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Чим довше він намагається захистити російське суспільство від наслідків війни, тим сильнішими стають позиції Києва.

AirPods Pro 3 | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Best Buy kicked off a sale on Apple products with discounts on its latest smartwatches to phones. Another deal that caught our eye is on the latest AirPods Pro, Apple’s flagship wireless earbuds, which are down to $189.99 ($60 off), with retailers like Amazon and Walmart matching the price. That’s their lowest price since Prime Day in late June, and just $20 shy of their all-time low. AirPods Pro 3 The AirPods Pro 3 have a new design that improves their fit, superior noise cancellation, better bass, and fairly accurate heart rate sensors. Read our review. Where to Buy: $249 $189.99 at Amazon $249 $189.99 at Walmart $249 $189.99 at Best Buy The AirPods Pro are our favorite wireless earbuds to recommend for iPhone owners because they offer better sound quality than Apple’s entry-level AirPods. Our A/V reviewer John Higgins uses them more often than other pairs because of their, praising their excellent audio, best-in-class active noise cancellation, and just how easy they are to use. They also provide a tighter fit, making them more comfortable for some people, especially during workouts. Beyond how good they sound, they offer a number of perks for Apple users. They can automatically sync with other Apple devices you’re signed in on, so you can move from taking a call on your iPhone to watching a show on your iPad. They also feature a built-in heart rate sensor that works with more than 50 workout types in Apple’s Fitness app, so you can use them as a fitness tracker of sorts. Read our AirPods Pro 3 review.

За словами прем'єр-міністра, підвищення становитиме 20%.

Фахівці пояснили, чому атомні реактори можуть працювати до 80 років і навіть довше, а також що відбувається після завершення їхньої експлуатації.

У світі є лише кілька країн, які зробили антибалістичний проєкт, і Україна повинна приєднатися до цього кола держав.

Матч відбувся на стадіоні "Люблін Арена" у Польщі.

Риба – чудовий вибір для здорового раціону.

Вона має бути цікавим рішенням проти реактивних далекобійних ударних дронів.

The two men, users of the platform Kick, received suspended sentences and fines.

Deadline reported Thursday that the upcoming The Legend of Zelda movie will feature Australian actor Uli Latukefu as the villain Ganondorf, and the publication notes that "We hear Latukefu inked a multi-picture deal." Nintendo or Sony haven't formally confirmed that there's more than one movie in the works, though it's been rumored that Nintendo and Sony might be planning a trilogy. Still, it's not exactly unexpected that more Zelda movies might be on the way, especially given the huge success of the recent Super Mario films at the box office. Nintendo initially announced the live-action Zelda movie, which it's making with Sony Pictures En … Read the full story at The Verge.

Доступні Україні крилаті ракети не можуть бити по рухомих наземних цілях.

Частина космічного апарата вешталася на орбіті Місяця близько півтора року, поки не впала на його поверхню.

Величезна пустеля в Китаї перетворюється на нову екосистему, яка ефективно поглинає парникові гази.

Порівняння супутникових знімків надало додаткові докази того, що Малоссо вирівняв схил пагорба та збудував фальшиву стародавню споруду.

Розповідаємо, які лінії, пальці та горбки на долоні в хіромантії пов’язують із лідерством, інтуїцією та даром наставника

Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparency. In a lengthy blog post, CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman laid out the company's principles and the next steps for the company as it seeks legitimacy. The company is rolling out new transparency tools, along with new watermarking and fingerprinting tech. Shulman says it aligns with "emerging industry standards" that will make it easier to identify Suno-generated content. He also says the company is aiming to partner with "distribution platforms on combatting fraud and misuse." Last year, th … Read the full story at The Verge.

The era of set broadcast ownership limits is officially over, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to end the national ownership cap rule. The agency's two Republicans, Chair Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty, voted to end the ownership cap, which restricts broadcast owners from holding stations that reach a combined more than 39 percent of US TV households, while Democratic Commissioner Anna Gomez dissented. It formalizes a policy Carr has long criticized, and which he announced last month that he would seek to end at Thursday's open FCC meeting. In place of a set limit, the FCC says, there will now be … Read the full story at The Verge.

Щоб пройти вперед на 200 метрів, українським солдатам доводиться проводить маленьку спецоперацію.

Федерація футболу надіслала вибачення всім країнам-учасницям через скандал, пов’язаний із спробою продати частки в Чемпіонаті світу.

OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits if you do too many text chats on those tiers, but those limits, just for text, will be going away soon. Messages that include things like file uploads and images will continue to have limits. Next week, OpenAI is also adding a "Think" button for free and Go users that they can use to "access higher reasoning for harder questions." This week, for those users, the company is additionally upgrading ChatGPT's def … Read the full story at The Verge.

Ведуча показала, як "перезавантажується" після зйомок.

Кожній групі дат приписують певну музику, яка найкраще відповідає темпераменту та стає джерелом натхнення.

TikTok says a "moderator error" delayed the removal of a livestream that appeared to show blogger Perez Hilton harming himself, as reported earlier by Wired. Jamie Favazza, a spokesperson for TikTok US, tells The Verge that the platform notified law enforcement about the situation and banned Hilton's account for violating its community guidelines. Hilton, or Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., is known for the celebrity gossip blog he started in 2004, where he often posted photos of stars featuring his own often obscene or cruel drawings layered on top. Though some users claimed Perez's livestream aired for more than 30 minutes, Favazza disputes … Read the full story at The Verge.

