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Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Trump says paying communities a “dividend” could make data centers more popular.

Continuing to push the widely unpopular data center projects, Trump said in a Truth Social post that some of them “have become extremely popular when a financial deal is struck.” His plan sounds lot like Meta’s approach on the Hyperion project in Louisiana, where Mark Zuckerberg has touted $50,000 bonus checks for teachers despite a secretive approval process residents didn’t know much about.

As the President of the United States, I have been watching Data Centers very closely, and have come to a very strong conclusion. New and large, in some cases gigantic, Data Centers are mandated by me to make their own electricity, and give or sell any excess back to the local community, or grid, and therefore there is electric price increase. In fact, there could be a substantial decrease. Other elements likewise! If companies want to make their Data Centers popular, pay the community, and/or individuals within the community, a “dividend.” I have watched the process closely, and Data Centers that were highly unpopular in a certain area, have become extremely popular when a financial deal is struck. MAKE DEALS, and get them built!!! GREAT FOR THE U.S.A. President DJT
Screenshot: Truth Social
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Joanna Stern tested the iPhone Duo’s hinge in her sleep.

She used a custom-built robot called “Hingey” to fold the Duo 17 times per minute “for eight hours straight,” for a total of 32,640 folds. You can watch Stern’s review to see how Hingey works, and check out The Verge’s iPhone Duo review for more on Apple’s new foldable.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
eBay is laying off about 9 percent of its workers.

As reported by Reuters, the job cuts will impact around 1,100 employees. In a memo seen by the outlet, eBay CEO Jamie Iannone tells workers the company must make “thoughtful choices about where we focus and invest” to “capture the significant opportunity ahead.”

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Glee is getting a reboot on Disney Plus and Hulu.

The show’s encore comes over a decade after its sixth season ended in 2015. Variety reports Disney has greenlit the reboot, but hasn’t shared a release date yet or announced whether any of the original cast is returning.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis thinks AGI is two to three years away.

The Wall Street Journal published a big profile of the Google DeepMind co-founder, who says his timeline for the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is becoming “nearer and nearer.”

He adds that “winning” the AI race “means helping humanity steward AGI into the world safely and securely for the benefit of everyone.”

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Resident Evil Requiem made more money from PS5 discs than from all copies on Xbox.

That’s according to analyst Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics, in a wider report on revenue from physical PlayStation games ahead of their elimination. 30 percent of Requiem’s PS5 revenue came from disc sales, exemplifying two trends Elliott finds: single-player AAA titles are especially reliant on discs, and the Japanese market is uniquely disc-centric.

Physical game revenues on PlayStation

[The Alinea Insight newsletter]

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Insecure TLS certificates will be ‘a massive cleanup job’ for system admins.

Eight certificates issued by India-based eMudhra have been compromised, theoretically allowing attackers to spoof trusted browser and app credentials. Cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda told Ars that the number of affected devices means it’ll take longer to clean up than Heartbleed, an infamous OpenSSL vulnerability that rocked the internet in 2014 and took years to fix.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
YouTube has a new way to protect hacked channels.

When unusual activity is detected on an account, the platform will now temporarily pause features for 24 hours, including uploading or updating videos, livestreaming, creating or adjusting playlists, uploading thumbnails, and making private videos public. Full feature access will be restored once the account’s security is verified.