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A look at UAE-based Khazna, a real estate company that builds and rents out data centers and controls 70% of the country's operational data center capacity (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/khazna-data-center-uae/

The invisible backbone of the UAE’s AI superpower dreams
UAE's largest data center operator Khazna is challenging Western assumptions while building regional dominance.

Already over 12 years ago, the Google data center in Hamina, Finland, was equipped with a sauna powered by the facility's residual heat 🙀.
https://www.wired.com/2012/10/google-finland-data-center-2

Vikings activate center Kelly (concussions) off IR https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47062916/vikings-activate-center-ryan-kelly-concussions-ir

#Meta baut in #Louisiana ein riesiges #Rechenzentrum. Auf einer Fläche von etwa 50 Fußballfeldern werden ca. 2500 MW Energie benötigt. Das entspricht dem dreifachen Jahresverbrauch der Stadt New Orleans.

Jensen Huang says the 10 GW OpenAI project is equivalent to 4M-5M GPUs; the first phase is expected to come online in H2 2026 using Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/nvidia-openai-data-center.html

Nvidia plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of data center buildout
In an interview with CNBC, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company's project with OpenAI is equivalent to between 4 million and 5 million GPUs.

The ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, which oversees public buildings,
is investigating leadership at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for what he says are
"millions in lost revenue, luxury spending, and preferential treatment for Trump allies."
The committee's ranking member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter outlining the claims to Kennedy Center president, Richard Grenell.
Gre…

Columbia Journalism Review :
"Nous avons comparé huit moteurs de recherche d'IA. Ils sont tous mauvais pour ce qui est de citer les informations."
60% de citations incorrectes !
#IA

Important clergy symposium hosted by FASPE and the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy. November 10 at YDS. https://www.theologyandpolicy.yale.edu/blog/public-theology-in-a-time-of-authoritarianism-a-clergy-symposium

Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism: A Clergy Symposium — Center for Public Theology & Public Policy
Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism is presented in partnership with Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics . The program will explore ethical possibilities of religion in today’s world, amidst politicization of religious communities, the deepening of moral and cul

Statement in Response to the Proposed Construction of the White House Ballroom (Carol Quillen/@SavingPlaces)
https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/statement-proposed-construction-of-white-house-ballroom
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p48#a251022p48

Observation of the Galactic Center in the Sub-MeV Gamma-Ray Band with an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera
Tomonori Ikeda, Atsushi Takada, Taito Takemura, Kei Yoshikawa, Yuta Nakamura, Ken Onozaka, Mitsuru Abe, Yoshitaka Mizumura, Toru Tanimori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15851

Observation of the Galactic Center in the Sub-MeV Gamma-Ray Band with an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera
We report the first detection of gamma-ray emission from the Galactic center in the 150-600 keV band using a linear, imaging-spectroscopy approach used in common telescopes with an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC) aboard the SMILE-2+ balloon experiment. A one-day flight over Australia resulted in a significant gamma-ray detection in the light curve and revealed a $7.9σ$ excess in the image map from the Galactic center region. These results, obtained through a simple and unambiguous anal…

Which version best conveys the message "ISO 8601. Every over date/time format is inferior"?
Based on different versions of the original logo I made multiple attempts. One of them will become a sticker. White on red, Blue on White or White on Blue?
#iso8601 #iso8601ultras

Scientists Discover Building Blocks of Life in Ice Around a Forming Star (ST6) in Neighboring Galaxy (Large Magellanic Cloud).
https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/marta-sewilo-discovers-building-blocks-life-ice-around-forming-star…

#CFP: Center for Religion and Cities
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#CFP: Center for Religion and Cities
Members and friends of the Center for Religion and Cities (CRC) ,

✊ Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement”
#union

Shawn Fain: “We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement”
UAW president Shawn Fain, speaking at a Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin event, emphasized the need for a political program that addresses workers’ most basic issues — and how a broad strike in 2028 could put them front and center.

China claims it caught US attempting cyberattack on national time center https://therecord.media/china-attack-national-time-center

March 2025 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-banners-kennedy-center/ vs https://e…

Photo of 'imperial red banners' with Trump's likeness outside Kennedy Center isn't real
The image showed U.S. President Donald Trump's face on large red banners outside the prominent performing arts institution in Washington.

