Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-doubles-clou…

Nvidia Doubles Cloud Spending Commitment to $26 Billion
Nvidia said Wednesday it had struck deals to rent $26 billion of servers from cloud providers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed just three months ago. The cloud spending plan implies Nvidia will rent several hundred thousand of its own graphics processing units from cloud providers like Amazon and Google that purchase them. Nvidia said in a

This is what I always warned people about in regards to DRM.
Ubisoft servers down due to a technical problem (AWS ded), so I can't play my game.
I can't play my single-player game, because their login server went belly up.
Now it's a technical problem, in a few years, it'll probably a "permanent problem" (Ubi taking down the servers in its enterity)

@… made me think of u https://mods.vintagestory.at/kemono

kemono
larp as anthro animals & pastel colored equines, man made horrors beyond your comprehension beta, should b usable on servers now but expect internal changes at any time x3 looking 4 help :3, dm @xeth9000, or discord at: https://discord.gg/9FfZqEekUa: - blender animator (kemono model cleanup)- blender modeling for more parts (kemono + horse)- horse voices   emote menu:- ctrl + T   commands:- .charsel: can now change your appearance anytime (but not class or race!!)- .glowreset: remove any char…

As promised, over the past few days I've been scouting for accounts on several Mastodon and Pixelfed servers related to #AltProcess photography & print making, in the hope to get more insights into each others' work/creations/experiences, successes & failures etc. Obviously the list below (in A-Z order) is NOT meant to be exhaustive in any way or form and if you feel you'd…

A Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay a ~$3.2M fine to four major Japanese publishers for its role in hosting servers for manga piracy sites (The Japan Times)
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/20/japan/crime-legal/cloudflare-manga-piracy/

Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Four major publishing firms accused Cloudflare of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.

Ok, das hatte ich auch noch nicht:
Mein Mailprogramm konnte plötzlich nicht mehr zu em bestimmten Mailkonto¹ verbinden. Kommt vor. Ich betreib den Server selbst, mach mich also an's Debuggen, seh aber nichts in den Logs.² Ich schau in die Fehlerkonsole, probier curl³, telnet, … keine Ausgaben, einfach keine Verbindung.
Im lokalen Subnetz des Servers geht IMAP, auch per Proxy, nur von mir zu Hause nicht. Also bau ich ein VPN, und hoppla, curl über IPv6 geht, über IPv4 nicht…<…

When you're trying to get #Google to help them fix a problem they have in relaying an email to a list (they are forwarding as if it they are originating your non-GMail email, thus incurring an SPF failure) their helpful support team to the rescue (see image attached).
FYI... the second thing they want is a screen cap of the client SMTP config.
Very temped to send a screenshot wit…

🥳 @small-tech/auto-encrypt-localhost version 9.0.1 released
Automatically provisions and installs locally-trusted TLS certificates for Node.js https servers (including Polka, Express.js, etc.) Unlike mkcert, 100% written in JavaScript with no external/binary dependencies. As used in Kitten¹
https://cod…

auto-encrypt-localhost
Automatically provisions and installs locally-trusted TLS certificates for Node.js https servers in 100% JavaScript (without any native dependencies like mkcert and certutil).

Shipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 vs. 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/taiwan-s-top-a…

Taiwan's top AI server makers boost output to meet US demand
Foxconn, Quanta and Wistron vie for orders from Nvidia and other tech giants

@… pour fastmail, leur serveurs sont aux USA.
Eux disent que ca change rien parce qu’ils sont une entité australienne, et qu’ils dépendent des lois australiennes, mais je suis dubitatif.

It was Operation Endgame that took down Rhadamanthys.
End of the game for cybercrime infrastructure: 1025 servers taken down
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/end-of-game-for-cybercrime-infra…

End of the game for cybercrime infrastructure: 1025 servers taken down – Operation Endgame’s latest phase targeted the infostealer Rhadamanthys, Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium | Europol
Between 10 and 14 November 2025, the latest phase of Operation Endgame was coordinated from Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. The actions targeted one of the biggest infostealers (Rhadamanthys), the Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium, all of which played a key role in international cybercrime. Authorities took down these three large cybercrime enablers. The main suspect for VenomRAT was also arrested in Greece on 3 November 2025.

