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Windows vs Linux in 2025: The Epic OS Showdown Reveals Surprising Facts

Windows vs Linux in 2025: The Epic OS Showdown Reveals Surprising Facts

Conclusion In the Windows vs. Linux showdown of 2025, there is no one-size-fits-all winner – each OS excels in different arenas. Windows offers ease of use, broad app compatibility, and a familiar environment that’s ideal for mainstream personal and business use. Linux shines in flexibility, security, cost efficiency, and power-user/developer features, and it utterly dominates the server and cloud world. As one IT consultant put it, transitioning to Linux has evolved from a fringe idea to “a full-fledged enterprise strategy”, thanks to its benefits in security, cost control, and technological independence bluefoxconsultant.com. For casual users and gamers, Windows still holds
22 September 2025
US Utility’s Fusion Moonshot: Betting Billions on “Star Power” to Fuel the AI Era

US Utility’s Fusion Moonshot: Betting Billions on “Star Power” to Fuel the AI Era

TVA’s Fusion Gamble at Bull Run The TVA’s plan marks an unprecedented move by a US utility: building, owning and operating a fusion power plant (pending regulatory and board approvals) rather than just buying fusion power from a third party. In September 2025, TVA issued a letter of intent to Type One Energy, signaling its interest in deploying the company’s fusion reactor at TVA’s former Bull Run Fossil Plant site near Oak Ridge, Tennessee Typeoneenergy. Bull Run was a coal-fired power station retired in 2023 – now its grounds may host a cutting-edge fusion facility, symbolically transitioning from fossil fuels
20 September 2025
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The AI Titans of 2025: Inside the Power Index Rankings and Global Race for AI Dominance

The AI Titans of 2025: Inside the Power Index Rankings and Global Race for AI Dominance

About the 2025 AI Power Index – Methodology and Significance Observer’s 2025 A.I. Power Index is a curated ranking of the 100 most influential individuals steering the future of artificial intelligence. According to the Observer, the list spans “CEOs, researchers, policymakers to investors shaping the future of artificial intelligence” Observer. Unlike lists that focus solely on company metrics or academic citations, the Power Index takes a broad view of “power” in AI, blending technical impact with business and policy influence. Selections were made by the Observer’s editorial team (with input from industry experts and even public nominations via email) to
19 September 2025
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10X Faster Than Any Supercomputer: Inside Microsoft’s AI Mega-Datacenter

10X Faster Than Any Supercomputer: Inside Microsoft’s AI Mega-Datacenter

In summary, Microsoft’s new AI datacenter in Wisconsin – billed as the world’s most powerful – embodies the scale and ambition of today’s AI era. It merges cutting-edge silicon, novel cooling and networking, and massive cloud integration to enable “frontier” AI models that were previously impossible. By tightly coupling hundreds of thousands of GPUs into one system, Microsoft is effectively launching a cloud-based supercomputer for AI, boosting both its Azure platform and partners like OpenAI. This effort is a cornerstone of Microsoft’s strategy to democratize AI – delivering advanced AI services globally via Azure’s network of 400+ datacenters. At the
19 September 2025
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Massive $39B UK–US Tech Alliance Unites Microsoft, Google & NVIDIA in AI and Quantum Power Play

Massive $39B UK–US Tech Alliance Unites Microsoft, Google & NVIDIA in AI and Quantum Power Play

Inside the UK–US Tech Prosperity Deal: Who’s Involved and What It Entails The UK Parliament in London. The UK and US have agreed to a historic tech partnership aiming to revolutionize the AI and quantum sectors. In September 2025, the United Kingdom and United States unveiled a sweeping new technology partnership during a U.S. presidential state visit. Billed as a “Tech Prosperity Deal,” the agreement links the two nations in developing cutting-edge tech industries – chiefly artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing – with support from major companies on both sides of the Atlantic Thequantuminsider. The announcement came with splashy
18 September 2025
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GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

