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Six months after Lip-Bu Tan began his quest to turn around struggling Intel, the semiconductor giant has announced a major hardware upgrade. On Thursday, Intel unveiled a new processor, codenamed Panther Lake. This marks the next generation of the company’s Intel Core Ultra processor family and is the first chip built using Intel’s 18A semiconductor process. The processors are expected to begin shipping later this year and are being produced at Intel’s Chandler, Arizona, Fab 52 facility, which came online in 2025. “We are entering an exciting new era of computing, made possible by great leaps forward in semiconductor technology…
A group of cast members across Walt Disney World Resort were honored with the Walt Disney Legacy Award, the highest recognition a Disney Cast Member can receive.Fewer than one percent of Cast, Crew and Imagineers worldwide win this prestigious peer-nominated award which celebrates those who Dream, Create and Inspire. This year, six recipients join the list of past award winners who showcase the very qualities that define Walt Disney’s enduring legacy.Estaban Carrillo Carillo is the co-founder and director of the world-famous Mariachi Cobre group entertaining EPCOT guests with their beautiful music since its opening day October 1, 1982. He has…
Stoke Space announced a massive capital raise on Wednesday that might seem, at first glance, like just another bet on the commercial launch market. The details tell a different story. Led by billionaire Thomas Tull’s U.S. Innovative Technology (USIT), a fund that explicitly invests in technologies tied to national security, the $510 million Series D round underscores a larger shift in the launch industry. The old assumption was the winners of launch would be the companies that capture the lion’s share of commercial payloads. While there is still demand on the commercial side from private constellation developers and for emerging…
ATLANTA (AP) — The superintendent of Georgia’s third-largest school district has been indicted on federal charges alleging he ran a kickback scheme and stole money from his previous employer, a smaller school district in suburban Chicago.A federal grand jury in Chicago on Wednesday indicted Devon Horton, currently superintendent of the 93,000-student DeKalb County school district, on 17 counts including wire fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion. The indictment alleges the 48-year-old Horton issued more than $280,000 in contracts to three friends and received more than $80,000 in kickbacks from 2020 through 2023 while he was superintendent of the Evanston-Skokie school district.…
Next summer, U.S. air travelers will have nonstop access to an array of unique destinations in Europe, thanks to United Airlines’ latest route announcement. The carrier has announced nonstop service from its hub at New Jersey’s Newark International Airport (EWR) to four new cities in Europe, including destinations in Croatia, Scotland, Italy, and Spain, starting in summer 2026. Among the new destinations are Split, Croatia; Glasgow, Scotland; Santiago de Compostela, Spain; and Bari, Italy. United will be the only U.S. carrier to operate nonstop routes to all four cities. Service on the new routes will kick off on April 30, with thrice-weekly…
Sora’s rapid adoption drove a number of App Store scammers to try to get in on the act. Following the launch of OpenAI’s invite-only, video-generating mobile app last week, Apple’s App Store was flooded with fakes that also proclaimed themselves to be “Sora” or “Sora 2” — the latter a reference to the underlying new AI video model that was released alongside the mobile app. These apps somehow made it past Apple’s App Review process. They actually had public listings on the App Store, despite using a brand name that’s trademarked by OpenAI and fairly well known in the tech…
by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 12:20 PM ET, Thu October 9, 2025 Virgin Voyages is partnering with Google Cloud to use generative AI across the cruise line’s business.More than 50 specialized AI agents on Gemini Enterprise have now been deployed across the company, including “Email Ellie,” which supports hyperpesonalized marketing outreach. The agent was trained on Virgin Voyages’ cheeky, clever tone to help the brand expand its reach without losing authenticity.Since launching “Email Ellie,” the Virgin Voyages marketing team has spent 40 percent less time creating campaign copy. The AI-generated campaigns have also contributed to a 28 percent year-over-year increase…
Discord disclosed on Wednesday that around 70,000 users may have had sensitive data — like their government ID photos — exposed after hackers breached a third-party vendor that the platform uses for age-related appeals. A Discord user would make an “age-related appeal” if the platform suspects they may be underage, or if they live somewhere that requires identity verification for platform access. In those cases, users are asked to send a selfie holding their government ID and Discord username to the platform’s Trust & Safety team. Discord said it has contacted affected users, whose exposed data may also include their…
by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 12:35 PM ET, Thu October 9, 2025 Havila Voyages is gearing up for a cruise powered by liquified biogas.On November 26, the ship Havila Polaris will embark from near Hammerfest with 200 cubic meters of liquified biogas onboard. On November 30, the ship will arrive in Bergen and will take on another 150 cubic meters. From there, it will have enough biogas—in combination with its large battery parks—to sail a full, round trip voyage along the coast of Norway.The biogas will be supplied by Barents Naturgass and Molgas. It results from the breakdown of organic…
Reflection, a startup founded just last year by two former Google DeepMind researchers, has raised $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation, a whopping 15x leap from its $545 million valuation just seven months ago. The company, which originally focused on autonomous coding agents, is now positioning itself as both an open source alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek. The startup was launched in March 2024 by Misha Laskin, who led reward modeling for DeepMind’s Gemini project, and Ioannis Antonoglou, who co-created AlphaGo, the AI system that…