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

You are being misled about renewable energy technology. by Technology Connections
#technology

In this edition of "Conversations with LLMs".
#LLM #technology #addiction #upselling #desperation

"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

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

"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.

Alec of Technology Connections explains why renewable energy, and solar panels in particular, will replace fossil fuels.
And then in the last third, he devastates the Trumpists, complaining all the way that he never wanted to do political videos.
#TechnologyConnections

"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.

​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.

Unintentional dark pattern (grey pattern?)
1. Use Firefox adblocker, website broken
2. Sigh in disgust, disable adblocker
3. Website still broken, turns out incompetence was problem, not malice
4. Somehow get things to work
5. Never turn ad blocker back on for site
6. Profit (for site's ad revenue)
#technology

"Waste heat from data centres ‘could help millions of UK households’"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology

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

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

FTW. You search for "coffee filter" and all 1000 results are for ground coffee to use in, and you won't ever guess this, *coffee filters*. 🤦‍♂️
#stupid #technology #ecommerce

"New calculator shows exactly how much environmental damage is behind your internet searches"
#Technology #Internet #Emissions

New tool reveals the hidden environmental cost of every website
9,000 monthly searches on YouTube.com uses 10 litres of water – enough for a capuchin monkey to survive for 77 days.

"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.

"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

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

"UK Government unveils £43m funding competition for low-carbon aviation innovation"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology

"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.

"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.

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

"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

"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.

"TikTok says users can’t upload anti-ICE videos due to technical issues."
The technical issue is that TikTok wants to block LICE videos but an implementation bug also blocks ICE videos. Or something like that. 🙄
#ICE #TikTok #censorship #technology #USA #sarcasm

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

20"-wide keyboard tray when a typical full-size keyboard is a bit over 17" wide and a mouse pad is about 8.5" wide. ⌨️🖱️🤦‍♂️
#design #utility #ergonomics #accessories #technology #business

"Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas"
#Meta #Facebook #Technology #Emissions

Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas - Inside Climate News
EL PASO—In October 2025, local officials celebrated the groundbreaking of a 1-gigawatt, $1.5 billion data center for the tech giant Meta.  El Paso Electric had previously stated that existing infrastructure would support the data center and that Meta was looking to tap into a new solar farm. El Paso gets more than 300 days a […]

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

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

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