A brilliant feature in Mastodon to be able to filter away keywords.
I see you all next week w/r to certain outages. A bit tiring to have a flood of messages repeating basically two things: there's an outage and i didn't know Signal's servers were in the US.
Back to interesting content!

Anchorage police department takes servers offline after cyberattack on service provider https://therecord.media/anchorage-police-takes-servers-offline-after-third-party-attack

Beantwoording kamervragen over Solvinity. De kern : ""De drie genoemde wettelijke instrumenten maken het, in ieder geval in theorie, mogelijk dat autoriteiten in de VS onder de in deze wetgeving genoemde voorwaarden toegang kunnen krijgen tot de gegevens waarover een onderneming in de VS beschikt, óók wanneer de gegevens zich bevinden onder een dochtervennootschap en op servers buiten de VS."

#TIL there's a server limit on Discord 😅
Joining a new server will show "You must leave a server first to join."
There's a site to get the number of servers you are in: https://github.com/NobreHD/Discord-S…

While I maybe a Linux Penguin, It's worth pointing out there are plenty of other free OSs which share many of the user space parts (e.g. the desktop) - and some very different; So, give FreeBSD a go once in a while, Then there are things like FreeDOS, embedded OSs, and ReactOS which can run Windows software, or lots of other things to play with. Give some a go:

The FreeBSD Project
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

Sources: the US Commerce Department plans to approve the sale of up to 35K of Nvidia's GB300 servers or their equivalents to G42 and Humain each (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/u-s-approves-deal-to-sell-ai-chips-to-middle-east-79d6…

One of my servers was making a weird noise so I performed a bit of “percussive maintenance” and now it’s making a louder weird noise.

📈
theforkiverse.com - FediDB
https://fedidb.com/servers/theforkiverse.com

I criticize Mozilla quite strongly. That's not cause I want them to die. It's because while they might've lost their way I strongly believe we need organizations like Mozilla. (Even if Mozilla as "tech-company" probably needs to either massively pivot or be replaced with something that servers the people [insert my usual "There should be a government funded agency that buys things like Firefox and develops it in a transparent and democratic way" shpiel])

To maintain Apple’s privacy pledge, the Gemini-based AI will run directly on Apple devices or its private cloud system, which is powered by Apple’s own server chips, rather than running on Google’s servers. Google put significant engineering effort into getting a version of Gemini working on Apple’s servers, according to a person familiar with the partnership talks.

Masto servers like mas.to is also down. Funny..

#Cloud #Cost Comparison for #European Providers
https://www.eucloudco…

On the fediverse, as we live through the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, there are those who oppose the genocide and are trying to help the victims and there are those who deny the genocide, try to erase the victims, and attempt to vilify the ones trying to help.
If you’re neutral, you’ve chosen the side of the latter.
If you give genocide deniers sanctuary on your servers, you’re telling genocide victims that they are not safe on your server.
This isn’t…

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Nee je kan niet meer je overheid en maatschappij verhuizen naar Amerikaanse servers - @… 's writings
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/nee-je-kan-niet-meer-je-overheid-bouwen-op-de-us/
Even voor luie mensen de kortste versie ⬇️ met de aanrader om vooral het hele artikel door te laten dringen.
Deze erkenning kan ik waarderen:😉
'Zo opgeschreven ziet het er vrij bizar uit, maar dat is het ook. Het is ook niet makkelijk om door te hebben dat onze relatie met Amerika na 80 jaar uit is. Kostte ook mij tijd om dat te accepteren.'
Hij heeft gelijk.

Apparemment qu’un réseau de bots Russe a utilisé plusieurs serveurs mastodon incluant qlub.social pour diffuser de la propagande. C’est sorti y’a 1 mois, j’ai totalement manqué ça.
https://bsky.app/profile/antibot4navalny.bsky.social/post/3m2225xo3zs25

Hackers breach internal servers of tech provider for Britain’s health service https://therecord.media/uk-nhs-tech-provider-dxs-discloses-hack

Wrong.
#google #ai #slop

#FreeSoftwareAdvent for today: #Ansible
It's what I'm using to provision and update our renderfarm, workstations and servers. Instead of hacking shell scripts to install apps and edit config files on every new workstation you write yaml files ("playbooks") that get e…

Halleluja!
Dann sehe ich Eure Antworten demnächst sogar.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/

We ended up building an “expo”, but for Godot:
https://zirk.us/@Eyelit/115547519055762618

Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/google-is-going-all-in…

Google launches managed MCP servers that let AI agents simply plug into its tools | TechCrunch
Google is rolling out managed MCP servers to make its services “agent-ready by design,” starting with Maps and BigQuery, aiming to simplify messy integrations and help AI agents use real tools.

