Collaborate Disseminate
Microsoft released its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report showing that last year it matched its entire electricity consumption with renewable energy, reports The Register.
“The bad news is it also increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25%”… Continue reading AI-driven Datacenter Builds Increased Microsoft’s Emissions 25% In One Year
“I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs,” John Carmack posted Thursday to his 2.8 million followers on X.com:
My “Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand” statement isn’t aging well, and t… Continue reading Id Co-founders Carmack and Romero Respond to Microsoft’s Layoffs
Facial recognition technology in U.K. shops “will soon alert police in real time to the presence of serious offenders,” reports The Guardian, “with civil liberties groups warning of a ‘dangerous escalation’ towards surveillance and criminalisation in t… Continue reading Facial Recognition in UK Shops Will Soon Instantly Alert Police About Offenders
The Associated Press reports:
An islandwide blackout struck Cuba on Friday for the second time this week as the nation of nearly 10 million people grapples with a crumbling power grid and fuel shortages stemming from a U.S. energy blockade…
Au… Continue reading 10 Million Cubans Suffer Nationwide Blackout – For The Second Time This Week
“Meta has axed a controversial feature that allowed users to modify photos from public Instagram accounts using AI,” reports TechCrunch:
The feature, which wasn’t designed to alert a user if their photos were used in this way, prompted immediate backl… Continue reading Meta Removes Controversial AI Feature On Instagram After Backlash
Since February, New York state police have arrested 48 people for trespassing on a former IBM campus in Somers, New York, reports the Wall Street Journal. 30 of the arrests were teenagers.
The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban e… Continue reading People Keep Sneaking Into an Empty IBM Campus – and Then Getting Arrested
For nearly two years the Free Software Foundation has been fighting web crawlers (including many aggressively scraping training data for AI models). A botnet controlling about five million IPs hit one system for six months in 2025. Their systems admini… Continue reading How the FSF Sysadmins are Blocking Botnets with reaction
Nerds.xyz reports:
DuckDuckGo just gave its browser a feature that a lot of people have been waiting for. The privacy-focused browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, letting users watch videos without sitting through the pre-roll and mid-ro… Continue reading DuckDuckGo’s Browser Now Blocks Most YouTube Ads
Environmental groups want America’s FCC “to slam the brakes on orbital datacenters,” writes The Register.
They’re arguing for an environmental impact assessment for what could be 1 million satellites:
Earthjustice, acting on behalf of DarkSky Interna… Continue reading Orbital Datacenter Plans Need an Environmental Review, FCC Told
“Flexible, app-based scheduling lets large pools of part-time workers choose four-hour shifts and even select the type of work they prefer,” writes long-time Slashdot reader Tony Isaac. While the system started during the pandemic when factories faced … Continue reading This Factory Was Severely Short On Workers. Then It Offered Flexible Work.