Topic: Technology

• FTC asks whether ad platforms should bear more responsibility for impersonation scams

  The FTC is seeking evidence on whether ad-targeting platforms help spread fake government and business ads. No new platform rule has been proposed or adopted.

• NASA schedules Starliner briefing; a crew-flight date remains unannounced

  NASA and Boeing will discuss Starliner on September 28. The next flight is planned as an uncrewed cargo mission before crew certification.

• Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage

  Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage, The Register's account of The Java Story — a programming language documentary that…

• The AI Compute Bottleneck Is Becoming a Power Problem

  The AI compute bottleneck is shifting from model architecture into power, cooling, capital, and grid politics.

• The Cost of Certainty: How Robot Guesswork Meets Energy Scarcity

  Yen-Ling Kuo's robot training method meets AI data center power demand at a critical grid constraint.

• The Mundane Automation of Collapse at SXSW London

  A talk at SXSW London reveals how generative AI tools mask the rising costs of AI infrastructure energy use within a fracturing global economy.