Tootfinder

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…

The Trump administration is moving to
dismantle the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado,
taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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.

Excellent blog by @mobilityhouse.com on #V2G / bidirectional charging standards.
https://mobilityhouse-energy.com/int_en/knowledge-center/ar…

Expert discussion on bidirectional charging standards
We discuss charging standards for bidirectional charging with our CTO, the Head of Bidirectional Charging Solutions, and our operating system provider EcoG.

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado (Joey Garrison/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6942047625625600014c41b7
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p149#a251216p149

Cowboys Look To Tryout Former Colts Center After Starter’s Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/wesley-french-work-out-beebe-injury/?adt_ei=[email]

WTF are the adafruit QFN breakouts made of, the cheapest FR-4 known to humankind? I don't think I have ever had so much trouble getting a part to center properly. Maybe it's the giant honking hole in the center pad or something.

Harvard University Nonviolent Action Lab (Ash Center)
#resist

Nonviolent Action Lab – Ash Center
Up-to-date knowledge on nonviolent action, how it works, and global trends in success and failure.

Starting the fourth chapter "The Rise of the Web" of #ThisIsForEveryone, I am pleasently surprised to find out a librarian — Louise Addis of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) — played an important, supportive role in the very first days of the web.

Hydrangea in one of the many courtyards of the ILR school, a space that feels to me like a Japanese palace in a video game
#photo #photography #cornell

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

Oracle Strikes $150 Billion of Data Center Leases in November Quarter
Oracle struck about $150 billion worth of lease commitments on data centers in the three months ending November, it revealed in securities filing late last week, a sign it is preparing for the cloud deals that customers such as OpenAI have struck with Oracle. The filing showed that as of Nov. 30, Oracle had $248 billion of lease commitments “substantially all related to data centers and cloud

Ohio Linux Fest (Open Libre Free) conference **is still on** in Columbus Ohio!
The conference will be a 1-day event held on December 6th at the conference center in Sonesta Downtown Columbus (south across the street from the convention center).
I'll post a follow-up once registration opens; should be in the next few days, so stay tuned for that!
#Ohio

Georgia Tech Hopes To Name Student Center After John Lewis | Atlanta Daily World
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/10/14/georgia-tech-hopes-to-name-student-center-after-john-lewis/

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.

Off-center black hole seed formation? Implications for high and low redshift massive black holes
David Izquierdo-Villalba, Daniele Spinoso, Marta Volonteri, Monica Colpi, Alberto Sesana, Silvia Bonoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12306

Off-center black hole seed formation? Implications for high and low redshift massive black holes
Recent studies show that light seeds of black holes, which grow into massive black holes (MBHs) over time, often struggle to remain at the centers of their birthplaces in high-redshift galaxies, limiting their ability to accrete gas and merge with other black holes. In this work, we investigate how off-center formation of the first seeds affects the evolution of the MBH and massive black hole binary (MBHB) populations over cosmic history. To this end, we use the $\texttt{L-Galaxies}{\it BH}$ se…

“We lead by love. This is community. We send no orders, there’s no orders out here, just people defending each other. And we don’t need a f*cking gun to do it. We don’t need body armor to do it. We don’t need to beat up protestors, we don’t need to beat up fake news to do it. We show up, put our f*cking bodies on the line because we don’t f*ck with n*zis. Maybe one day, maybe one day, you can say the same. Community will welcome you back…”
🧵 1/2

#Guthrie #Oklahoma
https://guthrienewspage.com/truck-fire

Sources: Jets center Myers gets 2-year, $11M deal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47285492/sources-jets-center-josh-myers-gets-2-year-11m-extension

It’s a few days early for Torontohenge, but it was still pretty sweet.

Finally I did some printing again! ❤️
It took me a bit to get into the right settings again but I have a nice A5 print now 🙂
Good that I just recently ordered some ink as the black was pretty low already.
#photography #printing

"Britain’s 300-hectare Seed Processing Center Opens to Build Climate-Resilient Forests"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Trees #Environment

Britain's 300-hectare Seed Processing Center Opens to Build Climate-Resilient Forests | Happy Eco News
Britain's largest seed processing center opened in Cheshire to produce seeds for climate-resilient forests. The facility processes four tonnes of seeds annually and can store them for up to 20 years.

