Data Center Tech Lobbyists Fearmonger in Attempt to Retroactively Roll Back Right to Repair Law

Lobbyists for major tech firms like Cisco and IBM are trying to push through legislation in Colorado that would drastically roll back a groundbreaking right to repair law under the guise of protecting national security and data centers. The legislation, which passed through a Colorado state senate committee on Thursday, would exempt hardware from the…

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Tiny City Fears Iran Drone Strikes Because of New Nuclear Weapons Datacenter

The tiny city of Ypsilanti, Michigan, is worried about being a target for drone strikes thanks to a planned datacenter that the University of Michigan is building to support nuclear weapons research According to Douglas Winters, the city’s attorney, the University and Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) “have put a big bulls eye target on…

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Texans Are Frighting a 6,000 Acre Nuclear-Powered Datacenter

Billionaire Toby Neugebauer laughed when the Amarillo City Council asked him how he planned to handle the waste his planned datacenter would produce.  “I’m not laughing in disrespect to your question,” Neugebauer said. He explained that he’d just met with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who had made it clear that any nuclear waste Neugebauer’s datacenter…

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Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn

An erotic roleplay chatbot and AI image creation platform called Secret Desires left millions of user-uploaded photos exposed and available to the public. The databases included nearly two million photos and videos, including many photos of completely random people with very little digital footprint.  The exposed data shows how many people use AI roleplay apps…

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Podcast: Inside a Small Town’s Fight Against a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter

We start with Matthew Gault’s dive into a battle between a small town and the construction of a massive datacenter for America’s nuclear weapon scientists. After the break, Joseph explains why people are 3D-printing whistles in Chicago. In the subscribers-only section, Jason zooms out and tells us what librarians are seeing with AI and tech,…

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