A look at London-based "neocloud" startup Nscale, which landed a $500M investment from Nvidia and aims to scale up to 300K GPUs globally, on par with CoreWeave (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

Nvidia Keeps Minting New Coreweave-Style AI Data Center Unicorns
Nscale, a tiny London-based startup, just landed $500 million in backing from AI chip giant Nvidia to help build a massive data centers for OpenAI in the U.K. and Europe.

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

"Disney is under siege from all sides.
Within 48 hours of its decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely, the parent company of ABC has once again found itself at the center of a bitter political battle. The company now faces protests outside its studios, celebrities threatening to break ties and political pressure from Republicans and Democrats."

Pressure mounts on Disney over Kimmel suspension as some boycott calls spread
Within 48 hours of its decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely, Disney has once again found itself at the center of a bitter political battle.

I missed this the other day
James Langevin named chair of FDD’s CCTI, set to bolster cyber and technology strategy
https://industrialcyber.co/news/james-langevin-named-chair-of-fdds-ccti-set-to-bolster-cyber-and-techn…

James Langevin named chair of FDD’s CCTI, set to bolster cyber and technology strategy - Industrial Cyber
James Langevin named chair of FDD’s Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, set to bolster cyber and technology strategy

Xilinx XC6SLX25 (Samsung 45nm) from a previous decap run that I had to come back and finish because it was still stuck to the substrate.
A few light scratches in top passivation. These big BGAs need a lot of handling to peel back layers of fiberglass so acid can get in, which increases damage risk. Using fuming nitric usually you don't need that but I don't want it in my house :P
You can't see a whole lot here except the GTP. But if you compare this to the abstracted …

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #StPaul. decent audience tape: https://archive.org/details/jg75-11-22.141929.jgb.shure545.overlid.knudsen.gems.t-f…

A survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% Facebook, 50% Instagram, 37% TikTok, 32% WhatsApp, 26% Reddit, 25% Snapchat, 21% X, and 8% Threads (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-202…

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025
YouTube remains the most popular, but adults are increasingly using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit. Use of some platforms varies by age, gender, and race and ethnicity.

Very cool population genomic look into local adaptation against gene flow at a relatively small spatial scale, urban/rural gradients across metro Toronto in this month's @…
Signatures of selective sweeps in urban and rural white clover populations

Right-Wingers Celebrate Flawed Study Claiming a "Decline" in Trans Identity | Them
https://www.them.us/story/eric-kaufmann-center-heterodox-decline-trans-queer-identities-study

I’m on board the Michigan Flyer bus from Blake Transit Center in downtown Ann Arbor to Detroit Metropolitan Airport McNamara Terminal.

Clustering with Set Outliers and Applications in Relational Clustering
Vaishali Surianarayanan, Neeraj Kumar, Stavros Sintos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16194 https://

Clustering with Set Outliers and Applications in Relational Clustering
We introduce and study the $k$-center clustering problem with set outliers, a natural and practical generalization of the classical $k$-center clustering with outliers. Instead of removing individual data points, our model allows discarding up to $z$ subsets from a given family of candidate outlier sets $\mathcal{H}$. Given a metric space $(P,\mathsf{dist})$, where $P$ is a set of elements and $\mathsf{dist}$ a distance metric, a family of sets $\mathcal{H}\subseteq 2^P$, and parameters $k, z$,…

Early Look at Maine Primary Races: Platner Leads Mills, Collins Far Ahead of Unknown GOP Challengers 10/23/2025 (University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository)
https://scholars.unh.edu/survey_center_polls/897/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p51#a251023p51

Yellow Rose. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2025. #ranchopalosverdes #garden #rosegarden

Ekitike continues to loudly make the case that he should be starting. Whether that's on a side or in the center, I don't care. He simply must start.
Isak opened brightly, but the low block dried up the service for his runs.
I would like to see Salah get some time in the second half. When Klopp didn't start him, it often fueled his return to form. Everything is complicated, but I believe in Salah's fire and competitiveness to win out.

Am I the only one who is bewildered that a location so close to city hall, less than 1/3 of a mile to Van Ness BRT, BART, CIvic Center MUNI station, 5, 6 and 19 bus lines is a low priority location for urban infill? Close to a great library and large open space with playgrounds? Why there is not serious activity on the part of the city to build mixed income housing so as to help bring a range of incomes into the community? Why isn't the city mapping a strategy that transitions this n…

Plans for affordable housing at shuttered S.F. food hall site stuck in limbo 
La Cocina’s space in the Tenderloin was pitched as a community hub with cheap eats, and eventually affordable housing. Neither is happening.

