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A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his role in the company's $1.4T infrastructure buildout that's required to reach AGI (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/05/openai-greg-brockman-ai-infrastructure-data-c…

Meet OpenAI’s master builder: Greg Brockman is steering a $1.4 trillion infrastructure surge with stakes that go far beyond AI
As OpenAI’s president, Brockman is focused on “completing the mission” of moving beyond AI to artificial general intelligence (AGI).

As one of my next #selfhosting projects I wanted to compare #ttrss and #freshrss
Seems like the choices just narrowed down to freshRSS. TTRss is discontinued -- at least until anotherone wants…

The end of tt-rss.org
On November 1st 2025 I’m going to dismantle the entirety of infrastructure that powers tt-rss.org, cgit, this forum, and other related sites. The reasons for this are many but the tl;dr is that I no longer find it fun to maintain public-facing anything, be it open source projects or websites. As for tt-rss specifically, it has been ‘done’ for years now and the “let’s bump base PHP version and fix breakages” routine is not engaging in the slightest. You have a month to mirror any i…

So AI Datacenters are going to space...
https://research.google/blog/exploring

Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design

#SFMTA, #SFDPW: yes we need bike racks. We also need to locate them so they don't interfere with the ramps needed for wheelchair boarding (or, for that matter, in the path of embarking/disembarking passengers of all mobility levels)
Can we keep the necessary bike infrastructure out of the bus stop a…

Read the Room: Inferring Social Context Through Dyadic Interaction Recognition in Cyber-physical-social Infrastructure Systems
Cheyu Lin, John Martins, Katherine A. Flanigan, Ph. D
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04854

Read the Room: Inferring Social Context Through Dyadic Interaction Recognition in Cyber-physical-social Infrastructure Systems
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate sensing, computing, and control to improve infrastructure performance, focusing on economic goals like performance and safety. However, they often neglect potential human-centered (or ''social'') benefits. Cyber-physical-social infrastructure systems (CPSIS) aim to address this by aligning CPS with social objectives. This involves defining social benefits, understanding human interactions with each other and infrastructure, developing privacy-preserving me…

It's a good question about the French public AC charging infrastructure: why? Caught between unreliability and high time-based pricing, who does it serve? Not those who need it, I would say.
https://www.numerama.com/vroom/2134433-bor

Coûteuses et capricieuses, le grand mensonge des bornes de recharge publiques à charge lente
On installe des bornes lentes, sauf qu’entre les pannes, les tarifs absurdes et le matériel douteux, la recharge publique ressemble encore trop à un parcours du combattant. Voilà de quoi nourrir l'édito Watt Else du jeudi 4 décembre. Les bornes AC (ou courant alternatif) représentent 80 % des 180 000 points de

DualBird, which has created a plug-in for rewritable hardware to accelerate data workloads, raised $25M, including a $16.5M Series A led by Lightspeed (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2…

Exclusive: Data infrastructure startup DualBird raises $25M
Lightspeed Venture Partners led the Series A portion of the financing.

The Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech

OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical): "Major Ukrainian precision strike targeting the Russian city of Belgorod tonight, reportedly knocking out power and water to large portions of the city. Russian channels report that Ukrainian rockets hit the Luch thermal power plant and additional infrastructure." | XCancel
https://xcancel.com/Osinttechnical/status/1974916740799922547?t=y9n_Qrq-boIvl3Qb-y6cpw&s=19

"Green Roofs Filter Microplastic From Urban Rainfall, Study Finds"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Green Roofs Filter Microplastic From Urban Rainfall, Study Finds | Happy Eco News
Green roofs filter microplastic from urban rainwater by capturing up to 97.5% of plastic particles during rainfall, according to a new study. Most particles stay in the soil, helping reduce pollution in city waterways. While challenges remain, this adds another reason to expand green roof infrastructure in urban areas.

Understanding Support for Cycling Infrastructure Through Moral Foundations Theory
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950105925000397

It’s an N-Scale Industrial Revolution tonight! 🚂🏗️
Streaming "Penguin Style" 3D printing on the Linux rig. We are building out the railway infrastructure: ▪️ Tunnel Entrances ▪️ 45' Grain Silos ▪️ Industrial Storage Tanks & Sheds
Come watch the tiny world come together! 👇 https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

The AI boom is driving coordinated innovation in the US as it builds fabs and energy infrastructure that could have lasting value even if the bubble bursts (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/the-benefits-of-bubbles/

The Benefits of Bubbles
We are in an AI Bubble: the big question is if this bubble will worth it for the physical infrastructure and coordinated innovation that result?

Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/brazil-fast-tracks-paving-controversial-highway-in-amazon-with-new-licensing-rul…

Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule
Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving a highway that cuts through one of the most intact parts of the Amazon Rainforest in northwestern Brazil. The BR-319 highway runs through 885 kilometers (550 miles) of rainforest, connecting Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, with Rondônia state farther […]

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

A look at OpenAI's search for the sites of its Stargate data centers in the US; OpenAI has received 800 applications since January and has 20 finalist sites (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/05/openai-stargate…

This Meta alum has spent 10 months leading OpenAI's nationwide hunt for its Stargate data centers
OpenAI's effort to build a massive industrial base to power the future of artificial intelligence is being led by Keith Heyde.

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

🐘 Unfinished infrastructure, wasted public funds: Colombia's 'white elephants' exposed
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20251106-colombia-white-elephants-unfinished-infra…

The Observers - Unfinished infrastructure, wasted public funds: Colombia's 'white elephants' exposed
In Colombia, an Instagram account called "White Elephant" exposes unfinished infrastructure (often referred to as “white elephants”), the waste of public funds and irregularities surrounding certain toll booths. The account visits the sites, then posts videos and files complaints to pressure officials and companies. The Observers team spoke to the individual behind this account followed by more than 300,000 people.

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情绪化城市 II 🟩
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#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Sehr lesenswert: Der Verband »Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe« #CISPE bewertet das neue 🇪🇺 »Cloud Sovereignty Framework« in einem Statement als Fehlschlag:
> No Such Thing as “75% Sovereign” – Europe Needs a Clear Definition of “Sovereign Cloud” - The #EU

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar clarifies the startup is not seeking a government "backstop" for its infrastructure deals, saying her use of the word "muddied the point" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/openai-cfo

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says company isn't seeking government backstop, clarifying prior comment
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said in a LinkedIn post that the artificial intelligence company is not seeking a government backstop for its infrastructure commitments.

URL Media, a network of community publishers that serve BIPOC audiences, receives a three-year, $5M Knight Foundation grant as it works to expand partnerships (URL Media)
https://url-media.com/url-media-secures-5-million-knight-foundation-grant/

URL Media Secures $5 Million Knight Foundation Grant to Build Unprecedented Sustainable Infrastructure for Community Media
Three-Year Grant Fuels Critical Infrastructure and Network Growth from 37 to 100 Publisher Partners Plus 250 Creators and Trusted Messengers to Reach 50 Million People in all 50 States by 2028.

Offshore wind farms are about to get a second job: charging stations for electric ships.
Two Danish companies are pioneering this integration at Bornholm, a designated "energy island" in one of Europe's busiest shipping corridors. The concept could provide 17 terawatt-hours of clean power for battery-powered ferries and cargo vessels, saving €2 billion in oil imports while slashing marine emissions.

Offshore wind farms could be used as charging hubs for electric and hybrid ships
Two Danish companies are exploring the possibility of integrating offshore wind with marine electrification – essentially, charging infrastructure for battery powered vessels at sea.

This Is How the AI Bubble Will Pop
The AI infrastructure boom is the most important economic story in the world. But the numbers just don't add up.
🫧 https://www.derekthompson.org/p/this-is-how-the-ai-bubble-will-pop

This Is How the AI Bubble Will Pop
The artificial intelligence boom is the most important economic story in the world. But the numbers just don't add up.

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol

Bun is joining Anthropic https://bun.sh/blog/bun-joins-anthropic

Bun is joining Anthropic
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.

Ultimately, #Melbourne’s inaccessible tram stops are what led to my wife and I moving to Canberra. It’s despicable that #PublicTransport in a city of Melbourne’s size should be so deliberately exclusive of the disabled.

Dell says it now expects annual revenue to grow between 7% and 9%, up from its prior forecast of 3% to 4%, citing demand for AI infrastructure (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/dell-stock-revenue-growth.html

Dell stock pops as company ups long-term revenue growth expectations
Dell stock popped after the company raised its long-term revenue and profit growth forecasts.

