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Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."

Mashable

Do age-verification laws work? Not according to this study.

People seem to be working around them, according to their Google searches.

404 Media

County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’

Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.

National Security Journal

Ukraine Just Found a Way to Hit Deep Inside Russia That Air Defenses Can't Touch — and It Starts in the Stratosphere

Kyiv's answer to Russia's air defenses doesn't come in low or fast. It drifts down from miles up — and the jamming never gets a chance.

ProPublica

Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank

Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.

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Mt. Olive Pickles withdraws from Great American State Fair after Confederate flag at NC booth

Gov. Josh Stein's office told WRAL News the flag has since been removed.

404 Media

Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don’t Exist

Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy are unable to stop the flood of AI-generated seed scams.

AI isn't paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds | Fortune

A Gartner study found that while 80% of companies surveyed reported workforce reductions, there was no correlation to higher ROI.

New Scientist

98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing | New Scientist

The food industry has made big promises to reduce emissions and become more sustainable, but a review concludes that many of the pledges are not backed up by evidence

Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.

In 2025, Google gave Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.

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Ad-free streaming is a luxury now

No more breaks from ad breaks.

Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury finds

The DOJ settled, but more than 30 states kept litigating against Ticketmaster anyway.

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The Onion

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours

Let me tell you a story. When I was a child, I suffered from night terrors. It was always the same dream: I could hear my family and neighbors wailing in the street outside as they were pursued and then destroyed by a nameless malevolent force, something neither I nor anyone else could control, a […]

Raw Story

ICE handed $12M to a 'surveillance' firm whose 'lead scientist' was a stock photo: report

Immigration and Customs Enforcement gave a $12.2 million no-bid contract to a company that appears to have fabricated staff and was originally founded to hold its founder's sailboat, according to a new report.ICE contracted with Edge Ops LLC for a program called Project SAFE HAVEN, an AI surveillanc...

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Hunter Biden calls out

The former president’s son said in an interview that this “closetocracy” was “the biggest problem in America.”

Trump Mobile quietly rewrote its fine print to say the gold Trump phone may never be made, a year after taking $100 deposits | Fortune

The terms and conditions said the preorder deposit gives people "a conditional opportunity" to buy the phone if the company makes it.

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Campaign staffers tell NPR they make 'thousands' betting on their own candidates

Campaign staffers are turning private polling data into personal paydays. They describe the election prediction market as a "Wild West" for staffers.