Am I the only one who is bewildered that a location so close to city hall, less than 1/3 of a mile to Van Ness BRT, BART, CIvic Center MUNI station, 5, 6 and 19 bus lines is a low priority location for urban infill? Close to a great library and large open space with playgrounds? Why there is not serious activity on the part of the city to build mixed income housing so as to help bring a range of incomes into the community? Why isn't the city mapping a strategy that transitions this n…

Plans for affordable housing at shuttered S.F. food hall site stuck in limbo 
La Cocina’s space in the Tenderloin was pitched as a community hub with cheap eats, and eventually affordable housing. Neither is happening.

Tim Hortons merch coming up at a mall near you
🤢
(Stolen on Reddit #toronto)

Ready for the Las Vegas Raiders Smoot's JACKPOT! | Command Center | Washington Commanders https://www.commanders.com/video/ready-for-the-las-vegas-raiders-smoot-s-jackpot-command-center-washington-commanders-nfl

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
SOOLIN: Why don't we wait in the Pursers Office?
TARRANT: What a good idea! [They enter the Pursers Office and check the monitor screen.] Any minute now.
[Entering the Space Princess hold.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/267 B7B4

MEF: A Systematic Evaluation Framework for Text-to-Image Models
Xiaojing Dong, Weilin Huang, Liang Li, Yiying Li, Shu Liu, Tongtong Ou, Shuang Ouyang, Yu Tian, Fengxuan Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17907

MEF: A Systematic Evaluation Framework for Text-to-Image Models
Rapid advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation have raised higher requirements for evaluation methodologies. Existing benchmarks center on objective capabilities and dimensions, but lack an application-scenario perspective, limiting external validity. Moreover, current evaluations typically rely on either ELO for overall ranking or MOS for dimension-specific scoring, yet both methods have inherent shortcomings and limited interpretability. Therefore, we introduce the Magic Evaluation Framewor…

Still missing for Europe: a website monitoring local communities against data centers.
„$64 billion in U.S. data center projects have been blocked or delayed by a growing wave of local, bipartisan opposition. What was once quiet infrastructure is now a national flashpoint — and communities are pushing back.“
https://www.datacenterwa…

OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage Data Centers plan to build a data center in Wisconsin called Lighthouse, costing $15B and set to open in 2028, as part of Stargate (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-oracle-announce-…

El Instituto Meteorológico Nacional de Costa Rica #IMNCR avisa que la onda tropical #40 podría convertirse en ciclón (ya sea tormenta tropical o incluso huracšn) y que viene hacia Centroamérica

just starting to rain lightly when I came in just now, which I love, plus they lit up and Embarcadero Center today!

Center Stage: So funktionieren Apples neue Selfie-Kameras beim iPhone 17
Apple hat ein neues Selfie-Feature implementiert, das bislang unbekannt war: Der Center-Stage-Sensor ist so eingerichtet, dass man frei knipsen kann.
…

Subteaming and Adaptive Formation Control for Coordinated Multi-Robot Navigation
Zihao Deng, Peng Gao, Williard Joshua Jose, Maggie Wigness, John Rogers, Brian Reily, Christopher Reardon, Hao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16412

Subteaming and Adaptive Formation Control for Coordinated Multi-Robot Navigation
Coordinated multi-robot navigation is essential for robots to operate as a team in diverse environments. During navigation, robot teams usually need to maintain specific formations, such as circular formations to protect human teammates at the center. However, in complex scenarios such as narrow corridors, rigidly preserving predefined formations can become infeasible. Therefore, robot teams must be capable of dynamically splitting into smaller subteams and adaptively controlling the subteams t…

Moody Urbanity - ONE 1️⃣
情绪化城市 - 壹 1️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Cowboys Trade Prediction Lands Them $36 Million Linebacker https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/logan-wilson-trade-prediction-bengals/?adt_ei=[email]

Nearly half of rural hospitals now operate at a loss.
As new federal budget cuts take effect, analysts warn that hundreds of rural hospitals more may close.
-- threatening to turn vast stretches of the country into health-care deserts.
At the center of this growing crisis lies a rollback in federal health-coverage spending.
Nonpartisan analyses show large Medicaid reductions over ten years.
-- the total is on the order of eight to nine hundred billion dollars f…

Rural Hospitals in the United States Face Collapse
As Medicaid cuts deepen, small-town hospitals across Republican states are closing, leaving millions without access to emergency care.

