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An analysis of 30 US data center proposals in 14 states: in most cases, local officials signed NDAs and worked with apparent shell companies to hide details (Natalie Kainz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/dat

How NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans
A review of over 30 data center proposals across 14 states found that in most cases, officials signed NDAs and worked with what appeared to be shell companies.

The Center Left Is in Denial About NATO’s New Normal https://jacobin.com/2025/08/center-left-nato-military-welfare/

The Center Left Is in Denial About NATO’s New Normal
NATO members across Europe have embraced Donald Trump’s call to spend 5 percent of GDP on defense. Many social democrats argue that this shouldn’t come at the cost of welfare cuts, but they refuse to challenge the military spending plan itself.

Micah Parsons takes center stage as his Packers visit the Cowboys a month after trade https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/micah-parsons-takes-center-stage-as-his-packers-visit-the-cowboys-a-month-after-trade…

We've reached the point in the evolution of cyber scamming where military units are blowing up buildings to stop the digital crimes.
Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
https://apnews.com/artic…

Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
A Thai regional army commander say that the number of people fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand after Myanmar’s military shut down a major online scam center has slowed to a trickle. The news on Tuesday came after more than 1,500 people had left in the past week. The KK Park site was identified by Thai officials and independent experts as housing a major cybercrime operation. It was raided by Myanmar’s army in mid-October as part of operations starting in early September to suppress cross-bor…

Amazon opens Project Rainier, an $11B AI data center on 1,200 acres in Indiana that trains and runs Anthropic's AI models using 500K Amazon Trainium 2 chips (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/amazon-opens-11-bi…

Amazon opens $11 billion AI data center in rural Indiana as rivals race to break ground
Amazon has opened a date center on 1,200 acres of land in Indiana dedicated to training and running models from Anthropic.

Neue Rechenzentren: CloudHQ investiert 4,8 Milliarden US-Dollar in Mexiko
Die mexikanische Großstadt Querétaro entwickelt sich immer mehr zu einem attraktiven Standort für Data Center. Nach Microsoft und Amazon investiert nun CloudHQ.

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30,
a casualty of Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance
—and its push away from science.
As part of the overarching…

After Trump Cut the National Science Foundation by 56 Percent, a Venerable Arctic Research Center Closes Its Doors - Inside Climate News
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30, a casualty of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance—and its push away from science. As part of the overarching defunding of science […]

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter
swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the
batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The
center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his
eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.
-- Dizzy Dean

China claims it has completed the first phase of construction of the first underwater data center, which is powered by wind energy and cooled by seawater (Anna Lagos/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-dives-in-on-the-worlds-first-wind-p…

China Dives in on the World’s First Wind-Powered Undersea Data Center
The $226 million project uses ocean breezes and seawater to stay cool.

I saw this blooming today downtown by the Cayuga Lake Inlet, my wife thinks it is a tree that's supposed to bloom in the Spring that's blooming in late August instead
#photo #photography #flowers

Nick Mangold, All-Pro center for Jets, dies at age of 41 after bout with kidney disease https://www.nfl.com/news/nick-mangold-dies-all-pro-center-jets-age-41-kidney-disease

A test of seven AI chatbots' abilities to identify news photos' location, date, and photographer showed all failed to consistently identify photos' provenance (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/why-ai-models-are-bad-at-verifyi…

Why AI models are bad at verifying photos
Many of the latest large language models, including OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5, tout an impressive capability: reasoning about images. We have seen viral trends of AI models geolocating obscure vacation pictures, impressive demos of LLMs correctly analyzing blurry or cropped photos, and promising results on benchmark tests. These seem to be fueling punditry on whether […]

🇺🇦In the center of KYIV! ZELENSKYY awarded KELLOG #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/in-the-center-of-kyiv.html

Started work on the PIC12F683 deep dive project.
Here's a WIP shot of the cross section at P2500. Needs just a little more time to center the section in the wire bonds before I switch to finer abrasives for the final polish.

