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Meta delays new commercial terms that critics say let it scrape publisher content to November 20, a day after the News/Media Alliance demanded their withdrawal (Sarah Fielding/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91628981/meta-
SK Telecom unit SK Hyper is in talks with tech firms and investors to finance 15GW of data center capacity in South Korea by 2035; the first 5GW will cost $350B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-23/sk-da…
Any reliance on Palantir is an overreliance on Palantir.
"Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children"
https://gizmodo.com/pentag…
After working in the NT in the lat 80s, early 90s, I thought I'd covered every crazy story about the local politicians. ( My favourites were the MP who punched another fan while at the footy, and the Mines and Energy minister drinking water from the Ranger tailings dam to prove uranium was safe.)
I didn't expect them to keep electing crazy people in the 21st century.
"NT minister claims Earth’s magnetic poles could flip if territory doesn’t use more groundwater"…
OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to 26 additional countries, taking the total to 83 countries, and says the platform's advertiser base is 100K , up from 20K in August (Alix Coutures/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o
German energy company PreussenElektra says it is working with Nvidia to assess whether the country's idle nuclear plants could be turned into data centers (Eva Brendel/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which gave employees around the world space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-sh
Sources: Kalshi is targeting a December rollout for exchange-traded futures contracts tracking US inflation, rivaling exchanges like CME and ICE (Greg Ritchie/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20