"Can Academic Libraries Lead the Quantum Revolution?" https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/can-libraries-lead-the-quantum-revolution
– Herjeh, um was sollen wir uns denn noch alles kümmern…

A look at outlets in Belgium and France that are prioritizing independence from Big Tech and opting for open source or in-house software (Owen Huchon/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/editorial-independence-means-technologic…

Editorial independence means technological independence.
From Google to Microsoft, European newsrooms often rely on tools built in Silicon Valley. Some are trying to break free, turning to open-source alternatives or home-grown solutions.

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://

The first step on the road to #TNC26 starts today… with the opening of the Call for Proposals!
Next year, our community will gather in Helsinki 🇫🇮 under the theme Digital Sisu—inspired by the Finnish word “sisu,” which embodies inner strength, tenacity, and determination in the face of adversity.
💡 If you have a story to share, or a vision that can shape the conversation—we want to hear f…

"Hope is a Thing With Calloused Hands." Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove of the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS interviews religion author and sociologist Robert P. Jones on the "Advent in a Time of Authoritarianism" series. https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/

Next at #12Clouds is Samaresh Kumar Singh talking about doing AI at the edge rather than in some big ol' data center somewhere

Analysis: of the 8,808 global data centers in October 2025, ~7,000 are in areas outside the optimal 18C to 27C temperature range; 600 are in areas above 27C (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/

We mapped the world’s hottest data centers
In 21 countries, all data centers are located in climates that are too hot.

@… @… I was thinking of that song. Eilen Jewell covered it when she played at the Kennedy Center earlier this year. First time she'd ever covered it.

Quoted in Houston Chronicle on Aga Khan Visit
Houston’s stunning new Ismaili Center, the first of its kind in the U.S., is finally open. See inside.
The role the Aga Khan plays as the spiritual leader for Ismailis is unique to the group, said New York-based scholar Hussein Rashid. He said Ismailis gather in an audience with the Aga Khan to receive blessings and guidance.“A lot o

love my fuckin Tons

Wow, what a wonderful day at @… ! They put on a great conference and I was honored to have been part of it. I held a privacy workshop and gave a #fedvierse talk. I just posted the worksheets from the workshop and the presentation from the talk over on the …

#Occupado

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
[Interior Xenon base lounge. Soolin sets out glasses on a tray. She stops, regards the tray and then takes another glass from the shelf. She begins to pour wine into the glasses. Dorian leads the group into the lounge. Dorian grabs her and kisses her.]
SOOLIN: Are you all right?
https://blake.torpi…

Stefan Bratzel: "Wir können natürlich - ähnlich wie wir eben auch noch ein paar hocheffiziente #Faxgeräte verkaufen können - hocheffiziente Verbrenner verkaufen. "
Großartige Zusammenfassung des aktuellen Kurses durch den Experten des Center of Automotive Management.

Geplante Abkehr vom Verbrenner-Aus: "Ein großer Irrweg"
Die EU-Kommission stellt heute ihre Pläne zur Abkehr vom Verbrenner-Aus vor. Automobilexperte Bratzel hält das für einen Fehler.

Proof of Cloud: Data Center Execution Assurance for Confidential VMs
Filip Rezabek, Moe Mahhouk, Andrew Miller, Stefan Genchev, Quintus Kilbourn, Georg Carle, Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12469

Proof of Cloud: Data Center Execution Assurance for Confidential VMs
Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs) protect data in use by running workloads inside hardware-isolated environments. In doing so, they also inherit the limitations of the underlying hardware. Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), which enforce this isolation, explicitly exclude adversaries with physical access from their threat model. Commercial TEEs, e.g., Intel TDX, thus assume infrastructure providers do not physically exploit hardware and serve as safeguards instead. This creates a tension…

The Hidden Strength of Costrong Functors
Adriana Balan (Department of Mathematical Methods,Models,,Fundamental Sciences Applied in Engineering Research Center, National University of Science,Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest), Silviu-George Pantelimon (Department of Computer Science, National University of Science,Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest)
https://

The Hidden Strength of Costrong Functors
Strong functors and monads are ubiquitous in Computer Science. More recently, comonads have demonstrated their use in structuring context-dependent notions of computation. However, the dualisation of ``being strong'' property passed somehow unobserved so far. We argue that ``being costrong'' gives a different understanding of how functors can interact with monoidal structures. This work in progress aims to explore costrong functors and their natural properties, with an eye towards the semantics…

The EU's aim to triple AI data center capacity over the next five to seven years sparks water scarcity concerns, especially in water-stressed Southern Europe (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/water-ai-mega-projects-raise-alar…

Thirsty AI mega projects raise alarm in some of Europe’s driest regions
Europe is planning to at least triple its data center capacity as part of a push to become a world-class AI hub.

