@servelan@newsie.socialFedEx customers sue company for tariff refunds after US Supreme Court ruling | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/fedex-customers-sue-company-tariff-refunds-after-us-supreme-court-ruling-2026-02-27/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA US judge says her "tentative view" is to grant OpenAI's motion to dismiss xAI's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets by poaching xAI employees (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeItaly data protection agency fines Intesa Sanpaolo $36 mln over data breach
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/italy-data-protection-agency-fines-intesa-sanpaolo…
@axbom@axbom.me
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaDawn Foster will speak on 'Power Dynamics, Rug Pulls, and Other Corporate Impacts on OSS Sustainability' as part of our General track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presenta…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"MPs in call to halt Drax’s £2m-a-day subsidy over sustainability doubts"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialTrump möchte also nicht, dass wir digital unabhängig werden? Danke für die Empfehlung!
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-202…
@Xavier@infosec.exchange"Using Google Sheets allowed the group to evade detection and blend into normal network traffic and was not a compromise of any Google product, the company added."
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok returns to Albania after a year-long ban, ostensibly linked to the death of a teenage boy, expired; Albania says TikTok has tightened safety measures (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/t…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialDifferent Corners II ▶️
不同的角落 II ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
@relcfp@mastodon.socialMeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026- Media & Sustainability
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updated: Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:09pmfull name / name of organization: MeCCSA PGN & Film, Theatre…
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@gevoel@mastodon.green@…
Erg, maar minder erg dan de VVD altijd bralt.
The Myth That Wind Farms Are a Guillotine for Birds Is Being Debunked by Hard Data
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@metacurity@infosec.exchangeExclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-2026-02-25/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSalesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sus
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDelta suspends special treatment for Congress as shutdown sows chaos in airports (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/delta-suspends-special-treatment-congress-shutdown-sows-chaos-airports-2026-03-24/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p125#a260324p125
@crell@phpc.socialSome more good news, though it may not survive appeal.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/musk-found-liable-twitter-shareholders-fraud-lawsuit-over-44-billio…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the White House will meet with banks and crypto firms on Monday to discuss a path forward for crypto legislation stalled by a clash between the sectors (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@cheryanne@aus.socialSustainable Transformation
We bring you honest conversations about the challenges and triumphs of sustainability transformations in business...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sustainable-transformation/
@brichapman@mastodon.socialEleven organizations just won a combined $5.9M for solutions that are actually changing lives.
The 2026 Zayed Sustainability Prize winners are tackling everything from AI diagnostics to eco-brick production. Since 2008, this prize has impacted over 411 million people through innovations in health, water, energy, and climate action.
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageOn Electric Vehicle Energy Demand Forecasting and the Effect of Federated Learning
Andreas Tritsarolis, Gil Sampaio, Nikos Pelekis, Yannis Theodoridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20782 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20782 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20782
arXiv:2602.20782v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The wide spread of new energy resources, smart devices, and demand side management strategies has motivated several analytics operations, from infrastructure load modeling to user behavior profiling. Energy Demand Forecasting (EDF) of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipments (EVSEs) is one of the most critical operations for ensuring efficient energy management and sustainability, since it enables utility providers to anticipate energy/power demand, optimize resource allocation, and implement proactive measures to improve grid reliability. However, accurate EDF is a challenging problem due to external factors, such as the varying user routines, weather conditions, driving behaviors, unknown state of charge, etc. Furthermore, as concerns and restrictions about privacy and sustainability have grown, training data has become increasingly fragmented, resulting in distributed datasets scattered across different data silos and/or edge devices, calling for federated learning solutions. In this paper, we investigate different well-established time series forecasting methodologies to address the EDF problem, from statistical methods (the ARIMA family) to traditional machine learning models (such as XGBoost) and deep neural networks (GRU and LSTM). We provide an overview of these methods through a performance comparison over four real-world EVSE datasets, evaluated under both centralized and federated learning paradigms, focusing on the trade-offs between forecasting fidelity, privacy preservation, and energy overheads. Our experimental results demonstrate, on the one hand, the superiority of gradient boosted trees (XGBoost) over statistical and NN-based models in both prediction accuracy and energy efficiency and, on the other hand, an insight that Federated Learning-enabled models balance these factors, offering a promising direction for decentralized energy demand forecasting.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle agrees to pay $135M to settle a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the tech giant programmed Android to illegally collect users' cellular data (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Love, fear, anger and hope: how emotions influence climate action"
#Climate #ClimateChange
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCanal , ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTether says it has frozen $4.2B of its crypto token over links to "illicit activity", including $3.5B since 2023 and $61M linked to pig-butchering scams (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabi…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe hacking group, tracked as UNC2814 and "Gallium,” has a nearly decade-long history of penetrating government organizations and telecommunications companies, the company said in findings shared exclusively with Reuters.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDiplomatic cable: US officials order diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate how US tech companies handle foreigners' data, citing risks to AI services (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@raiders@darktundra.xyzLas Vegas Raiders reinforce Commitment to Excellence with 2025 Impact Playbook https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-reinforce-commitment-to-excellence-with-2025-impact-playbook
@gwire@mastodon.socialI've started telling people that the biggest change websites can make in terms of improving environmental sustainability, is to use clear, semantically rich, text mark-up along with well specced public APIs.
