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Amazon Web Services (AWS), said customers using its EC2 Capacity Blocks for Machine Learning service will face hourly price increases of around 20% from July.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/aws-

AWS raises AI cloud compute prices again as memory shortage deepens
Amazon has increased the price of renting some of its most sought-after AI cloud computing services.

Standard Intelligence, which is developing computer use AI models, raised $75M led by Sequoia and Spark at a $500M post-money valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/standard-intelligence-rides-neola…

Standard Intelligence Rides Neolab Fervor with Computer Use Model
Pedestrians in downtown San Francisco are used to seeing Waymos navigating the streets. But two months ago, people in the South Park neighborhood saw something new: a Toyota Rav4 driving around with a laptop propped on the dashboard.The laptop was running a new breed of AI model, known as a “ ...

NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.
The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
NASA hired startup
Katalyst Space Technologies
to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit
where it can continue hunting for some of the universe’s biggest explosions.
A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once …

NASA races to save the Swift telescope with a $30M robotic rescue mission
NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The salvage effort gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver. NASA has hired Katalyst Space Technologies to boost Swift to a higher orbit where it can continue hunting for some of the universe's biggest explosions. Launched in 2004, Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar activity. It needs to get to a higher orbit as soon a…

“AGI is just around the corner”

I had a weird dream where I was talking to someone at some kind of ceremony, I think a funeral, where I had timidly painted my face with clay as part of some ritual. This person was talking about how far society has come while our brains have not caught up.
Imagine if your ancient cave dwelling ancestors were dropped into this world of cars, office hours, budgets, climate change, and AI. They would be absolutely freaking out and struggling to understand things all the time... Just like you are now.
Society teaches us to suppress these emotions. You're supposed to be OK with giant metal boxes flying around you in rumbling stampedes, but you feel it in unexplained anxiety. You're supposed to just fit your life into tight little bounds that ignore weather and season, but you feel it in more unexplained anxiety and depression. We are all part of something so big and complicated we can't make sense of it, we cannot possibly comprehend it all, it is simply too much to fully grasp the implications of our individual actions within global capitalism. Should we be surprised by our urge to simply destroy it, by the anger and desire to simply "smash" something far more complex than can be met with simple violence?
Some part of my brain was trying to remind me to be compassionate to myself. Perhaps that reminder can be useful to you as well.

Jetzt beginnt die Vorstellung der von Reiche zurückgehaltenen Studie "Stärkung der regionalen Wertschöpfung durch Erneuerbare Energien"
mit dem Studienautor Dr. Steven Salecki, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Projektkoordinator am Institut für Ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW).
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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get…

In Ostfriesland gibt es ja schon länger Streit in der AfD, so schlimmen das Ich selbst als Linker stutze!
AfD Kreisverbände mussten aufgelöst werden, eine Vorsitzende abgesetzt mit Beschluss der Bundesschiedskommission, alles weil sie es wagte die Vetternwirtschaft in der AfD zu kritisieren.
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Analyse: Abgewählter AfD-Vorstand will Abwahl nicht akzeptieren
Der Streit in der AfD in Ostfriesland und in Niedersachsen setzt sich fort. Nach der Neugründung des Kreisverbands Aurich/Emden drohen weitere Anfechtungen, auch Anja Arndt reagiert. Eine Analyse.

I should buy a boa– i mean, meow!

What a lovely writeup on the #OS wars in the 80ies, their legacy and corporate politics background:
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/aftermath-of-the-kernel-wars/

Aftermath Of The Kernel Wars
During the 1980s and 90s, computer companies waged an open war for supremacy. We are witnesses of an age that could be described as post-apocalyptic. The dust has settled for the past 20 years, with a small ignition of hostilities around 2010, between members of the mobile duopoly and some late challengers. But to a large degree, we can say that the Kernel Wars are over, and we are privileged observers of their aftermath. But everyone was surprised to discover the winner emerging from the ashes…

I accidentally changed my work hours from daytime to nighttime. It used to happen when I was younger. You lose track of time, you forget going to bed, and then it's morning, sometimes as far in as 10 or 11 am. You are a book translator, people don't expect to see you around much, so they don't bother you during the day. When you wake up, the night is just starting to quiet down the city, until its midnight and most people have slipped ahead of you, leaving you with all the time i…