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You can grab three months of Game Pass Ultimate for under $20 per month

The price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has fluctuated between $20 and $30 per month over the last year, but you can get three months of the top plan for around $19 per month. At Newegg , using the coupon code BNWF2656 at checkout knocks $11 off the usual cost of a three-month subscription.

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The future of AI hinges on… Jensen Huang’s sex life?

I would prefer that these people’s sex lives were none of my business but I guess we have to talk about Jensen Huang and the National Security Incident. Who could have guessed that the guy who was out here signing titties might not have great judgment about how to behave around women ?

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Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines

AI’s power crunch has become so acute that Anthropic, a company that has generally avoided buying physical infrastructure, is spending $3.4 billion on natural gas turbines. The AI company, which is planning to go public this year, is buying Caterpillar generators that equipment supplier OnePWR had originally ordered, according to a Financial Times report .

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Here are the shipping and return policies for all the big-name retailers

With the holidays quickly approaching, everyone will soon be on the hunt for gifts and the fastest way to get them. Thankfully, many retailers offer generous shipping policies, with some even providing free two-day shipping or same-day delivery if you’re willing to pay a little extra.

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Here are the price-matching policies for Best Buy, Walmart, and others

Nothing is more frustrating than buying a new pair of headphones or an OLED TV, only to find out you could have gotten it cheaper somewhere else a few days or weeks later. That’s why, to keep customers happy and prevent them from shopping elsewhere, some retailers offer price-matching policies that promise to match a lower price found elsewhere.

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How to shop like a pro during Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Despite Amazon and other retailers filling the summer and fall months with more sales than ever before, Black Friday and Cyber Monday remain the biggest shopping days of the year. And, in recent years, the sale periods have started earlier, giving you more time to take advantage of the deals.

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Bella Caledonia Statement on Artificial Intelligence

As a publisher and a space for creativity, we should be clear that we are in total opposition to Artificial Intelligence and its effect on human creativity and the natural environment. We explicitly refuse to accept content or articles written or generated in full or in part by AI or LLMs.

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There’s no slowing down media’s pivot-to-video 2.0

This is The Stepback , a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the pressures of creating content for the internet, follow Mia Sato .

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How AI created a cybersecurity ‘dark age’

Today, I’m talking with Alex Stamos, chief security officer at Cognition and longtime cybersecurity expert, about what a mess cybersecurity is right now. This episode is part one of a special series looking at AI in real life.

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Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google

Crusoe, an eight-year-old, Denver-based data center developer recently valued at $30.9 billion , confirmed Friday it has sold an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google. Google, which Crusoe had tried and failed to land as a customer for the project, is taking over the development after reportedly raising concerns about its cost…

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Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web

Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access, potentially allowing outsiders to launch cyberattacks against unsuspecting targets. The hacking software, called Artex, is an open source autonomous penetration testing tool, meaning software that automatically…

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Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam

Protesters have broken into a construction site of a new Microsoft data center in Amsterdam this morning. Members of the Geef Tegengas group helped organize the protest against the construction of three 85-meter data center towers in the outskirts of Amsterdam.

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Dept of Justice reportedly probes Nvidia over $13 billion Hugging Face AI platform acquisition - concerns raised over competition in AI and pressure on customers | Tom's Hardware

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Nvidia is reportedly facing questions from the United States Department of Justice over whether its purchase of Hugging Face will have an impact on competition in the growing AI space. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face in September, paying almost $13 billion.

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Nintendo says it’s not planning another Switch 2 price hike

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said during the company’s latest earnings call that it’s “not considering additional changes” to the Switch 2’s price, Reuters reports. The Switch 2 got a $50 price hike earlier this year, bringing its starting price up to $499.

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Where is Windows 12?

While I wasn’t expecting Microsoft to announce Windows 12 during its RTX Spark launch event last month, more than a few people were hoping to see something truly new . Between the growing frustration with Windows 11 and the muted response to Copilot Plus PCs, it’s starting to feel like Microsoft needs to go bigger with its desktop OS.

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Xbox overhauls its PC, web, and cloud apps with a faster design

Microsoft is unveiling a new Xbox PC app that launches “up to 60 percent faster” than before, with an overhauled design to match new updates to Xbox Cloud Gaming on the web and smart TVs. Xbox Insiders will be able to start testing the updated Xbox PC app today, and the updated Xbox Cloud Gaming interface will start rolling out over the next few weeks.

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Amazon tells engineers to stop ‘tokenmaxxing’ to look productive - says AI will be central to software development, but usage is not the goal, new guidelines claim | Tom's Hardware

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Amazon wants its engineers to quit chasing token counts, warning that heavy AI usage does not automatically mean better work. In updated engineering guidelines published on October 27, the company laid out how developers and managers should gauge AI’s real impact — and…

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Big Tech’s big AI buildout will not end until someone stops it

After four of the biggest competitors in the AI race held quarterly earnings calls late last month, two things are clear: Big Tech is not done spending record amounts on the AI data center buildout, and the AI data center buildout is not any closer to yielding its promised returns. A third thing is also starting to become clear — Big Tech will not be…

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It's Swapping Season

← AI News AI News It's Swapping Season November 4, 2026 — OpenAI’s Linux kernel security work, Kimi K3.1 Pro’s open weights, and Ricursive’s Ripple-65B. As much as there are headlines about changing sides all over the timeline today, there have been major moves in AI as well: OpenAI's Autonomous Cyber Pipeline Patches 948 Linux Kernel Privilege-Escalation…

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Xbox previews two new ways to control cloud games

I revealed yesterday that the new Xbox Nano controller supports a Wi-Fi connection directly to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and now Microsoft is making it official today. Two new Xbox previews will let players try out using a phone as a controller on smart TVs, as well as cloud connect on the Xbox Nano to connect directly to cloud servers.

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The fight for tech accountability starts now

When Donald Trump began his second term as president, Silicon Valley gratefully embraced moral nihilism. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and more collectively donated millions to Trump’s inauguration fund to ensure his favor in a new era of gangster tech regulation .

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Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop

People, including on this staff, keep asking me with varying degrees of excitement or trepidation when the AI bubble will burst. I’ll tell you what I tell them: If I knew that, I would make a life-changing bet on the market, levered up as far as I could, and then, after I made my money, go retire on a beach somewhere.

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Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows

Stuck in years-long lines for grid connections and new turbines, some AI data centers are making their own electricity with converted jet engines, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The engines, pulled from retired aircraft and rebuilt to burn natural gas, aren’t anyone’s idea of a permanent power plant.

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Ted Schlein's Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds amid AI-driven cybersecurity boom

Ballistic Ventures, the cybersecurity-focused venture capital firm co-founded by former Kleiner Perkins partner Ted Schlein (pictured above, second from the right), is seeking to raise $490 million across two new funds, TechCrunch has learned through regulatory filings. The San Francisco-based VC firm filed with the U.S.

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