Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube

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YouTube removed a video about LibreELEC on Raspberry Pi 5 due to promoting unauthorized access to content. The creator re-uploaded the video to Internet Archive and is considering alternative platforms due to YouTube's restrictive policies and AI content usage.

How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes

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GitLab fixed a 15-year-old Git function causing slow backups, reducing time from 48 hours to 41 minutes. This improvement enables nightly backup schedules and reduces business risk, benefiting both GitLab customers and the broader Git community.

Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed

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Meta is making private AI chats public without consent, violating users' right to privacy. Users demand Meta shut down its invasive AI feed and require explicit opt-in consent for public sharing.

Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation

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FlightAware's software handles various aviation data issues due to real-world messiness. Common misconceptions about aviation data include incorrect assumptions about flight numbers, airport identifiers, and aircraft operations.

The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf]

Recent frontier language models generate detailed thinking processes before providing answers. our work examines how well these lrms tackle problems of varying complexities, and examine the properties of their reasoning processes across various complexity levels. in the tower of hanoi environment, the model's first error in a solution often occurs much later, e.g., around move 100 for (n=10) ...

Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics

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Researchers at JAMSTEC developed transparent cellulose paper that can be broken down by microbes and is as strong as polycarbonate. The material is biodegradable and could replace plastics, but mass production and consumer acceptance are needed.

A year of funded FreeBSD development

The author maintained FreeBSD on Amazon EC2 since 2010 and became the release engineering lead in 2023. They received Amazon sponsorship for 40 hours/month of work on FreeBSD release engineering and development.

I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits

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A team used Cloudflare's open-sourced OAuth 2.1 library to demonstrate human-AI collaboration, documenting their process and showing how AI generated code with minimal human oversight. The experience highlights the importance of transparency and treating prompts as version-controlled assets, and raises questions about the potential for AI to eliminate the need for intermediary code generation.

4-7-8 Breathing

Free evidence-based breathing exercises to help you relax, reduce stress, and sharpen your focus.

A masochist's guide to web development

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If you are a web developer, you may find errors in this post that are going to make you laugh. not all abstractions leak in the same way - some leak way more than others. but, as soon as the complexity of your codebase bumps notch, abstraction doesn’t hold anymore – it’s time to start writing your own! emscripten is based on the open source project tronto, and is available for

How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy

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OpenAI is fighting a court order to retain user data indefinitely, which conflicts with their privacy commitments. They are appealing the order to protect user trust and privacy.

Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google

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Google fired me with shut-up money for complaining about unfulfilled recruiter promises. the fact that this made me an unhappy googler only makes it more fun to do it, he writes a blog post on the topic of, long sigh: tech. if you want to know what i'm talking about, you can read my blog here. google is not the only company that has fired you, says john wilson.

Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games

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Odyc.js is a simple JavaScript library to create interactive narrative games, even without coding experience.

Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11

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A new version of the tigerbeetle oltp database has crashed. the database is built for financial transactions, inventory, ticketing, or utility metering - and it's not fault-tolerant, says daniel saunders of udacity university of new york. to test safety under faults, tigerbeetal employs deterministic simulation testing, which performs reproducible, pseudo-

Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer

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Sandia National Labs and SpiNNcloud collaborated on the SpiNNaker2 computing core, a brain-inspired supercomputer for nuclear deterrence missions. It has 175,000 cores and 96 GB of external memory per board, providing efficient computing for national security applications.

SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding

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RedwoodSDK is a React framework for Cloudflare offering SSR, server components, and real-time features. It provides fine-grained control over requests and responses with its standards-based router and Cloudflare integrations.

Researchers find a way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells

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Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute found a way to make HIV visible inside human cells using mRNA technology. This breakthrough could pave the way for a cure, but further studies are needed to determine its effectiveness.

Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration

1. Jak jste se o Portálu veřejné správy dozvěděl/a?

Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law

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Switzerland's proposed encryption law change would require VPNs to collect user data, undermining online privacy. Proton VPN and NymVPN may be affected, with Proton CEO Andy Yen considering leaving Switzerland to protect user privacy.

Too Many Open Files

The user was experiencing issues with their Rust project's tests failing due to a "Too many open files" error when running cargo test, which was caused by the soft limit of open file descriptors in their shell being reached. The solution was to bump the soft limit using the ulimit command, which resolved the issue and allowed the tests to run successfully.

What you need to know about EMP weapons

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A nuclear conflict could cause devastating electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) that damage electronics. To mitigate this, use multiple layers of conductive material, such as foil, separated by insulating layers, to shield devices from EMP energy.

Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU'

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AheadComputing, a startup founded by Intel alumni, is developing a new class of microprocessors using the open RISC-V architecture. The company aims to create a more efficient and customizable chip design, potentially disrupting the traditional CPU market dominated by Intel.

Building an AI server on a budget

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The user built a custom AI server from scratch on a budget of $1,300, choosing Nvidia's RTX 4070 12GB Graphics Card for its wide industry adoption and mature software ecosystem. They installed Ubuntu Server, configured the network, storage, and user profile, and installed necessary tools like CUDA and Tailscale for remote access, successfully setting up their AI server for deep learning workloads.

Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data

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The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security data despite a federal judge's injunction. The decision was met with opposition from liberal justices and criticism from progressive groups who fear data theft.

Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

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This AI tool generates professional game animation sprites with 10x efficiency and cost savings. It creates personalized animations for unique gameplay needs with just 5 training samples and offers free training.

Being fat is a trap

The author shares their personal story of struggling with weight and food obsession, and proposes the concept of two traps: a physical trap of being overweight and a mental trap of obsessive thoughts about food.

United States Digital Service Origins

Founding members of the US Digital Service share an oral history documenting the organization's early days and lessons learned from 2009-2015. The history highlights the US Digital Service's legacy and relevance in government technology teams.

Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite

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py-pglite is a Python testing library that integrates PGlite with test suites for seamless PostgreSQL testing. It supports SQLModel, FastAPI, and provides utilities for database management and cleanup.

An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting

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Doge Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to "Munch" Veterans Affairs Contracts

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ProPublica investigated the use of AI to cancel VA contracts, finding the tool produced glaring mistakes and flagged essential services for cancellation. The tool, created by a software engineer with no healthcare experience, was used to guide the Trump administration's budget cuts at the VA.

Curate your shell history

Simon Tatham disables his shell history file to avoid clutter and instead saves valuable commands in a separate file or script. He created a zsh function called smite to easily delete unwanted commands from his history.

Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off

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Online sports betting is designed to favor the house, cutting off winners to maintain profits. Sportsbooks target casual bettors, leaving problem gamblers and skilled bettors at a disadvantage.

Medieval Africans had a unique process for purifying gold with glass (2019)

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Archaeologists recreated a medieval West African gold purification method using recycled glass, which was previously unknown in the archaeological record. The method involved mixing gold ore with glass, allowing impurities to dissolve, and then separating the gold.

Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data

The US Supreme Court lifted restrictions on the Department of Government Efficiency accessing Social Security information. The decision allows full access to the database while the case proceeds on appeal.

Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise

The article discusses Perlin noise, a tool used in creative work, and its implementation on the GPU using WebGL2/GLSL. It covers topics such as deterministic coordinate-based pseudo-random systems, gradient noise, and fractal Brownian motion, as well as the use of derivatives in noise functions.

Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp

The author implemented a problem in three non-Java languages: Haskell, Common Lisp, and Smalltalk. They found Haskell's code to be the most beautiful and modular, but also discovered their enjoyment of Haskell is independent of its usability.

Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo

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The user implemented a highly efficient transpose kernel for the Hopper architecture using Mojo, achieving a bandwidth of 2775.49 GB/s. The kernel utilized thread coarsening and TMA transfers to optimize performance, outperforming an equivalent CUDA kernel.

OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs "indefinitely." Here's who's affected

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OpenAI is forced to retain deleted chats of hundreds of millions of users due to a court order in a lawsuit with The New York Times. OpenAI plans to challenge the order and is currently pushing for oral arguments to set it aside and protect user privacy.

Small Programs and Languages

The author discusses the appeal of tiny programming languages, implementations, and programs, citing examples of miniature code that prove a concept can be boiled down to a small size. Small languages like Forth, Lisp, and Lua offer a balance between simplicity and expressiveness, making them accessible and enjoyable to work with.

Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks

Teams are missing out on huge cost savings and performance gains by not considering open source alternatives to closed source LLMs for common tasks like classification, summarization, and data extraction. Open source models offer 2x-10x better price/performance than their closed-source counterparts, especially when run using batch inference, making them a viable option for workhorse tasks.

VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV

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The French court ordered VPN providers to block access to pirate sites in France, ruling that they are technical intermediaries capable of contributing to suppressing piracy. The court found that the VPN providers must implement measures to block access to the disputed domain names, with the cost to be shared between the parties.

Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf

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Anthropic cut Windsurf's access to Claude due to computing constraints, reserving capacity for lasting partnerships. Anthropic is shifting focus to agentic coding products like Claude Code, moving away from static AI chatbots.

What “working” means in the era of AI apps

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Startups are growing faster than ever, with median enterprise companies reaching $2 million in ARR in their first year and median consumer companies reaching $4.2 million. Rapid growth is becoming a key factor in securing venture capital, with speed being a major differentiator.

Self-reported race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry in the U.S.: study

A new study analyzed genetic data from 230,000 US participants and found that most people's genomes reveal mixed ancestry, not clear-cut racial or ethnic labels. The study suggests using ancestry categories instead of racial categories to better understand health disparities.

Weaponizing Dependabot: Pwn Request at its finest

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Dependabot, a GitHub bot, can be tricked into merging malicious code through "Confused Deputy" attacks, which can escalate to full command injection and bypass branch protection rules. Two new techniques, the @dependabot merge Shuffle and Crafty Branch, allow attackers to inject malicious code into Dependabot's workflow, potentially leading to security breaches in open-source projects.

Ask HN: Any good tools for viewing congressional bills?

You're having trouble reading the Big Beautiful Bill on congress.gov due to formatting issues. You're looking for tools to view the bill in a more readable format, but GovTrack.us is currently down.

Swift and the Cute 2d game framework: Setting up a project with CMake

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Cute Framework is a C/C++ framework for 2D games that can be used with Swift for game logic. A project setup guide is provided using CMake, allowing developers to leverage Swift's safety and performance of C/C++ for rendering.

Series C and scale

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Back to the main blog We've raised $900m to push the frontier of AI coding research.

How much energy does it take to think?

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Recent research shows the human brain uses nearly as much energy at rest as it does during effortful tasks, with only a 5% increase in energy use. The brain's energy is mainly spent on maintaining bodily functions and regulating physiological systems rather than on cognition.

Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup

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Dreamstar, a private passenger rail startup, aims to revive luxury overnight trains connecting LA and San Francisco with a 1940s-style experience. The startup plans to run on Union Pacific tracks, reduce carbon emissions by 75%, and offer competitive pricing with flights.

Why Bell Labs Worked

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Bell Labs was a victim of the information age it helped create, as its success relied on giving smart people radical freedom and autonomy. The lab's formula for success involved identifying people with drive and a sense of purpose, then giving them the freedom to explore and innovate.

The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)

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Contribute to X11Libre/xserver development by creating an account on GitHub.

Open Source Distilling

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The project aims to create open source software for home stills, leveraging technology to improve distilling efficiency and quality. A Raspberry Pi will be used as the brain of the project, controlled by Python code, to automate tasks and provide remote monitoring capabilities.

A maths proof that is only true in Japan

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Mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki published a 500-page proof in 2012 claiming to solve the 40-year-old abc conjecture, but his work was met with confusion and criticism from the mathematical community. A proof checker may be needed to resolve the controversy surrounding Mochizuki's work, which is widely believed to be flawed outside of Japan.

What methylene blue can (and can’t) do for the brain

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Methylene blue is a 19th-century old drug with various uses, including treating methemoglobinemia and malaria, but its potential as a "wonder supplement" for memory, energy, and mood problems is unproven. It has complex mechanisms of action and potential side effects, including bladder irritation, nausea, and life-threatening conditions like hemolytic anemia.

AMD Radeon 8050S “Strix Halo” Linux Graphics Performance Review

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The article benchmarks the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 with Radeon 8050S graphics, showing it to be a step below the flagship 395 tier but still more capable than Intel's Xe/Xe2 graphics. The Radeon 8050S features 32 graphics cores and supports up to 8K @ 60Hz displays.

See how a dollar would have grown over the past 94 years [pdf]

Investing in stocks can provide high returns but comes with greater risk and volatility. Government bonds offer lower returns but are generally safer and less volatile.

Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction

Researchers propose FreeTimeGS, a novel 4D representation for dynamic 3D scenes with complex motions. It improves rendering quality by allowing Gaussian primitives to move over time and appear at arbitrary locations.

A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts

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Donald Trump's budget proposes drastic cuts to NASA funding from $24.8bn to $18.8bn. Over 40 science missions could be cancelled due to the reduced funding.

Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle

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German Federal Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger wants to increase digital sovereignty in Germany and Europe through open standards and open source. He aims to create a unified IT infrastructure and promote European cloud services to reduce dependence on US tech companies.

Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon

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YouTube Premium Lite users will see ads on short videos starting June 30, 2025, despite initial promises of fewer interruptions. The change affects music content and search results, but most videos will remain ad-free.

Apple warns Australia against joining EU in mandating iPhone app sideloading

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Apple warned Australia not to follow EU's lead on iPhone app sideloading, citing security and privacy risks. Apple claims allowing sideloading opens door to malware and harmful content, contradicting EU's Digital Markets Act.

How to (actually) send DTMF on Android without being the default call app

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A man rebuilding the last Inca rope bridge

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Eliot Stein, a journalist for the BBC, traveled the world to document rare and ancient practices, including the Q'eswachaka bridge in Peru, a 500-year-old tradition where a community reweaves a suspension bridge every year using grass and fibers. The bridge's custodian, Victoriano Arizapana, is the last person to carry on this tradition, and his family's future involvement is uncertain due to ...

The Coleco Adam Computer

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The Coleco Adam computer was a 1983 attempt by Coleco to enter the home computer market, but it failed to meet expectations due to production issues, high defect rates, and poor design choices. Despite its potential, Coleco discontinued the Adam in 1985 after losing almost $50 million, and the company eventually went out of business in 1988.

Aether: A CMS That Gets Out of Your Way

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Aether CMS is a lightweight, fast platform built for simplicity with a clean, modular architecture. It stores content as Markdown files and generates static sites for instant loading.

Silicon Valley aghast at the Musk-Trump divorce

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The Financial Times offers a free guide to Trump's second term and US politics with impartial coverage. Subscribe for digital access to quality journalism and expert analysis with a 20% discount for paying upfront.

Pi in Pascal's Triangle (2014)

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Daniel based his discovery on Tony Foster's observation that each denominator in Nilakantha's series is a Pythagorean triangle area. The series is also related to the Leibniz series and triangular numbers.

Fuzzer Blind Spots: Meet Jepsen

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TigerBeetle's fuzzers missed a correctness bug in its query engine due to a blind spot in the fuzzer's workload. The blind spot was caused by the fuzzer pre-registering queries and verifying results, which led to a failure to test the intersection of multiple iterators.

ThornWalli/web-workbench: Old operating system as homepage

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Old operating system as homepage. Contribute to ThornWalli/web-workbench development by creating an account on GitHub.

DNS traffic spiked as Musk–Trump clash boosted Truth Social (+268%) and X (+20%)

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Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024)

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a non-linear personal web notebook

A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square

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British artist Alex Chinneck created a sculpture "A week at the knees" in London, reimagining a Georgian facade as a playful, anthropomorphized building. The 5-meter tall, 12-ton sculpture is made from repurposed steel and 7,000 bricks, mimicking a life-size building with a lightweight personality.

Editing astrophotography

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Editing astrophotography is crucial to transform raw data into high-quality images. It brings out hidden details, removes light pollution, and creates a unique style in the final image.

Homeless but self taught full stack developer

You're a skilled full stack developer with experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Shopify, and WordPress, seeking a job opportunity. You're looking for a potential employer who can offer you a chance to utilize your skills despite being homeless.

Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious

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The author, a Colorado School of Mines student, reflects on the high school experience and the pressure to excel academically, particularly in AP classes and SAT scores. They argue that this focus overshadows personal growth and fulfillment.

How many trees are there in the North American boreal forest?

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The boreal forest of north america is the largest terrestrial biome on earth. knowledge about tree density at local, regional and global scales is critical to forest management and biodiversity maintenance - dingliang xing, et al. based on the random forest regression model, we estimated a total number of 277.2 ( 137.7) billion trees in the north american forest, which is 31.3% higher than ...
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Exploring AI Integrations with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro

The user explores how Adobe creative tools can be integrated with AI tools using MCP servers, creating an open-source project called adb-mcp that enables AI clients to control Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and InDesign. The user demonstrates the potential of MCP servers in automating tasks, generating content, and improving workflows, and suggests areas for further exploration and improvement.

Second ispace craft has probably crash-landed on Moon

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A Japanese spacecraft, HAKUTO-R Mission 2, probably crashed on the Moon due to a systems issue. The failure is the second for Tokyo-based private firm ispace, which had aimed to achieve the second commercial lunar landing.

Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas

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Developers in Texas are building gas-fired power plants to supply data centers for artificial intelligence, despite concerns about sustainability and air pollution. The boom in AI is driving strong demand for gas power, which could increase electricity costs for consumers and businesses.