I imagine this will become a rich source of product liability and negligence lawsuits...
"Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks"
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/vib…

Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks | TechCrunch
The problem with most vibe-coding companies is that they don't provide all the infrastructure that nontechnical users need to launch a functional product. Anything is attempting to solve this problem.

Commonware, which develops open-source code for launching blockchains, raised $25M led by Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain backed by Stripe and Paradigm (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/07/stripe-paradigm-tempo-commonware-…

Exclusive: Stripe-backed startup Tempo leads $25 million raise for crypto infrastructure firm Commonware
This is the high-profile startup’s first venture investment since Tempo was founded this year.

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…

lmao
#BanCars #FuckTheNYPost #WarOnCars

Managed charging of EVs (called 'smart charging' in Europe) could save California $5 - 18 billion on distribution grid upgrades by 2040. Increased electrification (transport, buildings) offsets increased infrastructure costs by -0.2-4.5¢/kWh for all.
https://www.

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

One of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that
a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure
fails to prevent a major terrorist attack
and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.
-- Ken White
https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky

Popehat of Serious Proportion (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/chatbots-are-now-riva…

Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure
New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while the user base expands to include older generations.

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情绪化城市 🟩
📷 Nikon FE
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#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

i guess ruby drama is mainstream now
https://www.404media.co/how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/

How Ruby Went Off the Rails
What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

🔗 PID4NFDI - Verlässliche Identifikatoren für die Forschung!
💠 Im Projekt #PID4NFDI wird daran gearbeitet ein umfassendes Beratungsangebot für den Einsatz von Persistant Identifiers (#PID s) in der Nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur

"Coffee waste helps make lower carbon concrete"
#Coffee #Concrete
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11…

Coffee waste helps make lower carbon concrete
RMIT researchers are advancing new ways to cut the carbon footprint of infrastructure by turning everyday organic waste into useful construction materials.

Good news, any progress in more federated social media is a good thing in my view.
https://openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky-dawns-building-infrastructure-for-sovereign-social-media/

Eurosky dawns – Open Future
The Eurosky initiative is building European social media infrastructure on the ATProtocol, representing a new step in Europe's digital sovereignty agenda as policymakers seek alternatives to Big Tech platforms that serve public interest rather than commercial imperatives.

Es geht los!
Das neue »European Digital Infrastructure Consortium« (#EDIC) für Digital Commons startet am 11. Dezember mit einer Auftaktveranstaltung in Den Haag. 🙌 🚀
Ziele:
· Offene Alternativen in digitalen Schlüsselbereichen fördern
· Stärkung des #europ. digitalen Ökosystems
…

Digitale Stärke zurückgewinnen
Frankreich, Deutschland, die Niederlande und Italien gründen ein Konsortium für Digitale Gemeingüter

Anyone have any idea if https://Meet.Coop is still being maintained? Maybe someone at @… knows?
It had been working fine, but today, suddenly a few people couldn't get audio to work.…

meet.coop - The Online Meeting Cooperative
Online meeting and conferencing tools, powered by renewable energy running on cooperatively owned and managed infrastructure.

Meta says it will invest $600B in the US infrastructure and jobs by 2028; Zuckerberg told Trump at a September dinner that Meta will spend "at least $600B" (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-plans-600-billio…

This is a wonderful illustration of the Irish state's capacity for infrastructure investment: a big fanfare to announce there will be *4 new tram stops* in Dublin in six years' time from now.
https://www.irishtimes.com/irelan…

Extension of Luas line to Finglas granted permission and could be completed by 2031
The new line in Dublin is expected to cost about €600 million

A basket tracking stocks of 10 European data center operators and infrastructure providers surged 23% in 2025, topping the Nasdaq 100, driven by the AI boom (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-04/the-bi…

Clean Rivers partners with Ellen MacArthur Foundation to address plastic waste infrastructure gaps in key countries. . #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Clean Rivers joins Ellen MacArthur Foundation to tackle plastic waste infrastructure gaps in key countries
Together, they will look at how to build collection and recycling infrastructure in various countries, with an initial focus on Brazil.

