10 Nov 2026 Search

Massive solar project at Texas coal plant secures $1.8 billion green loan by Anne Fischer. The campus combines power generation, surface mining, energy storage, data center capacity, and high voltage transmission.

Techs on Decks Returns to the USS Hornet on November 14 Live demos, free for students.

Specialising to Extinction by Brian Jacobs. We are producing more slop, and more fraudulent ads designed to cheat consumers than ever before.

The Demon-crats. And Modern Marketing. by George Tannenbaum. (Includes an anecdote about a missed opportunity for IBM to build reputation by not doing “retargeting” ads. But the story is bigger than that. This would have been an opportunity to reach more of the right people, and get less wrong data from the wrong people, because the early tech adopters IBM would have wanted as customers are the same people who block, among other things, retargeting. More: The missing part of the your ad here page)

American Voters Overwhelmingly Reject AI Data Centers by Matthew Gault. Anti-data center candidates overwhelmingly won statewide races across the country. In Burgin, Kentucky, mayoral candidate George Hensley lost his bid after voting to approve a hyperscale project—to a write-in candidate.

11th Circuit sides with Florida over social media ban for minors by Alex Pickett. HB 3 operates not as an outright prohibition of platform usage but rather as a conditional ban of sorts—namely, on platforms’ use of addictive features and algorithms, [U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kevin] Newsom wrote. HB 3 is facially content neutral: It regulates social-media platforms based on their functional capabilities and features, not the content they communicate, the judge continued. The law neither references the substance of the speech on any platform nor draws distinctions based on it.

Meta, Scam Ads and the Shrinking Scope of the Hosting Exemption under Article 6 DSA by Mattijs Baneke, Sam Wolters, Ana-Caterina Ciusca. The Court rejected Meta’s arguments and, in line with the recent case law of the CJEU, held that a platform which exercises a degree of control through curation or monetisation of content cannot qualify as a neutral host and benefit from the hosting provider liability exemption. (Not just a degree of control in this case. Meta’s ad system is designed to provide an advantage to scammers: but I want to turn people into dinosaurs)

Sports Leagues Can’t Stop Putting Ad Revenue Ahead Of Fan And Player Interests by James Hercher. (It’s worse than it appears, though: Modern sports fans and the attribution cartel)