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Brookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant and a new $10B AI fund, and plans to acquire up to $100B in land, data centers, and power assets for AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/brookfield-start-cloud-b…

Brookfield to Start Cloud Business to Lower Cost of AI
Private-equity firm Brookfield is starting its own cloud business, going up against tech giants like Amazon by arguing it can bring down the costs of developing AI. The firm, which has long invested in infrastructure and energy, is becoming the first major investment firm to try to lease chips ...

Cheap Self-Hosted #Kubernetes on #Hetzner Cloud
https://blog.qstars.nl/posts/cheap-sel

I'm at the Alasca Cloud summit in Dresden today. Feel free to come say hi! #Alasca #Cloud

LiLa-Net: Lightweight Latent LiDAR Autoencoder for 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction
Mario Resino, Borja P\'erez, Jaime Godoy, Abdulla Al-Kaff, Fernando Garc\'ia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02028

LiLa-Net: Lightweight Latent LiDAR Autoencoder for 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction
This work proposed a 3D autoencoder architecture, named LiLa-Net, which encodes efficient features from real traffic environments, employing only the LiDAR's point clouds. For this purpose, we have real semi-autonomous vehicle, equipped with Velodyne LiDAR. The system leverage skip connections concept to improve the performance without using extensive resources as the state-of-the-art architectures. Key changes include reducing the number of encoder layers and simplifying the skip connections, …

Ich hatte ja Sorge, dass die Sprachbarriere Europa und insbesondere Deutschland zurückhält. Jetzt bin ich froh darum. Wir haben selber ne Wagenladung voll Probleme, wir müssen nicht noch importieren. https://silvan.cloud/@gersande/115647757482315486

Part of the trick is to sell a computer with a microphone and a speaker and call it a phone.
From: @…
https://hostux.social/@don_atoms/1152890009292…

#enshittification
simply don‘t use Uber and similar schemes. https://gaysex.cloud/notes/ah0fzy5pnmk302qh

Why do hundreds and hundreds of websites all incorrectly, and weirdly using identical phrases, insist that the the term 'blog' is short for 'web log' (True), "which was originally a record of server requests" (False)?
https://mybookjoy.com/2020/06/23/word-

Word origins: Why is it called a “blog?”
I’ve been blogging for over a year now, which is a big exciting accomplishment for me! And yet, it wasn’t until this week that I stopped and thought about how weird the word blog is. It…

"Spoiler alert: unless there happens to be some breakthrough in physics that will drive more gigahertz to our CPUs, more crypto to those GPUs, more watts to our batteries, and more money to cloud providers, we most probably will not see any difference between the computer you are using today and the one you will receive as a gift in Christmas 2033. Get used to this fact."

Return to Innocence
The pages of this magazine have often orbited around the subject of retrocomputing. Take, for example, the editions about sustainability, computer museums, hardware, hobbies, gaming, operating systems, or the one about BASIC published last summer. If you pay attention, you most probably have realized how much retrocomputing has grown in popularity in the past few decades, with more and more people learning on YouTube or TikTok how to replace the batteries or leaking capacitors from the motherbo…

Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that 👉 prohibits anyone based in China and "other adversarial countries" from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems.
The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law,
was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the
Defense Department’s computer systems for nearly a decade
— a practice that left s…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

I am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

"The fact that large language models (LLM) have scraped my website and continue to do so has had me feeling less motivated to share my thoughts. But maybe the best act of rebellion against AI slop is to keep writing and not let the silicon valley bastards grind me down."
@…

We Deleted #Tokio From Our Payment System and Cut Cloud Costs by $127,000
https://medium.com/@the_atomic_architect/we-deleted-tok…

Without wanting to detract from the main thrust of the article, I find the usage "new species" interestingly anthropocentric.
A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/a-ne<…

A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained virtually unexplored for decades. In 2022, and again in 2025, monitors from three Indigenous and local associations guided a team of scientists from Peru and France on a series of expeditions to […]

Spin period evolution and X-ray spectral characteristics of the SMC pulsar SXP 46.6
Aman Kaushik (TIFR, India), Sayantan Bhattacharya (TIFR, India), Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India,MIT, USA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01208