AI Titans at War: Inside OpenAI, Google, Meta and the Race to Build AGI

The New AI Arms Race: An Introduction A fierce global competition is underway to build the next generation of artificial intelligence – not just specialized tools, but general AI that could transform society at large. In 2023, the stunning success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT triggered an “AI arms race” among tech giants. By 2025, that race has only accelerated. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and OpenAI (often backed by each other or investors) are collectively on track to spend hundreds of billions of dollars this year on AI research and infrastructure startupnews.fyi. Their goal? To outdo each other in creating more powerful,
16 September 2025
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Claude 4 Storms into VS Code: Anthropic’s AI Challenges GitHub Copilot

Claude 4 Storms into VS Code: Anthropic’s AI Challenges GitHub Copilot

Anthropic Claude 4: What It Is and How It Works in VS Code Claude 4 is the latest large language model (LLM) from Anthropic, designed with especially strong coding abilities. In particular, “Claude 4” comes in two modes: Claude Opus 4 (a max-power mode) and Claude Sonnet 4 (an optimized mode for faster responses), both introduced in mid-2025 Anthropic Anthropic. Anthropic touts Claude 4 as extremely capable at programming tasks – it topped key coding benchmarks (72% on a software engineering test suite) and can handle very lengthy code contexts without losing track Anthropic. Claude’s design emphasizes following instructions closely
16 September 2025
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The NFL’s Tech Revolution: Inside the High-Tech Innovations of the 2025 Season

The NFL’s Tech Revolution: Inside the High-Tech Innovations of the 2025 Season

Introduction The NFL’s 2025 season is showcasing a tech-driven transformation unlike anything in the league’s history. Every aspect of the game – from how coaches make decisions and how refs officiate, to how players train and how fans watch – is being enhanced by cutting-edge technology. This in-depth report explores all the major technologies now embedded in pro football, how teams and stadiums are using them, and what’s new in 2025 compared to previous seasons. We’ll delve into the innovations in gameplay, officiating, player tracking, AI analytics, smart stadiums, broadcasting, and fan engagement, with insights from NFL officials and technology
15 September 2025
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AI vs AI: The Autonomous Cybersecurity Arms Race Reshaping the SOC

AI vs AI: The Autonomous Cybersecurity Arms Race Reshaping the SOC

Introduction: The Dawn of Autonomous AI in Cybersecurity Imagine a near future where a malware strain is not hand-coded by a human, but generated on the fly by an AI, and where the security system defending your network is itself an AI that detects and neutralizes the threat in milliseconds. This scenario is quickly moving from science fiction to reality. Recent advances in artificial intelligence – particularly large language models (LLMs) and generative AI – are transforming the cyber battlefield on both offense and defense. Attackers are equipping themselves with AI tools that can write phishing emails, find software vulnerabilities,
15 September 2025
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Grok 4: Inside Elon Musk’s Most Powerful (and Controversial) AI Chatbot Yet

The Race to $-Per-Token: Coding Models Get Fast & Frugal

xAI Grok Code Fast 1 vs Code Llama and Copilot in Developer TCO Race Comparing Grok Code Fast 1, Code Llama, and GitHub Copilot To understand how xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 stacks up against Meta’s Code Llama and GitHub Copilot, let’s compare them across key dimensions like performance, cost, deployment, and integration. Model Overview & Capabilities Grok Code Fast 1 (xAI): Launched in August 2025 by Elon Musk’s xAI, Grok Code Fast 1 is a coding-specialized large model built from a new architecture and trained on a code-heavy corpus eweek.com. It’s explicitly designed for “agentic” coding assistance, meaning it
14 September 2025
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The Great AI Content Heist: How Bots Are Devouring the Internet – and How We Can Fight Back

The Great AI Content Heist: How Bots Are Devouring the Internet – and How We Can Fight Back

AI Companies Are Scraping the Web for Everything – Without Asking The rise of generative AI has kicked off an arms race for data, as AI companies seek to ingest as much online content as possible to train their models. Text from websites, images, code repositories, music – and now video – are all being vacuumed up. A bombshell report from The Atlantic in September 2025 revealed the sheer scale of this activity on YouTube: more than 15.8 million videos (from over 2 million channels) were quietly scraped and downloaded without permission as training data for AI theatlantic.com. These weren’t obscure clips either – nearly 1 million were
11 September 2025
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AI Revolution in Overdrive: GPT-5 Debut, Billion-Dollar Bets & Global Crackdowns (Sept 4–5, 2025)