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

Quantum Mechanics of an Abrikosov Vortex in Nanofabricated Pinning Potential
Elmeri O. Rivasto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12215 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Quantum Mechanics of an Abrikosov Vortex in Nanofabricated Pinning Potential
A superconducting device is proposed for experimentally investigating whether an Abrikosov vortex can be modeled as a quantum mechanical quasiparticle. The design process of a type-II superconducting device capable of reliably pinning a single Abrikosov vortex is presented, creating a particle-in-a-box-like system. The proposed device consists of a cylindrically symmetric Nb film, 30 nm in diameter and 5 nm thick, with a 14 nm diameter artificial pinning center at its center. Time-dependent Gin…

Winds Through Time: Interactive Data Visualization and Physicalization for Paleoclimate Communication
David Hunter, Pablo Botin, Emily Snode-Brenneman, Amy Stevermer, Becca Hatheway, Dillon Amaya, Eddie Goldstein, Wayne A Seltzer, Mark D Gross, Kris Karnauskas, Daniel Leithinger, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13039

Winds Through Time: Interactive Data Visualization and Physicalization for Paleoclimate Communication
We describe a multidisciplinary collaboration to iteratively design an interactive exhibit for a public science center on paleoclimate, the study of past climates. We created a data physicalisation of mountains and ice sheets that can be tangibly manipulated by visitors to interact with a wind simulation visualisation that demonstrates how the climate of North America differed dramatically between now and the peak of the last ice age. We detail the system for interaction and visualisation plus …

Heute vor 44 Jahren: Am 17. Oktober 1981 kam es im #Kernkraftwerk Indian Point (Indian Point Energy Center) zu einem massiven Leck, bei dem 100.000 Gallonen Hudson-Wasser unbemerkt ins Reaktorgebäude gelangten. Sicherheitsvorrichtungen versagten, zwei Pumpen waren defekt.

A Robust Modular Quantum Processor
Ramesh Bhandari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13269 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13269

A Robust Modular Quantum Processor
We explore the concept of redundancy of critical elements in a quantum computing architecture to circumvent disruption of quantum operations due to a failure of such an element, for example, from a catastrophic cosmic ray event. We illustrate this concept with reference to a recently proposed superconducting modular quantum architecture with a star-like configuration, which has a router at the center that enables superconducting qubit interactions across various modules. Regarding this router a…

Climate funding isn't reaching the people who need it most. The Global South House is changing that.
This coalition of locally rooted funds puts Indigenous Peoples, traditional communities, and youth at the center of decision-making. Their approach: democratic, transparent, and built from the ground up—ensuring resources actually reach frontline communities.

Interview: Putting global South communities at the centre of climate and nature funding conversations
As COP30 kicks off, Juliana Tinoco, who conceived the idea of the Global South House, a platform for philanthropic actors, sets out her ambition for the platform and the stronger global South leadership she hopes will come out of it

Eager for Center Stage, Patel Casts Aside Caution in Statements as F.B.I. Leader (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/kash-patel-fbi.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p136#a251215p136

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…

times new viking have apparently reunited! https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-spits-times-new-viking-snooper-prison-affair-the-serfs-playing-outline-at-knockdown-center/

The Spits, Times New Viking, SNÕÕPER, Prison Affair & The Serfs playing Outline at Knockdown Center
This all-punk edition of Outline happens March 6 and will be Times New Viking's first NYC show since 2012.

Survey: 46% say the news makes them feel informed often or extremely often, while 42% feel angry, 38% feel sad, and 27% feel scared with same frequency (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/15/how-america…

How Americans say the news they get makes them feel
Nearly half of Americans (46%) say the news they get makes them feel informed extremely often or often.

