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OVHcloud Global Environmental Director Grégory Lebourg reveals how a vertically integrated operating model, advanced water-cooling technology, and circular economy practices deliver a cloud that doesn’t cost the earth.
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2025

Frugal by design: Why cloud customers shouldn’t have to choose between cost and sustainability
OVHcloud Global Environmental Director Grégory Lebourg reveals how a vertically integrated operating model, advanced water-cooling technology, and circular economy practices deliver a cloud that doesn’t ...

The pace and scale of Afghans returning from Iran are overwhelming already fragile support systems, a senior U.N. official warned Tuesday,
with tens of thousands of people crossing the border daily exhausted and traumatized, relying on humanitarian aid.
So far this year, more than 1.4 million people have returned or been forced to return to Afghanistan, including over 1 million from Iran.
Iran and Pakistan in 2023 launched separate campaigns to expel foreigners they said we…

The scale of Afghans returning from Iran is overwhelming, says UN official
The pace and scale of Afghans returning from Iran are overwhelming already fragile support systems, a senior U.N. official warned Tuesday, with tens of...

Ukrainian and Russian forces report gains amid intense clashes on Pokrovsk front: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/ukrainian-and-russian-forces-report.html

Fragile Preferences: A Deep Dive Into Order Effects in Large Language Models
Haonan Yin, Shai Vardi, Vidyanand Choudhary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14092 h…

Fragile Preferences: A Deep Dive Into Order Effects in Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in decision-support systems across high-stakes domains such as hiring and university admissions, where decisions often involve selecting among competing alternatives. While prior work has noted positional order biases in LLM-driven comparisons, these biases have not been systematically dissected or linked to underlying preference structures. We provide the first comprehensive investigation of positional biases across multiple LLM architectures …

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Low Carbon Family Holidays
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I'm annoyed by the fact I have to take multiple steps on macOS just to launch a freshly installed application.
I get that Apple wants to protect people from bad stuff, but I've been running applications for over three decades! I think I know what I'm doing.

Remembering you have a big batch of freshly laundered clothes is like waking up to Christmas.

"Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives."
Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-malawi-state-department-crime-sexual-violence-trafficking

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It is just INSANE that the GOP is going to 🆘 tax new solar and wind capacity,
as well as a whole bunch of other terrible energy policies in the BBB,
when electricity prices have risen 20% since start of 2022,
and the grid is ever more fragile.
Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.
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