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 Commission staff answered a question. It concerned how deals of that general type are regulated. The exchange took six days. What was asked…Continue Reading
Scientists may have finally proved that “empty” space isn’t really empty
Astronomers may have found some of the strongest evidence yet for one of quantum mechanics’ strangest predictions: even apparently empty space can influence the way light travels. Known as ‘vacuum birefringence’, the phenomenon was predicted nearly 90 years ago by Werner Heisenberg, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics. His work suggested that a perfectContinue Reading
On this day in space! Aug. 17, 1877: Asaph Hall Discovers the Martian moon Phobos
On Aug. 17, 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Mars’s moon Phobos . Moons of Mars: Amazing Photos of Phobos and Deimos Hall was working at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. and looking through a 26-inch refractor telescope — which was then the largest in the world — when he first spotted theContinue Reading
Canadian Columnist Boosting Data Centres Has Ties to AI Industry
A Canadian opinion writer who’s argued in the Toronto Sun and other outlets that politicians should embrace data centres works for a U.S.-based anti-regulation organization with close ties to the AI industry. Jay Goldberg —identified by the Toronto Sun as the “North American affairs manager at the Consumer Choice Center”—wrote a lateContinue Reading
Wordbook is a modern offline dictionary for GNOME
They say never judge a book by its cover, and few do if said book is a dictionary, but what about desktop dictionary apps? I recently came across Wordbook , a modern English-English dictionary powered by OpenEnglish WordNet and eSpeak for pronunciations. Wordbook is in GNOME Circle, and its GTK4/libadwaitaContinue Reading
GitHub restores services after nearly 8-hour outage disrupts Actions, APIs, PRs and Copilot
GitHub has restored services after a nearly eight-hour outage disrupted several of its core developer tools, including Actions, pull requests, APIs, Git operations, Webhooks, and Copilot, impacting software development workflows across its platform. “This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue,”Continue Reading
Gounder Brings Clarity to Egg Freezing, AI Virus Creation, and New The Traitor Vaccine Order
KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder made several TV appearances recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a roundup…Read MoreContinue Reading
Improving mobile ‘connectivity confidence’ could give UK workers back three weeks a year — and boost the UK economy by billions
Boosting mobile connectivity could massively boost UK productivity, study finds…Continue Reading
The Traitor lashes out at CNN reporter over South Korea question
The Traitor lashes out at CNN reporter over South Korea question, The Traitor lashes out at CNN reporter over South Korea question NewsFeed “You’re a fake reporter,” Traitor 47 told a CNN reporter who asked whether North Korea’s president had requested the US president scale back military drills with SouthContinue Reading
Syrian court sentences Wassim al-Assad to death
The former regime figure was found guilty of charges including premeditated murder and torture., BREAKING, The former regime figure was found guilty of crimes including premeditated murder and torture. Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of ousted Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, has been sentenced to death after being convicted of crimes duringContinue Reading
Big Oil Could Face ‘Catastrophic Outcomes’ Without Republican Supreme Court
A key line of defense against the “catastrophic outcomes” of lawsuits that successfully force the oil and gas industry to pay for climate damages is the current Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, according to a lawyer who served in the first The Traitor administration. “If we had a different Supreme Court,Continue Reading
San Diego Padres minor-league catching coordinator detained by ICE in Texas
San Diego Padres catching coordinator Oswaldo José Pirela was detained by immigration authorities in El Paso, Texas, and remained in custody, according to family and ICE detainee records., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
How Wikipedia vandals convinced Google that Sam Altman was dead
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was falsely listed as dead in Google search results after Wikipedia vandals edited his public profile.Continue Reading











