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Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty

Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges

AI's drinking habit has been grossly overstated, according to a newly published report from Google, which claims that software advancements have cut Gemini's water consumption per prompt to roughly five drops of water — substantially less than prior estimates.…

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12 Augustus 2026 is er een totale zonsverduistering en wij gaan hem hopelijk zien.
De prijzen voor hotelkamers op de totale verduisteringslijn zijn nu al astronomisch hoog, en ik durfde niet naar de prijzen op IJsland te kijken.
Wij gaan naar A Carunā waar om 20.30 (ongeveer) de zon een minuutje achter de maan gaat staan.
Zin an.

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Thanks, and yes, the idea folders inside the projects still existed, so did the general config folder of intellij.
I downgraded and got my configs back. So not too much lost.
What bothered me that, all sdk's, virtualenv, color settings, themes, plugins, everything was back at the defaults.
Some projects require several different virtual envs because of library versions.
It took days to get that configured the way it suited me. And then see it all gone by a simple upgrade...

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Intel bevestigt deal met regering-Trump

SANTA CLARA (ANP/RTR) - Intel heeft een overeenkomst bereikt met de regering van de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump voor een belang van ongeveer 10 procent in de chipfabrikant. Dat bevestigen de twee partijen nadat meerdere media daar deze week al over berichtten. De Amerikaanse overheid gaat een bedrag van 8,9 miljard dollar investeren in de chipfabrikant.

"President Trumps focus op Amerikaanse chipproductie stimuleert historische investeringen in een vitale industrie die van integraal belang is voor de economische en nationale veiligheid van het land", schrijft de topman van Intel, Lip-Bu Tan in een verklaring. "We zijn dankbaar voor het vertrouwen dat de president en de regering in Intel hebben gesteld, en we kijken ernaar uit om samen te werken aan het bevorderen van het Amerikaanse technologie- en productieleiderschap."

De Amerikaanse regering wil met de overeenkomst het bedrijf nieuw leven inblazen, omdat het volgens president Trump "is achtergebleven" in vergelijking met concurrenten in de chipindustrie.


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Danny Bluejeans loves cars

In yet another betrayal of the city's Vision Zero and Transit First commitments, Mayor Lurie clears Waymo, Lyft, Uber to turn Market Street back into a traffic sewer:

"The mayor's escalation of his plan to add even more cars to Market Street while cutting Muni service will hurt public transit riders and downtown recovery alike," said Dylan Fabris, community and policy manager at San Francisco Transit Riders. "If the mayor wants to be taken seriously on his commitment to help Muni's -- and San Francisco's -- recovery, he should be looking for ways to get cars out of the way of transit rather than inviting luxury chauffeurs into the heart of our city's transit network." [...]

"Bringing cars back to Market Street won't solve downtown's problems, but it will make Muni slower for transit riders and the street less safe for everyone who walks and bikes," said Robin Pam, executive director of Streets For All San Francisco. "Market Street could be San Francisco's grand boulevard again, but to get there we have to look to the future for solutions, not the past."

"Over the years, there have been so many cyclist injuries and fatalities due to people driving carelessly on Market Street. The mayor likely has no knowledge of the lives lost over the decades and why Market Street became car-free in the first place," said Paul Valdez, main organizer of Ride of Silence San Francisco. "Any future cyclist injuries or deaths will be on his hands."

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Intel Has Agreed To a Deal For US To Take 10% Equity Stake, Trump Says

President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. would take a 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chipmaker and is planning more such moves, the latest extraordinary intervention by the White House in corporate America. Reuters: The development follows a meeting between CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Trump earlier this month that was sparked by Trump's demand for the Intel chief's resignation over his ties to Chinese firms.

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