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The US supreme court demolished the 1965 Voting Rights Act when they ruled in Louisiana v Callais in April that states can’t consider race in redistricting. Southern states from Tennessee to Alabama have rushed to erase majority Black districts, sparking chaos for the midterm elections. Kai Wright talks with Stacey Abrams, voting rights activist and former Georgia house minority leader, about the fallout from the decision, and why, even now, she thinks the way forward is still through engaging more voters to participate in democracy: ‘They have fractured communities and said we’re going to scatter these seeds. Our job is to grow’

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BrianFagioli writes: Kioxia and Dell Technologies say they have built a 2U server configuration capable of scaling to 9.8PB of flash storage, which is the sort of density that would have sounded impossible just a few years ago. The setup combines a Dell PowerEdge R7725xd Server with 40 Kioxia LC9 Series 245.76TB NVMe SSDs and AMD EPYC processors. According to Kioxia, matching the same capacity with more common 30.72TB SSDs would require seven additional servers and another 280 drives.

The companies are pitching the hardware squarely at AI and hyperscale workloads, where storage is rapidly becoming a bottleneck alongside compute. Kioxia claims the denser configuration can dramatically reduce power consumption and rack space requirements while remaining air cooled. The announcement also highlights how quickly enterprise storage capacities are escalating as organizations race to support larger AI models, massive datasets, and increasingly demanding data pipelines.

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After a week full of new cameras being announced, we encourage you to take out the camera (or phone, that’s 100% fine too) and go make the best photographs you can.

Here’s the new Sony a7rvi and here’s the new Canon R6v I’m sure they’re both lovely pieces of gear. You’re on a journey, you’ll get there, go make photos with what you have and don’t be continually ‘inspired to buy new gear’

Here is a list of ten ideas to go try this weekend.

• Decaying autumn leaves and frozen dew textures.
• Blue hour cityscapes and long-exposure traffic trails.
• Early morning ground fog and misty landscapes.
• Abstract macro patterns using crumpled aluminum foil.
• Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) with vertical structures.
• Cinematic portraits using a 21:9 letterbox aspect ratio.
• Repetitive patterns and textures at local farmers’ markets.
• Nostalgic street photography with vintage lenses or filters.
• Toy/miniature photography in real-world environments.
• High-contrast architectural shadows and silhouettes.

It’s 9:36am on Saturday here in Melbourne, I’ve already driven one child to soccer, stayed and grabbed a couple of photographs (Sony a7r3 and a Tamron 35-150mm if you’re wondering) and am now home to collect second child for the swap over…

I have two small LED lights that I’m going to try some product photography with this weekend, that’s my challenge to myself! Sheet of cardboard, two small lights, an idea of what I want to see. Wish me luck!

This was one from earlier that I tried for a review of the Espresso 15 Lite display we did.

Go forth, capture.

— Simon

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Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

date stamped on slide, August 1985

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

date stamped on slide, December 1959, handwritten on back of slide, "Korean girl"