“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers.
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
<…

The joint statements coming out of the Summit on Digital Sovereignty miss a structural blind spot: we keep talking about AI while ignoring the system that actually shapes public opinion at scale -… | Sebastian Vogelsang | 15 comments
The joint statements coming out of the Summit on Digital Sovereignty miss a structural blind spot: we keep talking about AI while ignoring the system that actually shapes public opinion at scale - social media. Social media is critical infrastructure. It governs what people see, what narratives take hold, and how fast disinformation spreads. As long as Europe remains dependent on a handful of US platforms, we have no meaningful control over the integrity of our own information ecosystem. Thi…

⏰ Taiwan reports surge in Chinese cyber activity and disinformation efforts
https://therecord.media/taiwan-nsb-report-china-surge-cyberattacks-influence-operations

Taiwan reports surge in Chinese cyber activity and disinformation efforts
Taiwan’s National Security Bureau says network intrusions and influence operations by China have increased this year, with critical infrastructure drawing the most attention.

Poor registries are being overwhelmed.
How about every enterprise user donates to cover infra costs?
https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/…

Kinda wish I lived in a place that had this level of #bicycle #infrastructure
https://…

🏆 Counting down to the European Digital Connectivity Awards 2025!
Next week, the winners will be announced—and we’re honoured that GÉANT’s GN4-3N project is a finalist in the “Cross-border and international connectivity” category.
This recognition reflects the collaborative effort of the EU, GÉANT and our community of European NRENs to build a more inclusive, terabit-ready, and fully sovereign network infrastructure for Europe’s

reading more about the energia rockets at https://russianspaceweb.com

Audit the Whisper: Detecting Steganographic Collusion in Multi-Agent LLMs
Om Tailor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04303 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04303

Audit the Whisper: Detecting Steganographic Collusion in Multi-Agent LLMs
Multi-agent deployments of large language models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in market, allocation, and governance workflows, yet covert coordination among agents can silently erode trust and social welfare. Existing audits are dominated by heuristics that lack theoretical guarantees, struggle to transfer across tasks, and seldom ship with the infrastructure needed for independent replication. We introduce \emph{Audit the Whisper}, a conference-grade research artifact that spans theory, be…

Trump administration freezes $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects, Vought says
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/trump-new-york-funding-infrastructure-vought.html

I found this an interesting view on the AI scraping and Hoovering everything disease.
This view focuses on the overhead and costs that such hoovering places on our packet carrying infrastructure.
"The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix"
https://

The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix
The hiQ ruling erased legal protections against commercial scraping, leaving infrastructure providers to absorb escalating costs. Without federal action defining data misappropriation, a free-rider AI economy could undermine open networks, investment, and long-term data integrity.

"Europe eyes investments in Africa into clean energy and infrastructure"
#Europe #Africa #Energy

EU partners with Africa to step up clean power and infrastructure
European and African leaders met in Luanda during the EU-African Union summit where they pledged to increase trade in renewable energy and critical raw materials. Shortly before, European leaders met in Johannesburg for the G20, where the bloc struck a trade deal with South Africa.

At last a sensible note on the bond problem that underpins the tax rises in #Budget2025.
"Slowing quantitative tightening, having the Bank of England absorb its own losses on its balance sheet and reducing the amount of interest paid out on reserves all offer ways for the government to recoup these losses and invest in public services and infrastructure. "
Budget tax rises to…

Budget tax rises to be overshadowed by Bank of England bond sales and losses
Bank of England to make cumulative losses of £112bn until 2030/31, wiping out the £78bn in tax rises raised in today’s budget

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情绪化城市 - 字面上 📄
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400，expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-matthew-prince-cloudflare/

Cloudflare Has Blocked 416 Billion AI Bot Requests Since July 1
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince claims the internet infrastructure company’s efforts to block AI crawlers are already seeing big results.

The FBI estimates that North Koreans posing as IT workers, using stolen IDs and AI-fabricated work, funneled up to $1B into the country over the past five years (Amanda Gerut/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/article/north-korean-it-workers-k…

North Korean agents pretending to be IT guys have funneled up to $1 billion into Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program
Using AI to create fake identities, they get remote jobs, then hide in plain sight—in Slack, on Zooms, and in corporate infrastructure.

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

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.

Kinda wish I lived in a place that had this level of #bicycle #infrastructure
https://…

There are some interesting points in the draft Masterplan Ladeinfrastruktur 2030 (Charging Infrastructure) for Germany. 🧵
It includes planned support for #EV charging infrastructure (including electrical works and grid upgrades) in multi-family buildings, as well as depot charging for commercial vehicles. Higher funding is available for trialling bidirectional charging for on-site energy manag…

🔌 Lighting the way for electric vehicles by using streetlamps as chargers
#ev

Lighting the way for electric vehicles by using streetlamps as chargers
Electric vehicles (EVs) can have lower fuel costs and reduce emissions relative to cars that use gasoline, but they are only a practical option if drivers have convenient ways to charge them. For people who live in multi-unit dwellings or in urban areas, access to charging infrastructure may be particularly limited, which in turn limits EV adoption.

