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At its Discover 2025 conference, HPE unveiled HPE CloudOps Software, GreenLake Intelligence, which can deploy AI agents across its hybrid cloud stack, and more (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/…

HPE launches GreenLake Intelligence, adds AI agents throughout hybrid cloud stack
HPE launched new CloudOps Software, layered AI agents throughout its hybrid cloud stack, unveiled GreenLake Intelligence and expanded its AI factory. In addition, Digital Realty said it would standardize its data center footprint on HPE. At its flagship Discover 2025 conference, HPE showcased its new branding as well as play for AI workloads. The big picture from HPE is that hybrid IT operations, networking, storage and AI operations can be largely turnkey via AI agents.

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

HDO Ice Detected toward an Isolated Low-mass #Protostar with JWST: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/addb45 -> Detection of semi-heavy water ice around young sunlike star: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/detection-of-semi-heavy-water-ice-around-young-sunlike-star-4555

Jeg ville være interesseret i en lignende audit af min forskningsgruppe klimapåvirkningner. Jeg undrer mig hvis der er en der tilbyder det i Danmark? (Helst ikke mod betaling da jeg har ingen budget for det lige nu). #mastohjerne ?
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114914987254079393
arstechnica@mastodon.social - Mistral’s new “environmental audit” shows how much AI is hurting the planet
Individual prompts don't cost much, but billions together can have aggregate impact.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/mistrals-new-environmental-audit-shows-how-much-ai-is-hurting-the-planet/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Another light brigade becomes heavy mechanized: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/another-light-brigade-becomes-heavy.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sijya:
🎵 Have to Make My Bed
#Sijya
https://unfuckman.bandcamp.com/track/sijya-have-to-make-my-bed-edid
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ezCES0TLxfLgf0305yVCG

'There should have been a dialogue' — Zelensky on controversial Ukrainian law that sparked protests: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/there-should-have-been-a.html

Dusty streaks on the #Moon - fingerprints of multiphase flow instabilities: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62001-8 -> Johns Hopkins engineers explain forces that create unusual radiating dust patterns: https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/21/lunar-landing-dust-debris/

If I didn't have 2 papers to (re)submit and two reports due at the ECMWF and ESA, I would write a quick blog post on how interesting it is that our modelled melt over the #Greenland #IceSheet on the @… and the satellite derived melt areas almost but don't quite match, and why that might be...
https://fediscience.org/@polarportal/114742683965565109

The loss of the #SSMIS satellite dataset as warned by @… will presumably also affect the #Greenland today melt maps over on NSIDC - I think we have AMSR2 for those somewhere too, but not exactly sure where..
Perhaps I should write that blog post I was talking abotu earlier 🤔
https://osi-saf.eumetsat.int/community/stories/implications-end-ssmis-data-osi-saf-products