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New military training center for Ukrainian, NATO troops opens in Poland: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/03/new-military-training-center-for.html

"After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors"
#US #USA #America

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

Jonathan Taylor and Ashton Jeanty expected to take center stage as Colts and Raiders try to rebound https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/jonathan-taylor-and-ashton-jeanty-expected-to-take-center-stage-as-c…

Sources: OpenAI is scouting local partners to set up a 1GW data center in India, although the exact timeline is unclear; Sam Altman is set to visit this month (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-01/openai-…

Taylor-like approximations of center manifolds for rough differential equations
Alexandra Blessing, Dennis Rudik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00971 https://a…

Taylor-like approximations of center manifolds for rough differential equations
The dynamics of rough differential equations (RDEs) has recently received a lot of interest. For example, the existence of local random center manifolds for RDEs has been established. In this work, we present an approximation for local random center manifolds for RDEs driven by geometric rough paths. To this aim, we combine tools from rough path and deterministic center manifold theory to derive Taylor-like approximations of local random center manifolds. The coefficients of this approximation …

NFL news roundup: Cowboys center Cooper Beebe (ankle) on track to play vs. Cardinals https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-saturday-nov-1

THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #8: LAIDBACK
This language was developed at the Marin County Center for T'ai Chi,
Mellowness and Computer Programming (now defunct), as an alternative to
the more intense atmosphere in nearby Silicon Valley.
The center was ideal for programmers who liked to soak in hot tubs while
they worked. Unfortunately few programmers could survive there because the
center outlawed Pizza and Coca-Cola in favor of Tofu and Perrier…

Grid Frequency Stability Support Potential of Data Center: A Quantitative Assessment of Flexibility
Pengyu Ren, Wei Sun, Yifan Wang, Gareth Harrison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01050

Grid Frequency Stability Support Potential of Data Center: A Quantitative Assessment of Flexibility
The rapid expansion of data center infrastructure is reshaping power system dynamics by significantly increasing electricity demand while also offering potential for fast and controllable flexibility. To ensure reliable operation under such conditions, the frequency secured unit commitment problem must be solved with enhanced modeling of demand side frequency response. In this work, we propose a data-driven linearization framework based on decision tree based constraint learning to embed nonlin…

Seattle-based Phaidra, which develops AI agents to help make data centers more resource efficient, raised over $50M in a Series B led by Collaborative Fund (Alan Neuhauser/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2025/10/01/phaidra-nvidia…

Exclusive: Phaidra raises $50M from Nvidia and Collaborative
Its AI agents autonomously trim cooling and energy demand.

The gas streamer G1-2-3 in the Galactic Center
S. Gillessen, F. Eisenhauer, J. Cuadra, R. Genzel, D. Calderon, S. Joharle, T. Piran, D. C. Ribeiro, C. M. P. Russell, M. Sadun Bordoni, A. Burkert, G. Bourdarot, A. Drescher, F. Mang, T. Ott, G. Agapito, A. Agudo Berbel, A. Baruffolo, M. Bonaglia, M. Black, R. Briguglio, Y. Cao, L. Carbonaro, G. Cresci, Y. Dallilar, R. Davies, M. Deysenroth, I. Di Antonio, A. Di Cianno, G. Di Rico, D. Doelman, M. Dolci, S. Esposito, D. Fantinel, D. Ferruz…

The gas streamer G1-2-3 in the Galactic Center
The black hole in the Galactic Center, Sgr A*, is prototypical for ultra-low-fed galactic nuclei. The discovery of a hand-full of gas clumps in the realm of a few Earth masses in its immediate vicinity provides a gas reservoir sufficient to power Sgr A*. In particular, the gas cloud G2 is of interest due to its extreme orbit, on which it passed at a pericenter distance of around 100 AU and notably lost kinetic energy during the fly-by due to the interaction with the black hole accretion flow. 1…

Two data centers in San Antonio have used 463 million gallons of water in the past two years.
The Alamo City facilities,
owned by Microsoft and the Army Corps,
have drained water from the surrounding area despite difficult drought conditions throughout Texas.
In 2025, data centers across the state are projected to use 49 billion gallons of water,
⚠️ enough to supply millions of households,
primarily for cooling massive banks of servers that power generativ…

Texas Data Centers Use 50 Billion Gallons of Water as State Faces Drought
The Alamo City facilities, owned by Microsoft and the Army Corps, have taken large amounts of water from the drought-ridden state.

