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Netflix spent 10 years trying to make movie theaters obsolete and is now pivoting to real theatrical releases, in a rare about-face for a tech giant (David Ehrlich/IndieWire)
https://www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/netflix-lost-the-war-o…

Netflix Has Lost the War on Movie Theaters
Netflix spent the last 10 years trying to render movie theaters obsolete. Now the company is giving up just in time to avoid becoming obsolete itself.

I need help understand why you put a datacenter in the desert where there is an abundance of heat and dearth of water.
That's about 4.5 million gallons a day, enough to supply about 45k households, in case you were wondering.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/10166

A look at growing bipartisan opposition to AI data centers in drought-stricken Arizona, where TSMC's chip fabs were welcomed but newer projects face backlash (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

AI has come for Arizona’s water
Arizona has long courted big business, from tech to agriculture. Now the state is facing a water crisis. Are data centers the breaking point?

Mooi overzichtsrapport over de maatschappelijke waarde van groen gas, door mijn Common Futures collega's: https://www.netbeheernederland.nl/artikelen/nieuws/de-maatschappelijke-waarde-van-groen-gas-nederland
(Great overview …

Nieuw rapport: groen gas vooral van waarde voor gebouwde omgeving, elektriciteitsproductie en industrie
Groen gas heeft vooral toegevoegde waarde in delen van de bebouwde omgeving, bij de productie van elektriciteit en in de industrie. Dat blijkt uit het nieuwe rapport De maatschappelijke waarde van groen gas in Nederland, opgesteld door Common Futures in opdracht van Netbeheer Nederland. Het rapport laat niet alleen zien waar groen gas het meeste oplevert, maar ook hoe de inzet ervan kan bijdragen aan het zo laag mogelijk houden van de totale kosten van het energiesysteem.

Lautstärkeknöpfe: So wandern sie beim iPhone Duo mit – und weitere Tricks
Apples Foldable kommt mit einer gewöhnungsbedürftigen Button-Anordnung. Bei der Lautstärke lässt sich Abhilfe schaffen. Auch andere versteckte Features helfen.

Huh
https://www.theverge.com/1022347/apple-macbook-supports-new-cmf

Apple’s new laptop supports one of the coolest features for color pros

A look at a crude campaign of cyberattacks by Russia-linked hacktivist groups that have caused physical damage in NATO-aligned countries over the past two years (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

Sources: Instagram is offering select creators $50K to $500K to cross-post their long-form YouTube content to its new "Features" product (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-offers-youtube-creators-si…

Instagram tries to woo YouTube creators with six-figure checks
Instagram is offering select creators six-figure deals, some of which have reached $500,000, to post long-form videos to its new "Features" product.

How AI detectors like Pangram are changing human writing: authors drop em dashes, "not X, but Y" phrasing, and words like "delve", or add typos, to look human (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)

Every time these lovely ladies at #mozfest say that "We've been doing this for 20 years" it makes me mumble "25". And some of them have been around that long, too, I know, and that's a good thing.