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Kenya's plans for a $1bn Microsoft-G42 data centre in Olkaria, near Lake Naivasha, have stalled over power capacity concerns, while local residents and environmental groups fear the facility's water demand will worsen ex…
A bipartisan backlash against data centers, driven by concerns over noise, resources, and electricity costs, has intensified, with 52 lawsuits filed in the U.S. and 211 active moratoria tracked by Interconnected Capital,…
The internet is losing its third places, as social media bots and AI-generated content replace the lively message boards, blogs, and comment sections that once fostered community, according to a Salon article. The piece …
A developer's analysis of six AI coding communities over three months found that slower, structured platforms yield better outcomes, with private Mastodon threads achieving a 79% verified fix rate versus 11% for public D…
Residents of Wisconsin Rapids, a city of about 18,000, are fighting a proposal by Russian-founded PNK Group to convert a closed paper mill into an AI data center, citing environmental and community concerns. The group So…
ComfyUI, an open-source node-based interface for AI image generation, is the best AI creative tool because it exposes the entire pipeline, supports the FLUX.1 model that Automatic1111 cannot run, and offers unlimited fre…
Brentwood city officials are working to remove Flock surveillance cameras installed by the Shadow Lakes Homeowners Association on public streets after acknowledging they mistakenly approved the system, which has raised p…
Airbnb is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for its Trust Frontier AI team in San Francisco, CA, with a salary range of $200k–235k/yr. The role involves building specialized models, AI agents, and evaluation harn…
RuntimeWire launched INSiDE on August 8th, a free members-only chat room integrated with its live news feed, allowing logged-in readers to discuss stories in real time. Founder Ryan Merket aims to extend the publication …
StorageReview will attend EUC World Amplify 2026, held September 29–October 1 at the Baird Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to cover community-driven technical sessions on end-user computing trends, including AI integrati…
Teable, an open-source, AI-native no-code database and spreadsheet built on PostgreSQL, has gained more than 21,000 GitHub stars and offers an AGPL community edition for self-hosting. The platform combines an Airtable-st…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness, a managed capability for building production AI agents, and released an open-source community node, @aws/n8n-nodes-agentco…
A new evaluation paradigm for music generative AI, proposed by Alexander Lerch and presented at the ACM AI Leadership Summit, replaces static benchmarks with a dynamic ecosystem that decouples reference data, feature rep…
At Wikimania 2026, with 1,250 in-person and over 2,000 online attendees, the Wikimedia community grappled with AI as a paradigm shift, not just a tool. Hay Kranen, a 21-year Wikimedian and developer, argues that Wikimedi…
Teachers and Native American community members are opposing a $57,590 AI pilot program at Salamanca High School in New York that features a humanoid robot named 'Sally' from Toronto-based Realbotix, a company linked to s…
Buzz, a community platform, has introduced a compute-sharing feature powered by the MeshLLM project, enabling members to pool idle compute for AI and LLM inference without sharing agents. MeshLLM supports three modes: sh…
Microsoft and Amazon are negotiating community benefit agreements with small towns across the Midwest to secure electricity for AI-driven data centers, with Microsoft's initiative in West Des Moines projected to generate…
A new nationwide protest movement organized by the nonprofit Humans First staged more than 140 demonstrations across some 40 states on Saturday, marking the first coordinated national campaign against AI data center expa…
Protesters across the US rallied Saturday against AI data centers in a nationwide demonstration organized by Humans First, a conservative nonprofit founded by Amy Kremer. The group planned over 100 demonstrations, includ…
The Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners voted 5-1 late Wednesday to reject "Project Tango," a proposed AI data center near President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago, after a 12-hour hearing packed with residents op…