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Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a "spatial dataflow" architecture to minimize energy consumption, raised a $60M Series A (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/18/efficient-computer-r…

Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end - SiliconANGLE
Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end - SiliconANGLE

Amid this news madness, I've thoroughly enjoyed being subscribed to the daily #CarbonBrief. Instead of compulsing the news, I try [and often fail] to focus on the most insightful items in my news feeds. This analysis of the latest UK auction for #WindPower was excellent:

"Replacing 1m petrol cars with EVs could cut Australia’s reliance on foreign fuel by 1bn litres a year"
#Australia #EV #ElectricVehicles

A 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…

🛡️ Nanoplastics in water help bacteria form stronger, disinfectant-resistant biofilms
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-nanoplastics-bacteria-stronger-disinfectant-resistant.html

Nanoplastics in water help bacteria form stronger, disinfectant-resistant biofilms
Human health risks from direct consumption of toxic nanoplastics are already scary, but researchers have confirmed that nanoplastics in water give rise to an additional threat: They strengthen bacteria.

Cheese consumption levels are elevated on fedi tonight!

Measuring Our Electrical Appliance Energy Consumption - Read how once we have bought a gadget, we measure what it uses, and work out how to use it efficiently. No vampires here please! - https://www.earth.org.uk/measuring-appliance-consumption.html

Measuring Our Electrical Appliance Energy Consumption
Read how once we have bought a gadget, we measure what it uses, and work out how to use it efficiently. No vampires here please!

It's a shame that the press release for quantum computer investment has to be wrapped in "AI". Where the "race" has been reframed as the consumption, rather than production, of technologies.
In many ways quantum tech matches the UK's traditional strengths - big expensive important research with (let's face it) extremely vague plans for commercialisation.

UK will win AI race as Chancellor sets out economic ‘big choices’
UK will win the AI adoption race as Chancellor sets out her economic growth ‘big choices’

In my new award-winning series called "Things My Homelab Minirack Needs": #homelab

Claude Code represents a "ChatGPT moment repeated" and an "extinction-level event" for horizontal software companies focused on human-oriented consumption (Doug OLaughlin/Fabricated Knowledge)
https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/the-death-of-soft…

The Death of Software 2.0 (A Better Analogy!)
The age of PDF is over. The time of markdown has begun. Why Memory Hierarchies are the best analogy for how software must change. And why Software it's unlikely to command the most value.