Huda brought some spice to season 7 of ‘Love Island USA.’ After her breakup from Chris Seeley, find out her relationship status here.
Huda brought some spice to season 7 of ‘Love Island USA.’ After her breakup from Chris Seeley, find out her relationship status here.
In a world of flashy limited-edition video game consoles, the 30th anniversary PS5 hardware Sony released in September 2024 came off as remarkably refined, which might have been why it was so hard to actually buy. If you missed that original drop, you’ll have another chance to order it, according to a Facebook post on the official PlayStation Facebook page. Sony is doing a limited restock of the 30th Anniversary Limited Edition DualSense controller on September 5, and you’ll be able to preorder one for yourself next week.
Preorders start on July 21 at 10AM ET / 7AM PT for PlayStation Plus subscribers and July 23 at 10AM ET / 7AM PT for the general public. The controller will have to be ordered directly through the PlayStation Store — Sony hasn’t said if the restock will extend to other online marketplaces like Amazon or Best Buy. Based on what the company has shared, only the DualSense controller will be restocked in the US, but the PlayStation Store in the UK and Canada will also have restocks of the 30th Anniversary Limited Edition PlayStation 5 Console and the PS Portal, as well.
Sony’s 30th Anniversary Limited Edition hardware features the classic PS1 gray, with touches of color to represent the formerly cheery PlayStation logo and face buttons. On the DualSense in particular, the old-school red, green, yellow and blue PlayStation logo replaces the typical black one found on other PS5 controllers.
Limiting one round of preorders to PS Plus subscribers should hopefully make it easier to purchase the DualSense, something Sony didn’t bother to do when it first dropped the limited edition hardware last year. Managing online sales and avoiding scalpers has prompted some interesting strategies as of late. With the launch of the Switch 2, for example, Nintendo limited preorders of its new console to customers with a Nintendo Online account that was at least 12 months old and had at least 50 hours of total playtime logged.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playstation/the-30th-anniversary-ps5-controller-will-be-available-again-for-a-limited-time-195731358.html?src=rss
Anthropic’s Claude can now create and edit designs with visual studio Canva from within an AI chat. This integration is powered by a Canva server that uses Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Claude can use Canvas’s tools to generate a design or search for materials within a user’s Canva workspace. This functionality requires a paid subscription to Claude, and access also varies based on the user’s Canva plan.
Multiple artificial intelligence platforms have started using MCP to connect their models to applications. Anthropic unveiled its MCP in November, and earlier this month, it announced that Wiley and Panopto had created MCP servers to connect to Claude.
In addition, Anthropic now has a directory of all the platforms that use its MCP tech. From that directory, users can discover and access the remote services and local apps that connect to Claude. Subscriptions are required for the remote connectors. It seems likely that the company will continue to expand its roster of supported services and get its chatbot active in more third-party platforms.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/claude-ai-now-integrates-with-canva-201808571.html?src=rss
Meta is going after creators who rip off other users’ content as part of a broader effort to fix Facebook’s feed. In its latest update, the company laid out new steps it’s taking to penalize accounts that lift work from others.
In a blog post for creators, Meta says that accounts that “repeatedly” and “improperly” reuse other accounts’ text posts, photos or videos will have their pages demonetized “for a period of time.” Meta willa also throttle all of their posts, not just the ones with the offending content. The company notes that the change is meant to target “repeated reposting of content from other creators without permission or meaningful enhancements” and not content like reaction videos.
Meta has previously taken similar steps to reward original content on Instagram, where the company has actively replaced reposted Reels with the original clip. The company now says it’s looking into a similar move on Facebook by adding a link to the original video when it detects a duplicate.
The latest crackdown comes as Meta says it’s trying to reduce the amount of spammy and other undesirable posts in Facebook’s feed. Earlier this year, the company said it would demonetize creators who share posts with spammy captions and go after creators that manipulate engagement on the platform. In its newest update, Meta shared that since the start of the year it penalized more than 500,000 accounts that engaged in such tactics, “applying measures ranging from demoting their comments and reducing the distribution of their content to preventing these accounts from monetizing.” The company has also removed more than 10 million profiles it says impersonated “large content producers.”
Additionally, Meta is rolling out new in-app insights it says can help realtors understand issues affecting their reach or monetization status. The new dashboard will highlight potential problems, like unoriginal content or spammy captions, as well as issues affecting monetization.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-says-its-cracking-down-on-facebook-creators-who-steal-content-203713569.html?src=rss
By: Hollywood Magazine
By: Hollywood Magazine
The US Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is handing out millions of dollars to the leading AI companies to develop military applications. Each of these “awards” are worth up to $200 million, with Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI on the receiving end.
The agency notes that this money will be used to “develop agentic AI workflows across a variety of mission areas.” In other words, this is primarily for military applications. A press release says the move will “broaden” the Department of Defense’s use of AI to “address critical national security needs.”
