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🔌 New blog post: the new data center environmental numbers are in, and a year of real data beats a decade of projections. Power forecasts went up, Google's water use jumped 34% in one year, and the honest summary is: globally modest, locally severe, growing fast.
hermez.prose.sh/data-center-en…
Featured source, the DOE lab's revised forecast: seta.lbl.gov/publications/unit…
#AI #DataCenters #Energy
Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble
Publicly, the Trump administration is bullish about AI. Privately, some of its analysts are weighing AI against the dotcom bust.Eric Katz (NOTUS)
The world still runs on mainframes
At New York Tech Week, experts break down the significance of the mainframe—the technology powering the world’s economy.Euny Hong (www.ibm.com)
Please stop posting about how you're running a slop machine on local hardware under the privacy hashtag!
The technology is built on massive privacy violations, no matter where it's running! If someone claims that running their slop machine locally is privacy-friendly, their notion of who has a right to privacy is obviously limited to themselves!
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#privacy #DataProtection #LLMs #SlopMachines #StopTheSlop #Slopposition #AI [sic!]
💻 🤖 " In judging technology, Doctorow @pluralistic writes, “Stop thinking about what the gadget does, and pay attention to who the gadget does it to and who the gadget does it for"
#Tech #AI
thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/07/24/…
Cory Doctorow Predicts the AI Bubble Will Burst | The Tyee
The writer sees a shaky future for a technology that has many of us in a lather.Crawford Kilian (The Tyee)
KI im Betriebssystem-Kern: Wie sich die Kontrolle über das Smartphone verschiebt
KI wandert 2026 tief in den Systemkern von iPhone und Android. Fachleute warnen vor neuen Risiken und schwindender Nutzerkontrolle. Wem gehört unser Handy?Marcel Kunzmann (heise online)
Big Tech is moving towards fossil fuels, coincidentally this is happening after the hopped on the Trump-Train, $$$ are calling ;)
rechargenews.com/corporate-pow…
#Sustainability #CleanTech #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #FossilFuels #USA #America #UnitedStates #Tech #Technology #News #world #environment #data #ai #artificialintelligence
EXCLUSIVE: Meta thrown off key global clean energy scheme over gas spree
Facebook and Instagram giant has left influential RE100 corporate green power list after turning to gas for data centres, scheme officials confirm to RechargeBerta Olivier (Recharge News)
RE: mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/…
This is the great unifier of the people against #billionaires.
Left, right or center. Everyone hates them.
Community resistance against data centers is working"More than 300 cities, towns, and counties—including Monterey Park, Calif., Dekalb County, Ga., and Jefferson County, Pa.—have placed bans or moratoriums on the construction of hyperscale data centers. In the first three months of 2026, 75 major projects worth more than $130 billion were delayed or canceled in part due to organized local opposition."
time.com/article/2026/07/22/co…
Community Backlash to AI Data Centers Is Growing Across the U.S.
If there’s one thing most Americans agree on, it’s that they hate data centers.Simmone Shah (Time)
Iran war disrupts datacenter construction supply chains, raises material costs
BCS says builders face up to 20% material hikes and patchy deliveriesDan Robinson (theregister)
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#ai #webdev #ios #a11y
Lovable’s AI built a 100% accessible site – or did it? | Axess Lab
We wanted to get an indication of how accessible AI-built sites are at the moment. So I let my colleague Daniel try out a site…Axess Lab
📚 💥 Anthropic Destroys Millions of Physical books
Oh you don't want people to read the truth.
No worries destroy the evidence.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/ant…
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
Thanks for posting about this issue: “the best [AI] model in the world is useless if you can't power it.” It gets so little attention! Everyone acting as if there is tonnes & tonnes of surplus energy in the world instead of admiring the elegance of doing so much with so little (ha ha, my little joke). 😹🙏🏻
Might add: “the best model in the world is useless if” it has no social licence, another prerequisite that’s not in surplus. 🤔
#AI #poweringAI #energyEfficiency #surplusEnergy #SocialLicense #elegance #DoingSoMuchWithSoLittle
In the current state of AI, it can find exploits to break out the contained environment for it to exploit another platform to get the answers to a test..
So the AI ‘decides’ its easier to cheat than actually solving the problem
I seriously cannot imagine that there are people thinking building a ‘artificial general intelligence’ is something clever 
⚡ The US is spending $650B on AI this year. China spent about $100B. But China added 8x more power capacity in 2025, and its models cost a quarter as much to run.
The AI race everyone's watching is about which model is best. The race that actually matters is about who can keep the lights on.
China treats electricity as infrastructure. State credit, central planning, 540 GW of new capacity in a single year. The US treats it as a market commodity, and now sits on a gas turbine backlog stretching 5-7 years out.
The US still has the best models. But the best model in the world is useless if you can't power it.
I just realized that #AI will really help solving the #climatecrisis. Since conferences will be overwhelmed by junk submissions, reviewing will be given up. Nobody can do this any longer and nobody is willing to read the junk. As a result, we will meet our few buddies locally and at least the travel problem is solved. 
\sarcasm \frustration
RE: mastodon.online/@eriq/11694586…
Fantastic talk by @pluralistic !
