Trump Administration Is Repurposing Federal Land for A.I. Data Centers In the latest example, the Energy Department will convert a shuttered Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility into a data center campus and gas plants. #Trump #Administration #Repurposing #Federal #News

Senate unanimously passes resolution opposing pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell Longtime Epstein associate serving 20-year sentence for sex-trafficking crimes has exhausted series of appeals The US Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution declaring its opposition to any presidential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes.Introduced by Senator Jacky Rosen, a Democrat of Nevada, the resolution states that Maxwell “should not be granted a Presidential pardon or any form of clemency for her crimes with Jeffrey Epstein relating to the sexual exploitation and abuse of minors”. Continue reading... #ArtificialIntelligence #Senate #Unanimously #Passes #News

Republicans Threaten to Block Blanche Nomination Also, Fauci invokes the Fifth Amendment. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday. #Republicans #Threaten #Block #Blanche #News

Pictures show scale of drought across England as rivers dry up Parks are parched and reservoirs diminished as drought is declared in more than half of England. #Pictures #Show #Scale #Drought #WorldNews

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US-Saudi strikes in Iraq push region into ‘uncharted territory’, analysts warn Riyadh’s decision to join US in strikes on Iran-backed militia further complicates widening and ‘unpredictable’ warUS-Saudi strikes on Iran-backed militia in Iraq have pushed the region into “uncharted territory”, analysts have warned.Amid stark warnings of a widening and increasingly “unpredictable” conflict, Riyadh’s decision to publicly join the US in striking sites associated with Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), killing at least 20 fighters, has added another complicating dimension to the war. Continue reading... #USSaudi #Strikes #Iraq #Push #News

Rescue teams face ‘race against time’ in search for trapped survivors as death toll in Japan rises to at least 13 – as it happened Emergency workers are continuing their search for survivors in southern Japan after yesterday’s powerful earthquake ‘Race against time’: Japan earthquake death toll rises as rescue teams search for missingAn aerial view of a collapsed section of a bridge in the city of Yatsushiro after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture:Japan’s Mainichi Shimbun newspaper has been speaking to people at the Nippon Paper Industries factory in Yatsushiro, where a chimney collapsed on to the site. “I never imagined something like this would happen,” said a 33-year-old man who worked at the factory. “I never thought that the chimney could collapse. I’m worried about the people inside.” He was off duty and at home when the earthquake struck, and was unharmed. The names of those rescued and those trapped have not yet been released. “Someone I know might be affected,” he said. Continue reading... #ArtificialIntelligence #Rescue #Teams #Face #News

Protopia A protopian future is one that gets only a little better each year: not utopia, not dystopia, but steady progress that also creates new problems. Kevin Kelly argues that civilization advances through small gains in options, safety, health, and opportunity, and that the right goal is to keep compounding those gains over time. [kevinkelly.substack.com] #Protopia #News

Russia accuses Telegram founder of aiding terrorism in its latest online crackdown FSB puts Pavel Durov on international wanted lists and says his messaging app is used for sabotage and murderRussian officials have charged Pavel Durov, the founder and chief executive of the messaging app Telegram, with aiding terrorism.The charges against the 41-year-old Russian-born billionaire, who lives in the Gulf, are the latest step by the Kremlin to bring the internet and digital communications under its control after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Continue reading... #ArtificialIntelligence #Russia #Accuses #Telegram #News