Just leaked, secret video of ICE recruiting center...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryvljjccqL8

The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/articles/the-piano-taking-center-stage-at-the-2025-verbier-festival-13705/

The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival
PIANO NEWS: An article about The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival from the Piano Street Magazine.

ICE Eyes Naval Base Outside Chicago as Operations Center (Victoria Albert/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-chicago-operations-naval-base-e343c18a
http://www.memeorandum.com/250828/p105#a250828p105

Myanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as part of operations starting in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-scam-centers-cybercr…

Stragglers from Myanmar scam center raided by army cross into Thailand as buildings are blown up
A Thai regional army commander say that the number of people fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand after Myanmar’s military shut down a major online scam center has slowed to a trickle. The news on Tuesday came after more than 1,500 people had left in the past week. The KK Park site was identified by Thai officials and independent experts as housing a major cybercrime operation. It was raided by Myanmar’s army in mid-October as part of operations starting in early September to suppress cross-bor…

Decentralized Detection with Many Sensors: Optimality of Exchangeable and Identical Encoding Policies
Sina Sanjari, Naci Saldi, Sinan Gezici, Serdar Y\"uksel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21724

Decentralized Detection with Many Sensors: Optimality of Exchangeable and Identical Encoding Policies
We study a class of binary detection problems involving a single fusion center and a large or countably infinite number of sensors. Each sensor acts under a decentralized information structure, accessing only a local noisy observation related to the hypothesis. Based on this observation, sensors select policies to transmit a quantized signal through their actions to the fusion center, which makes the final decision using only these actions. This paper makes the following contributions: i) In th…

Why Synthetic Isn't Real Yet: A Diagnostic Framework for Contact Center Dialogue Generation
Rishikesh Devanathan, Varun Nathan, Ayush Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18210 …

Why Synthetic Isn't Real Yet: A Diagnostic Framework for Contact Center Dialogue Generation
Synthetic transcript generation is critical in contact center domains, where privacy and data scarcity limit model training and evaluation. Unlike prior synthetic dialogue generation work on open-domain or medical dialogues, contact center conversations are goal-oriented, role-asymmetric, and behaviorally complex, featuring disfluencies, ASR noise, and compliance-driven agent actions. In deployments where transcripts are unavailable, standard pipelines still yield derived call attributes such a…

I have just discovered that some random games website has a PeerTube-based video section. I am officially on tom3 dot com, everyone! https://tom3.com/c/furbland_channelAAU

🚨Job alert! 🚨 Two Post-docs "bridging knowledge between Earth and Planetary sciences (the Solar System) and Exoplanet science (beyond the Solar System)" at the Munich Center for Geoastronomy #geology #planetary

25 days, is how long it took my wife’s passport application to be mailed from a post office in the U.S. to the Canadian passport application center in Quebec.
In case anyone is wondering how the USPS is doing.

Coherent control of nitrogen nuclear spins via the V$_B^-$-center in hexagonal boron nitride
Adalbert Tibi\'assy, Charlie J. Patrickson, Thomas Poirier, James H. Edgar, Bruno Lopez-Rodriguez, Viktor Iv\'ady, Isaac J. Luxmoore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22257

Coherent control of nitrogen nuclear spins via the V$_B^-$-center in hexagonal boron nitride
Charged boron vacancies (V$_\text{B}^-$) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as a promising platform for quantum nanoscale sensing and imaging. While these primarily involve electron spins, nuclear spins provide an additional resource for quantum operations. This work presents a comprehensive experimental and theoretical study of the properties and coherent control of the nearest-neighbor $^{15}$N nuclear spins of V$_\text{B}^-$-ensembles in isotope-enriched h$^{10}$B$^{15}$N. Multi-n…

White rose, covered in water droplets. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2024. #maryandjosephretreatcenter #ranchopalosverdes #rose

BRITISH COLUMBIA
Tsunami watch issued for much of B.C. coast after magnitude 8.7 quake off Russia
Bulletin issued by U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center spans parts of B.C., including Greater Victoria, Emergency Info BC says