Developer Insights into Designing AI-Based Computer Perception Tools
Maya Guhan (Center for Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA), Meghan E. Hurley (Center for Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA), Eric A. Storch (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA), John Herrington (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospita…

Developer Insights into Designing AI-Based Computer Perception Tools
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based computer perception (CP) technologies use mobile sensors to collect behavioral and physiological data for clinical decision-making. These tools can reshape how clinical knowledge is generated and interpreted. However, effective integration of these tools into clinical workflows depends on how developers balance clinical utility with user acceptability and trustworthiness. Our study presents findings from 20 in-depth interviews with developers of AI-based CP to…

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.

Black Hole Survival Guide - Searching for Stars in the Galactic Center that Endure Partial Tidal Disruption: #Stars that brush past black holes live longer, stranger lives after their close encounters with death: https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/stars-that-brush-past-black-holes-live-longer-stranger-lives-after-their-close-encounters-with-death

On the Achievable Performance in the presence of Multiple Path Interference for Intra Data Center applications
Wing Chau Ng, Scott Yam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00638 https://

On the Achievable Performance in the presence of Multiple Path Interference for Intra Data Center applications
An accurate analytical form of the achievable bit error rate in the presence of multipath interference (MPI) is proposed for PAM4 for the first time, taking into account an ideal MPI estimate and compensation.

"Google’s new plan to keep its data centers from stressing the grid"
#Google #Technology
https://www.

Google’s new plan to keep its data centers from stressing the grid
AI data centers are set to swamp U.S. power grids. Google’s new utility deals aim to flip the script — shifting workloads to ease strain and speed its…

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.

Is the Peculiar Galactic Center Transient Swift J174610.4-290018 A Recurrent Nova?
Ziqian Hua, Zhiyuan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26446 https://arxiv.or…

Is the Peculiar Galactic Center Transient Swift J174610.4-290018 A Recurrent Nova?
Swift J174610.4-290018, a peculiar transient X-ray source originally discovered by the Swift satellite in February 2024 at the onset of its outburst, recently attracted intentional or coincident follow-up X-ray observations using Swift, NuSTAR and Chandra. We have performed a comprehensive analysis of the relevant X-ray data to investigate the spectral and temporal properties of this source between October 2000 and July 2024. Archival Chandra data reveal a plausible additional outburst in 2005,…

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports (John Gramlich/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/02/americans-increasingly-see-legal-sports-betting-as-a-bad-thing-for-society-and-sports/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p113#a251002p113

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…

Lawsuit Filed Against Trump Administration for Concealing Records About Shadowy Voter Data Maintenance Efforts - American Oversight Trump Administration Concealing Records Lawsuit
https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-campaign-legal-center-sue-trump-administration-for-concealing-records/

These are purple coneflowers except they are a white variety that wife tells me is less vigorous and gets crowded out by the purple kind
#photo #photography #flowers

Pink rose and a rosebud. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2025. #ranchopalosverdes #garden #rosegarden

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…

Population-Scale Network Embeddings Expose Educational Divides in Network Structure Related to Right-Wing Populist Voting
Malte L\"uken (Netherlands eScience Center, University of Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam), Javier Garcia-Bernardo (Utrecht University), Sreeparna Deb (Delft University of Technology), Flavio Hafner (Netherlands eScience Center, Erasmus University Rotterdam), Megha Khosla (Delft University of Technology)

Population-Scale Network Embeddings Expose Educational Divides in Network Structure Related to Right-Wing Populist Voting
Administrative registry data can be used to construct population-scale networks whose ties reflect shared social contexts between persons. With machine learning, such networks can be encoded into numerical representations -- embeddings -- that automatically capture individuals' position within the network. We created embeddings for all persons in the Dutch population from a population-scale network that represents five shared contexts: neighborhood, work, family, household, and school. To asses…

#PreciousPlastic is a global community of people working towards a solution to plastic pollution. Knowledge, tools and techniques are shared online, for free
LET'S BUILD V.5:
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We spent the last 10 years building a network of plastic recyclers around the world. Yet despite progress, only 10% of all plastic ever made has been recycled, the same as when we started

While I do maintain that "it's coming from the LAN" is not a good #security boundary, there are services where it is practical (eg. media center volume control), but also fault prone (oups my phone just switched to LTE for power saving – a generally justified thing).
Before I start formalizing how "a device can retain permissions it gets from being local for a few days&quo…

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: Check the outer hatch in case someone decides to try and join us.
RAIKER: I want a boarding crew kitted out and ready to follow me over.
[Technician nods.]
[Switch to Blake, trying to push/pull the hatch closed.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/651

