@markhburton@mstdn.socialShowing his true colours!
Shyster Dale Vince.
Eco-tycoon demands billions spent on Net Zero heat pump handouts given to military instead
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38868680/eco-dale-vince-heat-pump-billions-fund-military/
B…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaBillions of little people-likes, bodies proportioned and textured like teddy bears, nestled together in this rough subterranean chamber, in serene smile stupor since before the Flood.
@steve@s.yelvington.comHe rules by decree and spends whatever he wants.
Impeach, convict, remove.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pledges-10-billion-board-of-peace-meeting-1235519576/
@newstik@social.heise.deBillions we have spent on speeding up our computers and our internet connections, just to sit and look at "checking if you are a bot" animations two microseconds earlier.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… @… Indeed, and it’s extremely expensive, *and* it doesn’t actually prevent abuse by cliques. IMHO, there are better ways to prevent abuse than to pay billions to the Big Pub cartels, which couldn’t care le…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… @… Indeed, and it’s extremely expensive, *and* it doesn’t actually prevent abuse by cliques. IMHO, there are better ways to prevent abuse than to pay billions to the Big Pub cartels, which couldn’t care le…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deThe ICE “internment camps” have incinerators inside if them, by the way
https://migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pentagon-is-quietly-building
Thousands of people missing, incapable of being located by family, friends, or attorneys...
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAmong many things to ponder here: are the billions and trillions of investment pouring into these “hyperscale” data centers on even shakier ground than we thought? Yes, they’re environmental disasters. Yes, the public backlash is massive. Yes, the upkeep costs seem unsustainable. But on top of all that…
…what if all that scale is unnecessary? What if there’s no ROI on those last two •orders of magnitude• of hardware scale? What’s the risk profile on these investments, really??
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116251157202156328
The renamed their whole company for it and invested billions
@cdarwin@c.imAs companies pour billions into sprawling industrial campuses for cloud and AI computing,
some data center operators are experimenting with four-legged bots
—about the size of large dogs
—that can patrol fences, inspect equipment, and flag any issues before they turn into costly outages.
These robots, known as “quadrupeds,”
are being used to patrol the complexes,
which can sometimes reach the size of multiple football fields.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center with its own power supply in Ohio (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-data-center-ohio-uranium-enrichme…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineObama negotiates JCPOA w/Iran: partly unfreezes $2 billion Iran cash to get rid of uranium. Strait is open, international waters.
President Rottinghands McRagebaby tears up JCPOA, spends billions, gets people killed, then gives Iran _10x_ ($20 billion) to get uranium back to JCPOA levels, and Iran claims some of control over Strait.
An almost unimaginable failure: militarily, economically, navigationally, morally, politically; made things worse for US in every way possible. …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comOzempic Is About to Go Generic for Billions of People (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/health/ozempic-wegovy-generic-india-china-canada.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p28#a260319p28
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIt’s amazing how passionate politicians are about “protecting children” when Mark Zuckerberg spends billions to tell them how to do it based on his exact specifications.
🤔
@newstik@social.heise.deEurope's purchases of Russian gas keep funding the war against Ukraine - now with extra billions for more weapons
https://en.highnorthnews.com/politics/eu-payments-for-russian-ya…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Bill Ackman proposes merging UMG with his SPAC and naming Michael Ovitz as chair, an offer UMG is likely to reject; UMG stock is down 20% since 2021 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters
@kctipton@mas.toPete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/post/207555/pete-hegseth-billions-dollars-fruit-basket-stands-chairs-crab
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesRE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116253508712654219
It’s been hilarious to read the discourse on LinkedIn regarding ChatGPT instant checkout
First it was the biggest revolution in ecommerce in decades. Brought billions in market share to Etsy, Sh…
@buercher@tooting.ch“Refunds of billions of dollars would have significant consequences for the US Treasury. The Court says nothing today about whether, and if so how, the government should go about returning the billions of dollars that it has collected from importers,” Kavanaugh wrote. “That process is likely to be a ‘mess’, as was acknowledged at oral argument.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/trump-supreme-court-tariffs-ruling?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyThere's parties that always want to build or widen highways while not spending enough on maintenance of existing ones, blocking road pricing, and trying to keep taxes low.
