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AI-Powered War Is Coming. This Fight Over a Data Center Just Made That Case

If a federal court decides to shutter a data center in Memphis, Tennessee, it "directly threatens" the US government's ability to protect our national security, according to the Trump administration's chief digital and artificial intelligence officer.

The case began in April when the NAACP filed a class action lawsuit against xAI, Elon Musk's AI company. The complaint alleges that xAI's Colossus 2 data center violates the Clean Air Act. The data center includes a power plant in Mississippi with 27 gas turbines. Those turbines, which the nation's oldest civil rights organization says are operating without the necessary federal permits, can produce significant pollution, which poses serious health risks for nearby Black communities in Tennessee and Mississippi.

The US government filed a motion on June 15, encouraging the court to dismiss the case. The Memphis data center powers xAI's ability to provide AI to its customers, one of which the US...

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FOSS dev builds a BASIC compiler using LLVM

personal tech Not just any old BASIC, either: OS-9’s BASIC09 Neither LLVM nor GCC directly support the BASIC programming language – but a former Microware boffin proposes fixing that. An interesting new proposal on the Discourse forum of the LLVM compiler suite has turned into a new standalone BASIC compiler.

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Upwind launches AI Sensor for Endpoints as security teams grapple with AI’s expanding reach

When cloud computing transformed enterprise IT, security vendors followed the workloads. Visibility into cloud infrastructure became a central requirement as organizations shifted applications and data into new environments. Artificial intelligence is now driving another change, but this time the challenge is not simply where applications run. It is understanding how

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Apple raises Mac and iPad prices as the AI memory crunch reaches the shelf

The AI boom has been an abstract thing for most consumers, a story about data centres and model launches happening somewhere else. This week it arrived somewhere concrete: the price of a Mac. Apple is raising prices on Macs and iPads to offset the soaring cost of memory and storage

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Cannes insights: What a two-time major champion knows about marketing that CMOs don’t

For one week every June, the advertising industry decamps to the French Riviera to take its own temperature. The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, now in its 72nd year, ran from 16 to 20 June 2025 and drew roughly 15,000 delegates from 90 countries, the sort of crowd

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FOSS dev builds a BASIC compiler using LLVM

Upwind launches AI Sensor for Endpoints as security teams grapple with AI’s expanding reach

Apple raises Mac and iPad prices as the AI memory crunch reaches the shelf

Cannes insights: What a two-time major champion knows about marketing that CMOs don’t