On The Road - To Xi’An 🪭
在路上 - 去西安 🪭
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Towards Interactive Lesion Segmentation in Whole-Body PET/CT with Promptable Models
Maximilian Rokuss, Yannick Kirchhoff, Fabian Isensee, Klaus H. Maier-Hein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21680

Towards Interactive Lesion Segmentation in Whole-Body PET/CT with Promptable Models
Whole-body PET/CT is a cornerstone of oncological imaging, yet accurate lesion segmentation remains challenging due to tracer heterogeneity, physiological uptake, and multi-center variability. While fully automated methods have advanced substantially, clinical practice benefits from approaches that keep humans in the loop to efficiently refine predicted masks. The autoPET/CT IV challenge addresses this need by introducing interactive segmentation tasks based on simulated user prompts. In this w…

Response of Ionospheric Total Electron Content to the Impulsive and Late Phases of X-Class Solar Flares with Various Center-to-Limb Locations
S. Z. Bekker, R. O. Milligan, I. A. Ryakhovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21668

Response of Ionospheric Total Electron Content to the Impulsive and Late Phases of X-Class Solar Flares with Various Center-to-Limb Locations
During a solar flare, the fluxes in various lines and continua of the solar spectrum increase, leading to enhanced ionization of the illuminated part of the Earth's ionosphere and an increase in the total electron content (TEC). It has been previously shown that nearly 50% of X-class solar flares exhibit a second peak in warm coronal lines, such as FeXV and FeXVI (called the 'EUV late phase'), the effect of which on the ionosphere remains largely unexplored. This study presents an analysis of t…

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 […]

Bizarre and unworkable range of forecasts for total electricity demand by data centers in the Netherlands, just 5 years from now.
From 8 TWh (just 1 TWh more than now) by data center association DDA, to 26 TWh ( 19 TWh) by TenneT and other grid operators.
https://energeia.nl/s…

Stroomverbruik datacenters: wil de echte prognose opstaan? | Energeia
Prognoses over hoe snel de databranche in Nederland kan groeien lopen sterk uiteen. Opvattingen verschillen over de invloed van AI, congestie en trage vergunningverlening. "Iedereen roept dat het verbruik hard zal groeien. Maar er is een verschil tussen hard en heel erg hard."

Extropic, which says its chips using probabilistic bits can be 10,000x more energy efficient than current AI chips, shares its first chip with some AI labs (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/extropic-aims-to-disrupt-the-data-center-bonanza/…

Extropic Aims to Disrupt the Data Center Bonanza
A startup hopes to challenge Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with a chip that wrangles probabilities rather than ones and zeros.

Prop. 50 looks likely to face a barrage of legal challenges
David A. Carrillo, executive director of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law,
said that if Proposition 50 passes, he expects a barrage of “see what sticks” lawsuits raising California constitutional claims.
They stand little chance of success, he said.
“Voters created the redistricting commission,” he said.
“What the voters created they can change or abolish.”
Attorneys might also br…

8yo: "Here you go, Dad. This is for not sending me to the adoption center. "

From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”

Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing… | Adrian Cockcroft
Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing tickets and waiting for data center ops teams to do what we need. We worked around the issues, built a new cloud native developer driven architecture and scaled Netflix at speed. At the time many people said we were crazy to run a large enterprise on cloud and would be back in datacenters when it failed. …

Cyberattack on Japanese beer giant Asahi limits shipping, call center operations https://therecord.media/asahi-japan-cyberattack-limits-shipping-call-centers

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

Lattica: A Decentralized Cross-NAT Communication Framework for Scalable AI Inference and Training
Ween Yang, Jason Liu, Suli Wang, Xinyuan Song, Lynn Ai, Eric Yang, Tianyu Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00183

Lattica: A Decentralized Cross-NAT Communication Framework for Scalable AI Inference and Training
The rapid expansion of distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads beyond centralized data centers creates a demand for new communication substrates. These substrates must operate reliably in heterogeneous and permissionless environments, where Network Address Translators (NATs) and firewalls impose significant constraints. Existing solutions, however, are either designed for controlled data center deployments or implemented as monolithic systems that tightly couple machine learning logi…

Diversity of Cold Worlds: Predicted Near- to Mid-infrared Spectral Signatures of a Cold Brown Dwarf with Potential Auroral Heating
Genaro Su\'arez (American Museum of Natural History), Jacqueline K. Faherty (American Museum of Natural History), Ben Burningham (University of Hertfordshire), Caroline V. Morley (University of Texas at Austin), Johanna M. Vos (Trinity College Dublin), Brianna Lacy (University of California Santa Cruz, NASA Ames Research Center), Melanie J. Rowland (Ame…