Spin period evolution and X-ray spectral characteristics of the SMC pulsar SXP 46.6
We characterize the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) pulsar SXP 46.6 using NuSTAR observations conducted in 2017. The spin period (P) of this neutron star decreased from its discovered value of 46.6 s to a value of 45.984(1) s, indicating a spin-up at the rate of \dot{P} = -1.13 x 10^{-9} s s^{-1}. This spin-up rate is used to calculate a high pulsar magnetic field value of 2.25 x 10^{13} G. This process also gives a low magnetic field value, which we rule out here by constraining the inner accreti…

How can the European Open Science Cloud (#EOSC) evolve into a truly sustainable and federated ecosystem post-2027?
This is the question we explored together with our partners in the European e-Infrastructures Assembly – EGI Foundation, EUDAT, @…, and PRACE – in a…

Mapping the Cloud-Driven Atmospheric Dynamics & Chemistry of an Isolated Exoplanet Analog with Harmonic Signatures
Michael K. Plummer, Francis P. Cocchini, Peter A. Kearns, Allison McCarthy, \'Etienne Artigau, Nicolas B. Cowan, Roman Akhmetshyn, Johanna Vos, Evert Nasedkin, Channon Visscher, Bj\"orn Benneke, Ren\'e Doyon, Stanimir A. Metchev, Jason F. Rowe, Genaro Su\'arez

Mapping the Cloud-Driven Atmospheric Dynamics & Chemistry of an Isolated Exoplanet Analog with Harmonic Signatures
Young planetary-mass objects and brown dwarfs near the L/T spectral transition exhibit enhanced spectrophotometric variability over field brown dwarfs. Patchy clouds, auroral processes, stratospheric hot spots, and complex carbon chemistry have all been proposed as potential sources of this variability. Using time-resolved, low-to-mid-resolution spectroscopy collected with the JWST/NIRISS and NIRSpec instruments, we apply harmonic analysis to SIMP J0136, a highly variable, young, isolated plane…

Microsoft plans to spend $7.9B on data centers, cloud, and staff in the UAE over the next four years, taking its total UAE investment to $15B from 2023 to 2029 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11…

for those who can't be bothered with the bogus age limit thing, check it out at: https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2F/bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3mbcvjmqdtk…

Current situation... Could be worse. Could be tenting... Heavy rain watch for the next dozen or so hours... Have a great finish to your year! It was... a year, eh. Ok to put it behind us.

In case you were wondering what an *actual* snowflake looks like...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-claims-its-illegal-for-late-night-host-seth-meyers-to-mock-him/

Trump, 79, Claims It’s ‘Illegal’ for Late-Night Host to Mock Him
The president is once again shouting at the TV.

I host my own Mastodon instance, and my (retired) blog.
https://www.xda-developers.com/self-hosting-digital-independence/

Efficient manifold evolution algorithm using adaptive B-Spline interpolation
Muhammad Ammad, Leevan Ling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01790 https://arxiv.org…

Efficient manifold evolution algorithm using adaptive B-Spline interpolation
This paper explores an efficient Lagrangian approach for evolving point cloud data on smooth manifolds. In this preliminary study, we focus on analyzing plane curves, and our ultimate goal is to provide an alternative to the conventional radial basis function (RBF) approach for manifolds in higher dimensions. In particular, we use the B-Spline as the basis function for all local interpolations. Just like RBF and other smooth basis functions, B-Splines enable the approximation of geometric featu…

I guess the plans for Sunday swimming are off the table at the current temperatures. #Uckermark #coldswim

Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud #foss

I usually post in the evening today's post inthe morning for the 'Fotovorschlag' somehow broke my routine.
Anyways, I wanted to share this photo from my hike on sunday. It was my first winter-hike this season! Saturday was a great cloud inversion - which I missed - sunday greeted me (and QUITE some more hikers) with a plain blue sky.
I hope I can get out again on the weekend to test warmer socks.
Well - enjoy!

An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on his AI vision, how he plans to extend Amazon's cloud market lead, adding AI to AWS services, AI efficiencies, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-aws-ceo-matt-garman-ai-agents/

AWS CEO Matt Garman Wants to Reassert Amazon’s Cloud Dominance in the AI Era
As Google and Microsoft continue to surge, the AWS chief lays out his pitch: cheaper, reliable AI delivered at hyperscale.

Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors

Me, out in Shindagin Hollow yesterday. I'm glad it wasn't hunting season!
#photo #photography #selfie

Moody Urbanity - Old & New 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

"On July 23rd, 1984, the song was recorded at the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse in Eden Prairie with the entire band. The song was played and recorded live. After 21 minutes the tape was full and the band were still playing."
It was never released before, with a reason, 21 minutes is a bit long 😆, still interesting for any Prince fan. And the song has an amazing groove...

America (12" Version) - 2025 Remaster
Prince · Around the World in a Day (Deluxe Edition) [2025 Remaster] · Song · 2025

Cloud Atlas hackers target Russian agriculture sector ahead of industry forum https://therecord.media/cloud-atlas-targets-russian-agriculture

Does anyone have comments on 12TB external USB drives? Looking to add something to my home server as a backup. How reliable are they? Critical stuff backed to cloud as well, but I have lots of 'stuff' I would feel better having a 2nd local copy of. (3-2-1 rule) Given my first HD as uh, 5MB, the idea of a 12TB drive is mind boggling.

The 21st century is a quarter over! Isn't that terrifying? Even more terrifying if your library, archive, or museum is still stuck in the previous century.
That's why we started UMaine's online Digital Curation program, which teaches the digital skills necessary to bring your collection into the 21st. More at https://D…

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
AVON: The magnetic barrier must have triggered automatically. The freighter was impervious to it, therefore its fuselage must've been demagnetized. Ours hasn't. If it hadn't been for the force wall, we would be a cloud of agitated atoms.
VILA: I wish I was a cloud of agitated atoms!
https://

the flip side of this is that of course you will get groupthink because Filipinos only recommend Filipinos etc etc :-) where Filipinos could be any group LOL
https://mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman/115631797677448363

Developers doing the mental gymnastics of justifying spending thousands of $$$ to cloud providers and big tech to avoid paying a small software vendor a single $.

Wow, what a wonderful day at @… ! They put on a great conference and I was honored to have been part of it. I held a privacy workshop and gave a #fedvierse talk. I just posted the worksheets from the workshop and the presentation from the talk over on the …

As a young Disney kid, I envied Disney World and their Epcot Center. After watching most of this walk-through I envy no more. Epcot looks like someone took all the duty free shops from all the airports and jammed them together with a few mid dark rides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8dq5_Tm_uM

Amazon Web Services announces AWS RTB Fabric, a real-time bidding service for ad buyers and sellers, aiming to cut integration hours between ad tech partners (Seb Joseph/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/amazons-next-frontier-in-ad…

Amazon’s next frontier in advertising: the cloud infrastructure it runs on
The ad dollars are nice but the real prize for Amazon is the infrastructure itself -- the rails on which the entire system runs.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Blur:
🎵 The Narcissist
#NowPlaying #Blur
https://hotelofthelaughingtree.bandcamp.com/track/cloud-caverns-the-narcissist-blur
https://open.spotify.com/track/35d93v9AXADp8Wc0qJ3mIo

An #earworm popping up in my brain lately. A poem I was made to memorize when I was 14. It re-emerges every couple years, for no reason I can figure. tbh, I usually only remember verbatim the first few lines or so, and have to look it up again. It’s one of those things, like advertising jingles from many years ago, that have lodged in my memory. 🎶You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush y…

AWS and Google Cloud announce a jointly built multicloud networking solution and a new open interoperability spec; AWS plans a rollout with Azure later in 2026 (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/01/amazon-googles-new-interco…

Amazon, Google’s new ‘interconnect’ might prevent major web outages - 9to5Mac
A new collaboration between Amazon and Google might just be the start of putting major web outages in the past.

