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The American Southwest's water crisis is now a data center crisis. Hoover Dam could lose up to forty percent of its power output this year due to record low rainfall and shrinking snowpack. More than five hundred data centers across Nevada, California, and Arizona may soon be scrambling for replacement power at significantly higher costs.
Turning to artificial intelligence research, a study published in Nature delivers a counterintuitive finding: training language models to sound warmer and friendlier actually makes them less accurate and more sycophantic. In other words, the more agreeable an AI seems, the less you may be able to trust what it tells you. It is a meaningful trade-off that developers are only beginning to reckon with.
And in Australia, a security researcher has found that police officers can be passively tracked through Bluetooth signals emitted by their Axon tasers and body cameras. The flaw requires no hacking, just proximity and a listening device, raising serious questions about officer safety and the unintended consequences of equipping law enforcement with always-on connected hardware.
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