Technology News for Thursday 10th April 2025

1. Beyond the Screen: Samsung Envisions Theater as a Space for Immersive, Engaging Cinema With Onyx

The cinema industry is undergoing a profound transformation. As audiences increasingly seek premium and luxury experiences, theaters are evolving to deliver immersive, differentiated environments — and Samsung Electronics is at the forefront of this ...

2. With Secrets in Every Room, This Manor Mystery Enthralls

Blue Prince follows in the storied tradition of mystery house games while mixing in logic riddles, word games, math problems and many codes and passwords.

3. ATLAS gets under the hood of the Higgs mechanism

It revealed the existence of a mysterious, ancient field with which elementary particles interact to acquire their all-important masses. This process is governed by a delicate mechanism called electroweak symmetry breaking, which was first proposed ...

4. ToddyCat Hackers Exploit ESET Flaw to Launch Stealthy TCESB Attack

A cybercriminal group linked to a series of attacks across Asia has been exploiting a security vulnerability in ESET's security software to deploy a previously unknown malware strain called TCESB. This threat takes advantage of a flaw in ESET's ...

5. Google adopts Anthropic AI's MCP standard

CEO Demis Hassabis made the announcement on X saying that MCP was quickly becoming accepted as a common protocol with AI agents around.

6. Woman's Apple Watch alert helps lead to cancer diagnosis

A Hawke's Bay woman discovered she had leukaemia after her Apple Watch notified her of an elevated heart rate. Psychiatrist Amanda Faulkner, 51, had been using her husband Mike's Apple Watch for a number of years before deciding to treat herself to her ...

7. AI Boom to Fuel Surge in Data Center Energy Needs, IEA Says

By 2030, data centers will require slightly more energy than Japan consumes today, with demand for AI-optimized facilities alone set to quadruple, IEA predicts. By. Giulia Petroni. Follow. April 10, 2025 9:18 am ET.

8. Myth and Mystery Await: GeForce NOW Brings 'South of Midnight' to the Cloud at Launch

Get ready to explore the Deep South. South of Midnight, the action-adventure game from Compulsion Games, launches today on GeForce NOW. Following last week's launch of Advanced Access in the cloud, GeForce NOW members can now pick up where they left ...

9. Is the US power grid ready to meet the demands of data centres?

In today's Energy Source we look at how the ageing US power grid and supply chain constraints may slow the pace of data centre rollout in the country, complicating Washington's race to lead in artificial intelligence. Thanks ...

10. Why Google and OpenAI suddenly paid Reddit $160 million

Social platform Reddit was busy building an advertising business to compete with the likes of Google and Meta when it found another way to add $US100 million to its bottom line: generative artificial intelligence. The rise of large language models that ...

11. Apple MacBook Air M4 review: the laptop to beat, now cheaper

Apple's much-loved MacBook Air gets even more power, a much better webcam and an unexpected price cut for 2025, making one of the very best consumer laptops even more tempting. The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you ...

12. Samsung's new 2025 OLED and QLED TVs are now available — here's a breakdown of features and how to buy

Insider Reviews editor Steven Cohen sitting on a couch watching a Samsung S95F OLED TV. ... Samsung has announced pricing and availability for its new lineup of OLED and QLED 4K TVs. Sizes currently range from 43 to 98 ...

13. Releasing Windows 11 Build 26100.3902 to the Release Preview Channel

Below is a summary of the new features and improvements included as part of this update separated into two sections: gradual rollout and normal rollout. The bold text within the brackets indicates the item or area of the change we are documenting.

14. MIT's hopping robot can carry 10-times more than flying devices

Insect-scale robots often fall into one of two camps: flying or crawling, with a variety of design options for each. Flying allows aerial devices to avoid obstacles that walking bots cannot get over or around – but the amount of energy used severely ...

15. Lawmakers in Georgia and other states fear AI data centers will drive up residents' power bills

State lawmakers have long sought to attract such operations with generous tax breaks and incentives. But now, some are concerned that the infrastructure needed to add all those data centers to the electric grid will drive up residents' utility bills.

16. Data centres will use twice as much energy by 2030 — driven by AI

Data centres accounted for roughly 1.5% of global electricity consumption in 2024. ... Nightime view of steam rising from Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant's two cooling towers behind rows of. Upgrades to electricity grids might not ...