Let's see, is the game Hytale popular on the Fediverse? For folks looking at hosting your own dedicated server, I'm wrapping up my installer for Debian / Ubuntu servers.
https://github.com/BitsNBytes25/Hytale-Installer
Works with Warlock web game manager or by itse…

China-aligned threat actor is conducting widespread cyberespionage campaigns https://therecord.media/china-aligned-threat-actor-espionage-network-devices

Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.

For a deep dive with some very excellent analysis of *that* white house security strategy, @… 's latest is a must view, and deeply discomfiting.
Anders ends with a suggestion to move off Meta X for blue sky. Which while I appreciate that a rivalry between masto BSky is probably unhelpful should maybe also come with the caveat that Blue sky *really* needs some other servers that federates with the US patent...
https://youtu.be/YAh-xEteBz4?si=yjXMUHc9qm_mxge2

Hi #Linux team - any recommendations for a work desktop computer with the following requirements:

• can do basic research stuff (reading, writing) and also a little bit of basic data analysis (with python or Matlab)
• would run a distribution like #ZorinOS or Mint
• with a Max…

Computing | Laptops, Tablets, Desktops, Servers and Computing Accessories
Shop our latest range of devices and accessories: Laptops, Tablets, Desktops, Servers and Computing Accessories. All from Insight UK.

https://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-says-data-breach-was-limited-to-servers-with-unclassified-documents/
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an initial statement regarding an alleged data breach, stating that it aff…

ESA Says Data Breach Was Limited to Servers with Unclassified Documents
ESA has downplayed the severity of a recent data breach, stating that it affected a limited number of external science servers.

⚡ Uses up to 30x less RAM and 15x less disk space than Elasticsearch and Grafana Loki. Capacity and performance scale linearly with available resources - runs smoothly on Raspberry Pi and on servers with hundreds of CPU cores and terabytes of RAM. Scales horizontally to hundreds of nodes in cluster mode.

Sad for all those accounts on #MedMastodon after the server disappeared. I hope this make it even more clear that #mastodon needs way to let users own the data and allow it to be easily ported between servers.
People don't feel safe on small servers or often don't understand…

BOFH excuse #385:
Dyslexics retyping hosts file on servers

I just finished reorganizing the cable drawer.
The timeline of events was something like:
- the DNS server for internal name resolution runs inside a Docker container only reachable via IPv4
- if an Android device gets both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS servers, it will only query the IPv6 one
- fuck Docker; I'll install the DNS server on a Raspberry Pi
- creating a Pi image with sshd enabled didn't work
- this household has surprisingly few HDMI cables
- oh, …

I just finished reorganizing the cable drawer.
The timeline of events was something like:
- the DNS server for internal name resolution runs inside a Docker container only reachable via IPv4
- if an Android device gets both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS servers, it will only query the IPv6 one
- fuck Docker; I'll install the DNS server on a Raspberry Pi
- creating a Pi image with sshd enabled didn't work
- this household has surprisingly few HDMI cables
- oh, …

Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS
Italy fines Cloudflare 14M euros for not blocking pirate sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS service.

The "cloud" thing everyone's always talking about.
#Cloud #Datacenter

This week I've done a heap of work to move four different web applications (on different backend servers) behind a pair of haproxy.
This is also going to allow me to turn off a 32-bit Debian server running Debian 7 (wheezy).
My GOD the repayment of technical debt here…

The bureaucratic rigidness of the Italian government has taken it to a completely unnecessary conflict with US providers. With the poorly-planned Privacy Shield initiative, it entered a digital sovereignty conflict the country never prepared for. The appalling thing is that even the outspoken Mario Draghi didn't try to walk his talk. And now Cloudfare threatens to resist.
"The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification…

Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS
Italy fines Cloudflare 14M euros for not blocking pirate sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS service.

