AWS datacenters consumed 78.9 TWh in 2025, comparable to Belgium. Revealing 2.5 bln gallon water consumption with a WUE of 0.12 L/kWh enables calculating 2025 electricity consumption as well as re-analyze older reported data. 46% growth! @histoftech.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/aws-da...

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In the mid-2000s people "misheard" foreign language lyrics. But now it's the AI-subtitles interpreter.😊 @garymarcus.bsky.social

Elon Musk took the stand on Thursday for his third day of testimony in a blockbuster trial that could help determine the future of companies racing to dominate artificial intelligence. He is being cross-examind by lawyers from OpenAI and Microsoft. Follow live updates.

The US state Maine is poised to follow in the footsteps of the City State of Singapore, the Republic of Ireland and the Republic of Amsterdam with a data center development moratorium.⤵️ @histoftech.bsky.social

"At one point, it was unthinkable that we could operate without the American GPS system. Today, every phone and every smartwatch also uses the EU Galileo satellite system, and Galileo is now the best satellite navigation system in the world. It only cost €15 billion!" berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Legal question to @lessig.bsky.social, @marcelias.bsky.social and @gtconway.bsky.social Would it be possible for this victim of a non-consensual harmful AI-generated image to claim reputation damages based on portrait right and invoke the new Take It Down Act? www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Er is iets raars aan de hand bij de voortdurende heisa over de zeldzame aarden. Er wordt praktisch nergens melding gemaakt van de zeer beperkte wereldwijde marktomvang. Die is klein. Tegelijk is mijnbouw op Groenland juist peperduur. @bartgroothuis.bsky.social, @ajboekestijn.bsky.social

Deze beelden missen nog de finishing touch van de Hoera-pet

Update #IranProtests (82): Isfahan is on fire tonight 🔥 Ondanks de massale repressie gaan de protesten nog steeds in #Iran door. Door de internetblokkade komen video's mondjesmaat naar buiten. Beelden uit de stad Isfahan vanavond. #DigitalBlackoutIran

Conservative UK Secretary Nadine Dorries originated the controversial Online Safety Act. She moved over to Farage's Reform_UK, heavily promoted by Elon Musk. The funny detail: UK's Ofcom today used Dorries' OSA versus X/Grok's newest AI-feature ... @histoftech.bsky.social @garymarcus.bsky.social

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Er wordt door partijen campagne gevoerd over het Wetsvoorstel Terrorismeverheerlijking. Op dit moment loopt daar een internet consultatie, tot 16 augustus 2025. Er zijn al 2498 openbare reacties op gegeven. www.internetconsultatie.nl/terrorismeve...

Trump zet zichzelf voor paal. @mattsteinglass.bsky.social

5 May 1949: Europe said never again. The Council of Europe was born – to defend human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. Watch the video & hear Ernest Bevin’s powerful opening words. Happy Birthday, Council of Europe. Let’s keep moving forward.

THE on new proposed Dutxh university screening policies. @pgkroegerbb.bsky.social

Still 30 days before the coin dropped, the tariffs were for real.

While commercialism has traditionally shaped the restructuring of large corporations, it's now more likely that major tech companies will face forced restructuring along national or regional lines, writes Paul Budde. independentaustralia.net/business/bus...

Pukul Tifa van een Amerikaans dweilorkest bij #TeslaTakedown @locuta.bsky.social

‘Referring to Dutch willingness to follow America’s lead on export bans, Mr Fouquet says Europe must “decide for itself” and “should not be dictated to”. He would like officials to support their world-leading companies [or]…such firms may not want to remain in Europe.’

@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social: “Shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked […] Hegseth why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Signal. He answered, “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that.” So👇🏼

Phased array antennas and special ICs for Starlink are manufactured by STMicroelectronics N.V. (statutory seat: NL), HQ in Geneva, manufacturing in France, Italy, Singapore. SpaceX risking an export [email protected] @radek-sikorski.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starl...

Lots of European hosters/cloud companies tell us to "just use their cloud!". But the cloud shops here can't be compared to Google/AWS/Azure. Our local places are selling wood. Yet cloud customers want furniture. And until we are honest about that gap, things won't improve berthub.eu/articles/pos...

Two foreign ministers engaging in a diplomatic exchange on Twitter over Starlink "switch off". @pgkroegerbb.bsky.social

While @alexwinter.com is going strong promoting #TeslaTakedown picket lines in the USA, now in the Financial Times a strong recommendation to sell it's stock.

