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RNG: flat datacenter networks at Amazon.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15261
saved 2026-06-09 https://dotat.at/:/UUHIR.html

RNG: Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale
We design and deploy in production the first flat datacenter networks. Our design, called RNG, is based on quasi-random graphs. While the cost and fault-tolerance benefits of such topologies have been long known, their practical realization has been hampered by a lack of scalable routing and cabling approaches. RNG has a new distributed routing protocol that exploits the properties of random graphs to find a large number of edge disjoint paths between pairs of endpoints. It uses a novel passive…

Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality (Krysta Fauria/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-artifici

Tech companies increasingly seek faith leaders' guidance on artificial intelligence
Tech companies are increasingly seeking guidance from faith leaders to shape artificial intelligence. Last week, the inaugural “Faith-AI Covenant” roundtable took place in New York, organized by the Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities. The goal is to create a set of norms informed by various faiths. Baroness Joanna Shields, a key partner, emphasized the importance of this dialogue. However, some critics argue this approach may distract from broader AI issues. While companies like Anth…

Under the administration’s own legal theory,
a president could destroy some of America’s most iconic landmarks
and then argue that the courts are unable to undo the damage once it has been done
https://skywriter.blue/@altnps.bsky.social/3mnrx3cwkfk2w

US HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is launching a podcast, billing it as a new way to expose "corruption" and "lies" making Americans sick (Ali Swenson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-kenn

RFK Jr. is launching his own health podcast
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new podcast called “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast.” It aims to bring “radical transparency in government.” The show will feature conversations with doctors, scientists, and agency staff. In a teaser video, Kennedy promises to expose what he says are corruption and lies affecting public health. The podcast is part of a broader strategy as the Department of Health and Human Services shifts focus from vaccine efforts to promoting health…

Alabama lawmakers pass plan for new US House primary if courts allow different districts (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-redistricting-map-congress-voting-rights-trump-81f6a232ea75a9d62efe3e40f14f8488
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p73#a260508p73

Before the illegal US-Israeli war against Iran:
- Negotiations on nuclear development ongoing
- Strait of Hormuz open
- Oil price at $60
After:
- Negotiations to start on resolving the recent mess
- Lots of destruction in Iran and Gulf states
- Strait of Hormuz practically closed
- Oil price at $96
- Most of Europe known for its 'understanding' for breaking international law
- Economic problems around the world, inflation on the rise…

One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.
And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.

A federal judge ruled the DOD violated his earlier order undoing most of the Pentagon's press pass policy and failed to reinstate NYT reporters' credentials (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-nyt-new-york-…

Judge finds Pentagon in violation of order to restore reporters' access
A federal judge has ruled that the Defense Department is violating his earlier order to restore access to the Pentagon for reporters. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman sided with The New York Times earlier this month in deciding that the Pentagon’s new credential policy violated journalists’ constitutional rights to free speech and due process. He sided again with the Times in saying that the Pentagon had tried to evade his ruling by putting in new rules that expel all reporters from the bu…

CNN's Kaitlan Collins talks with NYT White House correspondent Shawn McCreesh about Kennedy Center drama, the redecorating of DC, press pool changes, and more (Kaitlan Collins/Interview Magazine)
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/sh…

Shawn McCreesh and Kaitlan Collins on the Wild World of Life on the Trump Beat
The NYT White House correspondent covers the White House like it's the greatest and most disturbing show on earth. Over cocktails at Minetta Tavern in D.C., he caught up with his colleague over at CNN to compare notes on the strangest beat in American journalism.

Shortly after the war in Gaza began in 2023,
Bellingcat introduced a free tool authored by University College London lecturer and Bellingcat contributor, Ollie Ballinger,
that was able to estimate the number of damaged buildings in a given area.
This helped monitor and map the scale of destruction across the territory as Israel’s military operation progressed. 
Bellingcat is now introducing an updated version of the open source tool
— called the Iran Conflict D…