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Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-balancing-act-googles-co…

Inside the Balancing Act Over Google’s Compute Crunch
Earlier this year, Google convened a group of its top executives to address what some staffers see as an existential problem: the company doesn’t have enough computer chips for everyone who wants them. A shortage of computing capacity was creating internal tensions, as leaders of Google’s varied ...

"Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover"
#Cambodia #Environment #Oceans

Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover
A recent study provides the first detailed map of Cambodia’s coastal seafloor habitats and finds that simple, low-cost anti-trawling structures are helping seagrass meadows recover and support small-scale fishers in the Kep Marine Fisheries Management Area in the Gulf of Thailand. The study was published in Frontiers in Marine Science by researchers from Marine Conservation […]

"The [resonant computing] Manifesto promises to fix everything that’s wrong on the internet right now. But you look at the authors and the signers, you’ll see the same guys who caused the present problems. These guys made it rich on the Torment Nexus and they’re now claiming they can fix it."
(Original title: The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys)

The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys
Back in the 1990s, in the first flowering of the World Wide Web, the Silicon Valley guys were way into their manifestos. “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”! The “Cluetrain Manifesto!…

from my link log —
BBC computer literacy project archive.
https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/
saved 2020-03-26 https://dotat.at/:/JA63N.html

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Japan’s oddly retro (to Western eyes) websites, China’s reverse engineering of top-spec chipmaking equipment and North Korea’s ill-gotten crypto hoard.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/japa

Japan’s ‘weird’ websites - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Japan’s oddly retro (to Western eyes) websites, China’s reverse engineering ...

#TGIQF: Das Quiz rund um Konrad Zuse
Mit seinem Z3 war Konrad Zuse seiner Zeit voraus: Er erfand den ersten echten Computer. Unser Quiz widemt sich dem IT-Pionier unser Quiz. Knobeln Sie mit!

Sources: Oracle is in discussions with Meta to provide computing power for training and deploying AI models, in a deal worth about $20B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-19/oracle-in-talks-with-meta-…

Oracle in Talks With Meta on $20 Billion AI Cloud Computing Deal
Oracle Corp. is in discussions with Meta Platforms Inc. for a cloud computing deal worth about $20 billion, providing further evidence that the company has become a significant infrastructure provider.

Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/cursor-ai-coding-startup-graphite-competition-heats-up/

Exclusive: Cursor acquires code review startup Graphite as AI coding competition heats up
By purchasing Graphite, Cursor, currently valued at $29 billion, gains more code review and debugging capabilities

Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interf…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.