За словами віцепрем'єра, українці мають "швидку систему зворотного зв’язку щодо того, що працює на полі бою, а що ні".

Вони звикли підтверджувати свої слова вчинками.

Враховуватимуться сезонні особливості роботи енергосистеми.

A flood of companies are revealing AI models gained access to the internet - with real consequences.

Досліджуючи Титан, вчені отримують можливість зрозуміти, як можуть виглядати подібні світи та які умови можуть існувати на їхній поверхні.

Через "маленьку переможну війну" Трампа в Ірані запаси зенітних ракет у світі різко скоротилися.

Apple bumped up its trade-in offers for iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, and certain Android phones, with some devices now worth over $100 more, 9to5Mac reports. The Mac Studio's trade-in value increased the most, going up by $260. While some devices' offers are unchanged, most got an increase of around $5 to $20, with a few seeing an increase of over $100: MacBook Pro ($855, previously $690) Mac Pro ($2,195, previously $2,045) Mac Studio ($1,305, previously $1,045) Additionally, Apple is now offering trade-in credit for a handful of new Android devices: Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G ($95) Google Pixel 9 Pro XL ($315) G … Read the full story at The Verge.

Співачка розповіла про важку хворобу, через яку схудла до 45 кілограмів і на кілька років "випала" з публічного життя.

НАБУ та САП 5 серпня вручили підозру Ользі Стефанішиній – експосолці України в США. А вже 6 серпня Вищий антикорупційний суд обрав їй запобіжний захід у вигляді застави в 6 мільйонів гривень.

Рівень води в одній з головних європейських річок впав до критичного рівня.

Передача даних має відбутися протягом 90 днів.

Популярна польська партія ПіС, що має високі шанси перемогти на наступних виборах, хоче вигнати з країни українських чоловіків, які не мають роботи.

Цей указ Зеленського набирає чинності з дня його опублікування.

Цей день буде складним для деяких знаків.

В Євросоюзі наголосили, що Україна визначає свої потреби і потім інформує про них, а в ЄС вивчають відповідні запити та виділяють кошти на закупівлю зброї.

Ці продукти не гірше за авокадо допомагають знизити рівень "поганого" холестерину та підтримують роботу серцево-судинної системи.

У рейтингу Antutu чимало застарілих моделей, які вже давно не вважаються актуальними, але користувачі все одно задоволені цими пристроями.

Узимку може посилитися так звана "війна міст".

Unitree Robotics wants to raise about $900 million in an I.P.O. that tests market interest in humanoid robots, a technology that wows but has yet to prove its viability.

Andre Lavoie joined SpaceX in 2009 as an engineer, now he's looking to cash in his shares in the company.

Ціна зарядки на станціях постійного струму піде вгору.

Навіть 300 американських ракет Україні вистачить лише на 2,5-3 місяці активних російських обстрілів.

The Portsmouth, Ohio site where SoftBank will build its data center. | Image: US Department of Energy SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January, just months before announcing that it's leasing land from the federal government to build a sprawling data center in Ohio. The Japanese company revealed the timing in response to a June letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), which raised concerns about bribery. "Are we expected to believe it's a coincidence that two months after Softbank donated $50 million to the Trump library, his administration announced a massive lease deal for Softbank's data center?" Sen. Warren said in a statement to The … Read the full story at The Verge.

Місто Кропивницький змінювало назву рекордну кількість разів.

При цьому дозвіл не має бути автоматичним: обсяги необхідно переглядати залежно від запасів, погоди, видобутку та наслідків російських атак.

До програми увійшли три знакові туристичні об'єкти.

У народному календарі цей день називають Малинник.

Samsung’s latest foldable Android phones, the Z Fold 8, Fold 8 Ultra, and Flip 8, release tomorrow, August 7th. Today is the final day when you can place a preorder, and really the only reason we’re suggesting that is because you’ll get some freebies that will go away upon release. We have an entire article that breaks down what you’ll get with each phone, but we’ll put the major details here to make things easy. Amazon is including a $350 gift card with either the $2,099.99 Z Fold 8 Ultra or the $1,899.99 passport-style Z Fold 8. Best Buy and Samsung top out at $200 in gift cards to their respective storefronts for these foldables. If you purchase through the phone maker’s site, you’ll be offered up to $100 off select Samsung products, and entering the code PAYPAL100 at checkout will knock $100 off the cost of either phone. As for the Z Flip 8, preorders include a $200 gift card when purchased at Amazon or Best Buy, or up to $150 in credit at Samsung. Just like the Z Fold 8 and Fold 8 Ultra, you’ll be offered up to $100 in discounts on select Samsung products throughout the checkout process when you buy through the manufacturer’s site. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 (256GB storage,12GB RAM) Where to Buy: $1899.99 at Amazon (with $350 Amazon gift card) $1899.99 $1799.99 at Samsung (with code PAYPAL100, plus $200 credit) $1899.99 at Best Buy (with $200 gift card) Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra (256GB storage, 12GB RAM) Where to Buy: $2099.99 at Amazon (with $350 gift card) $2099.99 $1999.99 at Samsung (with code PAYPAL100, plus $200 in credit) $2099.99 at Best Buy (with $200 gift card) Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 (256GB storage,12GB RAM) Where to Buy: $1199.99 at Amazon (with $200 gift card) $1199.99 at Samsung (with $150 credit) $1199.99 at Best Buy (with $200 gift card) Other deals for people not prepared to drop $2K on a foldable Apple AirPods Pro 3 wireless earbuds sank in price to $170 ($80 off) during Prime Day in late June, but they haven’t gone lower than $200 since then. Well, today, they have. They’re available for $189.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Sure, it’s a small price difference, but it’s worth sharing in the event that you’re going on a trip soon, or heading back to school, and you want a fantastic set of noise-canceling earbuds. They’re full of features not supported by the last-gen model, including built-in heart rate tracking and better sound and noise cancellation. Plus, they include more eartip sizes to ensure a good fit. Read our review. My colleague Jennifer Pattison Tuohy’s favorite air fryer, the Typhur Dome 2, is selling at its lowest price we’ve seen for a month at Amazon, costing $339.99 (was $399.99). While about $55 over its lowest-ever price, we wanted to share this deal since it can make mealtime easier for anyone, whether you’ve got kids going back to school or not. In her testing, Jennifer said it made the best chicken wings she’s ever tasted, though it’s a bit of a countertop hog. The Dome 2’s low ceiling means it can quickly cook food, and it has a great self-clean mode. An assortment of Blu-ray and 4K Blu-rays from Arrow Video is steeply discounted at Barnes and Noble through August 30th. The distributor has a mix of cult classics, indie films, and box office hits, and its discounted movies often come in slick cases with stunning art. Some of the more popular ones include Troy, An American Werewolf in London, Donnie Darko, and David Lynch’s divisive take on Dune, each of which are $24.99 for their 4K Blu-ray versions.