In the Netherlands, they're finding out that this doesn't work. Tens of billions needed for maintenance now.
https://nos.nl/l/2606596…
@cdarwin@c.imPope Leo XIV has said that the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” who spend billions on war
“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain,
dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth,”
Leo told a gathering at Saint Joseph Cathedral in western Cameroon.
“They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation,
yet the resources need…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInside India's AI Impact Summit: 300 exhibitors, 500 sessions, 250K visitors, billions in investment, and entrepreneurs touting solutions to real-world issues (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/busines
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngLight Streaks — generative photography
A small selection of long-exposures of randomly generated IFS (aka Iterated Function Systems), a family of very oldskool primitive/trivial fractal functions, but which can produce a fairly wide variety of outcomes. Each image is the result of billions of iterations of a single particle being iteratively transformed (meaning the particle's current position is used as the input for computing its next position etc.) For each iteration & posit…
@publicvoit@graz.social#WhatsApp’s ‘End-to-End Encryption by Default’ Claim Called Major Consumer #Fraud
https://cybersecuritynews.com…
@trochee@dair-community.socialGot the book by @… , but I have some competition for getting to it
@cdarwin@c.imUS Rep. Ro Khanna on Saturday demanded swift action from Congress to stop the Trump administration’s unauthorized military assault on Iran,
saying in a video posted to social media that “the American people are tired of regime change wars that cost us billions of dollars and risk our lives.”
“We don’t want to be at war with a country of 90 million people in the Middle East,”
said Khanna (D-Calif.), calling on Congress to reconvene for a vote on Monday.
“Every member of …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSeniors Paid Billions in Extra Premiums Due to Alleged Medicare Overpayments (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/seniors-paid-billions-in-extra-premiums-due-to-alleged-medicare-overpayments-d41f5d79?st=ENiEaR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p98#a260310p98
@Dragofix@veganism.social‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/19/they-pushed-so-many-lies-about-re…
@servelan@newsie.socialTook a while because everything has to go through her, and Kristi's such a slow reader...
FEMA OKs billions in disaster assistance
https://thehill.com/newsletters/energy-environment/5759792-fema-oks-billions-in-disaster-assistance/
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itIt's wild to me how funding in our country works. Untold billions (if not trillions) for police and ICE. Billions in funding for the dumbest of AI ideas. But basic science? My wife is scrambling to get less than a million dollars of funding to do studies on heat waves that could help save millions of lives.
Remember heat waves? The kind of thing that will only become more frequent and deadly as we fail to curb our carbon emissions?
@Carwil@mastodon.onlineThe technology of mechanical reproduction did not end the age of art.
Likewise, the technology of text synthesis will not end of age of human thinking.
https://woborders.blog/2026/04/14/ai-is-the-mechanical-reproduction-of…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics"
#Plastic #Plastics #Recycling
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzI reckon we need to shift the Overton Window prior to the coming election in Aotearoa NZ. We need to demonstrate the absurdities inherent it to show that it bears no useful relationship to the overall prosperity of a society. The fact that spending $billions to recover from a massive climate change-exacerbated storm looks like a 'GDP win' for the gov't, and climate change mitigation looks like a loss, is all you need to know.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialVurt, a mobile-first vertical streaming platform designed for indie filmmakers to upload their micro series or feature films, launches with 100 episodes (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/vurt-mobile-first-v…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialMedicare Advantage = BAD.
Medicare Advantage is private, FOR-PROFIT insurance that overcharges American taxpayers by billions every year and regularly denies seniors the care they need.
...so course, Trump is trying to privatize ALL Medicare.
✅ The Medicare Advantage Trap: What They Don’t Tell You
https://
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom 350.org
We’re calling on governments to send ministers to the first-of-its-kind international summit in Colombia this April and turn words into concrete road maps that end fossil fuels for good. Public pressure can move the needle. Let’s make the transition to renewable energy inevitable so that even Trump and the oil lobby can’t save fossil fuels.
@UP8@mastodon.social💧 Tropical forests generate rainfall worth billions, study finds
#water
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzHabitability of Tidally Heated H2-Dominated Exomoons around Free-Floating Planets: #exomoons habitable for billions of years: https://idw-online.de/de/news867330
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyCanada starts 'fuel tax holiday', including aviation fuel, expected to cost an estimated C$2.4 billion.
