by large, convoluted maintenance fees. How did… Read more