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Privacy and Surveillance boosted

[?]Aktionsb. neue soziale Medien » 🌐
@neuSoM@bewegung.social

Many institutions are committed to .
For this reason alone, should be important to them.

Two years ago, scientists from @JLBe and its network published a study on the sustainable use of .
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/fu
It showed that typical apps such as , , , etc. on conflict with a number of sustainability goals.
Among other things, they cause high consumption, which is not incurred directly on the smartphone, but in and transmission networks. A large proportion of the consumption is due to the fact that these apps do not respect and data protection, but instead spy on users.

The use of and other services is more sustainable because much less data is exchanged between users' smartphones and the service instances.

    [?]Mikko » 🌐
    @mastosalo@nerdculture.de

    Grid woke up.

    Thanks for all the people involved.

    an orb shaped lamp blazing

    Alt...an orb shaped lamp blazing

      [?]Jacob Urlich 🌍 » 🌐
      @experimentmapass@social.trom.tf

      newscientist.com/article/25035…








      Australia is getting free electricity - will other countries follow?

        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
        @Nonilex@masto.ai

        The Department of will host the , the companies will provide the machines & capital spending, & both sides will share the power, a DOE official said.

        The 2 based on chips are intended to be the first of many of these types of partnerships with private industry & labs across the country, the official said.

          Ω 🌍 Gus Posey boosted

          [?]Nonilex » 🌐
          @Nonilex@masto.ai

          Director Stephen Streiffer said the will deliver about 3X the capacity of current supercomputers.

          The second, more advanced computer called will be based around AMD's MI430 series of AI chips that are tuned for high-performance . This system will be designed by ORNL, & . Discovery is expected to be delivered in 2028 & be ready for operations in 2029.

            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
            @Nonilex@masto.ai

            The plans call for the first called to be constructed & come online within the next 6 months. It will be based around AMD's MI355X chips, & the design will also include central processors & networking chips made by . The system is co-developed by AMD, Enterprise, Cloud Infrastructure & Oak Ridge National Laboratory ().

              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
              @Nonilex@masto.ai

              "My hope is in the next 5 or 8 years, we will turn most cancers, many of which today are ultimate death sentences, into manageable conditions," Wright said.

              [that sounds great, but has defunded , he actually wants to use & other which will increase rates!]

                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                …"We're going to get just massively faster progress using the computation from these systems that I believe will have practical pathways to harness in the next 2 or 3 years."

                Wright said the would also help manage the US arsenal of [Skynet anyone?] & accelerate discovery by simulating ways to treat down to the
                molecular level.

                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                  Secy Wright said the systems would "supercharge" advances in & energy, for & , & the development of .

                  Scientists & companies are trying to replicate fusion, the reaction that fuels the sun, by jamming light atoms in a plasma gas under intense heat & pressure to release massive amounts of energy.

                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                    The US is building the 2 machines to ensure the country has enough to run increasingly complex experiments that require harnessing enormous amounts of data-crunching capability. The machines can accelerate the process of making scientific discoveries in areas the US is focused on.

                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                      Exclusive: Dept of forms $1B & partnership with

                      The US has formed a $1 billion partnership with Advanced Micro Devices to construct 2 supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from to treatments to , Energy Secy Chris Wright & AMD CEO Lisa Su told Reuters.


                      reuters.com/business/energy/us

                        [?]Ms. Que Banh » 🌐
                        @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party

                        I remember many people (mostly white folks) telling me that I'm crazy & have no idea what I was talking about - when I told them that while Global North kept ignoring opportunities for shifting to more & more to move away from as part of longterm plans/infrastructure, China was going to kick global ass with their full investments on wind & solar . I said that in 1996.

                        China became the world's leading installer of in 2013. China surpassed Germany as the world's largest producer of photovoltaic energy in 2015 & became the first country to have over 100 GW of total installed photovoltaic capacity in 2017. As of 2024, Chinese firms are the industry leaders in almost all of the key parts of the solar industry supply chain, including polysilicon, silicon wafers, batteries & photovoltaic modules.

