Amazon plans to invest $12B in new data centers in Louisiana and says it worked with the local utility "to ensure we pay 100% of the costs" tied to the campus (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/amazon-louisiana-ai-data-centers.html
Amazon is lining up another wave of job cuts next week, according to reports, while Autodesk has confirmed 1,000 roles are to go in sales-related redundancies.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/amazon-to-lay-off-thousands-mor…
Got a Surface Laptop Studio 2? Or just need a 100W USB-Power Delivery charger?
My new favorite charger is the "Anker Prime Charger, 160W 3-Port (140W on a single port). Perfect for a power-hungry laptop smartphone.
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Charger-Compa
En de Chinezen gaan daar ook nog eens overheen. Het zal moeilijk worden zonder GPS 😢
Amazon-oprichter Bezos bouwt nóg een satellietnetwerk als rivaal voor Starlink
https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/amazon-oprichter-be…
What Pocket Health, Amazon Prime Vision's new tool, teaches us about QBs, OL and defenses https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6916237/2025/12/24/pocket-health-insights-amazon-prime-vision/
Shot/chaser
Billionaires like Lurie and his buddies prefer philanthropy to taxes because they decide how much to pay and how it's used. We should not believe for a second that it has anything to do with helping non-rich San Franciscans. #sfpol
"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision. " - IBM 1979 #ai
https://www.theverge.com/ai-…
A hilly landscape that looks like spiderwebs when viewed from orbit holds clues to the history of water on ancient Mars.
For about six months, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called boxwork,
low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy hollows in between.
Crisscrossing the surface for miles, the formations suggest ancient groundwater flowed on this part of the Red Planet later than scientists exp…
The ancient Roman "show us your tits":
“Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates.”
Graffito, #Pompeii
#FannyFriday
#ancientRome
David Luan, the head of Amazon's AGI lab, is leaving the company less than two years after he joined through an acqui-hire deal of his startup Adept (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/head-of-amazons-agi-lab-is-leaving-the-company.html…