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.

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.

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

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.

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

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, …

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.

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…

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.

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’

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
…

Former Google, Meta executives raise $100 million for high-capacity AI servers startup
The three plan to sell high-memory server technology.

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.
@…

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…

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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.

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.

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…

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

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

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 😉

- 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…

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…

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

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.

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

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 @…

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 ...

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

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

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

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?

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

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

No, dude. In the name of all that is holy do not build a new 2019 server. I don't care if the existing database is on 2019. This is the time to move it to 2025. Not in 2029 when it's EOL. NOW! While you are reconfiguring it and you have 3 years of runway left.
This is how we end up with thousands of EOL servers to cleanup after support expires.

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

I think the concept is similar to Amazon who has killed retail to get a dominant position and then to monetize that position. The AI stuff is cheap and we shall get used to it. And then they slowly start boiling the frog. First, because it is integrated everywhere and one can't escape it. Second, because we lose our ability to do without.
IMHO, this bet can go terribly wrong if people will not become dependent on AI, just use it where it makes sense and is affordable.

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…

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 …

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?

a feature that i wish was built into mastodon from the start & hope it eventually comes to heads.social. feel like being able to communicate only with people on your local server is one of the missing pieces in actually making local servers work. (i'd certainly be more apt to live-toot live shows/streams if i knew the readers were specifically the heads server.)

Why do people use Matrix? It gets more/worse spam than email! I assume Matrix servers don't have any antispam software, unlike the huge ecosystem available for email?

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)

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

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.

"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.

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

"Because sometimes the most sophisticated position is recognizing that you might be trying to solve the wrong kind of problem...
The real danger isn’t that machines will become intelligent—it’s that we’ll mistake impressive computation for understanding and surrender our judgment to those who control the servers.
The circus continues. The ground approaches. And some of us are paying attention to the actual distance.
"

Why I’m Betting Against the AGI Hype
An Engineer’s (Philosophical) Perspective.

»Rust Coreutils 0.3.0 — Up to 3.7x Faster Than GNU Tools:
The Rust re-implementation of classic Unix tools achieves significant performance gains and improved security in version 0.3.0«
This is exciting because of course Rust is slower than C/C . As a human, this will certainly not really be noticeable when using the terminal, but the scripts will certainly be faster on servers as a result.
🦀

Rust Coreutils 0.3.0: Bis zu 3,7-mal schneller als GNU-Tools
Die Rust-Reimplementierung klassischer Unix-Tools erreicht in Version 0.3.0 deutliche Performance-Steigerungen und verbesserte Sicherheit.

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

@… I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on securing publicly available software running at home.
I'm thinking about running my mastodon instance at home instead of DigitalOcean, but that means publicly advertising my home IP address on the web. Putting that behind a VPN or similar isn't an option because other servers have to reach mine r…

Law enforcement agencies from Austria, Estonia, Finland, and Latvia, together with Europol,
have seized thousands of SIM-box devices and SIM cards used in multiple scam campaigns.
The police kicked off Operation Simcartel on October 10 in Latvia,
carrying out 26 searches, and arresting five people right away,
also seizing approximately 1,200 SIM-box devices, 40,000 SIM cards, and five servers with additional infrastructure.
A SIM-box device is a piece of hardwar…

Massive SIM farm network powering 49 million fake accounts taken apart by Europol
Seven people were arrested

THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!
I think the SFTP server is down again. Expected files not in our INBOX and it happens on a semi-regular basis and usually after a weekend.
On my Linux box I had a very simple CHRON setup to run a specific BASH script. On my work WIN11 machine I have automated running a specific program every Monday morning checking for a specific item.
It should be trivial to do the same on the servers instead of buying software to verify that the servers are w…

Discord banning people who aren’t even pedos while the real pedos host karaoke in public servers is peak digital clown show. The mods spin in circles, the code eats itself, and everyone claps like this isn’t the dumbest apocalypse ever written.
The pedos stay untouched while the falsely banned fade into the void, posting screenshots from exile. The machine coughs, the users laugh, and the universe hums in white noise, pretending it’s all part of moderation.

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.

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…

🥵 Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-reservoir-thermal-energy-storage-efficient.html

Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
The rise of artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, and data processing is driving a steady increase in global data center electricity consumption. While running computer servers accounts for the largest share of data center energy use, cooling systems come in second—but a new study by researchers at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), formerly known as NREL, offers a potential solution to reduce peak energy consumption.