                        remained China's 3rd largest source of at the end of 2021, accounting for 7.5% of total power generation.
                        China is forecast to have 1200 GW of combined & capacity by 2030 as part of the government's pledge to increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary consumption to around 25% by that year.

                        Both wind & solar energy industries in China have created thousands of sustainable jobs as well. They have boosted the Chinese economy from within.

                          [?]HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 » 🌐
                          @HistoPol@mastodon.social

                          ...administration.👈..."

                          "...👉A quarter of [] county's[, which includes , ] indoor deaths took place in or 👈, a popular source of affordable housing, especially for retirees, but which are often poorly insulated and too rundown to qualify for programs.

                          The vast majority of those indoor heat victims had at home, but the unit was broken in 70% of cases – while one in 10 had no to run even a...

                          @gerrymcgovern @TheGuardian

                            [?]Wokebloke for Democracy » 🌐
                            @dougiec3@libretooth.gr

                            From The New Yorker-
                            cartoon by Paul Noth

                            cartoon showing a man who has just read his utility bill at a curbside mailbox, asking Chat GPT on his phone “ChatGPT, why is my electric bill so high?” A giant AI data center stands on the next block behind his two story house

                            Alt...cartoon showing a man who has just read his utility bill at a curbside mailbox, asking Chat GPT on his phone “ChatGPT, why is my electric bill so high?” A giant AI data center stands on the next block behind his two story house

                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                              They actually really & truly want us dead

                              has taken the extraordinary step of instructing 6 agencies to draft plans to thwart the ’ industry as his admin intensifies its attack on a source of that Trump has [obsessively] criticized as ugly, expensive & inefficient [You want ugly? Look at offshore drilling]

                              , WH chief of staff, & , satan, are leading the effort


                              nytimes.com/2025/09/03/climate

                                [?]Paul Chambers🚧 » 🌐
                                @paul@oldfriends.live

                                3/ Why electric prices are soaring in the country’s largest grid region... Due to data center demand and capacity to service them, the new price, which took effect two months ago, was $269.92 per megawatt-day, an increase from $28.92 per megawatt-day in the previous delivery year. The demand is expected to outpace capacity significantly.

                                Data center money can just outbid others for the capacity

                                marylandmatters.org/2025/09/01

                                Chart showing due to data center demand,, the new price, which took effect two months ago, was $269.92 per megawatt-day, an increase from $28.92 per megawatt-day in the previous delivery year.

                                Alt...Chart showing due to data center demand,, the new price, which took effect two months ago, was $269.92 per megawatt-day, an increase from $28.92 per megawatt-day in the previous delivery year.

                                  [?]Danish Akhtar » 🌐
                                  @danish_akhtar7@mastodon.social

                                  Electricity can produce Magnetic effect. Magnetism can produce Electricity. That's what Electromagnetism is, but Marvel Villains Electro & Magneto have never used each other's powers. I think this is because the general public is unaware of Electromagnetism.

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                                    [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                    @octade@soc.octade.net

                                    SMUD - an appropriate name for the electric company conducting surveillance for the police.

                                    The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed

                                    https://youtu.be/onYWQJsWFpk

                                    Sacramento residents discovered their utility company has been secretly feeding their private energy data to police without warrants, leading to a massive surveillance operation that generated $94 million in fines. This explosive investigation reveals how SMUD transformed smart meters into government spy devices, monitoring when you shower, sleep, or use appliances.

                                    Innocent homeowners faced armed police raids for using electricity to power medical equipment or mine cryptocurrency. One resident was forced outside in his underwear at gunpoint, while another disabled veteran was threatened with arrest for refusing warrantless entry. The surveillance threshold dropped dramatically from 7,000 to just 2,800 kilowatt hours per month, making air conditioning use suspicious in Sacramento's brutal heat.

                                    Internal documents expose how SMUD analysts actively mined customer data for police, checking over 10,000 homes in a single month. Despite California law explicitly prohibiting utilities from sharing precise meter data without warrants, SMUD violated these protections daily for a decade.

                                    The Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit could reshape smart meter privacy nationwide. With the October 2025 court decision approaching, every American with a smart meter needs to understand how their utility company might be spying on them right now.

                                    @privacy@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

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