Orange Tiger Lily (𝐿𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚) that I also saw in a Collegetown garden
#photo #photography #ithaca #bloomscrolling

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

Immigrants locked up in California’s newest federal detention center have described the facility as
“a torture chamber”, “a zoo” and “hell on earth”,
saying they were confined in filthy cells and suffered medical crises without help.
Six people detained at the
California City detention center,
which opened in late August and is now the state’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center,
shared accounts with the Guardian of poor cond…

Former Jets star center Mangold dies at age 41 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46732108/nick-mangold-former-jets-star-center-dies-age-41

Isofrequency spin-wave imaging using color center magnetometry for magnon spintronics
Samuel Ma\~nas-Valero, Yasmin C. Doedes, Artem Bondarenko, Michael Borst, Samer Kurdi, Thomas Poirier, James H. Edgar, Vincent Jacques, Yaroslav M. Blanter, Toeno van der Sar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18775

Isofrequency spin-wave imaging using color center magnetometry for magnon spintronics
Magnon spintronics aims to harness spin waves in magnetic films for information technologies. Color center magnetometry is a promising tool for imaging spin waves, using electronic spins associated with atomic defects in solid-state materials as sensors. However, two main limitations persist: the magnetic fields required for spin-wave control detune the sensor-spin detection frequency, and this frequency is further restricted by the color center nature. Here, we overcome these limitations by de…

Urban Diaspora VI 🏮
城市放逐 VI 🏮
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

#ICE Is holed up in a #Milwaukee bldg owned by a local Universisty and despite previous 2023 assurances it would soon move on , are now refusing to leave.
The local Milwaukee School of Engineering is now in an awkward position as it's planned expansion site is now engineered to be off limits to them as it is a…

ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It
The Milwaukee School of Engineering is largely powerless to kick ICE out of a building it wanted to turn into a new academic center, according to audio of a meeting obtained by 404 Media.

#catcontent meets #RDM: "A collection of AI generated images visualising various RDM aspects" https://zenodo.org/records/16925229

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

#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.

On the Future of Software Reuse in the Era of AI Native Software Engineering
Antero Taivalsaari, Tommi Mikkonen, Cesare Pautasso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19834 https://…

On the Future of Software Reuse in the Era of AI Native Software Engineering
Software development is currently under a paradigm shift in which artificial intelligence and generative software reuse are taking the center stage in software creation. Earlier opportunistic software reuse practices and organic software development methods are rapidly being replaced by "AI Native" approaches in which developers place their trust on code that has been generated by artificial intelligence. This is leading to a new form of software reuse that is conceptually not all that differen…

"Soft-sided tents"?
This is Alex Jones' "FEMA is building detention camps to put us after they take our guns" hysteria made reality and inflicted on whoever Trump wants to punish, no conviction required.
#Utah already did residential schools and Japanese-American internment camps to our eternal shame and guilt. Utah currently has a huge, barely legal teenager an…

Will Utah be home to new ICE detention center?
A new report claims Utah is expected to be the site of a new ICE detention center built by the Department of Homeland Security.

Quantum internal vibrations in macroscopic systems with classical centers of mass
Gabriel H. S. Aguiar, George E. A. Matsas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22429 https://

Quantum internal vibrations in macroscopic systems with classical centers of mass
Harmonizing classical and quantum worlds is a major challenge for modern physics. A significant portion of the scientific community supports the notion that classical mechanics is an effective theory that arises from quantum mechanics. Recently, the present authors have argued that this should not be the case, as quantum mechanics is not trustworthy for describing the center of mass of systems with masses $m$ much larger than the Planck mass $M_\text{P}$. In this vein, a simple gravitational se…

Das Science Center phaeno in Wolfsburg lädt ein zur Vortragsreihe 2025 „Galaktische Entdeckungen“. Expert:innen aus Astrophysik, Raumfahrt und Forschung berichten von den neuesten Erkenntnissen, spektakulären Missionen und großen Fragen rund um das Weltall.
Eintritt frei, alle Termine hier: https://www.

