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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 4d

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.

For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’

From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

www.nature.com

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 5d

Have they really broken up, though? Or is it more like open marriage is what's needed to keep those cloud relationships alive, now? 😁

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 10d

Does it say anything about where those systems will be physically hosted? Given that OCI is again in the loop, I guess that it could mean Oracle is "buying" the hardware and hosting those 100k GPUs in OCI, with DoE paying a monthly rent for dedicated access.

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 11d

www.theverge.com/news/807147/...

‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.

www.theverge.com

kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 11d

And this "The system is co-developed by AMD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oak Ridge National Laboratory." prompts the question of OCI's role, here, too... 🤔

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 12d

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Age of De-Skilling

Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?

www.theatlantic.com

kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 17d

arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

The case for memes as a new form of comics

Both comics and memes rely on the same interplay of visual and verbal elements for their humor.

arstechnica.com

kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 19d

blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-d...

How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked

As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)

blog.pixelmelt.dev

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 22d

"Consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam."

This goes in a direction you did not expect.

A cartoonist's review of AI art

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 24d

www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 25d

Yes, I suspect the "hotel bar" plays a more important role in the decision to attend conferences than one may be ready to admit.

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 25d

Or (unpopular opinion), maybe it's time to question the relevance of giant in-person conferences in 2025, drawing 15k+ people to one city (with all that environmental impact), only to check email while jet-lagged speakers present slides already online, or attend meetings that could have been emails?

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · 25d

Well, no-context benchmarks are like unit-less graphs with truncated axes: it's marketing 101. What do you expect? :/

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · Sep 5

> multiple hyperscalers do this to optimize every level of their data center infrastructure.

And many failed, and are now coming back to off-the-shelf solutions.

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · Sep 1

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...

Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science

www.nytimes.com

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · Aug 27

For all the AI-bubble-is-about-to-burst talk out there, if you've attended the #HotChips conference this year (that's been around for much longer than said bubble), it's really hard to miss the fact that a whole industry is aligning, and putting all its (vast) resources towards a single goal: AI.

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · Aug 25

arstechnica.com/information-...

With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don’t exist.

arstechnica.com

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · Aug 20

When you consider the number of *nodes* in those "AI servers" (which are actually rack-scale networked systems), going from NVL144 to NVL572 (a x4 increase in just system size, before any generational perf. increase) is just a 2.7x price bump. $/GPU goes from $22k to $15k.
Pretty good deal! :D

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · Aug 19

But then, how the vague and full of prestidigitation marketing tactics will work? 🤔

kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · Aug 14

... several million dollars per _rack_.
A NVL72 rack is still 18 independent servers (OS and kernel-wise).

kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · Aug 9

Funny how, despite all their learning capabilities, LLMs are completely incapable of learning that making things up is not an optimal pathway.

Oh wait, maybe that's simply because they have no way to evaluate if they're making things up or not.

kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · Aug 8

Building your own silicon from scratch to compete with companies with a 30yr head start? Who could have predicted?

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · Jul 18

Same energy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vywf...

The Internet Speech The IT Crowd | Series 3 Episode 4

YouTube video by The IT Crowd

www.youtube.com

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kilian @kiliantw.bsky.social · Jun 19

That marketing rule is another thing that AI adopted from HPC :)

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