"We have the world’s best people working on the best software, you bought mediocre stuff that is broken. You don’t even have to buy it, you can just download it. And yet it’s not on the desktop of any civil servant today." netzpolitik.org/2025/open-so...

In which there are many reasons to obey and one not to. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

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Interesting. A Republican member of the @FEC left for a position in the White House on january 20, 2025. Now the FEC consists of 3 Democrats, 2 Republicans and a vacancy. Trump tries to fire the Democrat chair, without the required Democrat-replacement instead of filling the Republican vacancy.

A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

Global impact: The Netherlands Bach Society live streamed a beautiful performance of the Christmas Oratorio conducted by L.U. Mortensen via Youtube. The live chat reveals an amazing audience reach with viewers from around the entire world. @pgkroegerbb.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-c0...

China is a big problem . Trump Is totally the wrong man to deal with it www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/o...

Latest update on the DDOS attack from Brewster Kahle (Oct 11 @ 10:22am PT): "The data is safe. Services are offline as we examine and strengthen them. Sorry, but needed. @internetarchive staff is working hard. Estimated Timeline: days, not weeks. Thank you for the offers of pizza (we are set)."

HT @berthubert.bsky.social Dutch security and intelligence service AIVD: ------------------------------------------------- EU "Chatcontrol" #CSAM proposal is too big a risk for our cyber resilience. Repostin by those who can reach out to other EU governments and politicians is welcome.

Bewust én onbewust worden mensen met een beperking in hun dagelijks leven belemmerd en buitengesloten. Ook politiek Den Haag vergeet hen vaak. Met grote gevolgen. Hoog tijd voor bewustwording! Tot het Kamerdebat deel ik hieronder echte verhalen over #AlledaagsValidisme🌻 🧶 /1

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Snowflake hack blijkt niet alleen te gaan om Ticketmaster / Livenation AT&T stelt dat van 110 miljoen klanten gedurende een half jaar (mei - okt 2022), en van 2 jan 2023 de call detail records en SMS-records zijn ontvreemd. Dat gaat om 100 mld+ records #metadata www.cnbc.com/2024/07/12/a...

Nvidia houd zijn developers-feestje: GTC 2024 Openingsspeech van de baas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHCw...

Wetenschappers zien voor het eerst hoe supernova een zwart gat voortbrengt

Christmas-quiz. On which graphical artist's work did Midjourney 6.0 train? Charley Toorop ✔️: prompt: woman, painting, close-up, in the style of Charley Toorop --v 6.0

A secure, resilient, and interoperable Internet benefits the public interest and supports human rights to privacy and freedom of opinion and expression. Read the Internet Architecture Board statement on encryption and mandatory client-side scanning of content: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/statemen...

Very good article on the still way to uncritical irreverance for Silicon Valley and now AI "catchup" in South-Korea. Same applies for many EU countries, where AI "successes" are overhyped and urge to uncritically engage in 'catchup' efforts dominates. logicmag.io/policy/seoul...

twitter.com/accessnow/st... AccessNow announces GoDaddy is going to deregister all Domain Names by Russian residents on 31 december 2023. This will delist domainnames of dissidents and activists. GoDaddy's interpretation of new website hosting regulations by Putin's administration is overbroad.

Interessant: Hybride elektrische turbo-prop Maeve M80 gepresenteerd: Bereik ruim 1400 km, Energieverbruik ca. 40% minder per stoel dan turboprop en een halvering per stoel vergeleken met regionale straalvliegtuigen. Kruissnelheid 400 knopen per uur www.upinthesky.nl/2023/12/11/m...

October 29 I posted this Tweet on flooding the Hamas-Gaza-tunnels with seawater. It got minimal interaction, but one Repost by a hidden account. Then in this WSJ-article "Israel Weighs Plan to Flood Gaza Tunnels With Seawater" claiming the plan was from early November .. twitter.com/HendrikRood/...

Boris Johnson asked his spy services for a "military raid on the Dutch city of Leiden" to claw back vaccines. All that before Liz Truss! If this was a plot device for a spy-thriller it would have been laughed away. @mattsteinglass.bsky.social www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Oei, dat is een pijnlijke #Miskleun. Dilan Yeşilgöz vergeet na PVV, Groenlinks-PvdA en NSC om BBB te feliciteren. Dat is de enige andere partij, die in de exit-polls ook (fors) zetels wint.