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Big Tech Pushes Back On Paying For A Grid That Was Crumbling Long Before AI When Big Tech signed President Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge in March, promising to pay for all the new grid infrastructure upgrades required to service their data centers, we cautioned that "voluntary pledges from trillion-dollar tech giants have a habit of evolving." Seven months later, the hyperscalers are pushing back on how much of the grid's bill is theirs to pay. The past week brought a Democratic Senate report and a North Carolina utility settlement, and FERC is...

CIA-Backed AQ-Linked Syrian Leader Watching Dance Performance To Missy Elliott Song Goes Viral Via Middle East Eye A video of interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (previously, Abu Mohammad al-Julani) watching a dance performance to Missy Elliott's Work It has gone viral, sparking a mix of amusement and confusion on social media. The performance took place on Monday at the recently reopened al-Feyhaa Sports Hall in Damascus, which Sharaa had inaugurated earlier that day before a Syria-Lebanon basketball match later that evening. The game marks the first time Syria and Lebanon have played against each other since the fall of Bashar...

On Sunday, British Royal Marines boarded and seized an oil tanker in the English Channel that the UK says is part of Russia’s “shadow fleet,” a term Western countries use to describe vessels that ship Russian oil despite US and European sanctions. According to ship-tracking data, the tanker Smyrtos was sailing under the Cameroonian flag, […]