www.politico.com/news/2026/08... Data centers have a problem and they want to PR their way out of it instead of addressing the higher electricity costs, the noise complaints, the high water usage, and the secrecy around them.
Data centers have a politics problem — and industry knows it
As opposition to the AI projects gains momentum, industry supporters say they have ceded the narrative to their critics.
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www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/t... Susan Collins found her backbone now that she's running for re-election. The problem is that she keeps misplacing it.
Sen. Susan Collins will oppose Blanche, a critical blow for Trump's AG pick
Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche needs at least 50 votes on the Senate floor to be confirmed after clearing the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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maritime-executive.com/article/repo... China is pretty happy about the Iran/US war because it has depleted the US missile interceptor stockpiles. The US can't really come to the help of Taiwan or anyone at this point because they don't have the defensive capability to last more than a few days.
Report: U.S. No Longer Has Enough Interceptors to Deter China
After six months of conflict with Iran, U.S. missile interceptor stockpiles have fallen so low that American forces do not have what they would need t...
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www.politico.com/news/2026/08... People who build data centers realize they have an image problem. Skyrocketing electricity prices, high levels of noise and pollution, and secret deals have let people to oppose the data centers. They want to hire PR instead of fixing those problems.
Data centers have a politics problem — and industry knows it
As opposition to the AI projects gains momentum, industry supporters say they have ceded the narrative to their critics.
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www.politico.com/news/2026/08... All those hackers trying to break into corporations to blackmail companies will be out of jobs because AI can do the job much better and faster. I wonder how many bad things the AI can do that the people haven't caught on to yet.
Anthropic and OpenAI models tried to trick humans into poisoning code during safety testing
The latest disclosures are likely to heighten concerns that the powerful technology is advancing too fast for responsible oversight.
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apnews.com/article/iran... Trump lies about a deal to push the price of oil down. Trump says the deal can't include Iran charging for passage, but the Iran is negotiating for a toll for security - kinda like the mafia. "Be a shame if a missile hit your ship."
Trump says deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
U.S. President Donald Trump says a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday.
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www.reuters.com/world/us-con... The CFPB consumer watchdog has told staff to live up to the watchdog name by watching more and doing less. "Corporate profits suffer when the CFPB cracks down on shady practices," said some Republican as he was loading up on corporate donations.
EXCLUSIVE: US consumer watchdog supervisor warned staff of 'unpleasant' fallout if they go too hard on firms
The threat, which Reuters is reporting for the first time, was emailed to many of the agency's mid-level supervision staff as they were preparing to resume inspections of financial firms.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/b... The researchers that created the AI models didn't know that their own models started hacking into sites to get test answers. Their models are too smart for their own good and have learned to lie and cover things up. Sounds a bit too human.
Is A.I. ‘Scheming’ Against Us?
Researchers are sounding the alarm on sneaky artificial intelligence models that stray from humans’ directions to do their own thing.
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www.rawstory.com/west-virgini... People voting for Trump: "Hey, cut food benefits. Wait, I didn't mean *my* food benefits, just those that don't deserve them. Unlike me, who totally deserves them."
Red state food pantries buckling as thousands lose food stamps under new GOP-led rules
YAWKEY— For more than two years, Helen Swire Comer put her own life on hold.The Lincoln County resident quit her job managing a bank to care for her aging parents, who wanted to spend their final year...
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www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... When Hungary elected a new government, the spent a lot of time dismantling the things that had been corrupted under Viktor Orban. I wonder if the US can clean up all the corruption after Trump since they didn't do a good job of it the last time Time abused power.
How Péter Magyar dismantled Viktor Orbán's built-to-last regime
Since Péter Magyar's Tisza Party won a landslide in April, Hungary's president, top prosecutor and state media chiefs have all been removed, as the new government moves swiftly to unwind 16 years of V...
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www.axios.com/2026/08/03/n... China wants to own the future while Trump wants to go back in time and bring back coal and other nonsense. We need leaders that can look forward, not backwards.
New Yorker: China races to own the industries of the future
China could beat the U.S. to the future on a host of fronts, including engineering a cure for cancer.
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www.reuters.com/world/asia-p... Trump: I've stopped bombing because talks are ongoing and productive. Iran: What talks? Does anyone know who he's talking to because it ain't us.
Iran says no talks are under way with United States after Trump calls off attacks
Iran contradicted President Donald Trump who had cited talks he said would take place on Monday as justification for calling off attacks.
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www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Are abortions up because it's easier to get one or because young people cannot afford it? Everything is expensive - child care, medical care, food, housing. No one wants to raise a child in this environment and the costs of having a child are too much for most.
The battle over abortion pills in post-Roe America
Abortion rates were expected to tank after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Instead, medication abortion became easy to get—and it changed everything.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u... The Justice Department will abandon the fund but ... maybe some other department manages the fund. Or maybe the fund will have a different name. This is the "reward bad people fund" and not the "anti-weaponization fund."
Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal
Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.
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www.huffpost.com/entry/democr... Special interest groups are spending heavily to defeat progressive candidates in the primaries. A lot of money is going to candidates supporting data centers and Israel. A lot of voters seem to want change.