Diversity of Cold Worlds: Predicted Near- to Mid-infrared Spectral Signatures of a Cold Brown Dwarf with Potential Auroral Heating
Recent JWST/NIRSpec observations have revealed strong methane emission at 3.326 microns in the $\approx$482 K brown dwarf CWISEP J193518.59$-$154620.3 (W1935). Atmospheric modeling suggests the presence of a $\approx$300 K thermal inversion in its upper atmosphere, potentially driven by auroral activity. We present an extension of the retrieved spectra of W1935 with and without inversion spanning 1--20 microns, to identify thermal inversion-sensitive spectral features and explore the origin of …

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Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@… Earlier this year, Eilen Jewell, a wonderful singer-songwriter, played with her band at the Kennedy Center. Some fans were critical of her for not cancelling, but her manager/drummer explained their reasoning in a FB post, and I thought it was reasonable.
She played her standard set, including The Pill by Loretta Lynn, and 79 Cents (The Meow Song), a so…

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore #SoTiredOfWinning

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.

Peaceful sunrise over the LA basin, looking North from Rancho Palos Verdes. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2025. #ranchopalosverdes #sunrise #landscape

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 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

At sunset last night I was leaving Monkey Run and noticed that the road (due south) was pointed right at the moon 240,000 miles away and the sun 94 million miles away was at a right angle
#photo #photography #sliceoflife

@… draw for me an image of the head of a clown with a terrifying grin on it's face. The head must be in the center of the image with a white background

📅 GeoAI Talks at UGent
The GeoAI Research Center (#UGent) warmly invites you to attend two consecutive #GeoAI Talks on Wednesday, 3 September 2025 (13:00–14:00).
13:00 – Alex Levering (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Sensing landscape characteristics in a post-social media world
13:30 …

'This will be the week' Cowboys expeect OL at full strength for first time in long time https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/30/cowboys-center-cooper-beebe-week-9-status/86972403007/

Why Nick Mangold belongs in the Hall of Fame conversation https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46783572/new-york-jets-nick-mangold-hall-fame-conversation

A federal judge Thursday ordered the person at the center of much of Chicago’s enforcement,
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino,
to appear for a deposition to explain federal agents’ use of tear gas and other less lethal weapons against protesters who have taken to the streets to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is replacing ICE leadership at half the country’s field offices with Border Patrol off…

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids “Coming to Other Cities” as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling for federal agents to pause immigration enforcement in the Chicago area until after Halloween, amid widespread condemnation of violent arrests and confrontations with residents. Meanwhile, the person at the center of much of Chicago’s enforcement, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, did a five-hour deposition Thursday in a case challenging federal agents’ treatment of protesters, journalists, children and immigrants. Bovino is “in charge of the Chi…

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

"In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster"
#Batteries #Energy
https://www.

In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster
Aligned Data Centers will pay to build a 31-megawatt battery, an early example of how AI developers can move fast if they’re willing to be flexible.

Moody Urbanity - Beings 🔶
情绪化城市 - 灵 🔶
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Data center real estate investment trust Fermi, co-founded by former US Energy Secretary Rick Perry, closed up 55% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing Fermi at ~$19.3B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-01/ric…

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:

Chip Kelly: '[The Colts] are really well coached' https://www.raiders.com/video/chip-kelly-raiders-week-5-vs-colts-presser-nfl-2025

Perceived Weight of Mediated Reality Sticks
Satoshi Hashiguchi, Yuta Kataoka, Asako Kimura, Shohei Mori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00191 https://arxiv.org/…

Perceived Weight of Mediated Reality Sticks
Mediated reality, where augmented reality (AR) and diminished reality (DR) meet, enables visual modifications to real-world objects. A physical object with a mediated reality visual change retains its original physical properties. However, it is perceived differently from the original when interacted with. We present such a mediated reality object, a stick with different lengths or a stick with a missing portion in the middle, to investigate how users perceive its weight and center of gravity. …

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

"Sweden’s Stegra to supply green steel for Microsoft’s data centers"
#Sweden #Microsoft
https://www.

Sweden’s Stegra to supply green steel for Microsoft’s data centers
Microsoft agreed to use “near-zero emission” steel in a two-part deal with Stegra. The steelmaker plans to open its hydrogen-fueled plant in late 2026.