This will reduce, to some unknown aggregate, the amount of power and resources used by current and future agentic systems when interacting with them.
@fgraver@hcommons.socialWell. This does not seem like a good thing: «AI systems are built to function in ways that degrade and are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions. The affordances of AI systems have the effect of eroding expertise, short-circuiting decision-making, and isolating people from each other. These systems are anathema to the kind of evolution, transparency, cooperation, and accountability that give vital institutions their purpose and sustainability. In short, current AI systems are a de…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle disrupts Chinese-linked group UNC2814, which breached 53 organizations across 42 countries and utilized Google Sheets to manage targeting and data theft (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/b…
@cdarwin@c.im“When there’s a supply disruption in the Middle East, that raises prices for every barrel of oil in the world,”
said Christopher Knittel, associate dean for climate and sustainability at M.I.T.
“Those price increases then trickle down to products that use oil, gasoline being the most relevant one.”
⚠️But isn’t the United States the world’s largest oil producer?
Yes, but not all American-produced oil can be easily used by American refiners.
The United States is a n…
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialA welcome turning point. While electricity consumption continues to grow in China, large scale deployment of renewable energy generation means that coal-based generation has started to decline.
https://www.reuters.com/s…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115883445350346364
I think the technology could be used responsibly for narrow use cases (e.g. writing code is a narrow use case), with the very important caveat that the training data needs to be properly licensed and authors properly compensated (unless they licensed stuff free for commercial use); as well as companies offering it being transparent and honest about what LLMs actually do.
Anyway, even if that’s the case (and that’s a big if and certainly not the case today) I have serious doubts concerning the long-term financial sustainability of companies like idk Anthropic.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle agrees to pay $68M to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that Google Assistant inappropriately recorded private conversations on users' devices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy"Trump’s decision to wage war abroad threatens to wipe out some of his key economic accomplishments at home.", says CNN.
It remains unclear what those key accomplishments would be.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/09/politics/rising-oil-costs-gas-trump
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAn Indian court sentences journalist Ravi Nair to one year in jail for his social media posts on the Adani Group, calling the posts unverified and defamatory (Arpan Chaturvedi/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/b…
@solawi@social.tchncs.deIn diesem Paper erfolgt eine ganzheitliche und integrierte Lebenszyklus-Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung der Solidarischen Landwirtschaft.
💡 Ergebnis der Fallstudie: Nur 1/3 Nachhaltigkeitsrisiken gegenüber dem konventionellen Lebenmittelmarkt.
"Holistic and integrated life cycle sustainability assessment of community supported agriculture: A case study of school catering in Leipzig, Germany"
Autor:innen: Madeleine Pries, Walther Zeug, Daniela Thrän
OpenAccess
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@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today various bits of admin including starting things for this year's sustainability hackathon at uni, and very slowly and carefully* fetching and processing the extra 2025 house heating data set again (I'll do most tomorrow).
