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How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html…

Saudi Arabia, Rich With Oil, Wants to Be Known as the A.I. Exporter
The kingdom is pouring money into data centers and working with U.S. and Chinese tech giants, landing its A.I. ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle for tech power.

Turpin es seleccionado al Pro Bowl por tercer año consecutivo https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/turpin-es-seleccionado-al-pro-bowl-por-tercer-ano-consecutivo

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs fo…

power: Western US Power Grid
A network representing the Western States Power Grid of the United States, in which nodes are transforms or power relay points and two nodes are connected if a power line runs between them.
This network has 4941 nodes and 6594 edges.
Tags: Technological, Power grid, Unweighted
https://networks.…

iPhone 18 Pro: Gerüchte-Hin- und Her um Dynamic Island
Apples iPhone-Front wird seit Jahren vom Dynamic-Island-Bereich beherrscht. Fehlübersetzte Gerüchte aus Asien sorgten zuletzt für Wirbel, ob sie verschwindet.
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Zahlen, bitte! Bis 12 zählen auf Grönländisch
Während manch Präsident meint, dass Grönland nur ein großes Stück Eis sei, zeigt es sich beim genaueren Hinsehen kulturell vielfältig, inklusive eigener Zahlen.
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Pro Picks: Texans will upset the Colts to tighten the race in the AFC South https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/pro-picks-texans-will-upset-the-colts-to-tighten-the-race-in-the-afc-south

I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.

Pro Picks: Texans will upset the Colts to tighten the race in the AFC South https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/pro-picks-texans-will-upset-the-colts-to-tighten-the-race-in-the-afc-south

Alexa : Betatest beginnt in Deutschland
In den USA können Nutzer die neue Alexa schon seit Monaten testen, nun beginnt der Beta-Test in Deutschland. Ausgewählte Nutzer werden per Mail eingeladen.
https://www.