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Why Anthropic is locking in 3.5 gigawatts of compute years before it comes online
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (880+ words) Daniel Voss is a health science journalist and former neuroscience researcher who writes about the intersection of brain science, public health, and everyday human behavior. His research background gives him the ability to read primary studies and clinical data with…...
When militaries share data centers with banks: how Gulf strikes exposed a structural flaw in global cloud infrastructure
16+ hour, 34+ min ago (921+ words) Christian Kelly spent his twenties and early thirties working in corporate communications, where he learned firsthand how organizations actually function: the politics, the gap between what companies say and what they do, and the unspoken rules that govern who gets…...
One maintainer, one compromised laptop: How North Korean hackers hijacked the Axios open source project
17+ hour, 34+ min ago (182+ words) He was the sole person with publishing rights to the Axios npm package. Any development environment, CI/CD pipeline, or production system that installed the affected versions during that window exposed private keys, credentials, and passwords to the attackers. Axios…...
Data centers are now military targets: Iran threatens Stargate AI facility after strikes on AWS and Oracle in the Gulf
17+ hour, 4+ min ago (255+ words) The satellite footage shows annotations over Abu Dhabi. Coordinates marked. Infrastructure highlighted. Facilities that don't appear on Google Maps, circled in red by someone with access to military-grade imagery. That's the core of what Iranian military channels reportedly released: a…...
A single maintainer, a fake company, and a three-hour window: inside the Axios supply chain hijack
23+ hour, 45+ min ago (88+ words) You already use software built on this arrangement. You probably shipped code today that depends on it. That's the part no one wants to say out loud. So who pays? Not the corporations extracting value. Not the governments writing policy…...
A three-hour window: North Korean hackers compromised the Axios library and exposed thousands of systems
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (63+ words) Forty-five million weekly downloads. One compromised maintainer. Three hours of exposure before anyone noticed. That's the math on the Axios incident. Two weeks of work. Three hours of exposure. Thousands of potential victims. You're running Axios right now. Probably. One…...
Japan bets $6.3 billion on physical AI — not to replace workers, but because there are none left to replace
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (868+ words) Tommy Baker spent 40 years as an electrician in South Boston, starting as an apprentice at 18 and eventually running his own contracting business for over two decades. He earned his master electrician's license at 26, mentored more than a dozen apprentices, and…...
Japan is deploying robots not to replace workers but because there are no workers left to replace
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (382+ words) Japan's population declined for a 14th consecutive year in 2024, with those of working age comprising just 59.6% of the total population. That share is projected to shrink significantly over the next two decades. This isn't a labor market inconvenience. It's a structural…...
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1+ day, 23+ hour ago (31+ words) Research suggests the 1960s and 70s produced adults who could self-soothe, entertain themselves, and tolerate boredom - not because their parents were wise but because their parents were simply elsewhere'Silicon Canals...
Japan is deploying robots not to replace workers but because there's no one left to hire
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (194+ words) While Western discourse around AI remains fixated on job displacement, Japan is deploying physical AI to solve a fundamentally different problem: there aren't enough workers to displace. The framing matters. In the U.S., physical AI is a venture capital thesis. In…...