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I Vibe Coded a Global Mass-Surveillance Site in 2 Hours Using OpenAI's Codex. That's a Privacy Nightmare

With zero coding skills, I was able to quickly assemble camera feeds from around the world into a single view. Here's how I did it, and why it's both promising and terrifying for all of us.

U.S. military is using AI to help plan Iran air attacks, sources say, as lawmakers call for oversight

Anthropic’s Claude AI systems have become a crucial tool for the military despite the company’s clashes with the Defense Department.
European Tool & Mould Making Magazine

Misutech-HBK Interface Links Machining and Fatigue Analysis

New Misulab-nCode DesignLife interface transfers residual stresses for fatigue assessment, helping optimise machining ...
GlobalSpec Insights

The road to vehicle durability test and analysis process optimization

The solution: adoption of a unified approach to durability testing and simulation by deploying nCode GlyphWorks. Implementation of the system supplied by test and measurement spec ...
Engadget

Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process

Elon Musk's plan to launch millions of AI satellites could be disastrous for the planet. (Lily Padula for Engadget) At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX ...
CNBC

Meta expands Nvidia deal to use millions of AI chips in data center build-out, including standalone CPUs

Meta struck a massive chip deal with Nvidia that includes new standalone CPUs and next-generation GPUs and Vera Rubin rack-scale systems. The social media giant will also use Nvidia for networking ...
WHYY

How much water do data centers use? One in Delaware City could use up to 20 million gallons a year

File - In this Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, photo, a woman stands at her well at her property on the outskirts of The Dalles, Oregon. She said the water table that her well draws from dropped 15 feet in the ...
Houston Chronicle

How much water do AI data centers use? A new survey could help Texas regulators find out.

Water consumption by data centers and cryptomining facilities will be the focus of a new data-collection effort launched Friday by the Texas Public Utility Commission. Demand to build new data centers ...
FedScoop

Federal judge blocks ICE from using IRS taxpayer data in enforcement

Federal immigration agents detain a man during an operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 27, 2026. (Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via ...
AZ Central

We estimated data centers' water and power use. Here's how

Data center operators and utilities often do not disclose facility-specific energy and water usage data. The Republic built a database to estimate data centers' energy capacity by analyzing air ...
GeekWire

SpaceX seeks go-ahead from the FCC to put up to a million data center satellites in orbit

This time-lapse image of Venus and the Pleiades shows the tracks of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. The image received an award in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest. (Torsten Hansen / IAU OAE / ...
The New York Times

Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.

Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.