Categorical Continuous Symmetry
Qiang Jia, Ran Luo, Jiahua Tian, Yi-Nan Wang, Yi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13170 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13170

Categorical Continuous Symmetry
We define the symmetry category in 1+1d for continuous 0-form $G$-symmetry to be $\textbf{Sky}^τ(G)$, the category of skyscraper sheaves of finite dimensional vector spaces with finite support on the group manifold of $G$, where $τ\in H^4(BG,\mathbb{Z})$ is the anomaly. We propose that the corresponding 2+1d SymTFT is described by the Drinfeld center of $\textbf{Sky}^τ(G)$. We show explicitly the way that $τ$ twists the convolution tensor product of the objects of $\textbf{Sky}^τ(G)$. As a…

Survey of White Hawk's works at the Walker Art Center. If you can, see it!

Former Raiders WR Henry Ruggs Graduates From Alabama While in Prison https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/henry-ruggs-graduates-alabama-prison/

New series of talks: Buddhist Approaches to the Natural World
https://ift.tt/CmDb54a
Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, LLM, JSD: "Recognition and Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Protest numbers data from Harvard's Crowd Counting Consortium (Ash Center) -- part of the Nonviolent Action Lab
#resist

I developed less than half of the photos I took this spring, I'm going through that backlog now because I think people will need this winter
#photo #photography #daffodils

Meta says it is investing $1.5B to set up a 1 GW data center in El Paso, Texas, and expects it come online in 2028 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-15/meta-building-new-gigawatt-sized-data-center…

Quoted in Houston Chronicle on Aga Khan Visit
Houston’s stunning new Ismaili Center, the first of its kind in the U.S., is finally open. See inside. The role the Aga Khan plays as the spiritual leader for Ismailis is unique to the group, said New York-based scholar Hussein Rashid. He said Ismailis gather in an audience with the Aga Khan to receive blessings and guidance. “A lot of people are very curious about this because they don't see this happening with very many…

Sources: Orange is seeking to raise €400M-€500M by selling a stake of as much as 50% in its data center business, including its major facility in Normandy (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-15/orange-…

US companies are gathering for the spoils.
One contender, the Guardian has learned, is Gothams LLC, a politically connected contractor that won a $33m contract to help run the notorious south Florida detention center nicknamed
“Alligator Alcatraz”,
where immigrants are housed in tents and trailers.
Documents and three people familiar with the plans say that the contractor had an “inside track” to secure what might be the most lucrative contract it’s ever had.
Bu…

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: Go on, get out.
NAPIER: I'll do it. [to the Rats] You'd better go. [The Rats exit] They'll complain to Atlan.
PLAXTON: What the hell do I care? How I ever came to be mixed up with a bunch of psychopathic killers-
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/244

Harvard Replaces Leader of Health Center Said to Have Focused on Palestinians (Mark Arsenault/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/harvard-replaces-public-health-center-director.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p43#a251213p43

Dallas Week! How to beat the Cowboys https://www.commanders.com/video/dallas-week-how-to-beat-the-cowboys

Widespread Hot Molecular Gas Heated by Shear-induced Turbulence in the Galactic Center
Juan Li, Junzhi Wang, Zhiqiang Shen, Alba Vidal-Garcia, Yuqiang Li, DI Li, Liubin Pan, Lei Huang, Fengyao Zhu, Siqi Zheng, Yiping Ao, Alvaro Sanchez-Momge, Zhiyu Zhang, Xing Lu, Tie Liu, Xingwu Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12518

Widespread Hot Molecular Gas Heated by Shear-induced Turbulence in the Galactic Center
We observed NH3 metastable inversion lines from (3, 3) to (18, 18) toward G0.66-0.13 in the Galactic center with the Shanghai Tianma 65m radio telescope and Yebes 40 m telescope. Highly-excited lines of NH3 (17, 17), (18, 18) were detected in emission for the first time in the interstellar medium, with upper energy levels up to 3100 K. Mapping observations reveal widespread hot molecular gas traced by NH3 (13, 13) toward G0.66-0.13. The rotation temperatures of hot gas traced by NH3 exceed 400 …

I photographed this goldenrod on the same pond as I saw the boy fishing this time with the Tamron 28-200mm lens which I pack a lot since it is really versatile.
#photo #photography #goldenrod …

At Redwood Coast Airport in California, older Nissan Leafs are enhancing grid resilience after being utilized as power generation stations, cutting costs and supporting renewable energy efforts. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/14/used-evs-pu…

Used EVs Pull New Duty As Guardians Of The Grid - CleanTechnica
Two older Nissan LEAFs are featured front and center in a new microgrid project that showcases the value of used EVs.

