Supreme Court allows a Biden administration rule aimed at limiting coal-fired power plant pollution to remain in effect

TechCrunch ​​Amazon jumps on nuclear power bandwagon by investing in X-Energy and promising small reactors Amazon today became the latest big tech company to throw its weight behind nuclear power, joining Microsoft and Google, which both previously announced long-term promises to buy nuclear power from startups to power their data centers. The company revealed three deals, including an investment in startup X-Energy and two development agreements that aim to add around 300 megawatts worth of capacity in both the Pacific Northwest and Virginia, two data center hotspots. The two development deals outline the construction of small modular reactors (SMR), which generate a fraction of the power produced by contemporary nuclear power plants but which proponents say will be faster and cheaper to build.

Fisker owners get help with recall repairs as court approves liquidation plan Fisker's plan to liquidate its assets has been accepted by the bankruptcy court in Delaware. Fisker has also reached a deal with American Lease, the buyer of its remaining EV fleet, to resolve a problem regarding the cloud-hosted data that is required to operate the vehicles. The court's acceptance of the plan brings the four-month process of Fisker's bankruptcy mostly to a close.

The FTC makes it easier to cancel subscriptions like streaming services, memberships and Prime First put forth for comment last year, the rule applies to any automatically renewing subscription, ranging from streaming services to gym memberships and payments for plans like Amazon Prime. Under the rule, businesses — including those offering free trials that charge if you don't cancel in time — can't force customers to end a subscription using a method different from how they signed up. The FTC says that it receives thousands of complaints about duplicitous subscription plans each year — and that these numbers have been steadily increasing over the past five years.

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Elon Musk's X dodges EU's DMA as bloc decides platform isn't important enough for fairness controls Elon Musk's X won't be regulated under the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) the Commission decided Wednesday, despite the social media platform hitting usage thresholds earlier this year. The decision means X won't be subject to the DMA's list of operational 'dos and don'ts' - in areas like its use of third party data and user consent to tracking ads - for the foreseeable future. The pan-EU regime targets Big Tech with up-front rules that are generally aimed at ensuring fairer dealing with individual and business users (so far seven companies have been designated as DMA gatekeepers for a total of two dozen "core platform services", including other social media giants like Meta and TikTok).

White House considers expanding Nvidia's and AMD's AI chip export limits to additional countries The Biden administration has privately discussed capping sales of advanced AI chips from Nvidia and AMD to certain Persian Gulf countries in the interest of national security, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The restriction could put a ceiling on export licenses for certain countries, potentially Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which are heavily investing in AI data centers. The White House increasingly views American AI chips as a key advantage on the global stage.

Yahoo Sports WR trades galore: Cooper to Buffalo, Adams to New York & the great power rankings debate | Football 301 Nate Tice & Matt Harmon give their reactions to a HUGE day of news around the NFL before dishing out takeaways from Week 6 through the lens of their top ten power rankings.

X rival Mastodon has started selling toys If you like open-source, decentralized social networks that put the power in the hands of the people instead of billionaires, you can now support that cause...by buying toys. On Tuesday, Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, began selling its own merchandise in the form of cute, plushie mastodons – the proto-elephants with long tusks that give the social network its name. The company announced last year that it would help fund its development efforts through merchandise sales after a poll found that over 6,700 Mastodon users said they would buy something if merch was made available.

Keep's AIOps platform helps ops teams reduce alert fatigue Alert management for developers and ops teams may seem like a solved problem. The company offers an open source version that uses a rule-based system, but what's more interesting is its paid enterprise offering, which also uses AI models to reduce notification fatigue by deduplicating and correlating alerts. The service aggregates data from a variety of monitoring tools, prioritizes and manages alerts, and then helps those teams diagnose the issue that led it to wake up the on-call engineer in the first place.

Adobe's Project Super Sonic uses AI to generate sound effects for your videos At its annual MAX conference, Adobe is showing off Project Super Sonic, an experimental prototype demo that shows how you could one day use text-to-audio, object recognition, and even your own voice to quickly generate background audio and audio effects for your video projects. Being able to generate audio effects from a text prompt is fun, but given that ElevenLabs and others already offer this commercially, it may not be quite as groundbreaking. What's more interesting here is that Adobe is taking all of this a step further by adding two additional modes to create these soundtracks.