Tootfinder

Bizarre: Data centres have a total of 15 GW (15,000 MW) in queue for electricity connections in the Netherlands, grid operators just disclosed. That's roughly the current average national power use!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/117468530050167441
Tom: How many AI engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Douglas: I don't know. How many?
T: I don't know, and neither do they.
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This doesn't add up. According to a UK government spokesperson:
"NCSC was able to make 50,000 proactive notifications [before public disclosure] to advise business and other organisations on what actions they should take" regarding the #PHP debacle.
But I am yet to hear of a single PHP-using site, either in the UK or elsewhere in the world, that hasn't been completely caught on the hop by this.
#php2shell

"H2O Retailing Corp. is the latest major company among the many in Japan that are disclosing massive data breaches almost daily, which are exposing millions of customer records and revealing weaknesses in corporate cybersecurity."
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16976490

P.S. That was my pessimistic side. I also have an optimistic side, but this toot has not enough room for it. 🤓
Maybe I should write it all down for a blog post or talk at some point...
Thanks to @… for sharing the Tsimerman link in the first place.... but I dislike the X-FOMO that it generated.

The roots of Carboliq's tech can be traced back to another company named AlphaKat that was once a partner of Recenso. They parted ways long ago. AlphaKat has, over the years, found plenty of people excited about its technology, although it often did not achieve what it promised. I touch many aspects of that complex story only briefly. Recenso developed the technology independently, first as a waste-to-fuel technology (Dieselwest), later with a different focus on plastics recycling as Carboliq.

If it sounds like a duck, flies like a duck, eats like a duck and dislikes like a duck, let's call it a duck instead of a neo-duck or a parkloving swimming bird
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/the-nazis-drove-bauhaus-out-of-town-now-the-far-right-is-waging-another-war-against-the-movement?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Der Dieseldeal mit Russland ist für Putin extrem wertvoll, bringt den USA aber kaum etwas.
Donald Trump unterläuft seine eigenen Sanktionen gegen Russland & beschuldigt stattdessen Selenski, für die Dieselknappheit & den Krieg in der Ukraine verantwortlich zu sein.
Vielleicht erkauft sich Trump mit diesem Verhalten ja etwas anderes?
Es ist inzwischen bekannt, dass Russland viel Erfahrung im Hacken & Manipulieren von Wahlen hat... und Trump ist verzweifelt...
#USA #Putin #Diesel #MidTerms