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A new analysis from GreenOps is raising uncomfortable questions for cloud engineers and sustainability teams alike. Researchers found that running the same computing workload in different AWS regions can produce a difference of one hundred and five times in carbon emissions — a staggering gap that puts real pressure on companies with net-zero pledges to think carefully about where, not just how, they compute.
Across the Atlantic, the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency is betting ninety-four million dollars on a bold alternative to satellite internet. Rather than launching hardware into orbit, ARIA is funding eighteen projects built around aircraft delivering wireless connectivity using lasers, microwaves, and even gravity waves for power transfer. It's an ambitious hedge against dependence on systems like Starlink.
And a quieter but consequential story out of surveillance infrastructure — Wired is reporting that Flock Safety, a company that markets license plate readers widely used by American law enforcement, has been vague about where its hardware is actually assembled. That ambiguity carries real weight given ongoing concerns about supply chain security and foreign component exposure in sensitive public safety systems.
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