★ Do you get excited or upset about AWS SCPs, or GCP Org Policies?
★ Do you have experience developing software to solve cloud security challenges?
★ Do you downplay your cloud security knowledge but actually you know a lot of niche oddities of cloud IAM?
★ Do you like working in diverse security teams that care about your wellbeing?
★ Do you want to get paid to work on cloud security for one of the most sophisticated AWS environments in the world?
I'm hiring a…

Security Software Engineer (L5), Cloud Infrastructure Security | USA - Remote | Netflix
Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time. Netflix operates our streaming service control plane on Amazon Web Services, which has led to one of the largest and most sophisticated AWS environments in the world. C…

Aruba Cloud (#AS31034) #VMWare to #OpenStack migration continues:
"As part of the evolution of [our] infrastructure, we inform you that the Cloud VPS service based on VMware technology wi…

Scientists Discover Building Blocks of Life in Ice Around a Forming Star (ST6) in Neighboring Galaxy (Large Magellanic Cloud).
https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/marta-sewilo-discovers-building-blocks-life-ice-around-forming-star…

I escaped the #fog today for a while, took some photos, noticed that I should start training a bit more in the next weeks.
But most importantly, I just enjoyed being out, had some friendly words with some hikers and had some fresh air.
#hiking

#DrawingIdea : Baah-humbugism and the intellectual holier-than-thou's

Even before Microsoft Azure had a global failure this week,
Austria's Ministry of Economy had taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty.
The Ministry is migrating 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian-based infrastructure
It's the latest move in a European trend to shift away from Big Tech.

European governments and agencies want to control sensitive data.

Another European agency shifts off Big Tech, as digital sovereignty movement gains steam
European Union states are increasingly shifting toward European-based companies that offer open-source solutions. Here's why.

Does someone here know how to restore #signal messages from the cloud #backup?
It seems to be the only way to create a backup on #iOS. Unfortunately, the option from the documentation does not exist on the new

It was cloudy this morning, and hazy all day, in the Los Angeles basin.
#aviation #weather

Fiery energy lanced out, but the beams struck an intangible wall between
the Gubru and the rapidly turning Earth ship.
"Water!" it shrieked as it read the spectral report. "A barrier of water
vapor! A civilized race could not have found such a trick in the Library!
A civilized race could not have stooped so low! A civilized race would not
have..."
It screamed as the Gubru ship hit a cloud of drifting snowflakes.
-- Startide…

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

The Molecular Inventory of TMC-1 with GOTHAM Observations: #MolecularCloud

from my link log —
dirlock: manage encrypted directories using the Linux kernel's fscrypt API.
https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/holo/dirlock
saved 2025-12-23

holo / dirlock · GitLab
A tool for managing encrypted directories using the Linux kernel's fscrypt API. Instructions for the Steam Deck here.

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 …

I hope you never disabled the TPM while your system was Entra-joined. Otherwise, get educated on the consequences of what you did here.
☑️ Why you should ensure whether your #TPM module has not been disabled once - ctrlshiftenter.cloud

Why you should ensure whether your TPM module has not been disabled once - ctrlshiftenter.cloud
Hi everyone, in this blog post, I will write about the importance of the trusted platform module (TPM)…

Enjoying @… push for not relying on the unsustainable reliance on big tech and their "hyper scale" cloud at #numeriqueencommun #nec25, even if it means that some messenger we like to use would not be able to work the same way.
Also folks, check out @… 😄

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world | Childbirth | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-soc…

Lewis Perelman hatte es 1992 schon drauf:
„The mission of hyperlearning is not only vision but action. HL's purpose is to enhance the human user's ability to direct the potent technology of the smart environment, lest the human be reduced to technology's object.

How Nokia has reinvented itself for the AI revolution by expanding into cloud services, data centers, and optical networks, and by partnering with Nvidia (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

My plans to hike the Tongariro Alpine Crossing were derailed by two days of rain and high winds, so we made a plan B: the Tama lakes track, which has somewhat less exposure but still gets up over 1400m. We’re lucky we didn’t try Tongariro given how tough the conditions were at Tama lakes – driving snow and winds on the ridge. But we were rewarded with good views and improving weather on the return trip. #hiking

Build Your Next Project with $0 Budget
#SaaS

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

Interesting, The Cloud Sovereignty Framework defines the European Commission’s criteria, assurance levels (SEAL), and scoring methodology for assessing the sovereignty of cloud services across strategic, legal, operational, and technological dimensions.
#EU #SEAL

Cloud Sovereignty Framework | European Commission

"Dutch government bodies were unpleasantly surprised by news that an American tech firm has acquired the Dutch cloud company Solvinity, the Financieele Dagblad reported.
Several governments opted for working with Solvinity precisely to reduce dependence on American technology firms"

Dutch governments caught off guard by American tech firm buying Dutch cloud company
Dutch government bodies were unpleasantly surprised by news that an American tech firm has acquired the Dutch cloud company Solvinity, the Financieele Dagblad reported. Several governments opted for working with Solvinity precisely to reduce dependence on American technology firms.

