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Organized opposition halts $100 billion Virginia data-center project

Organized opposition halted a $100 billion data-center project in Prince William County, Virginia, according to a Bloomberg summary. The project's developers were backed by two of the world's biggest private-equity companies. The account presents the campaign as a blueprint for broader US data-center backlash.
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Holyvolt raises $45M for AI battery-material tools

Holyvolt, which develops AI tools for making and testing new battery materials, raised $45M from investors including Zone II and CC.VC, Fortune reported. A source cited by Fortune put the company's valuation at $245M. The financi...

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Researchers show Cyrillic domain can evade Chromium lookalike checks

Researchers at Have I Been Squatted demonstrated a Cyrillic domain that evades Chromium's safeguards against addresses resembling legitimate websites, Tom's Hardware reports. The example resembles apple.com but uses a character ou...

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Anthropic reports falling junior hiring share as agent use expands

Anthropic reports that junior employees' share of its technical hires fell from 27% to 9% since early 2025 as AI agents took on more work. Its internal employment study draws on company records and 17 employee interviews; technica...

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Science

Hybrid diamond chip enables single-shot readout of quantum spins

Researchers demonstrated a gallium-phosphide-on-diamond chip that couples light strongly enough to a diamond quantum bit to read its electron spin in a single measurement. The work, published in Optica Quantum, addresses a compone...

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Nvidia's revised DLSS 5 model cuts memory use, company says

Nvidia's revised DLSS 5 neural rendering model uses 20% less video memory at 4K and processes its neural rendering workload up to 2x faster, the company says. Tom's Hardware reports that the new build was released in NBA 2K27 and ...