Saturday, August 8, 2026
ArchiveAn Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country
Off-grid means off the books: a 7.65-gigawatt gas plant answers to almost none of the rules a utility would face, and it exists to keep one company's AI servers fed.
The U.S. Is Burning Through Weapons in Iran. Russia and China Are Taking Note.
Three weeks of interception have drawn down munitions that take years to replace. The most attentive audience for that arithmetic isn't in Tehran; it's in Beijing and Moscow.
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
Denmark's answer to AI in the classroom isn't detection software or a ban. It's making every student sit down and talk through what they wrote — assessment rebuilt around the one thing a model can't do for you.
How much of all the money in the world does Elon Musk have?
The question sounds like a playground argument until someone tries to define 'all the money in the world.' Fifteen minutes later you understand global wealth accounting better than most headlines manage.
Dithered QR Codes
Error correction leaves QR codes far more slack than anyone needed, and someone spent all of it on beauty — codes that still scan perfectly while resolving into actual pictures. Pure, useless craft.