The stupidest tool from the box.
Keeps demand and prices artificially high, costs billions, and largely ends up with households that don't need support. 🤦♀️🤦♂️🤦
https://www.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThis is why it's shameful when publications hype unverified cyber breaches to generate clicks, particularly when they're basing their reports on what threat actors say on their leak sites.
IDMERIT, a global ID verification service and KYC provider, was the subject of a dozen reports of a data breach, all stemming from one publication that likes to hype fake stories.
Lately, I've seen some usually bona fide cyber publications picking up on these clickbait but false sto…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/207555/pete-hegseth-billions-dollars-fruit-basket-stands-chairs-crab
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p6#a260310p6
@newsie@darktundra.xyzAlien Life Might Exist on the Starless Moons of Rogue Planets, Scientists Say https://www.404media.co/alien-life-might-exist-on-the-starless-moons-of-rogue-planets-scientists-say/
@stefan@gardenstate.socialWork resumes on the Hudson River rail tunnel project, but NJ Transit delays continue
A thousand workers are expected to be back on the job after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze billions of dollars to fund construction.
https://share.google/xcagr3k9euo6b6RIS
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS startup Reflection AI is working with South Korea's Shinsegae Group to build a 250MW data center in South Korea, sources say in a several-billion-dollar deal (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-backed-
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialThe Hidden Backdoor to 200 Airports: A Supply Chain Failure in Aviation
A single leaked credential from a fourth-party vendor recently exposed the digital infrastructure of 200 global airports. This security failure highlights how a lack of Multi-Factor Authentication can jeopardize critical systems, including baggage reconciliation and passenger kiosks. Discover how SVigil identified this backdoor before it cost the industry billions.
✈️
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialHow far have you come? This page will show you how far you’ve traveled since you were born.
The Cosmic Odometer calculates how far you've traveled through space just by being alive. Even if you've never left Earth, you've orbited the sun, rotated with the planet, and embarked on both solar and galactic travel — all while sitting on your couch. https://…
@publicvoit@graz.social#WhatsApp’s ‘End-to-End #Encryption by Default’ Claim Called Major Consumer Fraud by Pavel Durov
https://c…
@cdarwin@c.imSen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told White House budget director Russel Vought that
lawmakers “are not getting any answers”
as to why hundreds of millions of dollars isn’t flowing to states
for anti-poverty programs.
Senators from both parties chided the Trump administration Thursday for continuing to withhold funding Congress has approved, -- more than a year after the White House first froze billions of dollars for temporary “review.”
During White House budget di…
@kctipton@mas.toCryptic Emails and No Strings Attached. How MacKenzie Scott Gives Away Billions. - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/finance/cryptic-emails-and-no-strings-attached-how-mackenzie-scott-gives-aw…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyGermany plans $1.9 billion of fuel price relief "to tackle energy crisis".
The stupidest tool from the box.
Keeps demand and prices artificially high, costs billions, and largely ends up with households that don't need support. 🤦♀️🤦♂️🤦 https…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org"What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes bad
The creation and dissemination of reliable news is at an economic disadvantage" (paywalled ft.com boo)
Opinion Misinformation Martin Wolf
suggests subsidizing info creation, then goes to BBC, skips libraries which pay billions a year.
why skip libraries? Could be because we are not as effective as in the past cuz digital licensing schemes of big publishers so are largely irrelevant to our info environ…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social"UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/02/uk-slashes-climate-aid-developing-countries
What, why?? We pump billions in "genAI" but remove funds for
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the rise and fall of Chen Zhi, an alleged online scam kingpin whom the US and UK accused of laundering billions; he was extradited to China in January (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@nohillside@smnn.chIf I have to guess I would assume that most of the $122 billions #OpenAI raised for this will pay their daily operating cost.
