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A 330 MW data center wanted to buy a farm, switch off the irrigation, and drink the difference — California’s most powerful irrigation district said no, so it sued
IVCM petition asked Imperial County judge to overturn IID’s refusal to sell it roughly 287 million gallons to cool a proposed 330 MW data center The company pledged in writing as recently as February that the project would not touch Colorado River water The case turns on whether fallowed farmland…
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Quote of the day by Bill Gates: ‘There’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it” — downplaying Apple’s foray into tablets
For a long period during the early 21st century, Apple was the envy of the technology industry – pumping out a series of excellent products and seemingly unable to put a foot wrong. When the iPad came along, it had many detractors, chief among them the former CEO of its…
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Today I learned the CIA hid a home movie camera inside a Xerox machine — and trained a real repairman to steal the film right in front of the KGB
The CIA has never confirmed or denied the following story. The only evidence we have that it happened at all is a 1997 article in Popular Science Vol. 250, Issue 1, where journalist Dawn Stover spoke to the mastermind behind one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War. We…
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Meta drops major climate pledge after a decade of membership, says it is still committed to renewable energy
Meta has funded multiple natural gas power plants over the past 12 months The corporate renewable energy initiative RE100 includes Apple, Google, and Microsoft among its 444 members Meta has previously committed to running all operations on renewables by 2020 Meta has confirmed it is withdrawing from the RE100 scheme,…
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Nvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance — but there’s no room for OpenAI, Anthropic or Google
Nvidia and Microsoft lead the list of founder members of the Open Secure AI Alliance AI, financial services, tech companies, and other organizations with developing AI services have joined the alliance Notable exceptions include OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Nvidia has confirmed its membership of the new Open Secure AI Alliance,…
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Brave1 and the open source future of war
Imagine a world where the most powerful weapon isn’t a missile, but a software update. In less than 72 hours, a software engineer can patch a drone on the front line and turn an enemy’s multi-million-dollar electronic warfare system into little more than expensive scrap. This isn’t science fiction but…
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