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The Verge Tech

Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year

Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon's own employees pushed for, Amazon shared how much water its data centers use, reportedly for the first time. With concerns about water consumption and energy use a focus of new AI data center construction debates, Amazon says its global data center operations consumed 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025 at a rate of 0.12 liters per kilowatt-hour of electricity, dropping by two percent from its 2024 total even as i

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The Verge Tech

The bill that would let Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr is here

Under a new bipartisan bill, Americans could sue for damages if a government official illegally tries to coerce a social media, AI, or broadcasting company to remove their post - regardless of whether the platform actually does it. Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the JAWBONE Act on Thursday, which, in addition to letting individuals sue for these kinds of damages, would create new transparency requirements for government communications with s

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The Verge Tech

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

Nothing is more frustrating than buying a new pair of headphones, an OLED TV, or a laptop just to find out that you could have gotten it for cheaper somewhere else just a few days or weeks later. That’s why, in order to keep customers happy and prevent them from shopping elsewhere, some retailers offer price-matching policies in which they promise to match a lower price found elsewhere. That kind of information comes in handy no matter the time of year, but it’s especially helpful during shoppin

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HashiCorp Blog

Terraform MCP server is now generally available

Terraform MCP server enables AI assistants like GitHub Copilot, IBM Bob, Claude Code  etc. to interact with Terraform through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). By connecting AI to your infrastructure workflows, teams reduce manual effort, eliminate context switching between tools, and accelerate delivery without compromising security. Today, we're announcing the general availability of Terraform MCP server, now available for both HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise. This represents a mileston

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DZone

From "Vibe Coding" to Production: Setting Up an Evals Loop for Claude Agents

"Vibe coding" tweaking a prompt, running it once, and seeing if it looks okay does not scale for enterprise software. Here is how to build a rigorous verification pipeline to audit, bench, and evaluate your Claude agent's behavior over time. If you are building autonomous agents with the Claude API, you have likely experienced the trap of "vibe coding." It usually goes like this: you write a prompt, give Claude access to a tool, run a single test execution in your terminal, and watch it succeed.

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AWS Compute Blog

Build RAG-powered AI solutions at the edge with AWS Local Zones and Outposts

Organizations in regulated industries or with strict information security requirements are increasingly looking to use generative AI. However, they often face a dilemma: how to utilize powerful models while keeping data strictly on-premises or within specific geographic boundaries. The solution lies in deploying self-managed Small Language Models (SLMs) on premises with AWS Outposts or in […]

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The Hacker News

The Gentlemen Ransomware Claims 478 Victims, Can Spread Like a Worm

A new analysis of The Gentlemen operation has revealed that the financially motivated threat group initially operated as an affiliate responsible for conducting double extortion attacks, while leveraging resources from various ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) schemes like LockBit (aka Tenacious Mantis), Qilin (aka Pestilent Mantis), and Medusa (aka Venomous Mantis). According to a detailed report

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