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Poland Suspects "Hybrid Warfare" After Starlink Station Fire As War Spillover Fears Mount
Poland Suspects "Hybrid Warfare" After Starlink Station Fire As War Spillover Fears Mount
A fire erupted at a ground-based Starlink communications station in central Poland, raising new concerns about sabotage as spillover risks from the Russia-Ukraine war mount.
Reuters reports that the fire broke out overnight Wednesday at the ground station's power equipment and generator. The report cited Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski.
"The fire engulfed the power station and the generator; it is clear that this act of sabotage was deliberately designed to disable the station, effectively cutting off the internet...
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Apr 28, 2026 / Tyler Durden
The US Grid Wasn't Built For This
The US Grid Wasn't Built For This
Authored by Tejasri Gururaj via Interesting Engineering,
Global data center power demand is projected to hit 84 GW by 2027—a 50 percent jump from 2023 levels—with AI workloads accounting for 27 percent of that total, according to Goldman Sachs Research.
The grid is strained by increasing demand from electricity-hungry data centers and electric vehicles.Getty Images
The grid cannot keep up with AI. For decades, electricity demand grew slowly and predictably, giving utilities comfortable margins to plan capacity years in advance. That model broke almost overnight. Between 2023...
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Oct 29, 2026 / Tyler Durden
The Commercial Real Estate Crisis Is Far From Over
The Commercial Real Estate Crisis Is Far From Over
Submitted by QTR's Fringe FinanceI‘ve been harping on the problems in commercial real estate for years now, and one of the more interesting developments over the last several months has been how little anybody seems to be talking it them anymore.For a while, commercial real estate was supposedly going to bring down the banking system. Then the regional bank failures came and went, the Federal Reserve helped stabilize the financial system, and the market collectively decided that the problem had been...
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Jan 18, 2023 / James Vincent
Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas is now tossing tool bags around a (fake) construction site
Is Boston Dynamics slowly preparing to put its bipedal robots to work?
In a glossy new video, the company has shown off its prototype Atlas robot tossing planks and tool bags around in a fake construction site. In a second, behind-the-scenes video, Boston Dynamics’ team lead on Atlas, Scott Kuindersma, explained that the video is “meant to communicate an expansion of the research we’re doing on Atlas.” As ever, it’s important to note that these videos are rigorously planned and structured, with falls and mistakes edited out. But, as Kuindersma notes, it’s still a change of pace for Atlas.
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