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Virginia County With 37 Data Centers Tells Staff to Turn Off the Lights
Henrico County, Virginia—home to 37 data centers with 17 more planned, some on former Civil War battlefields—is facing a 24.9% electricity rate hike on July 1 t
Algorithm likely erased two of Max Planck's 1940s papers from a journal
Two papers published by Nobel laureate Max Planck in the 1940s have quietly vanished from the journal Naturwissenschaften (now The Science of Nature). Rather th
An SSH-Served Graphical Shell: Apps as HTTP Servers Behind Unix Sockets
Marcus Lewis proposes treating SSH as a transport for graphical interfaces rather than just text terminals. In his model, a server or edge device exposes each a
Bogus DMCA claim from an uninhabited island scrubs Pollen exposé from Google
Gergely Orosz's 2022 investigation into the collapse of events-tech startup Pollen has been pulled from Google's search results by a copyright takedown request
Brown professor exposes 50+ students in Ivy League's biggest AI cheating scandal
Roberto Serrano, a tenured economics professor at Brown University, says he has conclusive evidence that at least 50 students used AI to cheat on the March midt
China's CPU-Only LineShine Tops the TOP500, First Chinese Entry in 9 Years
At ISC 2026 in Hamburg, the 67th TOP500 list crowned a new leader: LineShine, a Shenzhen-based system and the first Chinese submission in nine years. Unusually,
Daisugi: The 600-Year-Old Japanese Hack for Growing Trees on Trees
Facing a 15th-century shortage of both cedar seedlings and the land to grow them, Japanese foresters in the Kyoto region developed daisugi (台杉, "platform cedar"
EFF: The KIDS Act Would Force Age Checks on Everyone, Not Just Minors
Congress is fast-tracking the KIDS Act, a bundle of internet bills anchored by a revised Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and pushed through an expedited process t
Flock's AI surveillance cameras track far more than plates — and they're everywhere
Flock Safety has become the dominant supplier in a fleet of more than 100,000 automated license plate readers now deployed across the US, but calling them plate
From CUDA source to silicon: tracing a vector-add kernel down to the GPU
A trivial CUDA program that adds two million-element vectors hides an enormous amount of machinery: producing one correct answer involves tens of millions of CP
HackerRank's open-source AI resume screener scored one resume from 66 to 99
HackerRank open-sourced its applicant-tracking system, a GitHub project called hiring-agent that racked up thousands of likes on LinkedIn and Reddit. When the a
Headline-only item claims Rocket Lab acquired Iridium — no article, unverified
The source provides only a headline asserting that Rocket Lab has acquired Iridium, with no article body, deal terms, financial figures, executive statements, o