#Cisco spielt grade auch eher "gonna catch em all" mit den "habt-ihr-lack-gesoffen"-CVEs, oder? Müssen die zu FortiNet aufholen, oder was ist da los? Oo
CVE-2025-20352
Ja, user mit read-only-SNMP können beliebige Dinge als root ausführen. (afair ist das per default an)

Experience Deploying Containerized GenAI Services at an HPC Center
Angel M. Beltre, Jeff Ogden, Kevin Pedretti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20603 https://arx…

Experience Deploying Containerized GenAI Services at an HPC Center
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) applications are built from specialized components -- inference servers, object storage, vector and graph databases, and user interfaces -- interconnected via web-based APIs. While these components are often containerized and deployed in cloud environments, such capabilities are still emerging at High-Performance Computing (HPC) centers. In this paper, we share our experience deploying GenAI workloads within an established HPC center, discussing the in…

Busy little spider! A female Spiny Orb Weaver has set up house between the oak tree and the neighbors palms which are about 35 feet away. It is also attached to the power into the house and the ground. I marked about where it is in an attempt to not knock it down when I cut the front grass tomorrow. Figure after that much work she deserves to enjoy all the hopefully mosquitos that she snares.

Putin visits center for nuclear weapons research day after Trump says Ukraine can't win without striking Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/putin-visits-center-for-nuclear.html

Bridging the Regulatory Divide: Ensuring Safety and Equity in Wearable Health Technologies
Akshay Kelshiker (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), Susan Cheng (Independent Researcher), Jivan Achar (Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine), Jane Bambauer (University of Florida Levin College of Law), Leo Anthony Celi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Divya Jain (University of Washington Sch…

Bridging the Regulatory Divide: Ensuring Safety and Equity in Wearable Health Technologies
As wearable health technologies have grown more sophisticated, the distinction between "wellness" and "medical" devices has become increasingly blurred. While some features undergo formal U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review, many over-the-counter tools operate in a regulatory grey zone, leveraging health-related data and outputs without clinical validation. Further complicating the issue is the widespread repurposing of wellness devices for medical uses, which can introduce safety ri…

Rejoinder to the discussion of "Mode-based estimation of the center of symmetry"
Jos\'e E. Chac\'on, Javier Fern\'andez Serrano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18909

Rejoinder to the discussion of "Mode-based estimation of the center of symmetry"
Rejoinder to the discussion by Hino (2025) and Pardo-Fernández (2025) of Chacón and Fernández Serrano (2025), a special paper (with discussion) published in Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics.

How Kyrsten Sinema Bullied an Arizona City to Approve Her Client's AI Data Center (Andrew Perez/Zeteo)
https://zeteo.com/p/kyrsten-sinema-arizona-lobby-ai-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p159#a251028p159

Fifty Years of SAR Automatic Target Recognition: The Road Forward
Jie Zhou, Yongxiang Liu, Li Liu, Weijie Li, Bowen Peng, Yafei Song, Gangyao Kuang, Xiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22159

Fifty Years of SAR Automatic Target Recognition: The Road Forward
This paper provides the first comprehensive review of fifty years of synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) development, tracing its evolution from inception to the present day. Central to our analysis is the inheritance and refinement of traditional methods, such as statistical modeling, scattering center analysis, and feature engineering, within modern deep learning frameworks. The survey clearly distinguishes long-standing challenges that have been substantially miti…

Here's what you need to know about the RCE flaw in the Cisco appliance software
Cisco: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-http-code-exec-WmfP3h3O
NCSC:

Data Center Map - Colocation, Cloud and Connectivity
Do you want to check where your data is geographically located or which providers are your "neighbors"? Here you can watch it online worldwide – in other words: virtual reality in real world gegography.
🗺️ https://www.datacentermap.com

A test of seven AI chatbots' abilities to identify news photos' location, date, and photographer showed all failed to consistently identify photos' provenance (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/why-ai-models-are-bad-at-verifyi…

Errands and stuff day started with reading a bit in the #NationalGeographics magazine.
Btw also follow
@…
#goodMorning

I think my package is trying to hit all 6 boroughs before it arrives to my house.

