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Technology at The First Click is not a gadget page. Each weekday at 11 we choose three stories for the reader who has to decide something because of them: the chief technology officer sizing a refresh, the founder reading a funding round for what it says about the market, the security lead who needs to know which assumption just expired. The beats are AI and machine learning, enterprise software, cybersecurity, semiconductors, and startups and funding. Every story is summarised in our own words and links to the publisher who reported it. Beneath the day’s lead sits an editor’s note: why we chose it over the alternatives, and what to watch next. On Fridays the funniest of the week gathers in pubLOL, and every second Sunday a Ctrl+Shift column takes one technology question at length.
Every story we have kept in Technology, newest first. Headlines link to the publisher; the tags below narrow the list.
All · 197
AI & ML · 131
Computing · 4
Cybersecurity · 10
Data Centers · 2
Enterprise Software · 10
FinTech · 1
Funny · 3
Geopolitics · 1
Internet · 4
M&A · 5
Mobile Computing · 5
Semiconductors · 2
Software · 3
Space · 1
Startups & Funding · 13
Wearables · 2
2 stories in Data Centers
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AI · 30
Apple · 21
OpenAI · 20
Microsoft · 17
Anthropic · 12
Google · 11
NVIDIA · 10
Claude · 7
SpaceX · 5
Sam Altman · 4
Access · 4
iPhone Duo · 4
Hugging Face · 4
AI Agents · 4
Elon Musk · 4
Agentic AI · 3
Tim Cook · 3
John Ternus · 3
Android · 3
MacBook Pro · 3
Astra · 3
Dots · 2
iPhone Ultra · 2
Mark Gurman · 2
China · 2
Rust · 2
Duolingo · 2
iPhone · 2
Musk · 2
Siri · 2
Large Language Models (LLMs) · 2
AI Safety · 2
Richard Speed · 2
Monte Carlo · 2
Xiaomi · 2
Claude Code · 2
Claude Opus 5 · 2
Jev · 2
Amazon · 2
White House · 2
Privacy · 2
Bloomberg · 2
Microsoft 365 · 2
Tesla · 2
Excel · 2
Donald Trump · 2
Outlook · 2
Linux · 2
Mythos · 2
GitHub · 2
iPhone 18 Pro · 2
Exchange Online · 2
Claude Opus 5.5 · 2
Meta · 2
Premium · 2
Gemini · 2
Shopify · 2
AI Infrastructure · 2
iOS 27 · 2
Java · 2
Pokémon · 2
Microsoft 365 Copilot · 2
Gretel · 1
iPhone 18 Pro Max · 1
New England Journal of Medicine · 1
DoorDash · 1
Vizient · 1
YouTube · 1
0x50594d · 1
Fengqi You · 1
Joyce Qu · 1
GPUThor · 1
Agentic Commerce · 1
Run:ai · 1
App Store · 1
General Conference on Weights and Measures · 1
Starlink · 1
Klarna · 1
Starmind Project · 1
Tensor G6 · 1
Space Infrastructure · 1
Realme · 1
Vera Rubin NVL72 Rackscale System · 1
VoLTE Video Calls · 1
Git · 1
X · 1
Dementia · 1
Microsoft Graph · 1
Satya Nadella · 1
Computer Vision · 1
Steve Jobs · 1
Surface Laptop 7 · 1
Tim De Chant · 1
Surface Pro 11 · 1
TrueSource by Broadcom · 1
Koch Disruptive Technologies · 1
Tesla Model 3 · 1
Mastercard · 1
Visual Basic · 1
AI1 Satellite · 1
Swati Khandelwal · 1
Modem Firmware Vulnerabilities · 1
Axiomise · 1
Space Operations · 1
Cisco · 1
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare · 1
Mac · 1
fearless_simd · 1
Type 2 Diabetes · 1
GPT-6.1 Astra · 1
Columbia University · 1
Dementia · 1
Android Kernel Security · 1
Andrew Boyd · 1
ARK Investment Management · 1
Supply Chain Automation · 1
Enterprise AI Adoption · 1
DesiVocal · 1
Thomas Wolf · 1
IDC · 1
Nick Hodges · 1
Unisoc T7250 Chipset · 1
Unisoc · 1
Apple Maps · 1
