‘These new numbers are extremely concerning and I will say they’re unsustainable’: Texas faces questions over giving data centers over $1 billion in tax breaks

Texas Senator calls data center tax incentives “unsustainable” – numerous states begin to question missing tax revenue.
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Now that’s different – hackers use miniature SVG images to try and hide credit card stealer

Card skimmers were found in 1×1 pixel SVG images, apparently deployed through PolyShell.

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“A future-proof powerhouse for demanding tasks”: MSI’s RTX5090 creative laptop gets a $300 price cut — Stealth A16 packs workstation-level power

MSI’s Stealth A16 pairs a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with 64GB of DDR5 and a 2TB NVMe SSD for demanding creative projects and heavy multitasking.
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Closing the implementation gap in America’s cyber strategy

National defense shifts from soft power to hard power through aggressive public-private collaboration and AI.

UK NHS chief champions Palantir’s ‘outstanding results’ in England, pushes for deeper rollout despite growing staff concerns

NHS staff are concerned about Palantir access to database containing details on 1.5 million staff, but NHS Data Chief Ming Tang says her team needs to ‘maintain our focus’ in the face of staff concerns over Palantir’s repu…

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‘Go from prototype to launch in days rather than months’: Anthropic reveals Claude Managed Agents, promises to make agent building ’10x faster’

Anthropic has introduced its own centralized AI agent management platform, which can make building them 10 times faster.
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MSI’s RTX3050 AutoCAD-capable laptop gets a huge $200 price cut — 15.6 inch Thin A15 is under $700, but it won’t be this price for long

MSI’s Thin A15 pairs a Ryzen 5 7535HS processor with 16GB of DDR4 memory and a 512GB NVMe SSD for AutoCAD projects and technical multitasking.
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French email provider accidentally leaked 40 million records — L’Oreal, Renault, French government data exposed

Millions of email addresses exposed through an open Elasticsearch cluster.

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John Deere may have to pay out major $99 million settlement in landmark ‘right-to-repair’ case

John Deere will also have to make its software tools available to third parties for 10 years.

Tame your AI gremlins before the chaos becomes permanent

AI agents are moving fast, but without clear identity and control, they become chaos machines.