How many cars’ worth of CO2 will US data centres really emit?
A new study out of Cornell has handed the AI industry’s climate critics a fresh statistic to wield, and the internet has duly rounded it
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CISA orders a three-day patch after a flaw in the Ray AI framework comes under active attack
America’s cyber-defence agency has added a single vulnerability in Ray, the open-source framework that powers a large slice of the world’s AI training and inference
States Seek $200 Billion From Meta Over Child Social Media Addiction Claims
California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey are taking the social media giant to trial in the first bellwether federal case over child harm.
Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not For Their Own Kids.
At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.
Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time
Egypt’s Theban necropolis holds over 400 tombs, a rich resource for archaeologists eager to learn more about that region’s ancient history. A new paper published
The Moon’s shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it
DURATÓN, Spain—I’ll say it: I’m hooked. Standing in the shadow of the Moon is one of the rarest opportunities to directly sense the mechanics of
Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished
Cursor started rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later GitHub fell over. The order
GitHub disputes Wiz’s claim that Copilot Autofix wrote a Snowflake flaw
A security company said on Monday that an AI wrote a critical flaw into Snowflake’s code, and that another AI found it and broke in.
AI inference is getting cheaper, but your agents are getting more expensive
The good news is that large language model (LLM) token costs are coming down. The conundrum: The overall cost of AI workloads is going up.
OpenAI president’s blog pushing agentic AI most notable for what it did not say
OpenAI president Greg Brockman on Sunday warned enterprise CISOs that they need to more aggressively embrace agents if they want to survive upcoming cyberattacks. Brockman
The SEC staff agreed data centre securitisation sits outside Dodd-Frank risk retention
Nvidia announced $500bn of AI infrastructure financing last week, alongside Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. A fortnight earlier, the Securities and Exchange
Google picked and paid for the firm anonymising the Spirit Airlines data
Google has agreed to pay $10mn for what a dead airline knew. A judge considers the sale on Wednesday morning. Reuters reported the price on
Ubuntu is Growing Faster on Windows Than on Linux
Back in April, Jon Seager, Canonical’s VP of Engineering, spoke with The Pragmatic Engineer (paywalled), telling them that Ubuntu inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Looking Beyond Tmux and Screen: 8 Terminal Multiplexers Worth Trying
Whether you’re a developer, system administrator, or simply someone who spends a lot of time in the terminal, juggling multiple terminal sessions can be messy