Xpeng · 1
TypeSafe AI · 1
Nino Bilic · 1
BloombergNEF · 1
Michael Truell · 1
M6 · 1
Wallet · 1
Broadcom · 1
Guide · 1
Energy Infrastructure · 1
Coefficient Bio · 1
Mukesh Dialani · 1
X5 · 1
Model Y · 1
Intelligent Buildings · 1
Apple-1 · 1
Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study · 1
Maximilian Benassi · 1
Unix · 1
AWS · 1
Robotics · 1
Clippy · 1
Kristen Welker · 1
Yash K Saini · 1
University of Toronto · 1
José Luchsinger · 1
Kindle Paperwhite · 1
Data Centers · 1
Pixel 11 Pro XL · 1
Leapmotor · 1
Julien Chaumond · 1
iPhone 18 · 1
NASA · 1
ACP (Agent Commerce Protocol) · 1
GoPro · 1
Saachi Jain · 1
Greg Brockman · 1
Pixel Watch 5 · 1
Cribl · 1
BAD_GARBAGE.c · 1
Political Conflicts of Interest · 1
Keelung District Prosecutors Office · 1
Nomad · 1
Nothing · 1
WhatsApp agents · 1
Bill Gates · 1
UK AI Security Institute · 1
Pegatron · 1
FCC · 1
Baseband Security · 1
Agentic Payments · 1
Steve Wozniak · 1
Jordan Black · 1
Optical transceivers · 1
Schwab · 1
Services Australia · 1
Unisoc T606 Chipset · 1
Dave Bradley · 1
Supermicro · 1
Super El Niño · 1
Coinbase · 1
Gartner · 1
State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) · 1
Trump · 1
GitHub Copilot · 1
Cathie Wood · 1
Gatik AI Inc. · 1
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) · 1
Mark Patterson · 1
Pushkar Ranade · 1
Facial Recognition · 1
Microsoft Teams · 1
Carbon Emissions · 1
Model 3 · 1
MoM-BH*-1 · 1
Sarah Lee · 1
Matter · 1
Stablecoins · 1
GPUBreach · 1
Titan (analytics platform) · 1
Ravindra Aneja · 1
Tesla Model Y · 1
SoftBank · 1
Dutch Data Protection Authority · 1
Rajeev Badyal · 1
GPUHammer · 1
Texas A&M University · 1
NBA 2K27 · 1
Purdue University · 1
Cognitive Decline · 1
Kindle · 1
Raymond Chen · 1
Starman Optical · 1
Peatland Fires · 1
Accenture · 1
FCC · 1
Starlink · 1
Flipkart · 1
xAI · 1
Docker · 1
Midjourney · 1
Repository Downloads · 1
Dynamics 365 · 1
Machine-to-Machine Commerce · 1
China State Administration for Market Regulation · 1
Intact Private Capital · 1
Knowledge Graphs · 1
Last Day of Support (LDOS) · 1
Dwarkesh Patel · 1
Merlon Security · 1
China · 1
PyCharm · 1
Chrome · 1
Tyson Foods · 1
Jacob Coxon · 1
Koddi · 1
Oracle · 1
HiLight · 1
Superintelligence Debate · 1
Unisoc T612 Chipset · 1
Physical AI · 1
Sony · 1
Gatik · 1
NBC · 1
Andrew Lanxon · 1
Salesforce · 1
Nvidia Blackwell Architecture · 1
Tesla Model X · 1
ChatGPT · 1
Shell · 1
Forrester Research · 1
Insta360 · 1
VMware · 1
Online Safety Act · 1
Clem Delangue · 1
Salesforce Ventures · 1
Huawei · 1
Stripe · 1
AirPods Pro 2 · 1
Ashish Darbari · 1
NVIDIA Vera CPUs · 1
Europe · 1
MS Word · 1
IBM Ventures · 1
Ringg AI · 1
DIVD · 1
Synopsys · 1
Yaron Ilani · 1
Spotify · 1
Bonhams · 1
AI Governance · 1
Metformin · 1
NVIDIA Rubin GPUs · 1
Cui Dongshu · 1
Ringg AI agent platform · 1
Gururaj Saileshwar · 1
Meng Liu · 1
Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 1
Artemis Program · 1
Ofcom · 1
TSMC · 1
Gautam Narang · 1
Google Maps · 1
Pixel 11 Pro · 1
Delphi · 1
SB Energy · 1
Taiwan · 1
B2B Payments · 1
Siddharth Tripathi · 1
Roblox · 1
Normal Computing · 1
Davis Ingle · 1
Spring · 1
Tanzu · 1
ECC (Error-Correcting Code) · 1
GeForce RTX 50 · 1
GPT-5.6 Sol · 1
Lenovo · 1
Pull Requests · 1
Starman Holding · 1
Zammad · 1
Evan Hubinger · 1
marimo · 1
Utkarsh Shukla · 1