Meta forms a JV with Blue Owl to fund the $27B, 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, its largest ever private capital deal; Meta will retain a ~20% equity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-forms-joint-ventu…

New partnership brings clean energy and lower costs to businesses in the southern Philippines. A step towards a greener future for all! #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

New partnership could slash energy costs for crucial businesses: 'Hopefully a sign for much more'
Businesses in the southern Philippines have secured an 8.4-megawatt renewable power contract, all without paying anything upfront.

#Kiel
„Unser #Stadtbild ist bunt!
Diesen Mittwoch treffen wir uns am Stresemannplatz (vor dem Welcome Center), um gemeinsam zu zeigen: Vielfalt gehört dazu – in unseren Städten und in unserer Gesellschaft.
[…]
Wir stehen zusammen gegen Rassismus, Ausgrenzung und Hetze.
Denn: Unsere S…

Woher will #OpenAI das Geld für dieses Data Center nehmen? Und den Strom? Und die Chips?
OpenAI, Sur Energy Weigh $25 Billion Argentina Data Center Project - Slashdot https://

Introducing the method of ellipcenters, a new first order technique for unconstrained optimization
Roger Behling, Ramyro Aquines Correa, Eduarda Ferreira Zanatta, Vincent Guigues
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15471

Introducing the method of ellipcenters, a new first order technique for unconstrained optimization
In this paper, we introduce the Method of Ellipcenters (ME) for unconstrained minimization. At the cost of two gradients per iteration and a line search, we compute the next iterate by setting it as the center of an elliptical interpolation. The idea behind the ellipse built in each step is to emulate the original level curve of the objective function constrained to a suitable two-dimensional affine space, which is determined by the current iterate and two appropriate gradient vectors. We prese…

Philadelphia will open historic Pride visitors center to mark 250th anniversary of the United States - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/philadelphia-will-open-historic-pride-visitors-center-to-mark-250th-anniversary-of-the-united-states/

The power and purpose of the elite modern training center https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6631290/2025/09/19/building-training-center-nfl-nba-premier-league-mls/

Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Brings Oil Spill Risks to U.S. Coasts https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-offshore-drilling-plan-brings-oil-spill-risks-to-us-coasts-2025-11-20/
…

Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Brings Oil Spill Risks to U.S. Coasts
Center for Biological Diversity: Industry Giveaway of Public Waters Proposed During Climate Talks

My son Elliot sitting on a log near the summit of Shindagin Hollow State Forest
#photo #photography #shindaginhollow

Low prices, available land, and cooler weather are driving the data center boom in the Nordics, which have 1.5 GW of capacity live and 7.5 GW in the pipeline (Maggie Shiltagh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Chicago: Tear gas deployed amid protest outside suburban ICE processing center | WGN-TV
https://wgntv.com/western-suburbs/tear-gas-deployed-amid-protest-outside-suburban-ice-processing-center/

Inside the locker room https://www.commanders.com/video/inside-the-locker-room-c-tyler-biadasz-x7434

Pair of small cosmos, what I liked about this batch was seeing the little grains of pollen that had migrated to the petals
#photo #photography #flowers

"Among Republicans younger than 45, the decline is particularly glaring: 61% say the country is headed in the wrong direction, a spike of 30 percentage points since June, the last time the question was asked."
https://apnews.com/article/poll-r…

More Republicans say US is headed in wrong direction, poll finds
A new poll shows Republicans’ outlook on the direction of the country has soured dramatically. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll was conducted shortly after last week's assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah. The poll shows the share of Republicans who see the country headed in the right direction has fallen sharply in recent months. Today, only about half in the GOP see the nation on the right course, down from 70% in June. Overall, about …

Cowboys lose blossoming star OL to injury, starting center out 6-8 weeks https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/09/15/cowboys-center-cooper-beebe-expected-to-miss-the-next-6-8-weeks/8616557600…

US tech giants are on a data center building spree, sparking fury worldwide; research says ~60% of the 1,244 largest global centers in June were outside the US (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technology/ai-data-center-b…

AI Data Centers Create Fury From Mexico to Ireland
As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.