Sources: Masayoshi Son plans with the White House to build "Trump Industrial Parks" in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by Japan's trade deal (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-softbank-ma

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

Starmer government considers leaving the #Aarhus convention. This is an international treaty signed up to by the EU and other countries in Europe, which protects the right for campaigners to bring legal claims against large infrastructure projects such as waste plants, nuclear power stations and motorways.
Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews | Planni…

"From chalkboards to e-learning, solar boosts schooling in an Indian floodplain"
#India #SolarPower #Energy

From chalkboards to e-learning, solar boosts schooling in an Indian floodplain
On remote river islands in eastern India’s Assam state, solar power is helping children access education more reliably, reports Mongabay India’s Shailesh Shrivastava. Schools in Assam’s Brahmaputra River Valley recently introduced digital classroom infrastructure, bringing audio-visual learning to children. For some students, this shift from chalkboard-only teaching has been a game changer. “Until last year, […]

California just got a major upgrade for electric fleets. Terawatt Infrastructure opened a new charging hub in Rialto with 18 fast chargers, all powered by 100% renewable energy from solar canopies.
The facility includes a driver lounge, automated entry, and 24/7 security—plus it's creating jobs in a sector that already employs over 119,000 workers in SoCal.

Another EV Charging Hub Running On Renewable Energy Launches In California - CleanTechnica
A new hub with 18 fast chargers for fleet vehicles.

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情绪化城市 - 每个人 👹
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Current airdefense capabilities of most western countries are completely inadequate for defending against drones. While the threat is here and now. A "crash program" is necessary to quickly develop capabilities and think about defending critical infrastructure. I hope this has already started. The reality is that an adversary can completely cripple us with a large drone attack while we watch helplessly with our current weapons systems.

Hurricane Melissa Caused Severe Infrastructure Damage, Jamaica Says - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/CHE50

A job listing shows OpenAI wants to expand ChatGPT advertising capabilities with internal tools for campaigns, platform integration, and real-time attribution (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-chatgpt-ads-job-listing-marketing-platfor…

OpenAI Is Looking to Build In-House Ad Infrastructure
ADWEEK reviewed a job listing showing OpenAI is hiring a Growth Paid Marketing Platform Engineer to build internal tools for campaign management, ad platform integration, and real-time attribution.

As part of the AWS deal, OpenAI says it will immediately begin running workloads on AWS infrastructure, tapping hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs in the US (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/open-ai-amazon-aws-cloud-deal.html

Amazon closes at record after $38 billion OpenAI deal with AWS
OpenAI will immediately begin tapping Nvidia's AI processors using infrastructure from Amazon Web Services.

Anthropic hires former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil as its new CTO, taking over from co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as chief architect (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/anthropic-hires-new-cto-with-focu…

Anthropic hires new CTO with focus on AI infrastructure | TechCrunch
As part of the change, Anthropic is updating the structure of its core technical group, bringing the company's product-engineering team into closer contact with the infrastructure and inference teams.

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在路上 - 去西安/ 灵 👁️‍🗨️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Kodak Double-X 5222
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

Vista Equity-backed infrastructure software company LogicMonitor acquires Catchpoint, which monitors user experiences across the internet, for $250M in cash (Liana Baker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

Vista-Backed LogicMonitor Buys Monitoring Startup Catchpoint
Vista Equity Partners-backed infrastructure software company LogicMonitor is acquiring the startup Catchpoint for more than $250 million in cash.