AI Revolution in Overdrive: GPT-5 Debut, Billion-Dollar Bets & Global Crackdowns (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Generative AI Breakthroughs and New Tools OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch took center stage, arriving as the company’s first major model upgrade since GPT-4. Announced in August and now rolling out broadly, GPT-5 is described as OpenAI’s “smartest, fastest, most useful model yet” openai.com. It integrates a novel “thinking” mode that allows longer reasoning when needed, giving expert-level responses in coding, math, writing, vision and more openai.com. The model is unified (one system handling both quick replies and deeper reasoning) and significantly improves factual accuracy, coding abilities and reduced hallucinations. GPT-5 is available to all ChatGPT users (with premium tiers getting extended
5 September 2025
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2025 Streaming Wars: The Best Video, Music & Gaming Platforms Revealed

2025 Streaming Wars: The Best Video, Music & Gaming Platforms Revealed

Key Facts Video Streaming Platforms in 2025: Netflix vs. Disney+ vs. Prime Video (and More) Video streaming in 2025 is a mature but fiercely competitive market, now pivoting from breakneck growth to balancing profitability and subscriber satisfaction. Consumers have more choices than ever – the average American subscribes to nearly four streaming services – and the major players are refining their strategies. The “big three” global services are Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video, and Disney+, each with its own strengths: Regional and Niche Players: In the U.S., services like Hulu (which Disney now controls and is merging with Disney+ content) and
1 September 2025
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AI Weekend Shockwave: Breakthroughs, Backlash & Big Moves (Aug 30–31, 2025)

AI Weekend Shockwave: Breakthroughs, Backlash & Big Moves (Aug 30–31, 2025)

Corporate Announcements and Industry Moves Meta’s AI Strategy – Build, Buy, or Partner Meta Platforms pursued multiple routes to boost its AI offerings. It signed a deal to license Midjourney’s image-generation technology to enhance Meta’s products, and internally its new Superintelligence Labs team has even discussed using rival models from Google or OpenAI to power Meta’s AI features ts2.tech ts2.tech. A Meta spokesperson confirmed an “all-of-the-above” approach: the company will continue developing its own advanced models (like the forthcoming Llama 5) while also collaborating externally and open-sourcing when strategic ts2.tech. These moves aim to quickly bolster Meta’s AI capabilities as it
31 August 2025
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Global AI-PC Market Outlook 2025–2030: Rise of the NPU-Enabled Personal Computer

Global AI-PC Market Outlook 2025–2030: Rise of the NPU-Enabled Personal Computer

AI-Powered PC Shipments Surge (2025–2030 Forecast) AI PCs – defined by hardware and software optimized for on-device AI – are on a steep adoption curve. Industry analysts are exceedingly bullish on shipment growth through the latter 2020s: It’s worth noting that these rosy forecasts assume that compelling use cases for on-device AI continue to develop. Some industry experts caution there could be speed bumps (e.g. if users don’t see enough everyday benefit to justify upgrades). But so far, investment in AI features by both software and hardware vendors is only intensifying. Real-time language transcription, personal AI assistants, local generative AI
28 August 2025
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Xbox Ally X Review & Showdown: Microsoft’s Powerhouse Handheld Takes On Steam Deck OLED, Switch 2 & More

Xbox Ally X Review & Showdown: Microsoft’s Powerhouse Handheld Takes On Steam Deck OLED, Switch 2 & More

