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Trump says data centers should pay locals to get them on side — but last time they offered $10,000 and the…

President Trump says data center developers should offer a 'dividend' to get local community approval for campuses
Nebius CRO says the company is "100% in principle" considering some form of local investment
Paying local residents to approve a local data resident didn't go so well in Hazle, Pennsylvania

President Trump has told data center companies that one way to get local residents to support new developments is to “make deals” with local residents.

Trump suggested offering communities a “dividend,” adding, “I have watched the process closely, and Data Centers that were highly unpopular in a certain area, have become extremely popular when a financial deal is struck.”

“MAKE DEALS, and get them built!!! GREAT FOR THE U.S.A.,” the President wrote on Truth Social. But as one town has already demonstrated, these payments are viewed as a bribe that threaten to turn communities against each other.

Dividend or bribe?

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A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse

“If you had asked us beforehand, we would have guessed that gathering these would take real effort,” the researchers wrote. “It took one query.” In an emailed statement responding to questions from Ars, Meta said: “We opened the Muse bug bounty program so researchers could raise different scenarios and help

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'Sidewalk surveillance': Illinois residents accuse delivery robots of capturing biometric data without…

* Two new Chicago lawsuits claim unauthorized biometric data collections * In these cases, the biometrics are face and body scans * Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics have denied the allegations The backlash to what's perceived as surveillance technology continues, with two Chicago residents taking robot delivery companies to court over

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Nvidia launches its OpenShell Reference Architecture, a framework to secure, monitor, and govern AI agents, and partners with Canonical, AWS, BBVA, and others

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Sony launches ECM-AX10 microphone with spatial audio tools to make smartphone videos more immersive

Sony's ECM-AX10 microphone aims to make smartphone videos more immersive with spatial audio. It supports three recording modes and costs ₹17,990 in India. Prefer HTon Google Recording clear audio on a smartphone can be challenging, especially in busy places or when trying to capture an event'

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Sony launches ECM-AX10 microphone with spatial audio tools to make smartphone videos more immersive