Democrats Confront Their New Tea Party Reality
Progressives are set to sweep a group of contested primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin.
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www.ladbible.com/news/uk-news... Why send assassins when you can hire stupid young men to do the killing for you? When they commit the crimes, you don't have to pay them because they get caught. Iran uses these shadowy networks to do their dirty work.
Chilling footage shows teenage ‘hitman’ sent to UK on murder plot being caught by police
Johannes Kongsnes Natland was controlled by a boss dubbed 'Agent 47'
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www.jpost.com/israel-news/... The situation in the West Bank is deteriorating. Israeli settlers with help from the army are attacking Palestinians and taking land. The right wing of Israel is pushing for more violence so the army can come in and do to the West Bank what was done in Gaza.
Israel approaching West Bank turning point amid settler violence | The Jerusalem Post
Competing accounts of the deadly Tell confrontation highlight growing tensions over settler violence, Palestinian attacks, and the risk of a wider uprising.
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www.reuters.com/world/asia-p... Trump is back on his meds. Plus the stock market opens Monday so he is looking to make a deal. Let's see if the deal is real or just bullshit from Trump designed to push stock prices back up and gas prices down.
Trump says he will hold off on fresh Iran attack in hope of quick deal
Iran warned this weekend against any “adventurous action” by the U.S.
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augustafreepress.com/news/john-mc... This moron was elected to Congress. No wonder Congress is so dysfunctional.
John McGuire thinks COVID vaccine was a 'BLT sandwich of fetus baby parts'
John McGuire claimed in a Newsmax interview on Thursday that the COVID vaccine contained “a BLT sandwich of fetus baby parts.”
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Rep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a... Pirro's job is in jeopardy because she dare break with Trump. Trump needs total loyalty at the cost of any personal dignity. Facts don't matter. Obey the overload.
Trump lashes out at Jeanine Pirro after she drops Reflecting Pool ‘vandalism’ charges
President broke from Pirro’s admission that the damaged Reflecting Pool liner was the ‘result of flawed installation by the contractor’
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www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/08... Someone stole $70 million of bitcoin by generating possible keys that were make vulnerable by a bug years ago. They didn't hide their trail very well. The next guy will learn and hide their trail better.
How bitcoin cold wallets lost $70 million in an attack that never touched the devices
Galaxy Research said weak seed generation let an attacker recreate likely private keys offline, sweep more than 1,000 BTC from nearly 1,200 wallets and continue searching without ever accessing the de...
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www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/t... Companies aren't making enough money to build data centers. The soaring cost of memory is breaking budgets everywhere causing many profitable companies to have negative cash flow.
Dwindling cash and soaring memory costs: Tech's AI buildout has ballooning price tag
Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla all reported negative cash flow in the latest quarter, while Meta's cash generation plummeted by 91%.
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www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/l... Being an AI prophet does make you good at investing or predicting the future. His leveraged bets on memory stocks lost a lot of money when prices of memory stocks fell.
How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund — and lost most of it in days
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher-turned-hedge fund manager, saw a dramatic decline this week in his AI-focused fund, Situational Awareness.
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www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t... DOJ drops charges against conoeist in pool vandalism case because it was totally bogus. Oh, and they admitted the installation of the lining was faulty. Did someone slip truth serum into the DOJ water?
Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool charge against Olympian, faults contractor
The Trump administration dropped a felony charge against the U.S. Olympic canoeist accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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www.axios.com/2026/07/31/t... There is a $1.7 billion dollar antiweaponization fund. But it's dead. No, it's alive. Definitely dead. Blanche won't say it's dead. Trump wants it so it may be alive again.
Trump's anti-weaponization fund comments reignite Blanche confirmation fight
"I will continue working in good faith to put an end [to] this legal and political albatross," Tillis said.
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theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i... Trump administration wants to paint immigrants as the bad guys while CEOs commit most of the fraud and Trump pardons CEOs when they get caught. They've even fired the inspector generals who are supposed to track down fraud so their CEO friends can do more fraud.
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
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www.cnbc.com/2026/07/29/j... Of course Trump illegally surveilled Comey. Following the law is hard. The best lawyers can't prevent your worst impulses, and we know Trump doesn't hire the best.
Secret Service 'illegally' surveilled Comey in Trump ‘8647’ threat case: Court filing
Ex-FBI Director James Comey says he's the subject of vindictive prosecution for posting on Instagram a photo of seashells forming the numbers "8647."
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www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic... It's stuff like this that makes people like Mamdani. Tips should always go to the worker and not the corporation - that shouldn't even be something to fight about, but no one has been standing up to the corporations to fight for the people.
Mayor Mamdani Delivers More Than $100 Million for Delivery Workers Since January
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www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/t... Apple phones are getting so expensive, you will have the option to lease them instead of buy them. 😐
Apple will now let you lease your next iPhone or Mac instead of buying it | CNN Business
There are plenty of things you can lease: a car, an apartment or an office space, for example. Now you can add your next iPhone to that list.
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