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Cloudflare partners with major browsers to develop privacy protocol that could reshape how the web handles bot traffic
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (347+ words) The new PACT protocol, developed with Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Shopify, aims to kill CAPTCHAs and tracking by verifying human users through anonymous tokens Cloudflare just convinced the makers of Chrome, Firefox, and Edge to help it build a new…...
Data center construction spending in US surpasses airports, ports, and transit combined
3+ hour, 43+ min ago (253+ words) The US is now spending more on buildings that think than buildings that move people, marking a historic shift in where capital flows For the first time in recorded history, the US is pouring more money into data centers than…...
Amazon Web Services raises GPU cloud pricing to $14. 04 per hour starting July 1
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (536+ words) AWS hikes machine learning GPU instance costs by 20%, the second price increase this year, as demand for AI training infrastructure continues to outstrip supply Cloud computing prices are supposed to go down over time. That was the unwritten rule for…...
Space X and Charter discuss mobile phone partnership in the US
22+ hour, 6+ min ago (277+ words) The satellite giant's talks with America's largest cable operator signal a new front in the battle for wireless dominance Space X and Charter Communications are in discussions about a partnership to offer consumer mobile phone service, a move that would…...
Manadia global launch: a trusted AI prediction ecosystem enters the era of value internet
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (606+ words) However, a critical question is being repeatedly raised across the industry: when AI begins to create value, who records that value? Who verifies it? And who distributes it? Most current AI systems remain at the stage of "content generation" and…...
Proof launches x401, an open protocol for verifying who's actually behind AI agents
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (336+ words) The new standard uses cryptographic credentials to ensure AI agents act only with verified human authorization, drawing contributions from Circle, Open AI, Google, and Okta Here's a question that's about to define the next era of the internet: when an…...
Solana Mobile d App Store sees 96 new apps launched in a single week
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (235+ words) The decentralized app marketplace now hosts 1, 561 applications as Solana's mobile strategy gains momentum Solana Mobile's d App Store added 96 new applications in the span of a single week, pushing total listings to 1, 561. The store had roughly 700 apps back in March…...
FCC tightens submarine cable rules, fast-tracks approvals for US firms
2+ day, 29+ min ago (451+ words) New regulations would require first-ever licenses for terminal equipment operators while systematically excluding Chinese vendors like Huawei and ZTE The Federal Communications Commission just put submarine cables, the actual physical backbone of the global internet, under a regulatory microscope. The…...
More than 300 US governments have banned or limited data center development since 2023
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (424+ words) Local opposition has blocked or delayed $64 billion in data center projects, creating a growing headache for crypto miners and AI infrastructure builders alike The tech industry's insatiable appetite for data centers has run headfirst into a wall of local government…...
Apple i Phone sales drop 19% in China as Huawei eats into market share, UBS estimates
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (301+ words) Apple's slice of the Chinese smartphone market shrank from 16% to roughly 11% in May, according to UBS analysis of government data Apple just had a rough month in the world's largest smartphone market. UBS estimates that i Phone sell-in figures for…...