Event: Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism Conference
Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism Conference On December 4, the Interfaith Center of New York, Union Theological Seminary, The Riverside Church, The Beacon, and the Interfaith Alliance will convene diverse religious leaders, civic officials, community activists, and concerned New Yorkers to explore past and present examples of faith community resistance to authoritarian rule.  We will learn from the…

#FotoVorschlag 'Adventliches' / Advent
My wife was gifted two #Lego sets. And this was one of it. It fits super cool to the season and into our appartement.
Happy third #advent if…

The Heritage Foundation,
an influential rightwing thinktank currently mired in controversy over its president’s apparent apology for extremism,
has appointed as a director the founder of a secretive all-male network of Christian nationalist fraternal lodges.
Scott Yenor, who was appointed as Heritage’s new director of the
"B Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies"
has recently offered ultra-conservative opinions on
women, marriage and LGBTQ ri…

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: Like capturing us.
HOWER: Do you feel ill, or upset in any way?
DAYNA: No. What was it, some kind of narcotic spray gun?
HOWER: Something like that. Quite harmless, I assure you.
TARRANT: I'm glad to hear it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/102

Ex-Raiders Star Richie Incognito Reveals Who He Wants Under Center https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-richie-incognito-reveals-wants-under-center

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.

Cowboys' Cooper Beebe takes big step toward return as o-line nears full strength https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-cooper-beebe-big-step-toward-return-offensive-line-nears-full-strength

Event: Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism Conference
Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism Conference
On December 4, the Interfaith Center of New York, Union Theological Seminary, The Riverside Church, The Beacon, and the Interfaith Alliance will convene diverse religious leaders, civic officials, community activists, and concerned N

A look at the global AI data center buildout, its limits, and ROI concerns; in 2025, US capacity that is built, underway, planned, or stalled has topped 80 GW (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/when-ai-hype-m

Groq, which sells AI chips and data-center compute powered by those chips, raised $750M led by Disruptive at a post-money valuation of $6.9B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-17/ai-chip-st…

Matt Daniels on Special Teams Impact, Why Will Reichard Is A Top Kicker in NFL, Ryan Wright's Season https://www.vikings.com/video/matt-daniels-on-special-teams-impact-why-will-reichard-is-a-top-kicker-in-nfl-ryan…

Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are increasingly leaning on Google's new DeepMind prediction model, though questions about its methods remain (Eric Holthaus/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/16/google-deepm…

CoreWeave's market value fell $33B in six weeks amid construction delays at its Denton, TX AI data center, criticism from short seller Jim Chanos, and more (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/coreweave-stock-market-ai-bubble-a3c8c321

“CDC is over. It was killed.
This administration only knows how to break things.
They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players.
People should be scared,”
said Dr. Demetre ,
former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
https://

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 (@50501movement.bsky.social)
“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/cdc-rfk-jr-shutdown-layoffs-goal-rcna237035

iPhone 17 review: best value of the 17 lineup with a 120Hz refresh rate screen, good A19 performance, and Center Stage front camera but no telephoto lens (Eric Zeman/PCMag)
https://uk.pcmag.com/mobile-phones/160116/apple-iphone-17

Apple iPhone 17
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Intel unveils Crescent Island, a data center GPU designed for AI inference workloads, featuring Intel's Xe3P microarchitecture and 160GB of LPDDR5X memory (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-periph

Intel Reveals 160-GB, Energy-Efficient Inference GPU As Part Of New Yearly Cadence
Intel on Tuesday revealed a 160-GB, energy-efficient data center GPU that is part of a new annual GPU release cadence to deliver on the chipmaker’s new strategy of delivering open systems and software architecture for AI systems.

Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining OpenAI, ChatGPT users' mental health, profitability, data center deals, her chronic illness, and more (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/fidji-simo-is-ope…

OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It
As OpenAI expands in every direction, the new CEO of Applications is on a mission to make ChatGPT indispensable and lucrative.

OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative (Financial Times)

As the federal government begins to implement President Trump’s new national security directive
to investigate the so-called
radical left as domestic terrorists,
a little known FBI organization,
located in an affluent and leafy suburb of Northern Virginia,
is at the center of it all.
Based just seven miles from CIA headquarters,
the Threat Screening Center
has a secret budget and a classified personnel count.
The nondescript cluster of g…

Secretive Watchlisting Center Executing NSPM-7
“We’re expanding the watchlist,” FBI director says amid 300% increase in domestic terror investigations.

