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Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up

Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite vacation spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.

Making cement from a different type of rock could clean up emissions

Cement production alone currently accounts for about 8 percent of global CO2 emissions, so considerable effort is going into lowering that number. Efficiency ca...

How to fix Samsung One UI 8.5 problems

Table of contents One UI 8.5 problems covered in this article Other One UI 8.5 problems users are reporting What to do if you have a general One UI 8.5 problem...

Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California

A bill focused on maintaining long-term playable access to online games has passed out of the California Assembly's appropriations committee, setting up a floor...

Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process

It is an understatement to say agents have become a popular way of working with code. GitHub has adopted agent-based code creation and editing for many of its i...

Casimir force co-opted to generate free energy, midichlorians not included

This week, a company called Casimir Inc. emerged from “stealth mode” to announce that it had raised significant funding from venture capitalists willing to roll...

Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub’s bug bounty program

The security research community is one of GitHub’s greatest assets. Every year, researchers from around the world help us find and fix vulnerabilities, ma...

Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom

The latest example of burgeoning opposition to rapid data-center development in Pennsylvania came at a town hall meeting overflowing with frustration about how...

Stratum: System-Hardware Co-Design with 3D-Stackable DRAM for Efficient Moe

Africa has seen oil shocks before. Why 2026 could be the turning point for clean energy

Africa has been here before. Oil climbs above $100, import bills balloon, Finance ministers across the continent convene emergency sessions, and somewhere in a...

The Kenyan Boeing engineer who chose trucks over prestige

Charles Thuo’s career journey makes very little sense, at least until you sit down with him. By his own admission, it did not make much sense to his parents eit...

Samsung phones that lost software support in May 2026

Table of contents How Samsung’s update system works The three phones that lost support Quick specs comparison What losing software support means for your...

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Jumia plans job cuts

In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية TGIF. Few phrases travel further at African business summits than “shared ownership.” A...

Picturing Earth in a New Light

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Picturing Earth in a New Light Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Lan...

GitHub availability report: April 2026

In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. To increase transparency, at the end of April, we released a...

NASA Draws on Industry for Mars Telecommunications Network

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of “Santa Cruz,” a hill about 1.5 miles (2.5 kilome...

From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance

When you’re working through a backlog—opening an issue, jumping to a linked thread, then back to the list—latency isn’t just a metric. I...

Fresh Food Delivery for Space Station

You’re allowed to play with your food when you’re on the International Space Station!NASA/Chris Williams NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway (bottom left)...

NASA-Supported Space Tech Advances Earthly Construction

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Branch’s work outfitting a prototype of a lunar surface habitat they developed, p...

GitHub Copilot individual plans: Introducing flex allotments in Pro and Pro+, and a new Max plan

We’ve heard your questions about whether the included usage in each GitHub Copilot plan will go far enough when we transition to usage-based billing on Ju...