June 27, 2025

The Download: how to clean up AI data centers, and weight-loss drugs’ side effects

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This battery recycling company is now cleaning up AI data centers In a sandy industrial lot outside Reno, Nevada, rows of battery packs that once propelled electric vehicles are now powering a small…

Developing climate solutions with green software

December 18, 2023
After years of committing to sustainable practices in his personal life from recycling to using cloth-based diapers, Asim Hussain, currently the director of green software and ecosystems at Intel, began to ask questions about the practices in his work: software development. Developers often asked if their software was secure enough, fast enough, or cost-effective enough…

Mr. Cooper hackers stole personal data on 14 million customers

December 18, 2023

Hackers stole the sensitive personal information of more than 14.6 million Mr. Cooper customers, the mortgage and loan giant has confirmed. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office, Mr. Cooper said the hackers stole customer names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, as well as customer Social Security numbers and bank account numbers. Mr. […]

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Apple Watch Series 9 sales to be halted over patent dispute

December 18, 2023

Apple will be halting sales of its Series 9 smartwatch, TechCrunch has confirmed. The news, shared by 9to5Mac, follows an October ruling by the International Trade Commission (ITC), owing to a patent dispute with California-based med tech firm, Masimo. The dispute stems from the blood sensor monitor on the latest flagship smart Watch. The move […]

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ServiceNow dives deeper into task mining with latest acquisition

December 18, 2023

ServiceNow announced this morning that it was acquiring Czech Republic task mining company UltimateSuite, giving the company a new way to capture and understand how work flows through a business. The companies did not reveal the price, but it was a 3-year old startup that had raised €768,000 (approximately $839,000), so likely not a huge […]

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MongoDB investigating security incident that exposed data about customer accounts

December 18, 2023

Database management giant MongoDB says it’s investigating a security incident that has resulted in the exposure of some information about customers. The New York-based MongoDB helps more than 46,000 companies, including Adobe, eBay, Verizon, and the U.K.’s Department for Work and Pensions, manage their databases and vast stores of data, according to its website. The […]

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The Download: a microbiome gold rush, and Eric Schmidt’s election misinformation plan

December 18, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The hunter-gatherer groups at the heart of a microbiome gold rush Over the last couple of decades, scientists have come to realize just how important the microbes that crawl all over us are…

Adobe and Figma end $20B acquisition plans after regulatory headwinds in Europe

December 18, 2023

Adobe’s $20 billion mega-bid to buy rival Figma is now officially dead, after the companies said today that regulatory pushback in Europe had caused them to put an end to the acquisition plans. First announced in September last year, the deal was always going to attract regulatory scrutiny due to the size of the transaction […]

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