Japanese retailer Askul confirms data leak after cyberattack claimed by Russia-linked group https://therecord.media/askul-confirms-data-breach-ransomware-incident

Few days home alone while the fam are in the Arctic visiting Santa.
Worked on my Configuration Manager bringing to it super simple network attached behaviours for Hiera-in-shell and resource manifests
NATS Servers are trivial to run, literally, "./nats-server -js" is all this needs at the minimum and there is even a SaaS Offering with good enough free tier for what this needs.

#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…

@… 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…

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…

Railway is technically a PaaS (like Heroku). “serverless” because you don’t have to maintain the operating system. They have evolved buildpacks to Railpacks which will create containers on the fly.
OR you can use it as a Docker host
They are hosting their own bare metal servers. Recommended!
https://…

Even if it tries to phone home, they turned the servers for that off decades ago

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])

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.

Why do people use Matrix? It gets more/worse spam than email! I assume Matrix servers don't have any antispam software, unlike the huge ecosystem available for email?

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.

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

This is not the first time for #Microsoft #DNS-related problems. As I recall, the first one I remember from 2001 had something to do with their authoritative name servers residing on the same IP4 /24 that had an access or availability problem.
It was a rookie mistake even then, and they were …

nanog: Re: From Microsoft's site

“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…

Already over 12 years ago, the Google data center in Hamina, Finland, was equipped with a sauna powered by the facility's residual heat 🙀.
https://www.wired.com/2012/10/google-finland-data-center-2

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.

"The system now maintains 38-nanosecond median RMS offset from the GPS PPS reference, with frequency drift that’s barely detectable in the noise."
"World’s Most Stable Raspberry Pi? 81% Better NTP with Thermal Management" – Austin Pivarnik
https://

@… I never thought about it. I presume that I'm see your toots through the Fediverse/all servers.

Does anyone actually use OpenNIC?
I selfhost my DNS with unbound, apparently it's simple to use OpenNIC's root server hints but then you remove ICANN ones.
I know OpenNIC's root servers also respond for ICANN domains, but what I was wondering is: can I use ICANN ones for ICANN domains and only use OpenNIC ones when ICANN root servers don't know about a TLD?
#OpenNIC

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

I am not all that knowledgeable of Matrix servers but I have one that is unfederated and somehow we're getting spam sent from one of the users who only use a iPhone.
Seems to me this should just be impossible given their security?

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.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dartmouth-college-confirms-data-breach-after-clop-extortion-attack/
Dartmouth College confirms data breach after Clop extortion attack

Dartmouth College confirms data breach after Clop extortion attack
​Dartmouth College has disclosed a data breach after the Clop extortion gang leaked data allegedly stolen from the school's Oracle E-Business Suite servers on its dark web leak site.

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-

Black Coffee from lnbits likes internet of things, but doesn't like the way it tends to work with centralised servers and spying companies running them.
But what if your coffee pot and lights and smart plugs were nostr instead?
Nobody can cut your machine off, it has it's own keys and encryption, you could even ruin your own relay to talk to it instead of using public relays.
Remote control without having to expose the home network.
You could even make it require zaps and so make a vending machine.
Demonstration by sending lightning requests to the coffee pot on stage works better than the mikes that have been feeding back this afternoon 😆
#nostr #nostrshire #internetOfThings

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…

@… I'm quite lost, does this somehow explain why https://

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…

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

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

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…

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

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…

A profile of Credo, which makes active electrical cables to connect AI servers and whose stock price has more than doubled this year, after soaring 245% in 2024 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/500-purple-cables-put-credo-in-middle-…

$500 purple cables put this little-known company in the middle of the AI boom
Credo's stock has more than doubled this year after soaring 245% in 2024 as the AI boom makes its way downstream.

Shares of ISU Petasys, a South Korea-based multi-layer PCB supplier for AI servers used by Alphabet, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others, are up 215% so far this year (John Kang/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkang/2025

AI Chip Boom Propels Chairman Of Korean Circuit Board Maker Into The Billionaire Ranks
The surging demand for computer chips and related components to fuel the AI boom has boosted shares of ISU Petasys by 215% so far this year.

Sources: Microsoft aims to produce most new products, including servers and Surface laptops, outside China from 2026; AWS is also adopting a similar strategy (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/m…

Microsoft aims to make most new products outside China from 2026: sources
AWS and Google also step up overseas supply chain shift

Sources: Chinese state actors compromised UK government servers for at least the last 10 years, routinely accessing low- and medium-level classified information (Alex Wickham/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20