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An industry commentary argues that data center providers can no longer treat energy access as a late-stage formality. With surplus grid capacity disappearing, the piece calls for providers to engage utilities earlier and plan for long-term power partnerships rather than opportunistic siting.
Apple offers a built-in Quick Start feature that lets users move data from an old iPhone to a new one by placing the devices near each other and scanning an on-screen animation. Users can then choose to restore from their latest iCloud backup or perform a direct transfer straight from the old device during setup.
A go-to-market consultant who has worked with over 100 startups—including Temporal, Netlify, Pinecone, and Pydantic—argues that founders routinely fail to communicate in terms customers actually care about. The core prescription is deceptively simple: instead of pitching your product's features or vision, describe it using the language and priorities of the people you're trying to reach.
AI-driven search tools such as Google's AI Overviews and conversational assistants like ChatGPT are increasingly pulling data from customer reviews to decide which businesses to recommend. This means the volume, recency and quality of a business's reviews are being read and weighted by algorithms, not just prospective customers. A thin or neglected review profile can make a business effectively invisible to these AI systems.
The EPA is drafting a rule change that would eliminate the requirement for states to collect public feedback before issuing air pollution permits for so-called 'minor source' facilities, a category that includes data centers, landfills, laundromats, and steel mills. The move comes as communities increasingly use public hearings to challenge AI data center construction over air quality and health concerns. Attorneys general from 14 states and three cities have signed a letter opposing the change, arguing that minor sources can still cause serious health and environmental harm.
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation probe found that three Savannah police officers and one community service specialist improperly used the city's Flock automatic license plate reader system to track personal acquaintances and family members. All four were arrested last week, and two other employees had already been fired for similar conduct. Mayor Van Johnson publicly condemned the abuse, calling it a breach of public trust.
A technical guide argues that most retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) implementations are over-engineered, with teams reaching for embeddings, vector databases and reranking before checking if simpler tools suffice. It lays out decision factors—data freshness, corpus size and churn, query patterns, scale and team ML skill—to determine which retrieval approach fits, starting with plain full-text search like BM25, Elasticsearch or Postgres search before adding complexity.
Following up on his earlier SELF executable format that stores a program as a SQLite database, the author released self-httpd, a proof-of-concept web server whose code, website, routes, and visitor logs all live in a single SQLite file. The program reads its own instructions and writes new state, such as button-press logs, back into that same file transactionally, eliminating the need for separate folders like /var, /tmp, or /home.
Chris Malone, who led OpenAI's data center strategy after joining from Meta and Google in March 2024, has left the company. OpenAI confirmed it recently restructured its infrastructure organization, shifting oversight so that Malone no longer reported to President Greg Brockman but instead to VP Sachin Katti before his exit. The company says several other executives, including Uday Ruddarraju, Brent Mayo and Spas Lazarov, remain in charge of its data center efforts.
Malva is a search system that lets scientists query massive single-cell and spatial transcriptomic datasets using gene names, DNA sequences, or plain-language descriptions like 'cells expressing markers of neurodegeneration.' It combines a language model, a k-mer-based search index, and a metadata service to return annotated cell results in formats compatible with common analysis tools such as scanpy.
Adam Mosseri testified in Meta's multistate trial over child safety that he was unaware a company lawyer instructed Instagram employees to strip certain teen-safety statistics from a 2023 presentation before it reached him. The removed data showed teens viewed suicide, self-harm and eating-disorder content, as well as other 'non-recommendable' material, at significantly higher rates than adults. Mosseri said he never asked to be shielded from such information and understood lawyers' role as reviewing documents for legal accuracy.
The EPA has proposed amending the 1970 Clean Air Act to remove the 30-day public comment window required before construction begins on facilities classified as 'minor sources' of industrial pollution. The change would allow projects, including many AI data centers, to move forward with less advance public scrutiny.