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"Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology

"How chemicals from our laptops and TVs have ended up in the brains of dolphins and porpoises"
#Oceans #Environment #Technology

E-waste chemicals found in the brains of dolphins and porpoises
A new study has warned that liquid crystal monomers from electronic devices are accumulating in the organs of endangered marine species.

"New datacentres risk doubling Great Britain’s electricity use, regulator says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology

Anyone think this is actually a good idea?
Thinking of making my own SAS backplane for use with an HBA using an RPI Pico or something as an SGPIO decode. Might have some obvious mistakes here but any help is welcome!
#hardware #technology

Well, the smart light in the office bedroom has decided to stop connecting to my home app. I can use the light app on my phone but I like being able to just tell the bloody thing what to do. So I'm back to a normal globe again (non-dimmable, non-colourised) - which feels rather primitive. I wouldn't have bothered buying one but this was a gift from my son. And the wee one loves it. Disappointing.💡
#Technology

​Vive la resistance!
New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses and Warns You When Someone Is Using Them Nearby
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/app-smart-glasses-bluetooth

New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses and Warns You When Someone Is Using Them Nearby
Yves Jeanrenaud is a scholar and amateur software developer behind Nearby Glasses, an open-source smart glasses detection app.

Been pondering a new app for a week now (since listening to a certain lecture) and just this morning spontaneously came up with "Every day a concert" as a phrase for the app.
BTW I've zero bandwidth any time in the near future to develop the app, but you know how that goes. 🤓
#technology #nerd #urge

"Urban Farm Shops Combine Dutch Greenhouse Technology and Food-Retail into One"
#Netherlands #Technology #Environment

Urban Farm Shops Combine Dutch Greenhouse Technology and Food-Retail into One
A Dutch agri-tech firm has had the bright idea of combining a greenhouse grow operation with a grocery and delivery business.

"And on the fourth day, GOD said, 'Lᴇᴛ'ꜱ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄᴏɴꜰɪɢᴜʀᴀʙʟᴇ.' So he spent the rest of eternity doing that and never reached day five."
#programming #dependencyhell #technology

"Amazon enters agreements for nine Australian renewable projects to power datacentres"
#Australia #Amazon #Technology

🍞 Yeast Flakes as a Technological Ingredient for Salt Reduction and Flavor Enhancement in Bread
#food

Now, we only need to put AI on the blockchain. 🤑
#technology #AI

"Malaysia bans e-waste imports and cracks down on illegal dumping"
#Malaysia #EWaste #Technology

Malaysia bans e-waste imports and cracks down on illegal dumping | The Optimist Daily
Malaysia has announced a full ban on e-waste imports, strengthening enforcement as it vows to stop being a dumping ground for global electronic waste.

Well, somebody is confused. 😖
#ScreenshotSaturday #technology #weather

"Apple Hits Record 30% Recycled Content Across All Products in 2025"
#Apple #Technology #Recycling

Apple Hits Record 30% Recycled Content Across All Products in 2025
Apple today announced that a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content, alongside a series of other...

"The environmental cost of datacentres is rising. Is it time to quit AI?"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

"'Not a dumping ground for the world': Malaysia announces immediate ban on e-waste imports"
#Malaysia #EWaste #Technology

'Not a dumping ground': This country is banning e-waste imports
E-waste can contain lead, mercury and cadmium that pollute soil and water resources if improperly processed or dumped.

I am about to give a workshop about #reproducibility in the context of #ROOT #technology using #doomemacs

"Study Shows Vaporizing E-Waste Makes it Easy to Recover Precious Metals at 13-Times Lower Costs"
#EWaste #Technology

Study Shows Vaporizing E-Waste Makes it Easy to Recover Precious Metals at 13-Times Lower Costs
One 2008 study calculated that one ton of mobile phones without batteries contains about 130kg of copper, 3.5kg of silver, 340 grams of gold.

"I can steal anyone's stuff but no one can steal the stuff I make from the stolen stuff"
#chtuzpah #OpenAI #technology #AI #LLM #business

"Amazon, Google and others pledge $100m to cut ‘highly warming’ superpollutants"
#Amazon #Google #Technology

I’m honestly sick of the attitude in this industry that you periodically go on call and can get paged for any reason while you’re on call, and it’s just normal and OK this happens. And then there’s the smug people who say “well it wouldn’t be like that if you did X Y Z.”
Yeah no shit, if things were different, then things would be different. I work in the real world and I haven’t seen a very functional real world model of this yet.

"OpenAI has a math problem"
ChatGPT's math issues makes sense now.
#OpenAI #technology #AI #LLM #business #sarcasm

"AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Conservation

AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult
AI-generated wildlife photos and videos are changing public understanding of animals, creating risks for conservation, trust and coexistence.

Baseball's sexy-sounding but misnomered "robot umpires" borrows heavily from Cricket's Decision Review System. ⚾🏏
But, we'll see how the part about "no assistance from the dugout" goes in baseball. 🧐
#MLB #ABS #baseball #Cricket #robots #sports #umpiring #technology

"Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash"
#AI #xAI #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

"Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK’s net emissions"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology #Emissions

Anthropic Claude took out an ad to mock OpenAI ChatGPT for including, *checks the news again*, ads.
#irony #ads #advertisement #SuperBowl #technology #business #AI #LLM

Self-driving cars, self-growing cities. Same difference. 💁‍♂️
#sarcasm #space #moon #mars #technology #humanity #future #Musk

Funding Nemo. 🤑👾🦈
(yes, #pun)
#Nvidia #technology #business #LLM #AI #agents #NemoClaw