@… We could use more lifeguards at the Takoma Aquatic Center. Just saying.

Particle Acceleration and Transport in the Large-scale Current Sheet under an Erupting Magnetic Flux Rope
Hao Wu, Yang Guo, Rony Keppens, Chun Xia, Yang Su, Xiangliang Kong, Mingde Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22265

Particle Acceleration and Transport in the Large-scale Current Sheet under an Erupting Magnetic Flux Rope
We investigate the acceleration and transport of electrons in the highly fine-structured current sheet that develops during magnetic flux rope (MFR) eruptions. Our work combines ultra-resolved MHD simulations of MFR eruption, with test-particle studies performed using the guiding center approximation. Our grid-adaptive, fully three-dimensional, high-resolution magnetohydrodynamic simulations model MFR eruptions that form complex current sheet topologies, serving as background electromagnetic fi…

A Multi-Messenger Search for the Supermassive Black Hole Binary in 3C 66B with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array
Jacob Cardinal Tremblay, Boris Goncharov, Rutger van Haasteren, N. D. Ramesh Bhat, Zu-Cheng Chen, Valentina Di Marco, Satoru Iguchi, Agastya Kapur, Wenhua Ling, Rami Mandow, Saurav Mishra, Daniel J. Reardon, Ryan M. Shannon, Hiroshi Sudou, Jingbo Wang, Shi-Yi Zhao, Xing-Jiang Zhu, Andrew Zic

A Multi-Messenger Search for the Supermassive Black Hole Binary in 3C 66B with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array
A sub-parsec supermassive black hole binary at the center of the galaxy 3C 66B is a promising candidate for continuous gravitational wave searches with Pulsar Timing Arrays. In this work, we search for such a signal in the third data release of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array. Matching our priors to estimates of binary parameters from electromagnetic observations, we find log Bayes factor of 0.22, highlighting that the source can be neither confirmed nor ruled out. We place upper limits at 95% c…

"We are not currently seeing spikes today in electricity usage in our northern Illinois region that are attributable to data centers, [...]" - ComEd spokesperson
Nevertheless, prices up ~45% from last year.
https://blockclubchic…

AI Use And Data Centers Are Causing ComEd Bills To Spike — And It Will Likely Get Worse
The price of electricity has gone up due to a projected increase in demand from data centers, with Chicago acting as a data center hub, officials said.

A fire at South Korea's National Information Resources Service's data center shut down 647 government IT systems, disrupting services such as postal banking (Lee Jung-joo/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10584785

Fire at government data center halts 647 systems, disrupts services - The Korea Herald
A fire at the National Information Resources Service’s data center in Daejeon late Friday temporarily shut down 647 government IT systems, according to the Mini

The state of Florida is committed to $245 million toward the construction of
"Alligator Alcatraz,"
the Everglades immigration detention facility which is due to close in days.
Having to close the new Florida detention facility would be a blow to
both Governor DeSantis and the Trump administration,
and would show that one of the main impediments to authoritarian White House policy continues to be the courts.

Ron DeSantis Wasted $250 Million on Alligator Alcatraz as It Faces Closure
A federal judge has ruled that the new Florida detention center must close within 60 days.

Wow, this seems like a big deal - an RCE in some critical Cisco products that can be exploited by low-privilege users.
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-http-code-exec-WmfP3h3O

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

A daisy family flower with a radial gradient from red-orange in the center to yellow on the outside
#flowers #photo #photography

Moody Urbanity - Playground 🎠
情绪化城市 - 娱乐场 🎠
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Military leaders voice concern over Hegseth’s new Pentagon strategy
Multiple top officers, including Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
criticized Hegseth's reordered
U.S. military priorities
— which center on perceived threats to the homeland, narrow U.S. competition with China
— and downplay America’s role in Europe and Africa.

