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SpaceX is writing a two point eight billion dollar check for gas turbines to power its xAI data centers, and the move is already drawing fire — literally and figuratively. Critics are raising alarms about the carbon footprint of those turbines, even as Elon Musk pushes xAI to become a serious competitor in cloud computing. The tension between AI ambition and environmental accountability is only going to grow louder.
Shifting to gaming, Microsoft has brought in Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer for Xbox. Ball built a reputation as one of the sharpest analysts in the games industry through his widely read writing, and now he's being handed real institutional power ahead of what Microsoft is calling Project Helix. It's an unusual move — elevating a thinker rather than a traditional executive — and it signals that Xbox knows it needs a new kind of strategy, not just new titles.
And on the security front, a malware campaign called Shai-Hulud is quietly burrowing through software supply chains, exploiting the automated pipelines developers rely on to publish code safely. Named after the great sandworm of Dune, it's an apt metaphor — something massive moving unseen beneath the surface, and by the time you notice it, the damage is already done.
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