Folks using #PhanpySocialDev , there are 2 new features that need a bit of testing:
1. QR code for profiles and shortcuts settings - includes scanner (camera) too
2. Import/export accounts - the export *excludes* access tokens, so need to login again after import
They’re quite hidden, so just a heads-up 🙇‍♂️

OK this may be my first encounter with the enshittification of OneDrive - I know it only from the online cloud storage that you have to actually acitively save stuff too.
Appears that microsoft has it as default storgae so everything saved on hard drive of laptop is also backed up to their cloud.
And this onedrive storage is "full" after we downloaded full google photos* backup yesterday. So I can't do anything here even though the laptop itslef has a goood 150 Gb free on the hard drive.
Swearing is starting to happen. 3/n
*another world of pain I won't go into here.

#mossstodon
https://mastodon.cloud/@DamnInteresting/115583691952040061

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cloud Control:
🎵 There's Nothing in the Water We Can't Fight
#CloudControl
https://cloudcontrol1.bandcamp.com/track/theres-nothing-in-the-water-we-cant-fight
https://open.spotify.com/track/31lg9auhj5HNkx9V8P6ts7

Concrete sculpture in Cornell's Arboretum with a spectacular fall color tree behind it
#photo #photography #trees #fall

Sharing this trick is my contribution to improve the quality of life of every corporate and government employee:
https://mastodon.cloud/@lrz/115350971038126826

My favorite song on this Michael Bublé Christmas album is the one where he announces his intention to fuck Santa.

'Dinge die mit "R" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag 'Things starting with "R" or look like one...'
To me, this is the #Rofan mountain range in #tyrol

Urbanity - Cloud Four ☁️
城市化 - 四云 ☁️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

A trio of 🔥novel physical attacks raises new questions about the true security offered by "Trusted execution environments", or TEEs
TEEs are everywhere
—in blockchain architectures, virtually every cloud service, and computing involving AI, finance, and defense contractors.
It’s hard to overstate the reliance that entire industries have on three TEEs in particular:
💥Confidential Compute from Nvidia,
💥SEV-SNP from AMD,
and
💥SGX and TDX from …

New physical attacks are quickly diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel
On-chip TEEs withstand rooted OSes but fall instantly to cheap physical attacks.

#nytimes #report #usapol
"Inside the Deportation Machine"
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"At least 32 people have died in ICE custody since Mr. Trump took office, more than the number in Mr. Biden’s entire…

The Complex Deportation Network Behind Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
An analysis of data on every ICE arrest, detention stay and deportation reveals the complexity and reach of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Adobe partners with YouTube to offer a Create for YouTube Shorts feature in the Premiere mobile app, letting creators instantly publish video, launching soon (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/adobe-max-ai-tools-youtube-shorts-creators/

Adobe Launches YouTube Shorts Partnership and New AI Tools Suite for Creators
Adobe announced a new suite of AI tools across Firefly, Adobe Express and its Creative Cloud at Adobe Max 2025.

Meta just bought into the enterprise market with its Manus deal, which may eventually help it expand into cloud offerings like those of its Big Tech peers (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/meta-manus-deal/

Manus: The Hands of AI Fate
Meta acquires an AI business model...

🥵 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.

That‘s a lot of money for a company which looses money each time a customer uses their product …
#OpenAI Needs At Least $207 Billion By 2030 Just To Keep Losing Money, HSBC Estimates - Slashdot

Okay, but what's the vetting process?

https://nebulas.sfwa.org/on-the-nebula-awards-rules-for-our-current-nominations-cycle/

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

Announcing the #Swift SDK for #Android
https://www.swift.org/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-androi…

Here's a photo that's a bit different from my usual style.
I took it with the tele lens on last weekend's hike. The inversion caused such a great sea of clouds with just some sole islands.
This kind of weather really offers such unique motives. And again: it was worth carrying the zoom lens up there :-D
Enjoy!
#photography

Again: Love for 'The Guardian ':
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The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, who says a prayer before each briefing, was dispatched to the podium to defy the laws of moral physics by explaining why the true wrongdoers here were Joe Biden and the Democrats.
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https://www.

