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Data of European Steam hardware customers 'likely compromised', Valve says (engadget.com)

2026-08-10 | by Jackson Chen | tags: steam, valve, ceva logistics

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A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets. (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: noreply.net, cory solovewicz, email security

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A data breach at shipping giant Ceva Logistics is rippling across banks, retailers, Steam gamers, and beyond (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-10 | by Zack Whittaker | tags: ceva logistics, freightwaves, cyberattack

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50k Boat Names (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Aug | tags: ais vessel data, noaa marine cadastre, boat names

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AI for science needs reasoning, not just data (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-10 | by Eric Schmidt | tags: alphafold, protein data bank, deepmind

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Valve notifies Steam hardware customers of a data breach (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: steam, valve, ceva logistics

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Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta 'Photos' App on Enterprise Machines (slashdot.org)

2026-08-10 | by Posted | tags: microsoft, onedrive, photos app

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Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: satellite imagery, paper globe, mapscaping

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How We Pushed CDC into Postgres (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Learn More About The Author | tags: postgres, snowflake, cdc

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Data-Center Backlash Leads to a New Land Rush in the Texas Oil Patch (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-10 | tags: permanent basin, texas oil, data center

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Rumored, Never-to-Be-Released Apple Feature May Have Been Too Much Truth for Most Consumers (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: apple, apple data, aware

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AI’s Scariest Week Yet (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: ai data, center, center wires

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‘What About Garmin?’ I Tested the Company’s Answer to Whoop (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-09 | tags: band, band offers, cirqa

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Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Etiido Uko | tags: center, data center, data centers

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Reading the Room Perfectly, Donald Trump Becomes Greatest Defender of Data Centers (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: centers, data centers, projects

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We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: connections, database, inventory

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Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: connections, database, inventory

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Amazon circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jowi Morales | tags: amazon, center, city

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Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Jowi Morales | tags: amazon, center, city

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AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: centers, data centers, emissions

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Atari ST Public Floppy Database now open for everyone — online archive originally designed for ST flash cart packed with classics and homebrew (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mark Tyson | tags: atari, atari st, database

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New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: amazon, amazon data, center

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Weird Town Begs for AI Data Center (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Frank Landymore | tags: center, data center, mcdonald

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Data Center Reps Face the Guillotine, Flee Public Hearing (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: center, center reps, data center

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Protesters haul a guillotine to city council meeting about a potential AI data center, company rep cornered by protestors — ‘ it no longer felt safe to stay,’ developer escorted out by police (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: center, data center, hardware

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Google Data Center Announces Plans to Pave Over Protected Wetlands (futurism.com)

2026-08-07 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: acres, center, data center

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Ro Khanna calls for the right to oppose data centers to be protected (engadget.com)

2026-08-06 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: center, centers, data center

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xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: center, data center, statement

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xAI Ignores Laws and Profits: Rules for Thee, Not for Me (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-06 | tags: center, data center, statement

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After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Jowi Morales | tags: centers, data centers, power