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Person-focused:
https://fediwall.social/?servers=mastodon.bsd.cafe&tags=&accounts=stefano@mastodon…

TwitterX """users""" might have to join Fedi now. (Although, can someone set up a silo'd server, so they don't infect other servers)
#twitter #x #grok

Elon Musk’s X could be banned in Britain over AI chatbot row
Sir Keir Starmer brands deepfakes on social media site ‘disgusting and not to be tolerated’

Sources: Amazon is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $500B valuation, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft keeps rights to sell OpenAI models (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-talks-raise-least-1…

OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips
Amazon is in talks to invest $10 billion or more in OpenAI, according to three people familiar with the discussions. The valuation would be higher than $500 billion, one of the people said. The Amazon investment would help OpenAI afford some of the commitments it has made to rent servers from ...

It's the end of the month again and that means new bills for the servers! We have various expenses and moderation work unfortunately takes up a lot of time, which is why we would be very happy about a little support! :boost_requested:

• :liberapay: LiberaPay
• :paypal:

MastodonDE's profile - Liberapay
You can find a complete and detailed explanation of our maintenance costs here: English German

AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless, only with servers!
Would like to see some app scenarios with detailed cost breakdown.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-lambda-managed-instances-serverless-si…

Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility | Amazon Web Services
Run Lambda functions on EC2 compute while maintaining serverless simplicity—enabling access to specialized hardware and cost optimizations through EC2 pricing models, with AWS handling all infrastructure management.

I just installed `asncounter`[1] by @… (blog post[2]) to get a glimpse who is accessing one of my servers. Turns out, 99% of the traffic originates from just two ASNs in Brazil: Mega Tele Informatica and R3 Telecom. I'm in Germany, my server is in Germany (I believe, it's a Hetzner root server).
I guess I could safely block these ASNs. The only thi…

🥳 Auto-Encrypt Localhost version 9.0.0 released
Bye bye, Windows.
• Windows is no longer supported as Microsoft is complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people¹ and Small Technology Foundation² stands in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement³. Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and, alongside supporting genocide, you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it.
Enjo…

auto-encrypt-localhost
Automatically provisions and installs locally-trusted TLS certificates for Node.js https servers in 100% JavaScript (without any native dependencies like mkcert and certutil).

"Datacentres demand huge amounts of electricity. Could they derail Australia’s net zero ambitions?"
#Australia #NetZero #Climate

Paraphrase of my #IOT hardware rant on slack (unsurprising, since I maintain https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/)
In a perfect world IOT hardware companies should:
- Have to escrow the firmware. And escrow the source code, not just the binary blob
- The firmware isn't allowed to use binary blobs as device drivers. Chip manufacturers will have to suck it up and document their chips or hardware companies won't be able to use them
- Have to escrow any keys required to update the firmware
- To be sold, have to have a local API, with at a minimum, functionality to update the firmware once the hardware company stops support. No "You have to use our crapware that only works on a phone/computer OS two major versions old, and it has to download firmware from our servers that got turned off when we went out of business / dropped the product's support
- Eighteen months with no updates causes release of the escrowed firmware and update keys. There are bound to be at least some security updates required in that time
- Have to have clearly labeled pads on the board for updating firmware and running diagnostics.
- Not be allowed to lock consumers out of reflashing the firmware. If someone flashes custom firmware before the escrowed firmware is released, and the custom firmware bricks the device, that's on the person who reflashed it, not the company.
@…

Future Plans:
I have like ten years of data in my log, converted from those prior prototypes. I will be adding ways to more usefully compare and analyse data going this far back.
It could maybe use a milestone function, to track singular events which don't take actual time so don't spread on the grid. Snack tracking and the like.
It could likely use a flashcard system, with spaced repetition to review the flashcards, for better memory and recall.
Synching between devices might be nice, and lots will suggest doing that through Nostr, but Nostr is a bit public. Would need an encryption layer. Do nostr relays want to relay encrypted data from one user to themselves I suspect Veilid ( https://veilid.com/ ) would be a better option. The "no servers" ethos probably includes nostr relays.
Mostly I plan just more and better ways to view the ten years and growing of data I already have. And to do some other things for a bit so my log isn't just full of "Vibecoding Exocortex" like it is the last two weeks 😉

Is Nextcloud not able to connect to FTP servers that require no login? I wanted to connect it to my Wii U
#Nextcloud #WiiU

Anyone know anything about solidagent.io?
They appear to be an EU hosted AI agent - in the sense that they have the trained models on their own platforms, rather than using an API so presumably queries etc stay on their servers.
Their statements of #privacy etc look good and the test queries I posted (on quite complex #coding problems) were very impressive, but I don't think it's strictly FOSS otherwise.
Would be happy to hear if others have good/bad experience with them as they seem quite new.
https://www.solidagent.io/privacy

NTP query question - running Alma 10 Kitten. Chronyc only lets you query servers in your config. I want to check servers that AREN'T. Something i used to use ntpq for. But no ntpq is showing in the repos (including epel-release). Suggestions?

