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Rogers sells its data centre business to InfraRed Capital Partners.

Me: Rogers was in the data centre business?

mobilesyrup.com/2025/08/14/rog
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Rogers vend son portefeuille de centre de données à InfraRed Capital Partners.

Moi: Rogers était dans le marché des centres de données?

Communiqué de presse: globenewswire.com/news-release

MobileSyrup · Rogers selling off data centre portfolioThe company is moving more towards live events and core telecom projects it seems.
#Canada#Rogers#IT

“There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive, energy consumptive and hard to engineer. That’s because we have been persuaded to believe that #InnovativeTechnology is whatever bombastic billionaires claim it is, whether that’s commercial #spacecraft or the endless iterations of generative #AItools.

As the #Canadian #technologist and #engineer #UrsulaFranklin once said, fantasies of technology would have it that innovation is always “investment-driven, shiny, lab-born, experimental, exciting”. But more often than not, in the real world, it is “#NeedsDriven, #scrappy, on #location, #iterative, #practical, #mundane”.

The real pioneering #technologies of today are genuinely useful #systems I like to call “frugal tech”, and they are brought to life not by eccentric billionaires but by people doing more with less. They don’t impose #TopDown#solutions” that seem to complicate our lives while making a few people very rich. It turns out that genuinely #innovative #technology really can set people free.” — Eleanor Drage

#OpEd / #EleanorDrage / #tech / #FrugalTech / #Cambridge #LeverhulmeCentre / #FutureOfIntelligence <theguardian.com/commentisfree/>

The Guardian · Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better worldBy Eleanor Drage
Les gendarmes espagnols ont annoncé dimanche enquêter sur un adolescent de 17 ans qui a partagé en ligne des photos et des vidéos de ses camarades de lycée nus générées par l'intelligence artificielle et essayé d'en faire commerce. ...#ESPAGNE #POLICE #TECHNOLOGIES #JUSTICE
Espagne: un ado génère des photos à caractère sexuel de ses camarades de classe avec l'IA
La Libre.be · Espagne: un ado génère des photos à caractère sexuel de ses camarades de classe avec l'IABy Belga Belga

I think my Raspberry Pi's SD card just died. That's what the screenshot shows.

Obviously, it's a backup to a main device.
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Je pense que la carte SD de mon Raspberry Pi est morte. C'est ce que la capture d'écran indique.

Bien sûr, c'est une sauvegarde sur un appareil principal.

#SysAdmin#IT#TI
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"You know what else makes innovation possible? Boring stuff like universities, research institutions, and a functioning legal system.

You know what #authoritarian regimes love to do? Gut all of those things.

Think about where most breakthrough #technologies actually come from... decades of basic #research...

Yes, eventually the private markets and companies take over the commercialization, but so much of the core infrastructure of innovation comes from elsewhere."

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So far #Trump has not met w/ #Xi Jinping, #China’s president, & his few telephone interactions w/ him…have not gone beyond familiar talking points on the future of #Taiwan, China’s #nuclear buildup, & disputes over export controls of key #technologies. Trump has focused almost entirely on the #trade relationship, his aides say, & there are signs of division inside the admin over shifting the focus of American forces out of #Europe & the #MiddleEast to the #IndoPacific.

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"#Mozilla can press on with independent subprojects such as #Thunderbird owners #MZLA #Technologies #Corporation. The popular #Electron #framework is based on #Chromium. It's too late to change that, even if maybe #Servo may one day offer an #alternative. But if #Thunderbird sucked in #Libpurple, it wouldn't matter if #Slack and #Teams and so on used #Electron, as Thunderbird could talk to the servers directly."
"But pointing at what we'd like to see is attempting to #treat the #symptoms and not the #disease. Is there a way to #encourage Mozilla to be an #organized, #focused, #professional #business, with #eyes keenly set on a clearly defined #goal? Perhaps that's the wrong #question. Perhaps that shouldn't be the goal at all. For all that the #Linux business is #huge, no #company #develops the #kernel. They all #cooperate on it. The #Linux #Foundation #funds it, but doesn't really #guide it."
"One #observer has been #spectating and #commentating on Mozilla since before it was a foundation – one of its original co-#developers, #JamieZawinksi. He has been accurately #cataloging Mozilla's #failings for #years."