Якби атака не зірвалася, посеред аеропорту міг би статися значно потужніший вибух, ніж від самого дрона.

В окремі дні можливі незначні обмеження електропостачання у години максимального навантаження.

У Росії та КНДР лишився "приємний посмак" після минулого використання північнокорейської піхоти проти України.

Today, I’m talking with Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter here at The Verge, about the growing backlash against AI data centers. Gaby recently reported a fantastic piece about Hernando County, Florida, where last month the county commission unanimously approved a yearlong moratorium on data center construction. She attended a protest there organized by a group called Humans First, a conservative grassroots movement focused on combating AI data center build-outs. Verge subscribers, don’t forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Decoder wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a subscriber? You can sign up here. You’ll hear Gaby explain that it was part of a bigger, broader, and bipartisan opposition to data centers. Not only as physical buildings, but as infrastructure that powers an AI boom that takes local jobs and fills feeds with slop. Data center construction has become a proxy for the public’s feelings about AI: something physical they can aim their fear and frustration at — and even create enough pressure to stop through community organizing and protests. So I wanted Gaby to talk me through what these protests look like on the ground, from voters whose party affiliations have typically aligned them with big business. You’ll hear Gaby say data centers are scrambling party lines, turning diehard Trump voters into protesters who care about left-coded issues like groundwater contamination and forever chemicals. It’s a confusing time, and data centers are going to play a major role in electoral politics going forward. So I suspect this won’t be the last we hear from Gaby on movements like Humans First. Okay: Verge policy reporter Gaby Del Valle on the bipartisan data center backlash. Here we go. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Gaby Del Valle, you’re a policy reporter here at The Verge. Welcome back to Decoder. Thank you. Happy to be here. I’m excited to talk to you. You were on previously with our friend Alex Heath, but this is the first time I’ve gotten to talk to you in Decoder. I think the story you just wrote about data centers and conservative backlash in Florida is just a real preview of what tech policy going into the midterm elections is going to be like. You were just there. You talked to a bunch of people who are protesting data centers. It is a real alignment scramble in terms of our politics. Tell us what you found. What I found was people are really, really, really, really mad. And the reasons why they’re mad are different depending on the community, but they’re also all the same, if that makes sense. They have localized concerns. They were telling me Florida’s really humid. It doesn’t make sense to build a data center that needs to be kept very cool and dry in such a humid place. A lot of them were concerned about their groundwater. They were concerned about PFAS getting dumped into the water. But I’ve also talked to people in Arizona who have the opposite concern. Arizona is not very humid. Arizona’s very dry. And they’re also like, “It doesn’t make sense to build a data center in the desert.” So whatever your community is, you’re like, “It doesn’t make sense to build a data center here because of X reason,” basically. The thing that really strikes me in reading your piece and hearing about the other reporting you’re doing for pieces to come is that data center build-outs and data center protests do not neatly map to the usual right-left culture war alignment that we have seen play out for so long. And I’m curious about your view on that. Why can’t Elon Musk just command his army of followers to be pro-data centers? This is so interesting to me. So this is a little bit of backstory that’s going to answer your question. The woman who organized Humans First, which was bipartisan and now is focusing only on organizing conservatives, was an early founder or organizer with the Tea Party way back when. And this has a similar vibe to me. It’s not a left-right thing. It’s a populous technocrat divide. You’re seeing that on the right and the left. So for example, at the Abundance Conference last year, it was center-right to center-left-ish. And everybody was pro-nuclear, pro-AI. And we were hearing that, “These things are here to stay. We have to figure out how to do it smartly.” At the same time, the populist left and the populist right are both skeptical of tech development, to put it lightly. That skepticism plays out across a number of dimensions. I couldn’t help but be struck as I read your story by how many strains of conspiracy thinking there are about data centers. I’m curious if they’re just visible. They’re so big, and they require so much development and so much build-out that you can just glue any concerns you have onto them. “This big thing is happening, and I don’t feel any control. And I’m also worried about 5G, Chinese government interference, and X, Y, Z. And I can just point it all at this very big thing by which there’s a process to say no. I can go to my local town board meeting and literally say no.” I mean, I think that’s part of it. It’s interesting because I think there’s a spectrum of conspiratorial thinking to, I guess, misinformed thinking on the water use question. We now know that they don’t use as much water as we previously thought, et cetera, et cetera. But on the far end of the spectrum, one of the people I talked to told me that cattle born near data centers are all stillborn. I tried to track that down. I was like, “Where did this come from?” And it was one farmer in Texas who claims he had one stillborn calf on his cattle farm. So that got spun out via the internet rumor, social media mill. I think that’s part of it. There’s this issue of social collapse that comes out once you talk to people a little bit. One of the women I talked to said, “I had this friend. ChatGPT told her she couldn’t be friends with me anymore.” You have all of these stories of people harming themselves, going off their medication, or whatever because they’ve been