OpenAI Bets Big on Building an Everything App https://www.macstories.net/l…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Admin Suspends 111,620 'California Borrowers' For Allegedly Committing Billions in Pandemic-Era Fraud (Ireland Owens/The Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2026/02/06/kelly-loeffler-sba-california-borrowers-billions-pandemic-fraud/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p114#a260206p114
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is quietly pursuing a regulatory change
that would strip federal nutrition assistance from an estimated 6 million low-income Americans
—including nearly two million children
—as it spends billions on an illegal, open-ended war on Iran that has killed more than a thousand people
and plunged the global economy into chaos.
The change sought by the US Department of Agriculture would curb broad-based categorical eligibility in the "Supplem…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz"If there are 1 million AI sat minis in operation, then the constellation as a whole would perform 272 million collision risk mitigation manoeuvres per year, which is nearly 9 manoeuvres every second of every day for which the constellation is operating, on average", calculates #OrbitalDataCenters madness: "Across a 15-year licence term, the cumulative total for the constellation would be 4 billion manoeuvres."
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Planting Billions of Trees Turned Barren Desert into a Carbon Sink That Lowers CO2"
#Trees #Environment #Forests
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Anthropic says it had $5B in all-time revenue since 2023 and could lose billions after clients paused deal talks due to supply-chain risk designation (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-claims-business-is-…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialWorld enters 'era of global water bankruptcy': UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions https://phys.org/news/2026-01-world-era-global-bankruptcy-scientists.html
UN report declares global state of 'water bankruptcy…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Defense Department burned through $93 billion in September alone, signing checks left and right
-- in order to dry up its congressionally allocated budget, according to a recent analysis by the government watchdog Open the Books.
There is pressure to spend:
If federal agencies don’t use the entirety of their budgets by the end of the fiscal year,
then they lose access to that cash forever,
potentially putting themselves in a situation where they have to requ…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Saudi Arabia's ambitious push into Hollywood, sources say including contributing ~$12B for Paramount's WBD acquisition, as part of a soft power game (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116154261732775651
Gas prices in US have already gone up and probably will go past $3/gal on average next week
Even a 10¢ increase is going to put billions of dollars into the pockets of billionaires
@ErikUden@mastodon.deI told my friend @… about academic journals and the fact they cost money to publish in and that the biggest ones have higher profit margins than Google and make billions and he almost broke down crying
@memeorandum@universeodon.comOne Generation Runs the Country. The Next Cashed In on Crypto. (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-sons-crypto-billions-1e7f1414?st=wNsJyT&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p8#a260208p8
@StephenRees@mas.tohttps://leadnow.ca/campaigns/pipelinestargetett/?source=direct_link&
I wrote a letter for the Leadnow letter campaign: Demand your MP: Homes, Not Pipelines.
As the government contemplates handing over billions of our public money to pad Big Oil’s…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Jeffrey Yan and his startup Hyperliquid, a $10B crypto exchange that never took VC money and generated $900M in profit in 2025 with 11 employees (Dom Cooke/Colossus)
https://colossus.com/article/beyond-the-sky-jeffrey-yan-hyperliquid/
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump Officials Bypass Congress to Push Billions in Weapons Aid to Israel - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/trump-congress-weapons-aid-israel.html
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Tropical forests generate rainfall worth billions, study finds"
#Rainforests #Nature #Environment
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz30 years ago the #HubbleDeepField was published: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubbles-deepest-view-of-the-universe-unveils-bewildering-galaxies-across-billions-of-years/ - other Hubble deep fields followed, and now ALMA and Webb have investigated one of them ... JWST Spectroscopic Census of ALMA Faint Submillimeter Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18149
@Dragofix@veganism.socialTropical forests generate rainfall worth billions, study finds #environment…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta delayed the launch of its Avocado model to at least May over performance concerns and discussed temporarily licensing Gemini to power its products (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/technology/meta-avocado-ai-model-delay…
@kctipton@mas.toMacKenzie Scott says her college roommate loaned her $1,000 so she wouldn't have to drop out | Fortune https://fortune.com/article/mackenzie-scott-roommate-loaned-her-1000-to-not-drop-out-inspired-26-billion-philanthropy/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Cursor is in early talks to raise billions in a new funding round at a post-money valuation of up to $60B; one source puts the round size at $5B (Tom Dotan/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/cursor-weighs-fresh-fundraise-as
@cdarwin@c.imEven as Integrity, the mission moniker for the Orion capsule of Artemis II, ascended into the heavens days ago,
Donald Trump was announcing his intention to slash Nasa’s budget by 23%,
including a 46% cut for space science initiatives.