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) · 1
AI Safety · 1
Shaolei Ren · 1
The Register · 1
Chris S. Lin · 1
Dell · 1
AI-Assisted Data Analysis · 1
Adversarial Design · 1
Ollama · 1
AI shopping agents · 1
Anysphere · 1
Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) · 1
Groww · 1
Motorola · 1
Intel · 1
Stripe MPP · 1
Kindle Colorsoft · 1
Samsung · 1
Aditya Rajeev · 1
Pixel · 1
Taiwan Customs · 1
NASA Gateway Lunar Space Station · 1
Kali Charan Vemuru · 1
Artificial Intelligence (AI) · 1
Spreadsheet Automation · 1
Denial of Service (DoS) · 1
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) · 1
Dropbox · 1
Kroger · 1
Peak XV Partners · 1
Diane Davis · 1
Leon Adato · 1
Dell 14s · 1
Edge Infrastructure · 1
Technology Procurement · 1
X6 · 1
Exchange Web Services · 1
Cathie Wood · 1
Tesla Model S · 1
Memory Bit-Flipping Attacks · 1
Reddit · 1
Starship Launch System · 1
UK Small Business Commissioner · 1
Nvidia RTX A6000 · 1
Databricks · 1
Super Micro Computer · 1
Project Kuiper · 1
Ant International · 1
YouTube · 1
InformationWeek · 1
Type 2 Diabetes · 1
Indonesia · 1
HubSpot · 1
Walmart · 1
Spigen · 1
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) · 1
Victorian Agency for Health Information · 1
Coinbase x402 · 1
P2 Threat Model Generator · 1
PolicyBazaar · 1
Nvidia RTX A4000 · 1
Hyperscale Computing · 1
Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) · 1
Dataverse · 1
Deloitte · 1
Boomi · 1
Thomas Claburn · 1
Doug Bernauer · 1
Microsoft Office · 1
SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) · 1
Kumo · 1
Messages (iMessage) · 1
Mozaik · 1
Exchange Server · 1
PP-OCRv6 · 1
Cred · 1
Texttile · 1
Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) · 1
Slack · 1
AI Infrastructure Security · 1
ChatGPT Space · 1
Chuck Robbins · 1
Hidden Door Handles · 1
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) · 1
Xi Jinping · 1
Xe3P Architecture · 1
Anna Gomez · 1
libp2p · 1
Autonomous Vehicles (AV) · 1
Context Graph · 1
LinkedIn · 1
Marvin Minsky · 1
Practo · 1
RENOX · 1
Space Traffic Control · 1
Personal Finance · 1
Nvidia RTX A5000 · 1
GeForce Now · 1
B300 AI Servers · 1
South Korea · 1
GPT-6 Sol · 1
Jakub Oleksy · 1
Nvidia RTX A4500 · 1
DevOps Reliability · 1
National Cyber Security Centre · 1
Apple Music · 1
Millennium Management · 1
Vladimir Fedorov · 1
Netflix · 1
Industrial Automation · 1
Faav · 1
MacBook Neo · 1
Jason Kwon · 1
MoonPay · 1
GPT-6 Astra · 1
RabbitMQ · 1
DLSS 5 · 1
PepsiCo · 1
U.S. Export Control Authorities · 1
Alphabet · 1
Burton Goods · 1
EU · 1
Cursor · 1
VMware Site Recovery Manager · 1
Qatar Investment Authority · 1
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How much of a problem is AI’s water use?
AI’s water consumption is a growing concern, but its impact depends heavily on location and cooling technology. Data centers use relatively little water nationally, yet can significantly strain supplies in drought-prone regions.
Editor's noteHow much water AI uses depends almost entirely on where the data centre sits and how it is cooled, and that is why it led Technology: nationally the number is small, in the wrong county it is everything. An average hides a drought. If you site compute or buy it, the water question is a location question, answered by postcode.
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