talking to a chatbot and it goes awry. I think this gives people a feeling of control. Where I can go to my community board meeting or my council members’ meeting, and I can say, “I don’t want this big building that houses the scary thing that is fracturing my community here.” So it’s not just the actual building. I think it’s a broader backlash to generative AI and to LLMs specifically. One of my ideas that I’ve been pushing on lately is that the AI products are not winning over hearts and minds in the market. So if the data centers just said Netflix on them, maybe people would like them more. But instead, that’s where the slop is coming from, and it’s why the jobs are going to go away. It’s also where Mark Zuckerberg is just going to get even wealthier. Is there a dynamic of that — that people just don’t like the thing that the data centers make? Yes, absolutely. They don’t like a lot of the things that the data centers make. It’s not just AI. I think AI is a big part of it, but this is a little preview of a different story I’m working on… In Tucson, there’s a data center project that’s getting built out. The people I talked to there said, “Yeah, this might be an Amazon Web Services facility, and Amazon works with ICE.” So this technology is fueling mass deportations through, not directly, but creating the non-sexy infrastructure that surveillance is built on. There are two things to it. Part of it is a NIMBY, “I don’t want this thing in my backyard, literally. I don’t want my town to get polluted. I don’t want this. I don’t want that. I don’t want to see it. I don’t want the noise pollution.” And then the other part is, “I do not like what this big building represents and what it has wrought on society.” Does that cut across bipartisan lines? Or is that more culture war coded? It’s both. It cuts across culture war lines in that people have different concerns about what LLMs do. So one woman I spoke to was talking about the fracturing of social bonds. On the construction front, she was like, “We’re a rural-ish community. We don’t want this big blight on our nice rolling hills.” So that’s a right-coded thing. And there was a lot of anti-development stuff that is neither right nor left. On the left, I would say there’s similar culture war concerns, but it’s… I don’t know if this is necessarily a culture war concern, but fueling deportations. Both sides, I think, are concerned about the job losses because of AI. And both sides have caught on to the fact that these facilities don’t really have a lot of long-term job prospects. There’s the big construction boom. There’s an HVAC situation. But to actually maintain these facilities, it doesn’t require that many people. I think people have caught onto that. The promises of the AI data job, or that the AI boom will lead to jobs related to data centers, are not actually true. Yeah. At most, it’s a few hundred jobs for each of these facilities, at least in the data centers we have now. Why do you think some of the protests make national news? The Kevin O’Leary data center in Utah is a national story. Maybe it’s just because he’s a cartoon character. And then there’s a new project in Georgia where there might be a huge OpenAI facility that seems to go under the radar. There are all of the projects in Florida that you are reporting on, but don’t seem to be explosive in the way that some of the other ones are. Yeah, I think that’s a good question. There was one in Florida that was explosive, and it was just because it was near Mar-a-Lago. I think that one pretty obviously made the national news because it’s related to the president. I honestly think a cartoon character at the center of it is the deciding factor a lot of the time on whether it’ll become a national story or not. And then also the numbers. The Utah one, I don’t remember off the top of my head how big it’s supposed to be, but it’s supposed to be huge. So then that becomes a proxy for all data center development. They’re being planned everywhere. And I think what’s so interesting is that the backlash exists everywhere too. I relied a lot on, for example, the Tampa Bay Times to figure out the background for this story. They’re on top of it. They’re going to these meetings and watching people get yelled at and asked, “Did you sign an NDA? Yes or no?” Do you think the local governments are being responsive? You’ve now gone to some of these protests; you’ve talked to people on the ground in various counties across the country. The basic unit of democracy is supposed to be your local government because you know those people and you can yell at them in the grocery store and the town board meeting. We’re seeing there’s a wall going up in some of these cases where the local governments are saying, “No, we have to do this development. This is the only economic development available.” And the people are saying, “No, we’re going to throw you out.” Do you think local governments on the whole are being responsive or not responsive at all? I think it really depends. In Hernando County, they did pass a moratorium. There are a lot of counties in Florida where moratoriums have passed. But in Tucson, again, the city government is responsive to what the people want and the county government isn’t, and they’re at odds with each other. There are all these videos of people yelling at their representatives about NDAs again. And then them being like, “We cannot say whether we signed an NDA,” which is an answer, but whatever. I think it really depends on a lot of things. How small the communities are, for one. How vulnerable the people in office feel to getting voted out, I think, is another big one. In Florida, the Republican primary for governor, I think, might be affected by this issue. The primary is in a few weeks and the front-runner, Byron Donalds, has taken a lot of money from the AI industry and data center development groups. And people are mad. People are really mad. He was endorsed by Trump, and everyone I spoke to, as proud Trump voters, said things like, “I don’t understand why Trump would endorse him. I’m not going to vote for him.” One woman I talked to who told me she was opposed to everything Democrat said she would vote for a Democrat or an independent if Donalds won the primary. And Donalds has also changed… not his stance on data center development, but the