The Liberty Justice Center
is the litigation arm of the
right-wing Illinois Policy Institute.
It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions
(including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case),
attacked gun safety measures,
and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

The Liberty Justice Center received $1 million in 2021 from the Marcus Foundation,
a charitable giving nonprofit run b…

Liberty Justice Center | Supreme Transparency
The Liberty Justice Center is the litigation arm of the right-wing Illinois Policy Institute. It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions (including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case), attacked gun safety measures, and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.

Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’ https://www.404media.co/two-weeks-of-surveillance-footage-from-ice-detention-center-irretrievably-destroyed/

Where to watch Seahawks vs. Saints: Prediction, TV channel, live stream, pick, odds, spread

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-sea…

A novel Reverberation mapping method for blazars
Junhao Deng, Lizhi Liu, Yifan Wang, Yunguo Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16927 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

A novel Reverberation mapping method for blazars
The reverberation mapping (RM) is the most promising method to measure the mass of supermassive black hole in the center of active galaxy nuclei (AGNs). However, the dominant jet component hinders the application of RM method for blazars. In this work, we present a new algorithm to disentangle the contributions of the accretion disk and relativistic jet in blazars by analyzing the optical spectroscopic data. Applying this method to two flat-spectrum radio quasars, PKS 1510-089 and PKS 0736+017,…

Australia's first national report on indoor air quality reveals urgent need for action #Australia

Australia's first national report on indoor air quality reveals urgent need for action
The "State of Indoor Air in Australia 2025" report, led by QUT's ARC Training Center for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission (THRIVE), highlights the health, well-being and economic risks posed by poor indoor air quality across homes, workplaces, schools, hospitals and public buildings.

Cluster of white coneflowers in my favorite garden -- the Prairie garden in front of the Vet research tower
#flowers #photo #photography

Trump vows U.S. help in settling Sudan war, at request of Saudi crown prince (Kathryn Watson/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-sudan-saudi-arabia-mohammed-bin-salman-kennedy-center/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p128#a251119p128

Grambling State's 'World Famed Tiger Marching Band' and Jackson State's 'Sonic Boom of the South' set to take center stage at the P

A look at the data center cluster in the Chinese city of Wuhu, where 15 companies, including Huawei, have built data centers with a total investment of $37B (Financial Times)

Did the Vikings botch their QB situation? Reassessing Minnesota's now-bumpy bet on J.J. McCarthy, backup plans

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/did-…

View from behind Clark and Rockefeller Halls where I spent a lot of time as a grad student in physics
#photo #photography #architecture

Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

New Marquette Law School National Survey Finds More People Favoring Democrats Than Republicans In Anticipated 2026 Vote For Congress And Also More Democrats Saying They Are Certain To Vote (A Marquette education prepares students ...)
https://www.marquette.edu/news-center/2025/new-marquette-law-national-survey-finds-more-people-favoring-democrats-in-anticipated-2026-vote-for-congress.php
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p62#a251119p62

On Wednesday night, Nvidia released its highly anticipated/dreaded quarterly earnings report
— and Wall Street let out a sigh of relief,
— at least initially.
The multitrillion dollar chipmaker at the center of the AI boom reported
a ludicrous $57 billion in quarterly revenue,
netting it nearly $32 billion in profit.
Compared to the same quarter from the year before,
it amounted to a 62 percent surge in sales,
and a further 65 percent increase …

Oops! Nvidia’s Stock Is Falling Again After Its “Blowout” Earnings Report
After dazzling Wall Street with a "blowout" earnings report which saw its stock rise, Nvidia's stock is already declining.

Don’t Debase the Census | Brennan Center for Justice
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/dont-debase-census

Wilson booed amid chants for Dart in Giants' loss https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46343269/russell-wilson-booed-new-york-giants-stumble-0-3

A look at CoreWeave, whose financing strategy involves using GPUs as collateral for large loans, which enabled rapid expansion but resulted in $11.2B in debt (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

How CoreWeave’s GPU Bet Made Four Risk-Loving Cryptominers AI Billionaires
Creative financing and an enormous appetite for risk helped CoreWeave’s Michael Intrator ride the AI data center boom to a $6.7 billion personal fortune. But as bubble fears mount, his reliance on billions in debt to supply advanced chips to major AI players puts him in a powerful position.