Google's Ad Transparency tool no longer shows any political ads, past or present, from any EU countries ahead of new EU ad transparency regulations (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/google-ad-transparency-european-union/

Google Just Removed Seven Years of Political Advertising History from 27 Countries
Ahead of the European Union's Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising, Google's Ad Transparency Center no longer shows political ads from any countries in the EU.

MediaTek says it is on track to generate $1B in revenue from its data center AI accelerator ASIC chips in 2026, after reporting Q3 revenue up 7.8% YoY to $4.64B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

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

SN 2025coe: A Triple-Peaked Calcium-Strong Transient from A White-Dwarf Progenitor
Chun Chen, Ning-Chen Sun, Qiang Xi, Samaporn Tinyanont, David Aguado, Ismael P\'erez-Fournon, Fr\'ed\'erick Poidevin, Justyn R. Maund, Amit Kumar, Junjie Jin, Yiming Mao, Beichuan Wang, Yu Zhang, Zhen Guo, Wenxiong Li, C\'esar Rojas-Bravo, Rong-Feng Shen, Lingzhi Wang, Ziyang Wang, Guoying Zhao, Jie Zheng, Yinan Zhu, David L\'opez Fern\'andez-Nespral, Alicia L\'opez-Oramas, Ze…

SN 2025coe: A Triple-Peaked Calcium-Strong Transient from A White-Dwarf Progenitor
SN 2025coe is a calcium-strong transient located at an extremely large projected offset $\sim$39.3 kpc from the center of its host, the nearby early-type galaxy NGC 3277 at a distance of $\sim$25.5 Mpc. In this paper, we present multi-band photometric and spectroscopic observations spanning $\sim$100 days post-discovery. Its multi-band light curves display three distinct peaks: (1) an initial peak at $t \approx 1.6$ days attributed to shock cooling emission, (2) a secondary peak of $M_{R, \, pe…

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

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

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Foxconn partners with Taiwan-based Teco for AI servers and other AI data center hardware, taking a 10% stake, while Teco gets a less than 1% stake in Foxconn (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Jerry Jones admits something important on Myles Garrett trade rumors to replace Micah Parsons with Dallas Cowboys https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/nfl-news-jerry-jones-admits-something-important-on-myles-garre…

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

Oxford Economics: the AI boom is lifting global trade, with ~60% of US data center capex spent on imported IT gear, mainly from Taiwan, South Korea, and Vietnam (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/great-ai-buildou…

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

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.

Happy Halloween! Orbweaver spider. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2024. #halloween #spider #orbweaver

𝑅𝑢𝑑𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑎 field in front of my barn shot with the Laowa 9mm rectilinear fisheye
#flowers #bloomscrolling #rudbeckia

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders join Dua Lipa for performance at Optimism Tour https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-dua-lipa-performance-optimism-tour

Source: G42 is talking to Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI to become tenants at its UAE-US AI Campus, and aims to diversify chip suppliers beyond Nvidia (Kelsey Warner/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/01/2025/abu-dhabis-g42-eyes-chip-…

Abu Dhabi’s G42 eyes chip options beyond Nvidia
The Abu Dhabi-backed AI firm is still courting customers for what could be the world’s largest data center campus outside the US.

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 […]

I told these hikers that I was out with my new lens because I'd always struggled to capture the experience of what it's like to hike in Shindagin Hollow State Forest and they said that was a noble mission
#photo #photography

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.

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.

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

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.

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids
“Coming to Other Cities”
as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/31/immigration_aaron_reichlin_melnick

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids “Coming to Other Cities” as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling for federal agents to pause immigration enforcement in the Chicago area until after Halloween, amid widespread condemnation of violent arrests and confrontations with residents. Meanwhile, the person at the center of much of Chicago’s enforcement, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, did a five-hour deposition Thursday in a case challenging federal agents’ treatment of protesters, journalists, children and immigrants. Bovino is “in charge of the Chi…

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

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…

OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific silicon photonic chips, raised a $34M Series A as it targets the data center interconnect market (Dan Swinhoe/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/silicon-pho…

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/
…

Google's Ad Transparency tool no longer shows any political ads, past or present, from any EU countries ahead of new EU ad transparency regulations (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/google-ad-transparency-european-union/

Google Just Removed Seven Years of Political Advertising History from 27 Countries
Ahead of the European Union's Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising, Google's Ad Transparency Center no longer shows political ads from any countries in the EU.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Core Scientific shareholders vote to reject a $9B takeover bid by CoreWeave that proxy advisers said undervalued the data center company (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-30/core-scientific-…

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.