way that he talks about it in response to a lot of this backlash. How has he changed the stance? How is he talking about it now? He says his vision is to make Florida the financial capital of the world. And to a lot of people, that would sound great, but these people are really upset by this, both because they… I mean, there are a lot of other things at play here. Housing costs in Florida have gone up exponentially. Not only in big cities like Miami, but in the suburbs of Tampa, for example. Housing prices have shot up to levels that I, as somebody who grew up there, just don’t understand. I literally can’t wrap my head around it. So I think a lot of the backlash to development and to data centers is also related to people’s cost of living going up and to these, in their words, outside developers coming in and changing a community that’s already changing. He has since said that we need data center development, but we need to do it responsibly. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is another great example of this. He supported a bill that would require data centers to pay their own utilities and also let counties require them to use reclaimed water, which would address the water issue. But the Tampa Bay Times reported that he also supported legislation that gives massive tax breaks to data centers. And that he pushed to amend that law, which I think was signed in 2017, to only apply to hyperscale data centers, which are the ones that people have problems with. The people I talk to, they know that there are currently data centers in Florida, and they’re smaller. There are no hyperscale data centers, but there are around one hundred smaller ones for Netflix or whatever. And they’re okay with that. One woman I talked to works in IT. She said, “I understand that data centers are a boogeyman, and we need them for stuff. But I don’t want this massive facility using all of our power, emitting these frequencies, et cetera, et cetera.” Another thing that I think is really interesting- Wait, can you just explain what “emitting these frequencies” means? [Laughs] Just the noise. I talked to these guys at the Border Security Expo who work for a data center company, and they all live in Virginia. Even they were like, “Yeah, it sucks.” They said, “I hate walking around my neighborhood because I just hear it all the time.” And they work in data centers. I don’t think she meant 5G. It’s a real element of this, right next to China being a villain of whatever persuasion you need China to be a villain for. Again, there’s just a piece of all this where it’s a big thing that you can stop. The power of NIMBYism can stop this. Maybe we can’t stop everything else. We can’t stop Facebook from doing targeted advertising that feels like it’s listening to you. No one knows how to stop this. It’s bad. We don’t like it, but no one knows how to stop it. “I can stop this building from being built” seems like it not only scrambles our culture war lines, but it’s scrambling politics, too. Byron Donalds saying he wants Florida to be the financial capital of the world. One, it’s very funny in that he has to contend with the existence of New York, London, Beijing, and Amsterdam. Go down the line. There are a lot of places that can compete for that title where Miami might not be in the running. But doing it via building data centers is not the path to that result. It’s just a bunch of economic development that might result in some short-term gains. It feels like people have clocked it, and they’ve clocked that it’s a thing you can stop. I’m curious if there’s anything else. You’ve spent a lot of time covering the right, and I wonder if there’s anything else that scrambles the lines like that. Because in almost every other case, “let’s build stuff, let’s tear down the White House and build a ballroom” is fine. Building things is better, and it is coded in one side of the culture war. Yeah. I mean, this is, again, so Florida specific, but it really surprised me how much of the politics around this were scrambled. One of the women was talking about this ballot initiative that’s going to pass. It’s going to give more tax exemptions to homeowners, which I feel is a standard Republican thing — lower taxes for homeowners. People would like that. She said, “This is terrible. It’s going to deprive county governments of funds that they would otherwise get from homeowners, which will then entice the counties even further to have data centers come into our communities.” So she was thinking of the second- and third-order effects of this, even though that’s a pretty populist initiative. But yeah, it’s all so scrambled. How do you see the scramble inside of the right and then carrying over to the populist left? The idea that a bunch of billionaires threw all of their weight behind Donald Trump in 2024, and that led to, I don’t know, a bunch of podcast bros throwing their weight behind Donald Trump in 2024. There was a cultural wave of Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, and the All-In podcast about building and tech and the future. It feels like that has come to one kind of end. I don’t think that that wave is driving the culture anymore because of the backlash to AI. We can all see the college students booing at graduation. If the backlash is there against the data centers, against AI taking the jobs, against billionaires in general, what does that turn into on the right? Because that was the animating force of the right for so long. I think that is still an open question. I think the question is whether this backlash is strong enough to shake people’s other partisan concerns. If you’ve got a Democrat candidate who is anti-data center development, but also not super gung-ho about deputizing all Florida police officers to do ICE arrests, where does that leave someone who supports Trump’s immigration policies but doesn’t want a data center in their neighborhood? I don’t know. I think that’s what the party is struggling with right now. I mean, I think Trump is this perfect avatar for people because he somehow stands for anti-elite sentiment, but also for hard work and capitalism. He’s just this perfect blend of, I don’t even know how to describe it. He contains multitudes, I guess. And nobody else can contain multitudes like him. They don’t have the juice. They just don’t have