DefenseNews

UK, Netherlands, Finland in talks to set up defense investment bank

PARIS — The United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland, together with several other countries, are in talks to set up a financial institution that would provide funding for joint multi-year defense projects, similar to the European Investment Bank but focused on defense. The participating countries would provide capital to the institution that could serve as a guarantee for issuing bonds, the…
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ComputersNews

The first 16TB M.2 SSD on Amazon costs as much as a car

Do you need a lot of storage? Well, then, you’re going to have to pay for it—and you’ll be paying a lot more than you would have a year ago, as “AI” data centers gobble up a bigger and bigger share of the industry’s output of memory and storage. But even the most lavish among us would probably wince at dropping nearly $16,000 USD on an M.2 drive, even if it does have a capacity of 16…
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GamingNews

Arc Raiders, The Finals Dev Embark Studios Parts Ways With Co-founder Following Misconduct Allegations

Embark Studios, the dev behind Arc Raiders and The Finals has “mutually agreed to part ways” with co-founder and CCO Rob Runesson following public allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct with a popular The Finals streamer, as well as an external legal investigation that Embark claims “did not substantiate” the allegations. These allegations, shared by an anonymous…
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CryptoNews

World and Coinbase Debut Developer Toolkit to Solve the AI Agent ‘Trust Gap’

World has launched the beta version of a developer toolkit that enables AI agents to provide cryptographic proof of human identity through World ID. Proof of Personhood for the AI Economy World (formerly Worldcoin) has the beta launch of Agentkit, a developer toolkit designed to bring cryptographic proof of human identity to the growing field of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Developed in…
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