Sources: Nvidia's DGX Cloud is merging with the engineering unit, pivoting from selling cloud services to enterprises to supporting internal AI development (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-restructures-clou…

Nvidia Restructures Cloud Team After Retreating From AWS Competition
More than two years after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared his vision to develop a cloud service that could rival Amazon Web Services, he has backed away from competing with such firms and last week reorganized his company’s cloud team, according to several people with knowledge of the ...

"The student’s education then becomes not a victory for their own self-improvement or -enrichment, but rather that the teacher conquered the student’s presumed inherent laziness, shiftiness, etc. to instill some kernel of a lesson."
#FediLZ
@…

Over the last decade, America’s roads have become more dangerous,
with serious crashes increasing by nearly 20 percent since 2013.
Approximately 94 percent of crashes are the result of driver behavior
like speeding, impairment or distraction
— behavior that can be detected and corrected by a new generation of machine learning-enabled dash-cams.
Seamless integration between machine learning, IoT management and the cloud allows these cameras to improve safety in r…

Sources: Google has begun pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on the idea of using TPUs in their own data centers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-encroaches-nvidias-turf-new-ai-chip-push

Google Further Encroaches on Nvidia’s Turf With New AI Chip Push
Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip business. For years, the search giant has rented its own AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to cloud customers who use them in its Google Cloud data centers. Now, though, Google has begun ...

The House Homeland Security Committee asks Dario Amodei to testify at a December 17 hearing about how Chinese state actors used Claude Code for cyber-espionage (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/anthropic-google-cloud-quantum-xch…

Exclusive: Anthropic CEO called to testify on Chinese AI cyberattack
The request comes weeks after Anthropic said China used Claude Code in an espionage campaign.

Migrating to #Hetzner
#Cloud

"The document says "it is expected" that Russia will not invade its neighbours"
LOL
#Trump says US plan to end #Ukraine war not 'final offer' for Kyiv

Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-sur

US government helps Silicon Valley firms sell surveillance technology to China
Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, an Associated Press investigation has found. And time after time, despite bipartisan attempts, Congress has turned a blind eye to loopholes that allow China to work around its own rules, such as cloud services, third-p…

Cloudflare says "a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved", after a major outage impacted X, ChatGPT, and others from 11:48am UTC (Andrew Griffin/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/cloudf…

Cloudflare down: Websites such as Twitter not working amid technical problems with the internet
Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline

Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20 required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3329

Alibaba Cloud claims to slash Nvidia GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
The new Aegaeon system can serve dozens of large language models using a fraction of the GPUs previously required, potentially reshaping AI workloads.

Adobe partners with YouTube to offer a Create for YouTube Shorts feature in the Premiere mobile app, letting creators instantly publish video, launching soon (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/adobe-max-ai-tools-youtube-shorts-creators/

Adobe Launches YouTube Shorts Partnership and New AI Tools Suite for Creators
Adobe announced a new suite of AI tools across Firefly, Adobe Express and its Creative Cloud at Adobe Max 2025.

At its Adobe Max event, Adobe unveils AI tools for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom, and says Firefly Image 5 can generate images in native 4MP resolution (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807811/adobe-photoshop-lightroom-…

Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s new AI tools can instantly edit more of your work
Adobe has given us a first look at new and upcoming generative AI tools launching for the company’s Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom Creative Cloud apps.

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

Oracle Strikes $150 Billion of Data Center Leases in November Quarter
Oracle struck about $150 billion worth of lease commitments on data centers in the three months ending November, it revealed in securities filing late last week, a sign it is preparing for the cloud deals that customers such as OpenAI have struck with Oracle. The filing showed that as of Nov. 30, Oracle had $248 billion of lease commitments “substantially all related to data centers and cloud

PlayStation starts rolling out cloud streaming to the PlayStation Portal, after a beta in 2024, to let some users stream select titles without a PS5 connection (Ash Parrish/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/814078/playstation-portal-ps5-cloud-streaming

Cloud streaming finally arrives on the PlayStation Portal
Sony’s official launch of PS5 cloud streaming to the PlayStation Portal comes with refreshed menus, PlayStation Plus games, and 3D audio support.