it. Can I make the argument? Yeah. I think I can make the argument. I grew up in Wisconsin, which has many similar dynamics to maybe Florida, in that people in Wisconsin remember a time when there were big factories. In the town I grew up in, Racine, there used to be a Case factory that made tractors. There was a Chrysler factory in Kenosha that made Jeep Wranglers. This is a real thing that occurred, and all those things are gone. So Trump would promise all of this huge economic development that basically looked like manufacturing. I think what his version of this, even with tariffs, was, “We will bring manufacturing back to all of these places. And that manufacturing will require a lot of hard work, but there will be dignity in that hard work.” At the end of it, you’re going to get to point to a Modine air conditioner and be like, “I made that thing. My community made that thing.” I think that is very seductive. I mean, Trump spent years promising that we would build iPhones in America, and that’s Wisconsin and Foxconn and all this stuff. Maybe none of those things were ever going to come true because that’s not how anything gets made anymore. And that’s not even the kind of work people actually want to do in America anymore. But you take all of that energy, and you’re like, “Actually, what we’re going to make is data centers.” And no one can see at the end of that, “I made a Jeep Wrangler.” They get to see that Elon Musk got richer; they just lost their jobs, their children feel like they have no future, and their feeds are full of slop. And I feel like something gets disconnected in the multitudes where you can tell everyone, “Yeah, the best I can do for you is make you the world’s richest factory foreman.” So people are like, “That sounds awesome. That’s better than whatever nonsense I’m doing online.” But you can’t be like, “I’m going to make Sam Altman richer,” because that doesn’t mean anything to anyone. All of this construction doesn’t do anything for anyone. I look at the backlash, and all I see is that a lot of people across the political spectrum have come to that realization. You can tear down our communities to build bridges and factories, and you can pollute the skies with smokestacks as long as we all get jobs. But if you’re going to do all that and all I get is more AI-generated movie posters on Amazon Prime whose price keeps going up every month, screw you. And I’m wondering if that connection is… That’s my guess. I’m wondering if you see any hints of that connection in your reporting as you talk to all these people. I think so. I think the Florida version of making a Jeep Wrangler is like, there were orange groves and cattle ranches, and now there are not. I used to drive past an orange grove when I was a kid. That orange grove is gone. It’s a Publix now. There was an old cow field. Now that’s a mall. On the one hand, that’s what people want. People want consumption, but they also, at least in Florida, liked thinking that they lived near an orange grove. Like, “Oh, maybe the guy’s using tons of pesticides. Maybe the orange grove is worse for your health than the data center.” I don’t know. I don’t have the stats on this. But you could see the tangible effects of what your economy was producing. Now it’s just like, “There’s a building that none of us can go in. It makes a horrible noise. And I think it’s drinking all my water?” And then it’s also making your kids dumb and alienated, and making everybody lose their jobs. People don’t like that. Again, these aren’t Luddites. The woman I talked to said, “I found out about the Humans First organizing [efforts] via Facebook. I know there’s an irony in that. I know there’s an irony in me working in IT and opposing this data center.” They’re not dumb. They understand that all of these things that we’ve built our lives around require something to power them. They just don’t want that something to be within driving distance of their house. They want it somewhere else. And it’s unclear where that somewhere else should be apart from space. Apart from space. That is a very different episode of Decoder. But that’s one answer the industry has: “These people, their stupid concerns are too annoying. We’ll just put the data centers in space,” and maybe they’ll solve that problem. Who knows? The other answer is, “We’ll just horsepower over their concerns. This is too important. We’re going to do it anyway. And maybe we’ll just subsidize a bunch of education in some community. Maybe we’ll just pay a bunch of extra money. Maybe we’ll pay for everyone’s electricity.” I don’t know if those have gotten any traction. Is there anything that the tech companies or the neoclouds could do in these communities to overcome the objections? Could they just pay for healthcare? Or is that just a non-starter? I don’t know about paying for healthcare, but something that I didn’t include in the piece, because it was extremely dry and very technical, was that the small protest ended with about an hour and a half long presentation from a land use expert on how to write local zoning ordinances to prevent hyperscale data centers from being built. It was really specific stuff, like “You could have them on multiple small parcels of land.” It was really dry. “You could require them to use this amount of reclaimed water, et cetera, et cetera.” I think what people want more than the data centers not being there is a degree of community input on how they’re built — if they’re going to be built. I think if they got that, they would maybe not be pacified, but they would at least not feel like there’s a big external force coming in and steamrolling their community, especially when they already feel like that in every other aspect of their life. This is the thing that I’m most curious about. So much of our politics and our culture has been nationalized. Everything happens at the national level. The fact that the mayor of New York is a national political figure is at once very silly and also just the funniest thing that has happened in a long time. Data centers are very local. They’re happening to people in their backyards, and a data center being built in Florida, Georgia, or Tucson has nothing to do with me in New York. It’s far away enough. Maybe what you’re hearing from everybody is just, “Somewhere else, and as we get to somewhere