[Now on Google Books] "Broadband In Brazil: past, present, and future" @ptknight_ , Feferman and @Foditsch (Eds)

France has made planned obsolescence a criminal offense, becoming one of the first countries in the world to treat deliberate product shortening as a serious crime. Manufacturers caught intentionally designing electronics, appliances, or other goods to fail prematurely or become

🚨Data Centers now account for 7% of all US electricity demand. This is going to be a very serious problem soon.

🚨 BREAKING: Conversations with AI chatbots are not protected by attorney-client privilege.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter: new study concludes For the past decade, Twitter has been a primary home of scientists on social media. In recent years, new leadership at Twitter has made substantive changes that have resulted in increases in the prevalence of

Some crazily creative ways to solve the AI-triggered data centre power crunch have been developed by startups. For @Inc, I explored some of the oddest

SpaceX's Starlink dodged 300,000 collisions in 2025. That's nearly 40 maneuvers per satellite, and it's rising fast – possibly hitting 1 million maneuvers in 2027. "If they make a mistake, we’re in really big trouble.” Story by me in @NewScientist https://t.co/q305xAulDn

New Paper: The Software Complexity of Nations (Research Policy, 2026) Most work on economic complexity relies on trade, patents, employment, or publications data. These sources, however, systematically misrepresents software. Code does not cross borders through customs,

Foditsch said that although Brazil has many small ISPs, only about 22% of people have meaningful connectivity. She noted that these providers — often with limited access to affordable capital — now supply over half of fixed broadband and have driven connectivity in remote areas.

Achei um vídeo que mostra as placas de alinhamento que falei nesse corte. Esse vídeo mostra esse marco de alinhamento num dos cabos que liga a Europa aos EUA:

Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” @chaykak writes.

The problem isn’t just a lack of capital—it’s how we direct it. Blended finance has mobilised ~$15B/year, estimated at less than 0.4% of what’s needed. “Mind the Mission, Not the Gap” challenges the logic that more capital alone will deliver development. Read it our new report,

"Moderating #Quechua Content on #SocialMedia" by @thakurdhanaraj https://t.co/u3hNYzQX4v @CenDemTech

Just one illustration of the unspeakable tragedy that USAID will be gone on 7/1, referencing US famine relief in 2022: “it cost the average American household roughly $6 a year in taxes to prevent about half as many deaths as occurred in the Holocaust.” https://t.co/fhRtoMCPwm

#AI for wireless -this is a great walk-through basics webinar by @ITU

@SmritiParsheera @bantigito @renatamielli @funkeopeke @qusai_alshatti @olgacavalli @kremerbia @_maarjakask @sabhanazdiya @wjdrake @r0xanaradu @avri @Foditsch Below the links to some of the research outputs I have used for the presentations in the various sessions this week, as promised! Feel free to send feedback if you have any! Book on “Financing Self-Sustaining Community Connectivity Solutions” https://t.co/8SFL0prNj0

Foditsch: "This is more important than ever, because it's the first time we have a discussion on IGF discussing specifically on financing. So while this has been a need for a long time, I'm glad to see that we are finally starting to add that to the agenda here too."

Here's a Subliminal Channel You Haven't Considered Before

Artificial intelligence has created a new digital divide, separating the nations with the computing power for building cutting-edge A.I. systems and those without. The split is influencing geopolitics and global economics. Here's how.

In response to the recent "Your Brain on ChatGPT" pre-print that is making the rounds, here's a short history of tech-induced brain rot.

𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞. Check our paper: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : https://t.co/28T4XnBlnj