Military leaders voice concern over Hegseth’s new Pentagon strategy
Top military officials have voiced concern over the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon’s political and uniformed leadership.

Vikings' patchwork OL suffers two more losses https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46411306/vikings-brian-oneill-ryan-kelly-injured-steelers

Kennedy Center's New Dance Director Criticized 'Woke' Ballet Culture (Julia Jacobs/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/arts/dance/kennedy-center-stephen-nakagawa.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p3#a250826p3

South Korea confirms that a fire at National Information Resources Service's data center, housing 647 government IT systems, directly damaged 96 of them (Lee Jung-joo/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10585032

Govt. races to restore services after data center blaze; 96 systems confirmed damaged - The Korea Herald
The Ministry of Interior and Safety said Sunday that recovery work is currently in progress at the government-run National Information Resources Service in Daej

@… can any of them swim? We could use more lifeguards at the Takoma Aquatic Center.

Nesting spots for birds on top of a telephone pole in the Mulholland Wildflower Refuge
#photo #photography #landscape

Treating Ebola can require extensive resources,
including protective equipment, medicines, and transportation to reach remote areas.
Health facilities in the area of the outbreak are already overwhelmed and quickly running low on critical resources,
including clean water and protective equipment.
The only treatment center in the epicenter of the outbreak, the Bulape health zone,
is at 119 percent capacity, the AP reported,
citing information from the Int…

Ebola outbreak in DR Congo rages, with 61% death rate and funding running dry
Responders ask for $25 million to contain the disease. They have $2.2 million.

Fermi, a data center REIT co-founded by Rick Perry, aims to raise $550M in its IPO at a $13.16B valuation, offering 25M shares priced between $18 and $22 each (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/rick-perr

Stolen Ukrainian housing being re-sold in occupied Donetsk Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/stolen-ukrainian-housing-being-resold.html

Should the Browns make a QB change? Mapping out Kevin Stefanski's next steps with Joe Flacco in Cleveland

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

My first shot with the Laowa 9mm/F5.6 W-Dreamer which is a rectilinear fisheye lens that leaves straight lines more or less straight -- here's a Cayuga Medical Center facility that has a gym, sports med doc, physical therapist and weight loss clinic right by the inlet
#photo #photography…

Around a third of US adults say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes, up from 22% in 2020; 6% say they paid for news podcasts in the past 12 months (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/podcasts-and-news-fact-sheet/

Podcasts and News Fact Sheet
Podcasts are playing a bigger role in Americans' news diets. Around a third of U.S. adults say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes.

Sam Altman says OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4T on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30GW of data center capacity (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/openai-1-trillion-altman

Sam Altman: OpenAI wants to get to $1 trillion a year in infrastructure spend
Altman said the company still faces technical and financial hurdles to get to that lofty goal.

Google plans to invest an additional $9B in Virginia through 2026 to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure, including a new data center in Chesterfield County (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google to Invest Additional $9 Billion in Virginia Data Centers
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is investing an additional $9 billion in Virginia through 2026 to enhance cloud and AI infrastructure across the state, marking the latest in a series of big tech investments in US data centers.

Field hockey at the new Martha Dodson Field out past the East Hill Plaza -- Cornell Beat Vermont 3-1 in front of the largest crowd I've ever seen at a field hockey game. In the center are № 8 Ashley Plzak of the Big Red and № 15 Sophia Lefranc of the Catamounts, who won the US East Conference in 2024
#photo

Giants QB Jaxson Dart on first career start in New York's win over Chargers: 'It was just special' https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-qb-jaxson-dart-on-first-career-start-vs-chargers-it-was-just-special

Analysis: wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did in 2020 in US areas located near significant data center activity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/
…

How a Microsoft-backed $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya faced construction delays due to uncertainty over its value for local businesses (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/22/2025/kenya-us-china-tech-war-ai-data-center

Africa’s forgotten battleground in the US-China tech war
A Kenyan data center stalls, raising questions about the ability of the US to compete with China in Africa.