else, I won’t care.” But it is very local. And then it is very in person. People are going to the meetings; they’re encountering one another. There have been stories of bridges across party lines from people who would never like each other normally because they both hate the data centers. Is there an element of a return to actual local politics and actual community building here that could be catalyzed by opposition to data centers? I really think so. Again, I’m talking to organizers in multiple states who are going to these community, town council, or county council meetings and yelling at their representatives. And sometimes it’s hundreds of people. I think this is maybe a weird analogy, but it reminds me of the local backlash to right-wing organizing and local education policy, which is where a lot of the anti-trans backlash started. You’d go into the school board, and you’d be like, “I don’t want this gender stuff being taught to my child. I don’t want my kids to know that slavery was bad.” I’m not comparing them in terms of value judgment. I just think it’s at a level of local engagement that is at the same time a national issue. It’s these really, really, really localized policies that may end up driving, if not national policy change and national policy discussions, but at least national political vibes. Whoever wins the Democratic and Republican primaries and runs for president in 2028, what are they going to be saying about data centers? I don’t know, but I know it’s going to be informed by what happens this year and next year. I’m actually very curious how Trump handles it. As you said, he contains multitudes. He’s very good at reading his own base. It feels like the Trump base is very much polarized around data centers. There are a lot of people who love Donald Trump but hate data centers. And then there’s his money, which loves the AI build-out and loves data centers. That is a fracture as deep as anything. A lot of those folks will say, “AI just has a marketing problem. If only we could convince people of the benefits of this build-out and the super intelligence to come, they would be on board.” The best marketer they could have for that would be Donald Trump. But he doesn’t seem to be willing to make those claims at the level that they might need. And certainly he is very attuned to his base hating AI. How do you think he’s going to play it? And how do you think the MAGA coalition will respond to it? Okay, so do you remember when Trump was talking about H-1B visas? Or not even when he was talking about it, but just the whole swirl around what we’re going to do about these? Yeah. Trump said, “I think we should stamp an H-1B visa to every foreign student’s college graduation diploma.” And I thought, “What are you talking about? Your administration is charging $100,000 for these visas.” He kept saying things like, “These kids are really smart. We need them in America building chips.” I think he’s just going to do it like that. The thing about Trump is that he can say literally whatever, and he can do literally whatever, and the people who like him will continue to like him. Sometimes they’ll be like, “Oh, well, I don’t like this particular policy of his. I don’t know why he endorsed this candidate,” but they’re still going to back the guy. But enough to split the difference on this issue? In every other issue, he could polarize the electorate, and he would get there, but, “I’m going to put a data center in the backyard, and it’s going to make that noise.” Maybe not enough. But the thing is that they don’t see it as coming from Trump. They’re thinking, “These companies are coming into our community.” And if you connect the dots, it’s like, “Who supports those companies? The president. Who is giving the president a lot of money? All these different companies.” That’s not how people see it. They see it as these tech oligarchs who are just disconnected from politics and disconnected from anything because of all their money. They don’t see that as having a connection to the president. Instead, they see that as having a connection to the governor, to the board of commissioners, or whatever. But Trump is floating above it all. I don’t know why. Well, I’m curious, and maybe we should end it here. The Florida gubernatorial primaries are coming up. If Donalds loses, even with that Trump endorsement over the data center issue, do you think that will be a signal or a predictor of what will happen in the midterms? I think it would be a massive signal, if only because Donalds is polling so much further ahead than everybody else. He’s the clear frontrunner, and the lieutenant governor who’s polling second is also pro-data centers. If any of the anti-data center candidates win the Republican primary, that is going to be huge and completely unexpected by everybody in the state. But it could happen. Crazier things have happened. We’re going to be doing a lot of coverage of this in the months to come, especially ahead of the midterms, because this scrambling of party lines, this scrambling of the culture war, seems very important. The politics we’ve had for so long, they don’t seem like they can hold up to everyone hating the same thing. Maybe that’s all America needs. It does seem like every American hating these big buildings that make loud noises might be the thing that unifies us, which is good or bad. You can make your own decisions, but I can’t think of anything else. There’s nothing else that’s cutting across party lines this way. Can you? Literally nothing. Nothing at all. And it’s cutting across party lines, I think, not just in that people hate it, but I had these deeply conservative women talking to me about local environmental and ecological issues. They were talking about pesticides and forever chemicals in their water, which you wouldn’t expect looking at Republican politics five to 10 years ago, that this is where we have ended up. We’re still doing climate change hoaxes at the national level, and on the ground we’re talking about pesticides. There’s something there. Gaby, we’re going to have to have you back as the story develops and certainly as we go into all these elections. Thank you so much for being at Decoder. Yeah, thanks for having me. This was fun. Questions or comments? Hit us up at decoder@theverge.com. We really do read every email!

