Demand for data centers drives a 66% increase in costs for natural gas power plants

Demand for data centers drives a 66% increase in costs for natural gas power plants

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Climate,Enterprise,Artificial Intelligence (AI),data centers,natural gas,power plants โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Technology companies, including Microsoft and Meta, have fallen in love with natural gas recently, rushing to build fossil fuel-fueled power plants to power their data centers. But their embrace may be a bit tight, as the cost of building a facility has risen 66% in the past two years, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. While natural gas prices remain low in the United States despite the ongoing war in Iran, the price of building a new combined cycle…
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GitHub – serverless-dna/tendril ยท GitHub

GitHub – serverless-dna/tendril ยท GitHub

๐Ÿš€ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A self-extending agentic sandbox that demonstrates the Agent Capability pattern โ€” where the model discovers, builds, and reuses tools autonomously across sessions. Built with AWS Strands Agents SDK and Tauri. You ask Tendril to do something. It checks its capability registry. If a tool exists, it uses it. If not, it writes one, registers it, and executes it โ€” all without asking. Next time you need the same thing, the tool is already there. You: "fetch the top stories from Hacker News" Tendril: โ†’ searchCapabilities("fetch…
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Beyond Europe’s efforts to abandon US programs in favor of sovereign technology

Beyond Europe’s efforts to abandon US programs in favor of sovereign technology

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Government & Policy,cloud act,digital sovereignty,eurostack ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is much less vocal about his worldviews than Palantir's Alex Karp. However, France is taking steps to reduce its reliance on Windows, while the local intelligence agency recently renewed its contract with an increasingly controversial data analysis company. This paradox represents Europe's messy disconnect from American technology. After painfully realizing that it comes with strings attached, governments across the region are looking to rely less on US providers. But the steps taken so far have been uneven…
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Tim Cook is Leaving. Good.

Tim Cook is Leaving. Good.

โœจ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Your AirPods just connected to the wrong device. Again.iMessage is taking twenty minutes to sync a message between your laptop and your phone sitting six inches apart. HomeKit forgot the kitchen lightbulb exists, and will remember it again in three hours like nothing happened. System Settings, which used to be one of the cleanest preferences UIs ever shipped, now feels like a bad Electron app pretending to be macOS.These arenโ€™t dramatic failures. Theyโ€™re worse than dramatic failures. Theyโ€™re daily proof that somewhere along the way,…
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China vetoed the $2 billion Meta Manus deal after a months-long investigation

China vetoed the $2 billion Meta Manus deal after a months-long investigation

๐Ÿš€ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,TC,China,manus,Meta ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's top economic planner, said Monday it had blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an artificial intelligence startup founded by Chinese engineers that moved to Singapore before being acquired by Mark Zuckerberg late last year. The move represents one of China's most significant interventions in a cross-border deal, one that extends beyond US-China tensions and extends to the broader AI industry. For Meta, it could deal a major blow to its ambitions for fast-moving AI agents. With…
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How Franceโ€™s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American

How Franceโ€™s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: When Arthur Mensch, the cofounder and CEO of Mistral, Franceโ€™s leading AI company, takes the stage at the AI Action Summit in the center of New Delhi, India, in February, he draws only a small crowd. Nearly everyone would rather listen to sermons from OpenAIโ€™s Sam Altman or Anthropicโ€™s Dario Amodei, preaching the promises and perils of superintelligent AIs. But the small cadre of executives and researchers in Menschโ€™s audience catch a very different message: The rest of the world should control its own AI…
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Spotify’s next frontier: Fitness content

Spotify’s next frontier: Fitness content

๐Ÿš€ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: TC,Media & Entertainment,Apps,fitness,Spotify,streaming,Peloton ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: After expanding into podcasts, audiobooks, video and even physical books, Spotify on Monday announced its next big category: fitness content. The company is banking on its reputation as a hub for revitalizing your workout playlists to actually become a home for the workout itself. To do this, Spotify has partnered with a number of well-known health content creators and exercise equipment maker Peloton. Workouts offered by these providers will be accessed through the new โ€œFitnessโ€ hub within the app, or by typing the…
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pgbackrest/pgbackrest: Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore ยท GitHub

pgbackrest/pgbackrest: Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TL;DR: pgBackRest is no longer being maintained. If you fork pgBackRest, please select a new name for your project. After a lot of thought, I have decided to stop working on pgBackRest. I did not come to this decision lightly. pgBackRest has been my passion project for the last thirteen years, and I was fortunate to have corporate sponsorship for much of this time, but there were also many late nights and weekends as I worked to make pgBackRest the project it is today, aided…
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Best iPhone Charger: Cable, Wireless, MagSafe, and More

Best iPhone Charger: Cable, Wireless, MagSafe, and More

โœจ Explore this must-read post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products / Phones,Gimme Fuel ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Best iPhone The charger depends on several factors. Do you drain your battery while on the go? Want to charge your iPhone as quickly as possible? Are you charging it overnight on your nightstand? The recommendation for the best equipment will change with the situation. Fortunately, the WIRED reviews team tests iPhone chargers in the field all year long. Not a day goes by without at least one of us reviewing at least one iPhone charger. I've rounded up our…
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ebrandi/FDD-book: FreeBSD Device Driver Book ยท GitHub

ebrandi/FDD-book: FreeBSD Device Driver Book ยท GitHub

โœจ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: From First Steps to Kernel Mastery by Edson Brandi ยท Version 2.0 (April 2026) FreeBSD Device Drivers: From First Steps to Kernel Mastery is a free, open-source book that takes you from "I've never written kernel code" to "I can write, debug, and submit production-quality FreeBSD drivers." It is a guided course rather than a reference, structured around 38 chapters, 6 appendices, and dozens of hands-on labs that compile and load on a real FreeBSD 14.x system. The book is aimed at readers who…
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