*Automation, I've heard of it! But it didn't work out so well last time, so I'm eyeballing probably millions of data points as I go this time...<…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org @mxp@mastodon.acm.org @raiders@darktundra.xyzLas Vegas Raiders reinforce Commitment to Excellence with 2025 Impact Playbook https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-reinforce-commitment-to-excellence-with-2025-impact-playbook
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta stock falls 6% to a 10-month low after juries in two US trials found the company failed to adequately warn or protect young users (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/meta-sh…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/trump-bought-netflix-warner-bros-bonds-height-bidding-war-with-paramount-2026-03-09/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p50#a260309p50
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaCHAOSS, Sustainability, and the Shifting Power Dynamics of Open Source - A conversation with Dawn Foster
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chaoss-sustainability-shifting-power-dynamics-open-source-kim-mcmahon-ylwnc/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMassive cyberattack on Polish power system in December failed, minister says
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/massive-cyberattack-polish-power-system-december-failed-minister-says-2026…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe FCC is banning imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over security concerns; China is estimated to control 60% of the US market for home routers (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/bo…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFive regional newspapers in Boston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Seattle, Philly, and Salt Lake offer examples of sustainability for the news business, as WaPo shrinks (Dan Kennedy/The Conversation)
https://theconversation.com/as-jeff-be
@rwell@social.linux.pizzaAmazing development; Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) steps away from providing iphones and samsung phones for employees, switching to the more managable, sustainable and more cost efficient #fairphone instead:
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLeaked Interior Department database reveals US plans to revise historical information (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/leaked-interior-department-database-reveals-us-plans-revise-historical-2026-03-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p14#a260303p14
@axbom@axbom.me @metacurity@infosec.exchangeIllinois man admits to hacking Snapchat accounts to steal nude photos
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/illinois-man-admits-hacking-snapchat-accounts-steal-nude-photos-202…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"How green is your milk? We compare the environmental cost of dairy and plant-based options"
#Milk #Food #Environment
@brichapman@mastodon.socialBeer lovers and planet lovers, unite! Pubinno's smart tap system is revolutionizing draft beer service by slashing waste and boosting keg yields.
The results? Over 1.4 billion liters of water saved, plus industry awards for sustainability. It adjusts foam levels, works with any glass, and even handles nitro beers and sodas.
Best part: going green saves venues money too.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: ex-US trade rep Robert Lighthizer resigns from Trump Media & Technology Group's board; TMTG has been shifting its focus from media toward nuclear fusion (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQualcomm says UK consumer association Which? is withdrawing its chip royalties lawsuit that sought £480M for 29M iPhone and Samsung users, after a CAT trial (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Up to 4,700 metric tons of litter flows down the Rhine each year"
#Rhine #Pollution #Litter
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe UK's FCA says Meta has repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms, despite committing to block them (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Italian police searched the offices of the country's data protection agency, one of EU's most proactive regulators, as part of a corruption probe (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok plans to roll out a new age detection system, which analyzes profile information to predict whether a user is under 13, across Europe in the coming weeks (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at the first year of Illinois' news tax incentive program; it awarded $4M in tax credits to support 260 jobs at 120 outlets, one-third of them nonprofits (Rebuild Local News)
https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/supporting-local…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe Coupang breach is really something in Korea. It's an all-consuming crisis.
A former Coupang engineer, who was aware of flaws in the authentication process, broke into the system in April, a breach that lasted until November.
https://www…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft agrees to buy a record 2.85M soil carbon credits from Indigo Carbon linked to regenerative US agriculture; a source values the deal at $171M-$228M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialIndia is rolling out millions of smart meters that are doing more than tracking energy use—they're fundamentally reshaping the grid.
As rooftop solar and EVs spread, decentralized RF mesh networks connect devices affordably while multiple vendors collaborate to keep the system resilient. The focus: financial sustainability and renewable energy ambitions.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCanal , ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle signs deals with five US electric utilities for 1GW of "demand response" in total, to reduce data center power consumption during peak grid demand hours (Laila Kearney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sus…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSouth Korea's Science Ministry blames Coupang's massive 2025 data leak on management failures and accuses it of defying a government order to preserve data logs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/bo…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $6.4B, vs. $6.28B est., adjusted EPS above estimates, and forecasts Q2 revenue between $6.43B and $6.48B, vs. $6.43B est. (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@brichapman@mastodon.socialA Bahrain startup just proved you don't need to tear everything down to make buildings climate-resilient.
GeoStruXer used AI and satellite data to stabilize a warehouse in Saudi Arabia, cutting the required micropiles from 2,700 to far fewer—slashing materials, costs, and emissions while extending the structure's life another decade.
Their approach just won Bentley's sustainability award, beating 270 entries.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDocument: Meta said last week that it would exclude Italy from its ban on rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp, after an order from the country's antitrust authority (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRevolut, which has about 70M clients in 40 markets, applies for a US bank charter and appoints former Visa executive Cetin Duransoy as its new US CEO (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energ…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLockheed Martin to follow US federal ban on Anthropic, as government contracting attorneys say defense contractors are expected to comply with the DOD's order (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
@Techmeme@techhub.socialItaly's competition regulator opens two investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard over sales practices it claims were "misleading and aggressive" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainab…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay delays its IPO roadshow that was scheduled to launch Monday, as markets were rattled by the strikes in Iran (Echo Wang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainab…