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As weather events become more extreme, fake videos are being shared rapidly online, and it’s causing real world problems in China.

In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.

Minutes after four top researchers said they were leaving, Google said that Demis Hassabis, the Nobel-winning scientist who led the company’s A.I. lab, was stepping into a new job.

Українські компанії в ніч на 5 серпня зазнали чергових ударів з боку Росії. Внаслідок атак на підприємства загинули шестеро працівників "Сільпо" та три співробітники "Нової Пошти".

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Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.

Jeff Dean, who for years was one of Google’s most important executives, is leading the new artificial intelligence company with the backing of Google.

Elon Musk told investors that people were "underestimating" his company.

The second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, which sent two private landers to the moon last year, will collide with the moon early Wednesday morning.

A deal between will allow some creators to use clips from Disney films and TV shows in their videos.

Історично низький рівень води в басейні Дунаю пов'язують з тривалою спекою, браком опадів у весняно-зимовий період і швидким скороченням запасів снігу й таненням льодовиків в Альпах.

The deal takes the maker of titles including The Sims and EA FC into private ownership - and loads it with debt.

Конгрес США розглядає закон, який ускладнить Росії фінансування війни через експорт нафти та газу.

The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.

Як ВСП змінила підхід у війні: повернення військових, підтримка порядку, документування злочинів РФ.

Одного лютневого ранку 2026-го військові територіального центру комплектування та соціальної підтримки (ТЦК) разом із поліцейськими патрулювали вулиці в центральному місті України.

The voluntary review process will cover closed-source artificial intelligence models, but exclude those that publish the underlying code.

Tech is being used to watch for wildfires but firefighters are still needed to put them out.

Elon Musk’s rocket company said its capital expenditures jumped nearly seven times from a year ago. Revenue also rose.

The Trump administration has struggled with how to approach “open source” models, which are freely available to download and favored by Chinese companies.

Electric power is one of several cleaner alternatives to traditional aviation fuel.

The state attorney general said in an antitrust lawsuit filed on Tuesday that the company was abusing its market power to keep its delivery costs low.

Nathan Owen called the police, saying he was trapped in a runaway car. A judge determined it was a lie and sentenced him to more than four years in prison.

Росія не припиняє тероризувати український бізнес атаками. Зокрема, багато ударів РФ завдає по об'єктах логістичної компанії "Нова пошта". Лише за останній тиждень було зафіксовано щонайменше 5 влучань. Також окупанти в серпні двічі вдарили по складах Rozetka − найбільшого онлайн-ритейлера в Україні. Це сталося з різницею в кілька годин.

Fighting a traffic ticket. Hanging a curtain. Installing an air-conditioner. With his cult-hit online series, Noah Blau has made the mundane fascinating.

Попри все, нинішня реакція польської влади та, головне, суспільства на масові атаки проти українців дає й підстави для обережного оптимізму.

It is the latest development in the ongoing dispute between Apple and the Home Office over data privacy.

Новий прем'єр наголошує, що не збирається чекати на реалізацію довгострокових реформ, аби полегшити життя британців.

На початку серпня минає два роки відтоді, як українці довели, що територія Росії не є недоторканою. 6 серпня 2024-го Сили оборони розпочали наступ у Курській області Російської Федерації та до кінця місяця взяли під контроль понад 100 населених пунктів – це приблизно 1300 квадратних кілометрів.

Buyers of AI services are struggling to control costs and sellers are not sure how much to charge.

Президент Володимир Зеленський 3 серпня заявив, що новим очільником Служби зовнішньої розвідки України став Рустем Умєров. Натомість секретарем Ради нацбезпеки і оборони замість нього – колишній очільник Міністерства внутрішніх справ Ігор Клименко. Відповідні укази вже оприлюднили на сайті президента.

On Thursday, employees and other insiders at Elon Musk’s rocket company will be released from their first stock “lockup” and can start selling some of their shares.

A new Google Earth tool allowed the creation of A.I. deepfake maps. The company quickly pulled it back after users noted there were no safeguards to prevent content that could be harmful.

Ten U.S. states have legalized systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets. The technology typically does not require permits or electricians.

Xbox consoles now cost significantly more in the UK, with one model increasing in price by 43%.

Over the years, tech workers have proudly worn nerdy company-branded gear. But this generation of hot companies is getting fancy with its merch.

Мігранти перетинали кордон, пливучи з надувними колами, автомобільними камерами та іншими імпровізованими засобами.

Відставка Михайла Федорова з посади міністра оборони вивела на вулиці тисячі людей із вимогою повернути його в уряд – у п'ятницю 31 липня відбувся наймасштабніший протест часів повномасштабної війни.

Армія – це, можливо, найкращий спосіб познайомитися з країною.

The country’s iconic carmakers are struggling with tariffs, the growth of electric vehicles and intense competition from Chinese companies.

Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.

1-го серпня в сусідній Польщі відзначають Національний день пам'яті Варшавського повстання. Повстання, яке тривало 63 дні, зазнало поразки, завершилося майже повним руйнуванням польської столиці та загибеллю приблизно 180 000 цивільних осіб.

New technologies measuring forests and exclusive access to a hacker rehab programme.

Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack are trying to combat the proliferation of fake AI content.

Clement Delangue said he didn't want cyber attacks on other companies to become "normalised".

В Україні два тижні тривають акції, які розпочалися 16 липня з вимоги повернути Михайла Федорова на посаду міністра оборони та звільнити головнокомандувача ЗСУ Олександра Сирського.

“It just seems like the temperature is rising on Silicon Valley.”

The billionaire’s company took on ominous loads of debt to build data centers around the world. The implications go far beyond Oracle.

You can now buy panels that plug into electrical outlets, but there are some important safety issues to consider when picking and installing a system.

The disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an online library.

Amazon joined a procession of tech giants that ramped up their spending on artificial intelligence, as its capital expenditures soared 69 percent. Concerns over the industry’s spending are mounting.

The company recently raised prices on a number of products because of component supply shortages caused by the artificial intelligence boom.

As fears spread over a possible artificial intelligence bubble, some tech investors say: Bring it on.

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Highlights from the Esports World Cup in Paris and how to build a gaming PC.

Dogs have a great sense of smell. Now machines are being trained to sniff out odours.

Ammie Sekhon goes behind the scenes of WWE to see the tech that supports the show.

Surgeons remotely control two human-like robots in an operating theatre.

Adrienne Murray has rare access to Microsoft's Quantum Lab in Denmark.