Microchip’s PAC1761 and PAC1861 power monitors track accumulated energy in 48 V systems
Microchip Technology has introduced the PAC1761 and PAC1861 families of digital power monitors for 48 V power architectures. Besides reading instantaneous voltage and current, the devices accumulate power measurements over time, which Microchip says lets a system react to its energy use as it happens. The company lists automotive, AI/dataContinue Reading
Why the Senate rejected a bill aimed at fairly assigning data center power costs
The Ratepayer Protection Act was voted down 57-43, just a few votes shy of reaching the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome the filibuster. Continue Reading
Meta’s AI agent is very cute — will that distract from its security risks?
Muse unveiled a consumer-focused AI app with a cute mascot, poised to become the most popular AI agent. What did we learn from its first month?Continue Reading
‘Let workers have a say’: Protesters target OpenAI conference
Dozens of activists protested outside OpenAI’s developer conference in San Francisco, calling on the company to end its contracts with the US military and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and demanding greater regulation of AI.Continue Reading
Israel says pilot tried to crash Tel-Aviv bound plane during cockpit fight, before safe emergency landing
FlyDubai flight FZ1073 to Israel made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia as passengers describe harrowing scenes of a fight between the pilots, with one of them stabbed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a pilot “attempted to crash the plane.”Continue Reading
Russia just accidentally crashed its first Tu-95 bomber in 11 years. Its missiles will keep striking Ukraine anyway
A Russian Tu-95 bomber crashed on takeoff in Russia’s Far East on Tuesday, the type’s first crash in 11 years It’s potentially the 11th Tu-95 the Russians have lost in the current wider war, and they can’t build more But Russia still has enough bombers to keep up its missileContinue Reading
Robots won’t replace armored vehicles, says Ukrainian company that builds both. It reveals one job they can’t do
Robots will not replace armored vehicles on the battlefield, says a company that builds both. Ground robots are a new tool that lets Ukraine distribute risk more smartly, but they cannot do everything a crewed armored vehicle can, above all pulling wounded soldiers out under fire, says Ukr Armo Tech’sContinue Reading
The Tech Threat to Women’s Privacy
Growing surveillance of women’s intimate health data puts them at risk., Read MoreContinue Reading
Healing From the Genocide I Left Behind
I escaped the dangers in Gaza, but I could not escape the pain I experienced there., Read MoreContinue Reading
Fossil Fuel Trade Group Chief Says Approving Rosebank and Jackdaw Would be ‘Climate Leadership’
LIVERPOOL – The head of the UK’s largest oil and gas trade group has claimed that two proposed North Sea fossil fuel projects should go ahead to show “climate leadership” and help cut emissions to net zero. David Whitehouse is the chief executive of Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), formerly OilContinue Reading
AI Was Supposed to Cut Emissions. Instead, Fossil Fuel Companies Are Using It to Find More Oil and Gas.
When United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned world leaders last week in his UN address about the unchecked power of both Big Oil and artificial intelligence, he treated them as two of the defining challenges facing governments. The fossil fuel industry is turning to AI to map seabeds , identifyContinue Reading
Democrats Abandon Environmental Laws to Advance Pro-Fossil Fuel ‘Permitting Reform’
Sens. Martin Heinrich and Sheldon Whitehouse today released a top-line summary of an agreement with Sen. Shelly Moore Capito and Rep. Bruce Westerman to advance so-called “permitting reform.”The legislative package, cynically titled the “Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026,” would provide massive long-term structural advantages to the fossilContinue Reading
US Supreme Court clears way for Christa Pike’s execution in Tennessee
Top court’s decision overturns last-minute stay that stalled Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years., Top court’s decision overturns last-minute stay that had stalled Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years. The United States Supreme Court has cleared the way for the state of Tennessee toContinue Reading