Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

Amazon is building a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant in Texas to power a new AI data center, which would become the largest pollution source in the U.S.

2026-08-08 · 17:27 UTC
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LinkedIn Feed Blocker

2026-08-08 · 16:49

LinkedIn Feed Blocker is a minimal Chrome extension that hides LinkedIn's home feed and blocks infinite-scroll…

X replaces ‘misaligned’ revenue sharing program with Original Content Rewards

2026-08-08 · 16:34

X is winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program.

Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP

2026-08-08 · 16:07

Andree Toonk has released Wireblast, a new high-speed packet generator tool written in Go that leverages AF_XDP…

Fastmail offers EU data region

2026-08-08 · 16:04

Fastmail now offers users the option to store their email data primarily in the European Union on servers in Amsterdam,…

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

2026-08-08 · 16:04

Intel's latest Core Ultra 5 processor in Dell's XPS 13 achieves comparable energy efficiency to Apple's M-series chips,…

The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a lot of fun, but it’s not a must-have

2026-08-08 · 16:00

While the device is pretty and lightweight, it’s not something the everyday person needs due to its hefty price tag and…

Message your other Claude Code sessions

2026-08-08 · 15:34

Claude Code v2.1.224 and later enables cross-session messaging on macOS and Linux, allowing Claude to send text messages…

Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames

2026-08-08 · 15:00

Google recently changed how it refers and assigns names to hacking groups.

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

2026-08-08 · 14:32

The author argues that dismissing coding as "easy" while claiming the hard part of software development is understanding…

Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

2026-08-08 · 14:07

A security researcher who owns the domains noreply.us and noreply.net has inadvertently created a "honeypot" that…

AI Expo Europe 2026: Bucharest Hosts the Largest AI Conference in Eastern Europe

2026-08-08 · 14:05

On November 1st and 2nd, 2026, the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bucharest hosts a new edition of AI Expo Europe, a conference…

Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

2026-08-08 · 13:55

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Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

2026-08-08 · 13:33

Researchers have developed Triton, a new Windows driver that brings full DirectX 11 support to QEMU virtual machines by…

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

2026-08-08 · 13:26

RFC 10023 defines a new DNS convention allowing domain owners to signal that their registered, actively operating…

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

2026-08-08 · 12:31

Gateway 2000's marketing in the early 1990s evolved from quirky, cost-effective advertising featuring cows and cornball…

Kimi K3’s Sandbox Escape Exposes a Growing Security Risk for AI Agents

2026-08-08 · 12:23

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has drawn attention after researchers found the model using an unintended network route during a…

The CPU is back: Rethinking the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference

2026-08-08 · 12:16

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AI Copies Crypto’s $200M Political Playbook Ahead of 2026

2026-08-08 · 11:36

Artificial intelligence companies and their investors are building a political spending campaign ahead of the 2026 U.S.

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

2026-08-08 · 11:05

Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

2026-08-08 · 10:57

OpenAI presented a detailed timeline at Black Hat security conference revealing how AI agents accidentally compromised…

Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

2026-08-08 · 10:16

Microsoft Edge is discontinuing support for Manifest V2 extensions, which will disable older ad blockers like uBlock…

Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices

2026-08-08 · 10:16

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

2026-08-08 · 09:18

DeepMind's WeatherNext AI model has achieved a breakthrough in cyclone forecasting, providing an extra day of predictive…

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

2026-08-08 · 07:04

Security researchers have discovered a hardware backdoor in some VIA C3 x86 processors that allows unprivileged code to…

Firmus Raises $2B as Nvidia Backs AI Infrastructure Expansion

2026-08-08 · 05:07

Firmus, an Australian artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure company that formerly operated as a Bitcoin (BTC)…

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

2026-08-08 · 03:41

A GitHub pull request for the myNetwork application version 1.0.8 contains a critical security vulnerability where a…

I'm Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store

2026-08-08 · 02:01

A developer pulled ColorCopy from the macOS App Store after a three-month experiment showed minimal financial…

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

2026-08-08 · 01:12

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded after concluding that the role was unsustainable and incompatible with active…

Spindex's Real-Time Data Pipeline Surpasses 150 Million Tracked Gaming Events

2026-08-08 · 00:33

Los Angeles, United States, August 7th, 2026, PlayNewswireSpindex, a real-time data analytics platform for the iGaming…

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