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The AI Boom Has a Dirty Secret, and Your Town Is Paying for It
The Hum Behind the Revolt: How AI Data Centres Ignited a Transatlantic NIMBY Politics I On the outskirts of Hertfordshire, a large white box is growing. Around it are green fields, a river, and further off, housing estates. Inside the box are tens of thousands of chips performing trillions of calculations per second. The switching of the chips is silent, but every watt of power that feeds them ultimately escapes as heat. Thousands of fans spin day and night to keep the heat from destroying rows of server racks. Transformers in the substation emit a low hum. Security lights burn through the night, cutting the darkness into pieces.
By Jinabout 5 hours ago in 01
I Asked AI to Choose My Mother’s Burial Date. Then a Relative Was in a Car Crash. I Sued the Chatbot.
When AI says April 19 is fine: the legal ledger of the Doubao auspicious date case On April 17, Mr. Shi’s mother died. He asked Doubao, an AI assistant, which day would be suitable for the burial. Doubao said April 19. Mr. Shi believed it. He notified relatives and arranged the funeral. Later he asked Doubao what time on that day would be suitable. Doubao answered between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., but this time the answer also contained a sentence: April 19 is not a suitable day. Mr. Shi was confused. He asked several more times. Doubao said April 19 was not suitable. The relatives had already been informed. It was too late to change the date. He went ahead with the funeral. Soon after, a relative was seriously injured in a car accident. The relative blamed Mr. Shi. Mr. Shi complained to Doubao’s company but received no reply. He decided to sue. The complaint was written by Doubao.
By Jinabout 15 hours ago in 01
I Helped Build the AI That Will Replace Me
I have to bury my talent in yesterday At 1 a.m. on September 14, Liu Shengyu typed the last line on his computer and hit publish.
By Jina day ago in 01
The AI Kill Switch: Who Gets to Decide When to Pull the Plug?
Who Has the Right to Press That Switch? I Jack Clark said something specific. One of Anthropic’s seven co-founders and its head of public benefit told the BBC that companies may eventually need to be required to have an AI “kill switch” that a third party can inspect. His words: “Should companies be required to have an emergency stop switch? Can that switch be verified by a third party?”
By Jina day ago in 01
I’m an Android Reverse Engineer. AI Was Supposed to Replace Me. It Didn’t.
The Knife Hangs at Your Neck, But It Never Falls Notes from an Android Reverse Engineer At 2 a.m., Marcus turned his phone face down on the desk. The screen still glowed. Someone in the Slack channel had posted a screenshot: an AI had explained a chunk of OLLVM-obfuscated assembly in seconds and generated a Frida hook template. Replies underneath: “insane,” “we’re done,” “unemployed.”
By Jina day ago in 01
Huawei’s AI Master Plan Isn’t About Beating OpenAI. It’s About Becoming the Next Nvidia.
Huawei's AI Strategy: Sell the Base, Not the Strongest Model The headline "Huawei executive's internal 10,000-word memo exposed, ICT business target is to become Nvidia" grabs attention. It is inaccurate. Huawei's Xinsheng Community published a summary of a discussion between Guo Ping, chairman of Huawei's supervisory board, and new employees. No secret file leaked. No employee risked a job to smuggle it out. Huawei used the session to explain what it will do in AI, what it will not do, and how it plans to close gaps.
By Jina day ago in 01
Still Not Fixed - System Faults Since The Upgrade
Introduction Before you think I am complaining (well, I am, but just about the state of Vocal), Vocal is without doubt the best publishing platform for writers and creators, allowing a mix of words and media to be published and shared almost immediately.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 days ago in 01
Luo Yonghao Called the iPhone Duo a Copy Seven Times. He Missed the Harder Question.
After seven “copies”s: behind the iPhone Duo controversy, we need to rethink “innovation” In the early hours of September 10, 2026, at Apple’s fall event, new CEO John Ternus said: “The iPhone Duo is arguably the most disruptive iPhone since the original.”
By Jin3 days ago in 01
I Spent Four Hours Making a Video. A Guy Stared at a Camera and Won.
I tried posting on Twitter for a while because, for some reason, I wanted to become a content creator. And when I started, I honestly thought it would be easier than I expected.
By Just a guy4 days ago in 01
The Book That Made Me Delete 8 Lines of Code and Write 1
In my fifth year, I learned to write less code Early in my career, I was an API caller. Business said, "Add an export." I said, "Okay." Then Controller called Service, Service called Mapper, Mapper hit the database, and ExcelUtil.export() wrote the file. The code ran. Tests passed. Nothing caught fire. I counted the day as good.
By Jin4 days ago in 01
He Left OpenAI and Anthropic Because They’re Betting Your Life on AI
Betting the Fate of All Humanity 1 On September 8, 2026, a 27-year-old Briton posted a tweet on X. His name was Jacob Coxon. Over the previous three years, he had done model pretraining at OpenAI and then Anthropic, and he was one of the core contributors to the GPT-4o system card. Earlier this year, he left OpenAI for Anthropic because he identified with Anthropic's reputation for safety. Four months later, he resigned. Not just leaving Anthropic, but leaving the AI industry altogether.
By Jin5 days ago in 01
Apple’s iPhone Duo Has a Crease. You Just Can’t See It.
Open the iPhone Duo. Run a finger across the center. You feel a faint ridge. You tilt the screen. For a moment, a thin line catches the light. Then it vanishes.
By Jin7 days ago in 01