🌮 Mysterious signs on Teotihuacan murals may reveal an early form of Uto-Aztecan language
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-mysterious-teotihuacan-murals-reveal-early.html

Mysterious signs on Teotihuacan murals may reveal an early form of Uto-Aztecan language
More than two millennia ago, Teotihuacan was a thriving metropolis in central Mexico with up to 125,000 inhabitants. The city had gigantic pyramids and was a cultural center in Mesoamerica at the time.

Blackstone partners with Humain to invest about $3B in building and operating data centers and AI infrastructure across Saudi Arabia, set to open in 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/blackston…

A look at China's Ministry of State Security, which has been reshaped by Xi Jinping to be the primary driver of cyber espionage campaigns like Salt Typhoon (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

What Salt Typhoon Shows About the Cyber Power of China’s Spy Agency
Fears of U.S. surveillance drove Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to elevate the agency and put it at the center of his cyber ambitions.

Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago had already made it past the security line at the El Paso airport
when two border patrol agents called her in for questioning
and whisked her away to an immigration detention center.
Nearly a month after her arrest, she and her family still aren’t clear why she is detained.
Santiago is a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program
– which has allowed her to legally live and work in the US.
“They have …

Nick Mangold, former All-Pro center for the Jets, dies at 41 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6751296/2025/10/26/nick-mangold-jets-obituary-kidney-disease/

Trump’s brazen approach,
publicly flaunting his corruption,
awards him perverse credit for authenticity
and takes the sting out of scandals that used to be career-ending when uncovered by muckraking journalists.
“This is a dangerous notion that,
just because a president chooses to be corrupt in public openly,
it’s OK,” said Larry Sabato,
director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
“People say, well, if it were really corru…

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announce five new data center locations in the US, boosting Stargate's planned capacity to nearly 7 GW (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-oracle-softbank-data-center-stargate-us/

OpenAI Teams Up With Oracle and SoftBank to Build 5 New Stargate Data Centers
The new sites will boost Stargate’s planned capacity to nearly 7 gigawatts—about equal to the output of seven large nuclear reactors.

View from creek level at Monkey Run: there's a research farm on top of the bluff on the far side. (That little blotch in the upper center is a Monarch butterfly!)
#photo #photography #landscape

A federal judge on Thursday ordered that no more immigrant detainees be sent to a center in the Florida Everglades,
and that much of the facility be dismantled.
The ruling rebuked the state and federal governments for failing to consider potential environmental harms before building the facility, known as Alligator Alcatraz.
The judge gave both branches of the government 60 days to move out existing detainees
and begin to remove fencing, lighting, power generators and…

Judge Orders ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center in Florida to Shut Down for Now
A judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before building the center in the Florida Everglades.

Trump says Meta plans to spend $50B on its "Hyperion" data center under construction in Louisiana; earlier, Meta said that its investment would exceed $10B (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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.

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.

Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 56% YoY to $46.74B, above $46.06B est., Data Center revenue up 56% to $41.1B, and approves an additional $60B in share buybacks (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q2-2026.html

Nvidia beats on top and bottom lines. Here's why the stock is falling
Nvidia said sales growth this quarter will remain above 50%, signaling to Wall Street that demand for AI infrastructure shows no sign of fading.

OpenAI executives working on Stargate say that it costs about $50B to build a data center with roughly 1 GW of capacity, with $35B going toward AI chips (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

The US AI data center boom is consuming capital, power, and people that the rest of the economy needs, and is crowding out Trump's manufacturing revival plans (Bloomberg)

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.

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.

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-…

Sources: OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing structuring their new AI data center partnership so that OpenAI would lease Nvidia's AI chips instead of buying them (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-megadea…

In OpenAI Megadeal, Nvidia Discusses a New Business Model: Chip Leasing
OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing an unusual way to structure their new artificial intelligence data center partnership, under which OpenAI would lease Nvidia’s AI chips rather than buying them, according to two people who spoke to executives at the companies about it. The discussion shows how ...