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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 ...

"[Scotland is] almost exactly as wealthy as the eurozone countries but we’re exporting wealth at twice the rate of even the most indebted poor countries. Can I get you to reflect on that – Scotland is rich like Europe but leaks wealth much, much worse than sub-Saharan Africa...
Since devolution, the cumulative total of the wealth we have exported is now well over £280 billion" -- Robin McAlpine

roadnet: U.S. roads (CA, PA, TX)
Road networks from three US states (CA, PA, TX), in which edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads.
This network has 1971281 nodes and 5533214 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/roadnet

Sonne, Schnee, Stille und Berge. 4 Dinge, die ich gerade sehr vermisse.
Für eine #Sommerwanderung rund um #Oberstdorf findet Ihr Routenideen mit GPX-Track unter

Lembrete periódico Šs pessoas do Bluesky sobre como e com quem posso interagir pela ponte.
Para interação total, vocês têm também de estar na ponte, i.e., têm de seguir a conta do bridgy fed no bluesky. Nesse caso é praticamente como estarmos todos na mesma rede.
Para os outros só hš interação parcial, e só SE tiverem a conta aberta.
Se não a têm, e/ou se as vossas opções exigem que se esteja com login feito, a interação possível é um redondinho zero. Nem vos posso ler.

Successfully switched an old Chromebox to running Ubuntu Server last night. This one will probably wind up at my parents' place, and I'll grab another mini PC for here, so I'll have geo-redundant, ISP-redundant backups that don't require a cloud, on hardware low-power enough that electricity use is a rounding error.

Solar breakthrough: Chinese researchers just hit 30.1% efficiency with all-perovskite tandem cells using a novel dipolar passivation method.
The technique reduces defects and improves charge transport, while the cells retained 87% efficiency after 1,025 hours—a major step toward stable, sustainable solar energy.

All-perovskite tandem solar cell with dipolar passivation achieves 30.1% efficiency
Researchers in China have developed a dipolar passivation method that reduces defects and improves charge transport in solar cells based on narrow-bandgap tin lead perovskite. The approach has enabled the fabrication of all-perovskite tandem solar cells with efficiencies of around 30% and enhanced stability,

"Mexico adopts protections for Atlantic sharks"
#Mexico #Sharks #Animals

Mexico adopts protections for Atlantic sharks
Mexico recently adopted national regulations protecting several threatened shark species in the Atlantic from being caught or retained as bycatch. Shark conservationists welcome the protections but say they are long overdue, coming years after the country’s commitments to a multilateral fishery regulator. Mexican fisheries catch a significant number of various shark species in the Atlantic […]

How Manus distanced itself from its Chinese roots to court US investors; a source says Meta's $2.5B deal includes a $500M retention pool for Manus' employees (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…