🚨 CDAO is excited to announce contract awards to leading U.S. frontier AI companies – Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI – to address critical national security challenges. Read more: https://t.co/mLDDQgcAEK pic.twitter.com/dkLBQRWXFm
— DOD Chief Digital & AI Office (@DODCDAO) July 14, 2025
“The adoption of AI is transforming the department’s ability to support our warfighters and maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries,” said Chief Digital and AI Officer Dr. Doug Matty. He went on to say that this will “accelerate the use of advanced AI” in the “warfighting domain.” As part of this effort, CDAO will be providing access to the latest generative AI models to “Combatant Commands, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff.”
For the uninitiated, CDAO is an arm of the Department of Defense that was created in 2022. The stated mission is to accelerate the department’s “adoption of data, analytics and artificial intelligence from the boardroom to the battlefield.”
It’s worth noting that xAI is one of the companies receiving government largesse. This news comes on the same day the company started offering a version of Grok for federal use. It comes less than a week after Grok went totally off the rails and started going off on anti-semitic tirades, referring to itself as “MechaHitler.”
It’s also a fascinating development because the relationship between xAI CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump has soured in recent months. Trump has been threatening to cut Musk’s companies off from government subsidies, but it looks like that threat has no teeth given today’s announcement.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/us-government-is-giving-leading-ai-companies-a-bunch-of-cash-for-military-applications-185347762.html?src=rss
Renowned across continents for her precision, artistry, and innovative approach to facial aesthetics, Narjis Al Saedy has solidified her place as one of the world’s most sought-after aesthetic injectors. Often referred to as the Best Injector in the industry, her name has become synonymous with elegance, subtle transformation, and results that speak for themselves. Operating…
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Bryan finished season 7 of ‘Love Island USA’ with Amaya Espinal! Now that the happy couple are back in the real world, learn all about Bryan here.
Bryan finished season 7 of ‘Love Island USA’ with Amaya Espinal! Now that the happy couple are back in the real world, learn all about Bryan here.
Meta is building several gigawatt-sized data centers to power AI, as reported by Bloomberg. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will spend “hundreds of billions of dollars” to accomplish this feat, with an aim of creating “superintelligence.”
The term typically refers to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which describes AI systems that boast human-level intelligence across multiple domains. This is something of a holy grail for Silicon Valley tech types.
The first center is called Prometheus and it comes online next year. It’s being built in Ohio. Next up, there’s a data center called Hyperion that’s almost the size of Manhattan. This one should “be able to scale up to 5GW over several years.” Some of these campuses will be among the largest in the world, as most data centers can only generate hundreds of megawatts of capacity.
Meta has also been staffing up its Superintelligence Labs team, recruiting folks from OpenAI, Google’s DeepMind and others. Scale AI’s co-founder Alexandr Wang is heading up this effort.
However, these giant data centers do not exist in a vacuum. The complexes typically brush up against local communities. The centers are not only power hogs, but also water hogs. The New York Times just published a report on how Meta data centers impact local water supplies.
There’s a data center east of Atlanta that has damaged local wells and caused municipal water prices to soar, which could lead to a shortage and rationing by 2030. The price of water in the region is set to increase by 33 percent in the next two years.
Typical data centers guzzle around 500,000 gallons of water each day, but these forthcoming AI-centric complexes will likely be even thirstier. The new centers could require millions of gallons per day, according to water permit applications reviewed by The New York Times. Mike Hopkins, the executive director of the Newton County Water and Sewerage Authority, says that applications are coming in with requests for up to six millions of water per day, which is more than the county’s entire daily usage.
“What the data centers don’t understand is that they’re taking up the community wealth,” he said. “We just don’t have the water.”
We’re going to have to decide soon how to regulate the growing data center industry which pose several issues for desert communities. “They consume large amounts of electricity and water 24 hours per day, seven days a week.” https://t.co/sTq97kFADL
— Arizona Green Party 🌻 (@AZGreenParty) July 10, 2025
This same worrying story is playing out across the country. Data center hot spots in Texas, Arizona, Louisiana and Colorado are also taxing local water reserves. For instance, some Phoenix homebuilders have been forced to pause new constructions due to droughts exacerbated by these data centers.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/meta-announces-huge-new-data-centers-but-they-could-gobble-up-millions-of-gallons-of-water-per-day-174000478.html?src=rss
If you’ve been hunting high and low for a Nintendo Switch 2, then get ready to visit your local Best Buy on July 17. The electronics retailer will be restocking the handheld in all of its stores to coincide with the release of Donkey Kong Bananza, the first 3D Donkey Kong game in almost 30 years.
The Nintendo Switch 2 has been one of the hottest launches of the summer, and it remains in short supply due to high demand. Even the Amazon listing for the Switch 2 is available only by invitation, would-be buyers have to put in a request. This Best Buy event feels like the most substantial restock since the launch of the console last month.
The Switch 2 has received a warm reception thanks to its larger 7.9-inch screen with HDR and a more polished design. The console also features significantly better performance than the first generation — so much so that Cyberpunk 2077 was released for the Switch 2.
Details on whether stand-alone consoles, the Mario Kart World bundle or package deals with Donkey Kong Bananza will be available in Best Buy stores have not been shared. One thing we do know, however, is that Best Buy says that stock will be “limited,” so you’ll probably want to show up before your store opens.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/best-buy-is-restocking-the-nintendo-switch-2-on-july-17-174637818.html?src=rss