And the Artemis program that has run years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget offers no guarantees that the next, far harder stages will run as smoothly.
“The path to the lunar surface is open, but the work ahead is gr…
@cdarwin@c.im#Jeff #Bezos was in the Vatican this week to accept an award praising him as a “Prophet of Philanthropy”
– even as his ex-wife #MacKenzie #Scott h…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US CBP signs a one-year Clearview AI deal, granting access to its facial recognition tool for "tactical targeting" and "strategic counter-network analysis" (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-signs-clea
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy @Techmeme@techhub.socialMira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, planning to deploy 1GW of next-gen Vera Rubin chips (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a8853057-c0a3-46f6-817f-7a23e79ea4e2
@cdarwin@c.imThousands of companies are jockeying for billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts
to build a shield designed to intercept and destroy missiles launched against the United States.
⚠️But amid the intense competition, a handful of firms have an important inside connection.
At least four of the companies awarded contracts so far are owned by
⚡️Cerberus Capital Management,
a private equity firm founded by billionaire Steve
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience at a later date; META jumps 8% (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/meta-debut
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFEMA taps billions for disasters, warning Democrats of 'dire' shutdown impact (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/27/congress/disaster-aid-wanes-00804052
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p80#a260227p80
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: World Liberty Financial has earned the Trump family at least $1.2B in cash since its launch, while the Witkoff family has earned at least $200M (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/tru
@cdarwin@c.imTrump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project — if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him
But who would go to "Pedophile Station" or "Bigot-Grifter Airport"?
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/politics/schume…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/why-chip-packaging-could-decide-the…
@cdarwin@c.imOutgoing Republican senator
Thom Tillis has vowed to block any nominee to permanently replace Pam Bondi as attorney general
if the candidate excuses the January 6 attack on the US Capitol
– a threat that could deprive the White House of a crucial vote.
“The threshold for somebody following Pam Bondi ends the moment I hear they said one thing that excused the events of January 6,”
Tillis said in an interview with CNN.
The North Carolina lawmaker, who is ret…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at India's push to become a major provider of AI services, as US tech companies pledge tens of billions in Indian data center investments (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-te…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is planning one of the biggest grifts of his career.
It could have lasting consequences for American democracy.
Renderings of the proposed Trump "presidential library" building,
to be designed by the Florida-based architecture firm Bermello Ajamil,
appear to show a tower with some 50 floors set upon a wider podium or base.
It would be the first skyscraper to serve as a presidential library,
taller than the stubby structure designed for the…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Amazon and OpenAI are discussing a deal that could require OpenAI to dedicate researchers and engineers to developing customized models for Amazon (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-discusses-getting-special-a…
@cdarwin@c.im Under the cover of a looming partial government shutdown and a nation reeling from immigration agent-involved killings,
⚠️the Department of Homeland Security is quietly supercharging its detention infrastructure.
A massive Navy contract vehicle, once valued at $10 billion, has ballooned to a staggering
💥$55 billion ceiling
to expedite Donald Trump’s
“mass deportation” agenda.
The mechanism for this expansion is the "Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple …
@cdarwin@c.imA year later, the cost of ‘tariff mania’
U.S. markets recorded one of the most volatile years in history, marked by extreme swings and modest gains driven by a handful of stocks for tech companies largely inoculated from import duties.
Federal customs duties brought in tens of billions of dollars.
But a study published this week by the European Central Bank found that U.S. importers and consumers, -- not foreign exporters, -- bore the brunt of the costs that paid for it
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSuper Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw pleads not guilty to US federal charges of helping smuggle billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia-powered servers to China (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Hyundai's Atlas humanoid robot, slated for assembly tasks in 2028; Hyundai has invested billions in robotics since acquiring Boston Dynamics in 2021 (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30M Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rjxbyqisze
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/data-broker-breaches-fueled-do…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTSMC's conservative capex approach is resulting in supply-demand imbalances and foregone revenue, and hyperscalers must build up Samsung or Intel as its rivals (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/tsmc-risk/