Meta announces a partnership with Arm to power AI ranking and recommendation systems across Meta's family of apps using Arm-based data center platforms (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Nvidia partners with startup Firmus on Project Southgate, a $2.9B initial undertaking to build renewable energy-powered AI data centers across Australia (Keira Wright/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/n…

Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-crypto-companies-dominat…

AI and Crypto Companies Dominated IPO Winners in 2025
The drought in initial public offerings ended this year, led by big winners in AI and crypto, but gains were rare for companies outside those industries. Bankers expect those trends to hold in 2026. Booms in AI and crypto delivered two of the biggest winners of the year: data center developer ...

Taiwan opens its largest AI supercomputing data center using Nvidia's Blackwell chips, a major effort in its push for sovereign AI and chip industry innovation (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/ta…

Taiwan opens sovereign AI data center with Nvidia-powered supercomputer
Plans to expand capacity of Tainan hub sixfold by 2028 in partnership with Japan's NTT

CoreWeave closed down 16% after its CEO admitted delays at a data center developer that Jim Cramer implied may be Core Scientific; CORZ closed down 10% (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/coreweave-stock-core-scientific-delays.html

CoreWeave CEO won't say if Core Scientific caused data center delays, both stocks plunge
CNBC's Jim Cramer noted data center delays at sites in Texas, Oklahoma and North Carolina tied to Core Scientific.

London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/15/polyai-raises-86m/

PolyAI raises $86M
London-based AI startup PolyAI has raised $86m in a Series D funding round.The funding round in the AI assistant developer for call centres was co-led by existing investors Canadian B2B software investor Georgian, London-based investor Hedosophia and US VC firm Khosla Ventures.Additional investors were NVentures (Nvidia’s VC arm), Sands Capital, Squarepoint Ventures, Citi Ventures, Point72 Ventures and the British Business Bank, which invested £15m ($20.1m). The British Business Bank is also…

Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanburgos/2…

The Asian Billionaires Riding The Data Center Boom
The buildout of AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific is in high gear. Masayoshi Son and Mukesh Ambani are among the region's wealthiest taking the lead.

A survey of 28K adults in 25 countries on AI: 81% have heard a lot or a little, 34% are more concerned than excited, and 42% are equally concerned and excited (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/10/15/how-people-around-the-world-v…

How People Around the World View AI
Most adults across 25 countries are aware of AI, and people are generally more concerned than excited about its effects on daily life.

How AI is upending India's business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/meet-ai-chatbots-replacing-in…

Sources: data center startup Crusoe is arranging an employee share sale involving ~$120M worth of shares that values it at ~$13B, up from $10B just weeks ago (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-data-cen…

OpenAI’s Data Center Partner Nears $120 Million Stock Sale For Its Employees
Crusoe, a startup developing a large data center in Texas for Oracle and OpenAI, is arranging an employee share sale that values the seven-year-old firm at around $13 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the transaction. The deal involves selling around $120 million worth of ...

Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds are investing ~$3B in a New Mexico-based Stargate data center, set to consume 4.5GW, as Blue Owl expands into AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/open…

OpenAI’s Stargate Project Gets $3 Billion Blue Owl Investment
Blue Owl Capital, one of Wall Street’s biggest private lenders, is ramping up its big bet on artificial intelligence with a roughly $3 billion investment in a New Mexico data center that’s part of OpenAI’s Stargate project, said a person with knowledge of the deal. Blue Owl, which has nearly ...

How Oracle's massive Stargate deal with OpenAI has pushed Oracle to the center of the AI boom, turning its market cap into a barometer on AI sentiment (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-…

Google plans to invest $15B over five years in India to set up a 1GW data center and AI hub in the southern Andhra Pradesh state; Google has 14K staff in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/google-to-invest-15b-in-indian-…

Google to invest $15B in Indian AI infrastructure hub | TechCrunch
Google's investment in India will roll out over the next five years, through 2030.

Google plans to invest $9B in South Carolina through 2027 to scale up its Berkeley County data center campus and support building two sites in Dorchester County (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…

Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Bottlenecks in data center construction threaten Japan's AI ambitions
Labor shortages, rising costs and outdated building processes delay construction

Sources: Microsoft's US data center crunch will last through H1 2026, longer than previously outlined, as the company restricts new Azure cloud subscriptions (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20