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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…

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.

Trump-Backed David Flippo Wins Republican Primary In Nevada's 2nd Congressional District (Associated Press)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-flippo-wins-nevada-gop-primary_n_6a297b1ce4b01046d715d98f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p58#a260610p58

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…

Price-fixing cartels are driving up the cost of living for all Americans, including Trump's base, in order to make oligarchs better off.
Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox: You can keep billionaires happy, or you can fight the cost of living crisis, but not both.
https://pluralistic.net/202…

Although if deployed over a period of decades or tied to significant remodel events this could be "a good thing".
However, the time frame proposed for this would cause a lot of unhappiness.
(In our case we have prodigiously hard/calcium water and super high water pressure - 150psi - so we have to replace water heaters pretty often. But to go to heat pump we would probably have to get a new rather higher power-level feed from PG&E - at a cost of tens of thousands o…

Bay Area ban on new natural gas water heaters, set to take effect in seven months, may be relaxed over cost concerns
Worries over $3,500 price difference lead air district to consider exemptions

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.

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…