Specs Showdown: Xbox Ally X vs. The Competition Before diving into head-to-head comparisons, here’s a quick look at how the Ally X’s core specs compare: Next, we compare the Xbox Ally X against these contenders in key areas: Xbox Ally X vs. Steam Deck OLED Power vs. Platform: Valve’s Steam Deck (especially the refreshed OLED model) remains the Ally X’s most obvious competitor. Performance-wise, the Ally X handily outclasses the Steam Deck, thanks to a much newer CPU/GPU. The Deck’s custom AMD chip (Zen2 CPU, 8 older RDNA2 GPU units) can run last-gen games well, but struggles with recent AAA
27 August 2025
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2025 Console Showdown: PS5 vs Xbox Series X vs Nintendo Switch OLED – The Ultimate Comparison

2025 Console Showdown: PS5 vs Xbox Series X vs Nintendo Switch OLED – The Ultimate Comparison

The PS5 Pro, released in November 2024, features 60 compute units at 2.35 GHz for about 16.7 TFLOPs and a +28% memory bandwidth boost. Both PS5 models use an AMD Zen 2 8-core CPU up to 3.5 GHz and 16 GB GDDR6 RAM, with a base 825 GB NVMe SSD on PS5 and a 2 TB SSD on PS5 Pro. The Xbox Series X uses an AMD Zen 2 8-core CPU at 3.8 GHz (3.6 GHz SMT), a RDNA2 GPU with 52 CUs at 1.825 GHz (about 12.15 TFLOPs), and a 1 TB NVMe SSD. A 2024 refresh for Xbox
22 August 2025
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Slack vs Discord vs Telegram in 2025: Which One Is Really Best for You?

Slack vs Discord vs Telegram in 2025: Which One Is Really Best for You?

Slack (launched in 2013) is primarily a workplace collaboration tool with structured channels and threads, and in 2024–25 reported roughly 65–79 million monthly active users and 42–47 million daily active users. Discord (launched in 2015) focuses on real-time voice and video for online communities, with a default server member limit of 250,000 (raiseable) and around 200 million monthly users in 2024, including servers that reach millions. Telegram (launched in 2013) blends private messaging with large broadcast channels and groups up to 200,000 members, plus unlimited channels and Topics in Groups introduced in 2023. Slack’s ecosystem is an integration powerhouse with
22 August 2025
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Cloud Storage Showdown 2025: Google Drive vs Dropbox vs OneDrive – Which Reigns Supreme?

Cloud Storage Showdown 2025: Google Drive vs Dropbox vs OneDrive – Which Reigns Supreme?

Google Drive offers 15 GB of free storage shared with Gmail and Google Photos, while OneDrive provides 5 GB and Dropbox 2 GB. Paid 2 TB plans typically run about $8.33 per month for Google Drive and OneDrive when billed annually, while Dropbox charges around $11.99 per month for 2 TB. Dropbox and OneDrive use block-level syncing to speed updates, while Google Drive does not use block-level diffing. Dropbox is the only one among the three with an official Linux desktop client, whereas Google Drive and OneDrive do not. OneDrive supports files up to 250 GB, Google Drive up to
22 August 2025
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AI Psychosis: When Chatbots Drive People Delusional – and AI Itself Acts “Crazy”

AI Psychosis: When Chatbots Drive People Delusional – and AI Itself Acts “Crazy”

BBC reported in early 2024 that a man in Scotland became so confused and delusional after using ChatGPT for life advice that he required professional help. A 35-year-old man in Florida became convinced an AI named “Juliet” was a real spirit and confronted police with a knife, leading to his death. Dr. Keith Sakata, a psychiatrist at UCSF, said he admitted a dozen people to hospital for psychosis after excessive time spent chatting with AI in the first part of 2025. Psychiatrists describe common AI-linked delusion themes including messianic missions, belief that the chatbot is a god, and romantic/attachment delusions.
21 August 2025
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Stock Market Today

Netflix stock price ends higher as DOJ widens review of Warner deal — what to watch next week

Netflix stock price ends higher as DOJ widens review of Warner deal — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
Netflix shares rose 1.6% to $82.20 Friday as the Justice Department expanded its antitrust review of the company’s planned $82.7 billion Warner Bros Discovery acquisition. A Wall Street Journal report said investigators are probing possible anti-competitive tactics. Director Reed Hastings reported a transfer of 241,944 shares via a family trust, according to an SEC filing.
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