London-based "neocloud" startup Nscale closed a $433M pre-Series C SAFE round from Nvidia, Nokia, Dell, and others, after raising a $1.1B Series B on Sept. 25 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/01/nscale-closes-433m-round-days-after…

Nscale closes $433M round, days after bagging $1.1BN funding
Nscale, the UK-based AI data centre startup, has closed a $433 million funding round, just days after bagging a $1.1 billion funding round, as the vast investment in AI infrastructure shows no signs of abating.Nscale, which pitches itself as a "hyperscaler engineered for AI", was named as a key local AI infrastructure partner for OpenAI, Microsoft and Nvidia, which announced significant investments into the UK AI ecosystem last week, coinciding with the visit of President Trump.The latest $433m…

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Amazon launches AWS AI Factories to deploy AWS infrastructure, including AWS Trainium chips and Nvidia GPUs, in customers' data centers (Georgia Butler/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news

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Dash0, which offers AI agents to monitor and troubleshoot cloud, app, and infrastructure issues, raised a $35M Series A, taking its total funding to $44.5M (Maya Dharampal-Hornby/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/cherry-ventures-accel-35m-dash0/

Shares of Seagate and Western Digital have sharply outperformed the broader market in 2025, surging ~200% on AI-related infrastructure demand for hard drives (Shashwat Chauhan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/data-stor

AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity (Eric Revell/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/amazon-invest…

Amazon to invest up to $50B to build AI infrastructure for US government agencies
AWS announced an investment of up to $50 billion to build AI and supercomputing infrastructure for U.S. government agencies starting in 2026 through a new initiative.

Sam Altman says OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4T on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30GW of data center capacity (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/openai-1-trillion-altman

Sam Altman: OpenAI wants to get to $1 trillion a year in infrastructure spend
Altman said the company still faces technical and financial hurdles to get to that lofty goal.

How debt is fueling the next wave of the AI infrastructure boom; an analyst estimates Oracle needs to borrow $25B/year over four years to fund its OpenAI plans (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/debt-is-fuelin…

Dell reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $27.01B, vs. $27.13B est., Infrastructure Solutions revenue up 24% to $14.1B, and Client Solutions revenue up 3% to $12.5B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/dell-earnings-report-q3-2026.html

Dell misses on revenue, offers strong forecast driven by AI sales
Dell is an important bellwether for the health of the AI infrastructure industry as one of the top vendors for systems based around Nvidia graphics processors.

The current AI investment boom will spark a "wildfire" that wipes out some companies, yet bolsters and enables others by unlocking GPUs, energy, and talent (Dion Lim/CEO Dinner Insights)
https://ceodinner.substack.com/p/the-ai-wildfire-is-coming-its-going

The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.
AI won’t crash—it will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next. The question is: what kind of plant are you?

Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps customers store their digital assets, for $100M ; PitchBook: Fordefi was last valued at $83M (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/25/paxos-fordefi-acquisition-crypto-wallet-defi/

Stablecoin issuer Paxos to acquire wallet startup Fordefi for more than $100 million
Paxos provides crypto infrastructure for major institutions like PayPal and Mastercard.

Upscale AI, which is building a suite of open standards-based networking tools for AI infrastructure, raised a $100M seed led by Mayfield and Maverick Silicon (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/17/up

Upscale AI gets $100M for a new kind of AI networking infrastructure built on open standards - SiliconANGLE
Upscale AI gets $100M for a new kind of AI networking infrastructure built on open standards - SiliconANGLE

Oracle, whose expenses are rising as it begins to fulfill massive cloud infrastructure deals, turned cash flow negative this year for the first time since 1992 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters…

Blackstone partners with Humain to invest about $3B in building and operating data centers and AI infrastructure across Saudi Arabia, set to open in 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/blackston…

At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure Amin Vahdat said Google must double AI compute capacity every six months to meet demand (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/google-says-it-must-dou…

Google must double AI compute every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees
At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure said the company has to race to build out compute capacity.

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboarding for 50M accounts, for ~$90M (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1zemqprel

Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, a16z-backed wallet platform, for $90 million
The Israeli digital asset firm, valued at $8 billion, broadens its platform amid industry-wide stablecoin momentum. 

Changes to CISA have left some states without support during elections; California said CISA provided little support during the Nov. 4 election on redistricting (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/election-security-…

Changes to the agency that helps secure elections lead to midterm worries
The federal agency that oversees the security of election systems was largely absent from planning before elections this month in several states. That's leading many state election officials to be concerned about how engaged the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will be for next year’s midterms. Officials are citing the shifting priorities of the Trump administration, as well as staffing reductions and budget cut. Some officials say they've begun scrambling to fill the anticipa…

Dell, HP, and other tech companies are warning of potential memory-chip supply shortages in the coming year due to demand from the buildout of AI infrastructure (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26/te…