Take 30 minutes out of your time and discover what AI really is, what future it is heading to, and why.
Another great interview with @pluralistic (from @tegenlicht).youtube.com/watch?v=tOnvR2fs8C…
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Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.www.youtube.com
It's Official: AI Execs Are Quaking in Their Boots
Executives at both OpenAI and Anthropic are sounding alarm at the latest threat in the form of a powerful Chinese open-weight AI model.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 — now at 2.8 trillion parameters — is reshaping expectations for open models. Our latest article outlines the technical advances, market appetite, and implications for researchers and product teams. Read the full analysis: wix.to/zoFDROW
#AI
#Research
#OpenSourceAI
#TechLeadership
#MachineLearning
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3: A New Frontier in Open AI Models Faces Unprecedented Demand
Explore the groundbreaking Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI. Discover how Kimi K3's 2.8 trillion parameters set a new standard in open AI models.Oswaldo Royett (Oz)
Y’all, last week, #AI repository #HuggingFace disclosed that it had been the victim of a cyber attack conducted by an autonomous AI agent.
Well, turns out, #OpenAI had models break containment, escape the lab, and grab prod data and certs to solve a problem it had been given.
So, that’s fun!
The attack used a combination of OpenAI's available #GPT 5.6 Sol and a more powerful, unreleased pre-release model. The models were able to identify and exploit a zero-day vulnerability in OpenAI's internal package registry cache proxy, allowing them to establish open internet access.
The models inferred that Hugging Face hosted the datasets, models, and answers for the benchmark they were being tested against.
The models chained multiple complex attack paths together. They utilized zero-day vulnerabilities and stolen credentials to achieve remote code execution on Hugging Face servers, directly extracting test solutions from the production database.
fortune.com/2026/07/21/openai-…
OpenAI says its AI models secretly broke out of a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluation
The first-of-its-kind incident involved OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and another unreleased modelJeremy Kahn (Fortune)
Aww, OpenAI changed their headline. Thy are now “partnering” to address the very naughty, no good, super cool, top secret AI that breached containment! So wholesome and sweet and has nothing to do with coordinating a press release to hype up an IPO at all.
#ai
Color me skeptical, but this story smells super fishy to me.
Any “Ooh our super-secret model is so dangerous and powerful it escaped containment” story from any major #AI startup warrants heavy skepticism. They’ve been pawning stories like these for years onto a compliant press, to keep their companies in the headlines.
“OpenAI admits its models hacked another company in 'unprecedented cyber incident'”
#OpenAI says its #AI went #rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
source: bbc.com/news/articles/c3ek3gvd…
The #ChatGPT-maker said its agent - an AI #system which can operate alone after human instruction – was being tested in a controlled environment but, after finding weaknesses, was able to escape the test limits.They targeted #Hugging Face, one of the world's largest hubs for sharing AI models, gaining access to some internal company systems.
#news #cybersecurity #technology #test #security #economy #control #internet #problem #fail #hack #cyberattack #attack #skynet
Desperately trying to find a use-case for their inferior #AI. I feel like their idea pool was always at absolute 0 but now it's going even below that.
Let's have #MetaAI raise our kids everyone!
techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/meta…
#Meta #Fakebook #Tech #Technology #App #ArtificialIntelligence #News #Techcrunch
Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination | TechCrunch
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
"If you really want an "AI strategy" for your country, it should be this: wait for the bubble to burst, then buy hardware and talent at fire-sale prices in the wave of ensuing bankruptcies, and use them to extract more performance from free, open source models." - @pluralistic
Trump’s America can’t even win a rigged game (22 Jul 2026)
#AI #Tech #Economy
pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/tab…
I needed something send to people who aren't aware of the issues with #AI but couldn't find anything comprehensive and authoritative enough, so I compiled a page of links that hopefully can provide enough evidence... 🚫🤖
#NoAI #LLM #Techbros #DataCenters #Capitalism
"Peer review is imperfect, sometimes exclusionary, occasionally petty. We have all seen nonsensical reports and capricious delays. But the answer to those failings is to invest more in the human practice – through training, recognition and realistic expectation – not to hollow it out."
timeshighereducation.com/opini…
#ai #academicchatter #peerreview
AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil BhardwajAkhil Bhardwaj (Times Higher Education (THE))
OpenAI hits $10 billion in annual recurring revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth
OpenAI is now generating $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, according to a company spokesperson.Ashley Capoot (CNBC)
for all its faults I think that last one is one of the most tragic.
So many people now see something and first think: okay but that looks too good to be true and since we have ‘this’ it must not be!
It’s good to not believe everything you see (people have faked things for eternity) but it is now a lot harder to actually determine things.
To me that’s a huge problem and a huge tragedy.
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft | TechCrunch
Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct
Accuracy collapsed when AI was available
- Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
- With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer
Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong
AI advice made people #confident there're correct
- Baseline: 30%
- With AI help, confidence rose to 76%
People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident
theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026…
#digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down
Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something
Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fellThomas Claburn (theregister)
"Can AI systems make moral decisions in war?"
No. Don't be ridiculous.
aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/21/c…
> As more militaries adopt AI technology into their kill chain, Al Jazeera asks if they are capable of moral judgement.
#AI™