Marcus Mariota Sends Strong Message to Raiders After Commanders Win https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/marcus-mariota-message-commanders-win/?adt_ei=[email]

Louisiana’s Chief Election Official Confirms Lack of Widespread Noncitizen Voting | Brennan Center for Justice
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/louisianas-chief-election-official-confirms-lack-widespread-noncitizen

The International Mountain Biking Association helped build this trail in Shindagin Hollow State forest to train our local club how to build and maintain trails
#photo #photography #forest

Jason Kelce Doesn’t Hold Back on Raiders After Loss to Chiefs https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jason-kelce-las-vegas-chiefs/?adt_ei=[email]

‘The dungeon’ at Louisiana’s notorious prison reopens as Ice detention center
The Louisiana state penitentiary at Angola – the largest maximum security prison in the country – was out of bed space for “violent offenders” who would be “transferred to its facilities”,
the governor warned in an executive order.
The emergency declaration allowed for the rapid refurbishing of a notorious, shuttered housing unit at Angola formerly known as Camp J
– commonly referred to by p…

Cooper Beebe injury: Cowboys center expected to miss 6-8 weeks with high ankle sprain, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cooper-

Microsoft says it will bring a $3.3B data center in Wisconsin online in early 2026 and calls it "the world's most powerful AI datacenter" (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.c…

WA health inspectors on cusp of gaining access to Tacoma immigrant detention center • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/09/16/wa-health-inspectors-on-cusp-of-gaining-access-to-tacoma-immigrant-detention-center/

Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-data-center-resistance-has-arrived/

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

Black and white Cosmos flower (note the pollen grains on the petals!)
#photo #photography #bloomscrolling #flower

Nvidia and Intel announce a partnership to develop multiple new generations of x86 products; Nvidia will purchase $5B of Intel stock at $23.28 per share (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)

Nvidia and Intel announce jointly developed 'Intel x86 RTX SOCs' for PCs with Nvidia graphics, also custom Nvidia data center x86 processors — Nvidia buys $5 billion in Intel stock in seismic deal
Cats and Dogs, living together!

𝑂𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑢𝑚 a.k.a. African Daisy seen in an annuals bed towards the end of the season
#photo #photography #flowers

OpenAI partners with Foxconn to design and develop data center server racks to be manufactured in the US; Foxconn will produce cabling, power systems, and more (Seth Fiegerman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

CoreWeave says it won't increase its $9B offer for data center provider Core Scientific, despite opposition to the deal from major Core Scientific shareholders (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-2…

A survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, 50% use Instagram, 37% use TikTok, 32% use WhatsApp, 26% use Reddit, and 21% use X (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/…

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025
YouTube remains the most popular, but adults are increasingly using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit. Use of some platforms varies by age, gender, and race and ethnicity.

Data center proposals are facing growing opposition from towns across the US, as residents and officials raise concerns about water and electricity use (Daniel Wu/Washington Post)

Towns are saying no to AI data centers. One got sued over it.
A developer sued a Michigan township after it voted against a data center proposal. Cities in Ohio and Missouri have explored data center bans.

CleanSpark shares jump 12% after the bitcoin miner expands into AI infrastructure, hiring Humain's president Jeffrey Thomas as SVP of AI data centers (David Pan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-…

CleanSpark Shares Surge After Bitcoin Miner Joins Pivot to AI
Shares of CleanSpark Inc. surged as much as 13% after the Bitcoin miner announced that it was expanding into date-center infrastructure and the hiring of Jeffrey Thomas from Saudi Arabian AI firm Humain.

The new iPhones have an 18MP Center Stage front camera that features a new square sensor and can use AI to automatically adjust the field of view and rotation (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/iphone/774679/iphone-17-front-facing-came…

iPhone 17’s front-facing camera gets Center Stage
iPhone 17 has a new square sensor that enables Center Stage and lets you take landscape selfies without rotating the phone.

Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, vs. $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66% to $51.2B, and net income up 65% to $31.9B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q3-2026.html

Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said sales for the company's current-generation GPU, called Blackwell, are "off the charts."

Sources: Meta is set to seal an almost $30B financing package for its Louisiana data center; Meta will retain 20% ownership in the Hyperion data center site (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/blue…