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BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California. The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond. The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within. Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months. Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.

Jane Street just showed the inside of their AI training data center in Texas. 4,032 GPUs. 56 racks. 8,000 km of fiber. liquid cooling running through every server because air cooling can't handle the heat anymore. but the part that got me was the origin story. Ron Minsky, who co-heads their technology group. said their first compute cluster was literally six Dell boxes stacked on top of each other at the end of a desk row. they called it "the hive." the trading systems sat out in the room with the traders because they wanted to be able to unplug them if something went wrong. at one point, someone vacuuming the office unplugged a live trading system in the middle of the day. from six Dell boxes and a vacuum cleaner incident to a liquid-cooled GPU data center processing trades in under 100 nanoseconds. that's a 20-year arc.

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NEW THIS MORNIG: The biggest donor in the 2026 midterms? Andreessen Horowitz. The firm has spent $115 million on politics this cycle, a never-before-seen investment by a venture capital firm to shape American politics, crypto and AI. Inside the strategy, at the link.

Shai-Hulud, that spoopy Git worm thingy everyones been yapping about, was open-sourced. Unfortunately, GitHub has removed the repo. This is terrible news. It can no longer be studied... unless there was someone who collected this sort of thing and has a local copy...

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The 1883 Krakatoa eruption is the loudest sound ever at 310 dB It was heard up to 3,000 miles away, burst the eardrums of people 40 miles away, and circled the Earth 7 times