Back in 1991 or so, during renovations, they took down a wall in the Engineering Building and discovered a rack of Sun servers happily doing their job, apparently so well, at some point they were walled up with drywall!
I do remember uptimes in the hundreds, even thousands of days, but it's fuzzy. Lately having more than a month without kernel upgrades seems rare, and browsers rarely last a month.
If all the sysadmins in the world took their lunch hour at the same time, would civilization survive?

Google to pull some of its servers out of Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/27/google-to-pull-some-of.html

Wow, Oracle Cloud sucks. You know it's bad when I find Azure and AWS easier to use.
Signed up thinking I'd use their "always free" tier and maybe pay the overages.
They lock you in a "home region" and I can't launch the free tier servers because they aren't available in any of the data centers in my home region. Of course you can't check capacity of servers when you're selecting your home region (that you can't change.) So, how are …

Updating the list of CLI apps I use regularly:
- castero: client for listening to podcasts.
- calcurse: personal calendar compatible with CalDAV servers.
- kew: music player.
- micro: text editor.
- toot: Mastodon client.
- newsboat: feed reader.
- w3m: web browser (and newsboat add-on, in my case).
- bat: like cat, but cooler.
- exa: like ls, but cooler.
- ncdu: tool for analyzing folder space usage.
- atool: tool for managing compress…

Kleines Zwischenupdate bis morgen dann die finale Version der Mastodon Software v4.5.0 erscheinen wird.
Jetzt läuft die Instanz https://bayerwald.social erst einmal mit Version v4.5.0-rc.3

Release v4.5.0-rc.3 · mastodon/mastodon
WarningThis is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on mastodon.social and some other servers. If you update to this release, you will ...

I just managed to pick up eight "Sun Netra 210" 1U UltraSparc-IIIi servers yesterday. In case any #retrocomputing enthusiasts here (particularly those of you I know personally) are interested in such equipment, please let me know. #sun

Looks like law enforcement disrupted the Rhadamanthys infostealer.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rhadamanthys-infostealer-disrupted-as-cybercriminals-lose-server-access/

Rhadamanthys infostealer disrupted as cybercriminals lose server access
The Rhadamanthys infostealer operation has been disrupted, with numerous "customers" of the malware-as-a-service reporting that they no longer have access to their servers.

Playing a little bit of the new B42 Zomboid last night, I came up with a new feature I need...
Change the auto-updater to skip updating if there are players currently logged in.
It'll check Steam, (or whatever the relative source), for an update and apply those changes once an hour. However for fast-changing servers like Zomboid (during development cycles) and ARK (notably when they "fix" something only to break 3 more things), this can be annoying for users alread…

Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS
Italy fines Cloudflare 14M euros for not blocking pirate sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS service.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115415146417702654
After looking at this, got curious to know the limits in most servers.
So I did a little data analysis. Servers list from @…

I'm not sure I should be surprised, sad, or just bemused at how often the literal wildcard, e.g. '*.domain.example' shows up in queries at my auth servers. Something(s) out of Hetzner seems to love doing this a lot.

