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  • The Register: US DoE wants developers to fast-track AI datacenters on its land

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/04/doe_ai_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: US DoE wants developers to fast-track AI datacenters on its land Feedly Summary: But Bernstein analysts say tariffs could disrupt equipment supply chains The US Department of Energy (DoE) is looking to co-locate datacenters with energy generation facilities to further America’s AI ambitions, and is putting up its…

  • The Register: US DoE wants developers to fast-track AI datacenters on its land

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/04/doe_ai_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: US DoE wants developers to fast-track AI datacenters on its land Feedly Summary: But Bernstein analysts say tariffs could disrupt equipment supply chains The US Department of Energy (DoE) is looking to co-locate datacenters with energy generation facilities to further America’s AI ambitions, and is putting up its…

  • The Register: Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/04/public_sector_private_cloud/ Source: The Register Title: Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption Feedly Summary: The need to scale still battling security worries … on both sides Governments continue to adopt cloud services, for better or worse, hoping to modernize their IT services, leading big cloud operators to aggressively court public…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: smartfunc

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/3/smartfunc/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: smartfunc Feedly Summary: smartfunc Vincent D. Warmerdam built this ingenious wrapper around my LLM Python library which lets you build LLM wrapper functions using a decorator and a docstring: from smartfunc import backend @backend(“gpt-4o") def generate_summary(text: str): """Generate a summary of the following text: """ pass summary…

  • The Register: EU: These are scary times – let’s backdoor encryption!

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/eu_backdoor_encryption/ Source: The Register Title: EU: These are scary times – let’s backdoor encryption! Feedly Summary: ProtectEU plan wants to have its cake and eat it too The EU has issued its plans to keep the continent’s denizens secure and among the pages of bureaucratese are a few worrying sections that indicate the…

  • The Register: Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/heterogeneity_itaas_ransomware_disaster_recovery/ Source: The Register Title: Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare Feedly Summary: Recovery’s never been harder in today’s tangled, outsourced infrastructure Comment Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it’s not floods or fires causing most outages…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Launches an AI Chatbot Plan For Colleges and Universities

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/02/232215/anthropic-launches-an-ai-chatbot-plan-for-colleges-and-universities?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Launches an AI Chatbot Plan For Colleges and Universities Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Anthropic is launching “Claude for Education,” an AI-powered educational tool designed for higher education settings, enhancing critical thinking among students. The offering features enterprise-grade security and privacy controls, collaborating with institutions…

  • The Register: Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW gas-fired AI campus

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/pennsylvanias_largest_coal_plant/ Source: The Register Title: Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW gas-fired AI campus Feedly Summary: Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027 Developers on Wednesday announced plans to bring up to 4.5 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power online by 2027 at the site of…

  • Slashdot: European Commission Takes Aim At End-to-End Encryption and Proposes Europol Become an EU FBI

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/02/1927259/european-commission-takes-aim-at-end-to-end-encryption-and-proposes-europol-become-an-eu-fbi?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: European Commission Takes Aim At End-to-End Encryption and Proposes Europol Become an EU FBI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the European Commission’s initiative to address lawful access to data and end-to-end encryption as part of a new internal security strategy named ProtectEU. The…

  • Slashdot: 95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/04/02/1611229/95-of-code-will-be-ai-generated-within-five-years-microsoft-cto-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: 95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott emphasizes a transformative evolution in software engineering driven by AI, predicting that AI will generate 95% of code in five years. He suggests that this…