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The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty (wired.com)

2026-08-14 | by Molly Taft | tags: amazon, texas power plant, gas turbines

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Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business (engadget.com)

2026-08-13 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: iron mountain, open source storage, cloud storage

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Some Google Maps users just lost a key feature for avoiding crowds (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: google maps, android authority, popular times

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Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation. (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-13 | by Julie Bort | tags: databricks, ali ghodsi, big data

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How Compaction Works in Pi (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: compaction, programming, algorithms

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Choose Boring Technology (2015) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: nodejs, mongodb, etsy

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Where did all the hotels go? Google Maps glitch makes pins vanish (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: google maps, hotel pins, android

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PBS Station Sues to Regain Access to 70 Years of Archival TV History (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: pbs, st. louis, cloud storage

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AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: ai data center, nvidia gpu, large language model

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We Have AI at Home Chapter 1: A Box of Scraps (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: ai data center, nvidia gpu, large language model

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Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-13 | by Julie Bort | tags: nvidia, gpu, ai data centers

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Databricks wraps $5 billion funding round at $190 billion valuation (cnbc.com)

2026-08-13 | by Samantha Subin | tags: databricks, ai agents, lakebase

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Flock Safety changes system defaults in response to criticisms (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: flock safety, alpr data, bishop fox

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Bumble divides users by ditching its signature 'women-first' chat rule (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-13 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: bumble, whitney wolfe herd, women-first

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Batteries Powered By Rust? This Startup Raised $750 Million to Build Them. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-13 | by Jonathan Small | tags: rust batteries, form energy, weirton plant

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Time to Move On: Querying Without Nulls and Bags (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: null handling, bag data structure, database queries

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I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: search engine, domains, gpu rental

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I Built a 500k-Domain Search Engine for Makers in a Weekend for $10 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: search engine, domain indexing, gpu rental

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Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | by Francisco Rodriguez | tags: iron mountain, nine pbs, open source storage

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Nine PBS could lose 70 years of archives after cloud vendor goes defunct (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | by Jowi Morales | tags: nine pbs, open source storage, iron mountain

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ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | by Autonomous Technologies Group | tags: atg, data platform, technical staff

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Trezor discloses data breach affecting nearly 14,000 customers (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: trezor, shipmonk, hardware wallet

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Twitch users outraged as Amazon uses their content to train AI in opt-out feature (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-08-13 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: twitch, amazon, generative ai

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Elon Musk says xAI will increase data center capacity 7x by 2027 — targeting 10 gigawatts of compute, up to $500 billion in revenue by the end of next year (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-13 | by Anton Shilov | tags: xai, spacex, elon musk

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The world’s largest ‘biological datacenter’ could help make animal testing obsolete (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: vivodyne, biological datacenter, lab-grown tissue

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Cargo thieves are staging car crashes to steal AI data center hardware (techspot.com)

2026-08-13 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: ai data centers, cargo theft, silicon valley

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Author Correction: Structural mechanism of cGAS inhibition by the nucleosome (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-13 | by Pathare | tags: cgas, nucleosome, aclarubicin

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Long-running Data Theft Campaign Targeting Salesforce, ServiceNow (darkreading.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: salesforce, servicenow, city-forum

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"City-Forum" data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: salesforce, servicenow, data-theft

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Your McDonald’s File is Probably Bigger Than Your FBI File (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: mcdonalds, fbi, file