Nvidia says its GB200 Blackwell AI servers boost performance 10x compared to H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking and DeepSeek's R1 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia

☸️ Hardened #Helm Charts for #Kubernetes deployments and new Hardened #MCP Servers for MongoDB, Grafana, #GitHub

Monday 3rd November: experiment with alternative Mastodon clients.
3rd—7th November: experience amazement at the inexplicable surge in activity from accounts that I follow.
7th November, mid-afternoon: discover that I have been accidentally watching a live feed from all servers.
Now I don't know whether to laugh, or cry, because I don't know how to regain my previous view of things in the advanced web interface, but one thing's for certain:
- more

The #PoisonPill Request: How One Bad Request Can Kill Your Entire Fleet
https://systemdr.substack.com/p/the-poison-pill-request-how-one-bad

"Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions"
#Google #Emissions #Climate

Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels, yet release almost no emissions
As AI data centers spring up across the country, their energy demand and resulting greenhouse gas emissions are raising concerns. With servers and energy-intensive cooling systems constantly running, these buildings can use anywhere from a few megawatts of power for a small data center to more than 100 megawatts for a hyperscale data center. To put that in perspective, the average large natural gas power plant built in the U.S. generates less than 1,000 megawatts.

Door discussies hier viel mijn oog op @… , interessante europese cloud provider. Prettig prijsmodel ook.
https://jottacloud.com/

Apple's Houston manufacturing facility, originally scheduled to open in 2026, is now shipping AI servers that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (Brooke Singman/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple…

Apple building American-made AI servers ahead of schedule in new Houston facility, answering Trump call
EXCLUSIVE: Apple is now building and shipping American-made artificial intelligence servers in the United States — a move that has the technology giant answering President Donald Trump’s call to on shore manufacturing.

Masto Admin Tip

Every masto admin surely knows to regularly clean up cached media from remote servers with the command
But do they also know that this doesn't include remote profile images from users who mostly probably haven't even logged in at home for years?
So likely admins should also run
To remove remote profiles that haven't been needed in a month?
I only discovered this last night, and running it examined nearly 400,000 accounts and removed 86Gb, or 70% of the media storage space!
Now instead of being 100% full, our media drive is 29% full.

Chinese hackers targeting ‘high value’ North American critical infrastructure, Cisco says https://therecord.media/china-hackers-apt-cisco-talos

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Cyera researchers detail Ni8mare, a critical RCE flaw that lets hackers access local instances of the n8n workflow automation platform, impacting ~100K servers (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secur…

- Someone trying to help protect the voices of genocide survivors on the fediverse
- Someone denying the existence of genocide survivors and working to get them banned from Mastodon servers
Some Mastodon server admins: “We literally cannot see a difference between the two.”
You wanna know the difference? You already know who you would want with you when you’re faced with a fascist in a dark alley. Unless, of course, that’s the one character you identify with most in this po…

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/majestic-labs-meta-google-ai-funding.html
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Former Google, Meta executives raise $100 million for high-capacity AI servers startup
The three plan to sell high-memory server technology.

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Right, folks, so there is an account on mastodon.social (@8124@mastodon.social) that has been libelling me and others, defaming us as antisemites for the longest time.
They just sent the posts attached.
They have been reported to mastodon.social and I have raised my concerns with them and yet no action has been taken against that account even though the account has been suspended on at least three major Mastodon servers and limited on at least four others.
It is not limited…

Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-esta…

Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

“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…

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Samsung expects Q4 operating profit up 208% YoY to ~$13.8B, vs. ~$12.3B est., and revenue up 23% to ~$64.2B, as demand for AI servers lifted memory chip prices (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Insiders detail how Nepal's Gen Z protests, born on Discord servers, TikTok feeds, and encrypted messaging apps, ended with an online poll to pick the new PM (Tulsi Rauniyar/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nepal-discord-gen-z-protests-vote-prime-…

The Inside Story of How Gen Z Toppled Nepal’s Leader and Chose a New One on Discord
The revolution started on social media. It ended with protests, violence, and an online poll to pick the new prime minister.

Just added Web Reachability API (at least that’s what I’m calling it) support to https://ip.small-web.org.
It’s for testing the reachability of your Small Web servers (using a domain or, more importantly, an IPv4/IPv6 address). I’m using it to implement Web Numbers¹ support in Auto Encrypt² and Kitten³.
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Axiado, which is making a chip designed to save space and power in AI servers, raised $100M led by Maverick Silicon (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/axiado-raises-100-million-chip-save-space-power-ai-da…

OpenAI and AWS agree to a seven year deal in which OpenAI will pay $38B for AI compute, including training its models on Amazon's servers and using its CPUs (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-amazon-

Foxconn says it plans to deploy Nvidia's Isaac GR00T N model of humanoid robots at its factory in Houston, Texas, which produces AI servers for Nvidia (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/foxconn-deploy-humanoid-robots…