🤣 but also 😭! Technological Advancements Allow Data Centers To Run On Even More Electricity - The Onion https://theonion.com/technological-advancements-allow-data-centers-to-run-on-even-more-electricity/ #AI #GenAI #datacenters #datacenterenergy #datacenterssuck #TheOnion

Technological Advancements Allow Data Centers To Run On Even More Electricity

SAN FRANCISCO—Hailing rapid developments in the infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Tuesday that technological advancements were now allowing data centers to run on even more electricity. “People said we were using an unacceptable amount of power, and with these upgraded facilities that require so much more of it, we’ve […] The post Technological Advancements Allow Data Centers To Run On Even More Electricity appeared first on The Onion.

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#Wildfires are terrible, wherever they occur. That's a given. But I find it curious that the recent #Cairngorms wildfire -- which remains ongoing and has been raging since 15 July -- has to date destroyed *25 sq km* of moorland and forest near Aviemore. It […] [Original post on code4lib.social]

🏦 TIL: Five US tech giants are carrying $1.65 trillion in AI-related obligations that don't appear on their balance sheets, more than the $1.35 trillion that does. A Nikkei study of Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle found this invisible debt has grown 8x in four years. It's future […]

SIGIR 2026 is happening just now in Melbourne. As one might expect, interesting looking papers being presented! This one caught my attention... A Comparative Study of Users' Information-Seeking Practices Across #Search Engines and Generative AI #Chatbots https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809525 […]

Spinning the #jazz discs while working from home today. A mixture of classic Blue Note and new #BlueNote (Walter Smith III), and some soothing European sounds from the likes of Jasper Høiby's 3Elements on #Edition, Maciej Obara on #ECM, and QOW Trio on #Whirlwind & #Ubuntu.

Interested in digital accessibility? Connecting students with alternative format #learning materials? Connecting staff with #research materials? Working on a 'whole university' approach to #accessibility? If so, come join us at the University of #Glasgow -- because we're recruiting a Manager to […]

Interested in digital accessibility? Connecting students with alternative format #learning materials? Connecting staff with #research materials? Working on a 'whole university' approach to #accessibility? If so, come join us at the University of #Glasgow -- because we're recruiting a Manager to […]

Beta of Claude Science AI Workbench launched. I have two conflicting reactions: 1) Woah. Just woah. But also... 2) What could possibly go wrong?! The claim that its results have been 'independently validated' and produces 'robust analyses' warrants some -- no pun intended -- robust probing […]

Spotted in Glasgow, on Shields Road. #JSTOR appear to be deploying a new guerilla marketing campaign... 😉 But is it working?!

Release Candidate 1 of EPrints 3.5 is available for community testing! 🥳 3.5 represents a major update to the #EPrints #repository #software -- see here for updates: https://wiki.eprints.org/w/EPrints_3.5.0 Installation instructions are available […]

In a beautifully sunny #Southampton for the UK/IE Digital Humanities Association Conference. Speaking with colleagues later on the topic of 'The Persistence of Infrastructure' -- or perhaps the lack thereof? Let's see what mood we're in! Cracking poster […] [Original post on code4lib.social]

Share your code, and beautiful things will grow is the lesson here! Gaming is not my forte, but lovely to see the sharing of code via #GitHub triggering such rapid innovation. https://youtu.be/onKTVMmy-sA?si=AT8pNAY2grFnXsxn #Doom #gaming #retrogaming #retrocomputing

The #Library #Innovation Lab #Harvard has just launched #WARCbench, which they describe as a "Swiss Army Knife for #WARC Processing". This is a high benchmark because I frickin' love Swiss Army knives! 😀But, on a serious note, this WARCbench looks seriously useful. As someone who has recently […]

Received this book as a birthday gift. It's a riveting read if you love music, jazz, saxophones -- or even if you don't love those things. Here's a copy at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/devilshornstoryo00sege #jazz #saxophone #woodwind #books

"Automated subject #cataloging assigns controlled #vocabulary headings to #bibliographic records, but #LCSH has no standard public benchmark. We introduce LCSHBench: 22,346 books in 15 languages from the openly licensed Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton #catalogs [...] we release per-catalog […]

Another panning of a well-known rock star's foray into #visual #art. But is their art really that bad? A string of famous #musicians have been trying their hand recently. All are universally panned by #critics. Makes me wonder if there might be a latent desire among critics to punish musicians […]

"The truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. […] When you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the […]

A lovely reflection on how those involved in #Netscape reimagined #software development and its #distribution in the early days of the web. As the Hoffman notes, "Netscape time is simply just time now." The lasting influence of Netscape Time […]

Shout out to Skosify! It's an essential component in the tool chain I constructed to produce and maintain the COAR Vocabularies. I love the way Skosify just works :-) https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosify https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org

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ArXiv announces a ban on AI content and the responses are hilarious. > You expect us to actually read the papers we cite?! yes, lol! https://www.404media.co/new-arxiv-rules-ai-generated-papers-ban/

A weighty thematic issue of Information Research has just dropped: 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Information Science'. The issue includes 44 papers exploring information seeking in the age of #AI, #information evaluation and use, information #retrieval, trust and security, future research […]

The web never stands still 🌐 ... and neither do the challenges of preserving it. The #DPC is preparing for the return of its Web Archiving Special Interest Group (WA-SIG), bringing DPC Members together in a welcoming and transparent space where Members can exchange ideas, surface challenges […]

More evidence of the corrosive impact of AI on #scholarship #integrity. According to this research in the biomedical context, #fabricated #citations existed in: ~1 in 2,828 papers (2023), ~1 in 458 (2025), ~1 in 277 (early 2026). A twelvefold increase. Horrifying. The recommendations here are […]

A nice exploration of #cybernetics and its history features in the latest episode of In Our Time. Many won't learn anything new but it remains an interesting whistle stop tour of the principal concepts of #systems (feedback loops, control, etc), the key personalities (Weiner, Beer, etc), and its […]

‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01285-2 Survey results suggest a rise in questioning of scientific evidence.

Astonishing to think that Nigel Alderton was a mere 15 years old when he designed and programmed Chuckie Egg. What an iconic and thoroughly addictive 8-bit #microcomputer game of the early 80s! ‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg […]

Sideshow Bob by Marquitos Corvalán. <3 When Nature Become Art (17 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/03/30/nature-made-in-to-street-art/

A Georgetown University teacher to her students: Don't be part of the "AI" lemming brigade. https://medium.com/center-on-privacy-technology/an-open-letter-to-georgetown-students-in-response-to-recent-announcements-about-generative-ai-8869dcd523ef

Based on the precis, a hard agree from me on the main thrust here. I'm living it at the moment! "analysis shows #technical legacy [...] slows #research productivity, undermines student experience, increases #security #risk, and makes it harder for institutions to deliver #change [...] […]

The UK's political upheaval over the past decade has exposed persistent government contradictions when it comes to key industries. The #creative #industries are a case in point (as is higher #education, funnily enough); an #industry that is one of the most important to the UK #economy, but one […]