I asked AWS about water consumption for years. In return I’m supplied stats on how efficiently its DCs use water, and told consumption is the “wrong” metric. It seems the company chose to be criticised for secrecy rather than publish water consumption. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Well who could have seen that coming?

So, yesterday a single point of failure at one AWS data centre buggered up about a third of the world’s internet. 24 hours later this is the vibe. I mean, is this not ringing alarm bells?

Any CISOs or cybersecurity people out there willing to talk at an event about their personal story of how they were affected by a breach or managed one? #journorequests @pressplugs.bsky.social #cybersecurity

I’m sure there was nobody else out there better suited to the job. @thesundaytimes.bsky.social

This is beautiful. From across the pond I wish every #NoKings protester today the very best

Well this will be an absolute tonic for users mental health and totally worth the energy and water consumption. This is desperate barrel scraping. Well, and content obvs

Studies are beginning to reveal fissures in the argument that AI boosts productivity, writes Tech Policy Press fellow @eryk.bsky.social. Nonetheless, companies and governments are pouring investments into speculative growth without ample evidence.

If there’s one lesson we should have learned from Corbyn years it’s that some activists can be unhelpful if your goal is to win elections. I wonder how many of these are the same people.

Truly, everyone needs a spaniel in their life

Also a lesson that putting any kind of state backing behind crypto and trying to integrate it into the global financial system is like pulling the pin on a grenade then keeping hold of it to see what happens.

Canary. Coal mine. apple.news/ANMg3l6THQYy...

Heseltine bang on as ever but what I found really interesting here is how a straight, succinct answer visibility throws Victoria Derbyshire off track. You can tell she’s just not used to them.

Anyone needing a little boost to their faith in humanity might want to check out Michael Sheen on Desert Island Discs. Just wonderful. @laurenlaverne.bsky.social

For some reason I can't fathom I missed this at the time. Janey Godley, legend.

Nice

Trump giving real “Henry VIII during the Katherine Howard years” vibe here. I feel desperately sorry for anyone who has to deal with the putrid, stinking aftermath.

The Morecambe & Wise vibes make me suspect British involvement. In which case…respect & I hope you’ve scrubbed your social media and have a great lawyer on speed dial

I know quite a few people who were fired from ABC News. Mostly women and people of color behind the scenes. Some of whom are my friends I am thrilled Kimmel is back on the air, but it's frustrating that rich, powerful men, like him, have negotiating power at work while others, not so much.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Man I was really looking forward to the new season of Only Murders in the Building

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

Truly how are they all not laughing? I used to struggle to keep a straight face watching other people’s kids performing in school plays and church services. Mind you, I guess they’re not rolling into the carol service after a Prosecco brunch.

Why do interviewers not challenge him on this? I get that you can't challenge him on everything because he lies literally all the time about everything but this is so screamingly absurd it just infantilises the viewer.

Now this is effective political protest. I assume the handiwork of @ledbydonkeys.org Chapeau!

Trump's state visit is off to a great start.

He’s not wrong

Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate

Farage says his partner bought the house with family money. The BBC can’t find that family money: “Her parents, Bertrand and Chantal, live in a flat worth around 350,000 euros (£302,000) in a Strasbourg suburb. They, and their two daughters, co-own the flat.”

Well that felt inevitable. Still, I’m sure somebody else will hire him in a few years time yet again

Always the ones you most expect isn't it?

I'll take a guess at "nothing"

Farage is a monster apple.news/A-a6PwK3uRU6...

For Gods sake, I am a supporter of this government but this just isn’t good enough. Angela Rayner is smart. She must have known she was seeking to reduce her liabilities in a way she would have ripped a Tory to shreds for whilst in opposition. I’m so disappointed

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

I’m sorry but what the fuck? Why is this happening? inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-... Bit late with this but having read this and sent it to about 5 people in a fit of optimism I figured I should just post it. TLDR: The sun, physics and engineering hold the solution to the climate crisis - and are way further along than you probably think.

An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]

Yes, it’s quite the coincidence isn’t it? Almost as if there’s a sort of shadow war going on that everyone’s too scared to acknowledge because they’re scared of: A) Putin B) Spending money Although not necessarily in that order.

Our Claire was murdered by a stranger. Why does no one seem to care? www.thetimes.com/article/4a0b... A distressing but important read. Claire Knights was murdered by a male stranger but this is the first I’ve heard about it. Why the lack of press interest? Why the lack of outrage?

"Is Britain about to blow?" asks Matt Goodwin promoted a two hour special event on the subject. Their greasy desperation for violence and carnage, so they can profit off it, is so disgusting.

BBC NEWS / AFP / BBC NEWS / REUTERS JOINT STATEMENT: “We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. "They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "

Shadow cabinet reshuffle: James Cleverly back on Tory frontbench www.thetimes.com/article/ef7a... When the return of James Cleverly to the front bench is being hailed as transformational you know the Tories are deep in the mire.

Numbers in hotels fell from 38k in December to 32k in March and will have dropped more since. The peak was 55k in Sept 2023. It should be possible to end hotel use within a few years. Maybe sooner.

This statement is just steeped in aggrieved, entitled victimhood. I think he genuinely believes he is the real victim in all this. I would say a career at GB News awaits but he probably blew that opportunity when he blamed his behaviour on neurodiversity.

Watching @channel4news.bsky.social and 23 minutes in it’s clear that every story is related to UK being is such a parlous financial state. Net zero? Infected blood scandal. Junior doctors. We can’t do anything good to save money because we’re paying too much for bad decisions of the past.

In all the noise about Grok, you may not know that a media consortium in Europe have just launched a chatbot which is designed to counter misinformation. I've written a quick analysis here www.computing.co.uk/news-analysi...

Some economic highlights of life under a Labour government

You can argue that this level of ignorance is the fault of media ecosystem, poor comms, education or wilful stupidity on the part of voters but if public opinion stays on this trajectory we’re in a lot of trouble.

Genuinely intrigued to understand why this wasn’t mentioned even in passing on the Trevor Phillips show this morning @skynewsrss.bsky.social