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One of the world's leading communities for tech for good. Founded at @Stanford in 2008. @nytimes featured. Helped launch @joindiaspora, now @WeVoyce.

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AI bubble update: 79% of companies say their GPUs sit idle at least half the time, yet most plan new AI platforms venturebeat.com/infrastructu… via @VentureBeat

Idle GPUs aren’t stopping AI platform plans | VentureBeat

Across three VB Pulse surveys, 79% of companies running AI say their GPUs sit idle at least half the time, yet 70% of them plan new AI compute platforms.

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Big Tech’s thirst for water is sparking a global resistance restofworld.org/2026/ai-data…

Big Tech’s thirst for water is sparking a global resistance

In his new book “Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the growing demand for water to cool data centers.

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OpenAI checked fired researchers’ phones for Signal chats, WSJ reports thenextweb.com/news/openai-s… via @thenextweb

OpenAI safety researchers reportedly fired after a Signal leak hunt

“False accusations”: Ryan Greenblatt denies leaking, after three OpenAI safety researchers were fired over Signal chats.

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A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature arstechnica.com/science/2026…

A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature

A new model suggests Mars may host ice-forming physics never directly observed before.

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AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests before construction is threatened theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests before construction is threatened

Exclusive: Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco taskforce urges ministers to offer areas greater benefits from tech infrastructure amid fears of US-style opposition

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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/th… via @techcrunch

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn't make it | TechCrunch

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

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Why your EV battery still loses charge while it's parked engadget.com/2292646/ev-batt…

Why your EV battery still loses charge while it's parked - Engadget

Electric vehicles constantly need to perform system checks to remain in optimal condition. This, and a number of other factors, can lead to loss of battery.

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AWS says its AI security agent fixes 89% of bugs — but there's a catch thenewstack.io/aws-says-its-… via @thenewstack

AWS says its AI security agent fixes 89% of bugs — but there's a catch

AWS made Continuum generally available after it scored 89% on the CyberGym-E2E code security benchmark. A closer look at what that number really shows.

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Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens apollo.com/wealth/insights-n…

No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector | The Daily Spark

Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Subscribe for daily updates.

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Nvidia is pitching AI factories, but 81% of companies say their GPUs run at half capacity or less venturebeat.com/infrastructu… via @VentureBeat

Nvidia pitches AI factories as GPUs sit idle | VentureBeat

In a VB Pulse survey, 81% of companies running AI in production use half their GPU capacity or less, yet 71% of them plan new AI infrastructure within a year.

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What telecoms leave behind when they exit a country globalvoices.org/2026/10/22/… via @globalvoices

What telecoms leave behind when they exit a country

“While the network will continue to provide service to users, the transparency practices and internal procedures and protocols for data safeguards may change after a sale.”

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Max-severity GitLab bug allows remote code execution over 12 years of releases theregister.com/security/202…

Max-severity GitLab bug allows remote code execution over 12 years of releases

Vendor 'strongly recommends' upgrading to a fixed version 'as soon as possible'

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Getty Images files for bankruptcy, pushes ahead with plan to go private thenextweb.com/news/getty-im… via @thenextweb

Getty Images files for bankruptcy, pushes ahead with plan to go private

Getty Images has filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware under a plan that hands the company to the Getty family and Koch Equity Development and cuts its debt.

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Meta shocked by $25B fine after N.M. refused to join multistate settlement arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…

Meta whines New Mexico is “impossible” to please after historic $25 billion fine

Meta will appeal a ruling imposing the largest fine Mark Zuckerberg’s ever seen.

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Meta strikes deal with Mark Zuckerberg to help him foot billionaire tax bill theguardian.com/technology/2…

Meta strikes deal with Zuckerberg to help him foot billionaire tax bill

Chief executive agrees to remain in California for eight years even if the state brings in a one-off wealth tax

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Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’ techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/mi… via @techcrunch

Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical...

Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Micros...

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Bluesky adds iPad support in latest feature update engadget.com/2294583/bluesky…

Bluesky adds iPad support in latest feature update - Engadget

Profile links to third-party platforms have also arrived on the social network.

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Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain's CEO says it's part of a bigger shift thenewstack.io/ramp-laminar-… via @thenewstack

Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain's CEO says it's part of a bigger shift

Ramp built its own AI agent harness, Laminar, instead of buying one. LangChain’s Harrison Chase sees a bigger shift in how agents get built.

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AWS analysts say that at least one actor attempted to exploit the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities on October 17, four days before their public disclosure and patching wired.com/story/hackers-expl…

Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched

Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They're now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.

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CTGT releases open source tool Concordance to trace why AI agents make inconsistent decisions venturebeat.com/data/ctgt-re… via @VentureBeat

CTGT releases open source tool Concordance to trace why AI agents make inconsistent decisions

CTGT replaced the identifiers with stable labels, sorted the list and isolated each test in a fresh organizational environment. Five subsequent runs each produced the same 34 obligations.

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