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Today, we are unveiling the next Fairwater site of Azure AI datacenters in Atlanta, Georgia. This purpose-built datacenter is connected to our first Fairwater site in Wisconsin, prior generations of AI supercomputers and the broader Azure global datacenter footprint to create the world’s first planet-scale AI superfactory. By packing computing power more densely than ever before, each Fairwater site is built to efficiently meet unprecedented demand for AI compute, push the frontiers of model intelligence and empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. To meet this demand, we have reinvented how we design AI datacenters and…

Look no further to learn how cybercriminals could try to crack your vault and how you can keep your logins safe 13 Nov 2025  •  , 5 min. read The average internet user has an estimated 168 passwords for their personal accounts, according to a study from 2024. That’s a massive 68% increase on the tally four years previously. Given the security risks associated with sharing credentials across accounts, and of using simple-to-guess passwords, most of us need help managing these logins. This is where password managers come in: enabling us to store and recall long, strong and unique passwords…

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. When it comes to the US electric vehicle market, I thoroughly cover and analyze the sales of fully electric vehicles (aka BEVs). However, I don’t typically touch plugin hybrids. Frankly, automakers don’t break out plugin hybrid data from conventional gas-powered vehicle data when plugin hybrids share a model name — and they almost always share a model name. Nonetheless, it’s interesting to get a peek into the plugin hybrid (PHEV) market when we can, and Argonne National Laboratory does make that possible. I was initially going to write about the…

Published on: September 18, 2025As a developer who uses Swift regularly, [weak self] should be something that’s almost muscle memory to you. I’ve written about using [weak self] before in the context of when you should generally capture self weakly in your closures to avoid retain cycles. The bottom line of that post is that closures that aren’t @escaping will usually not need a [weak self] because the closures aren’t retained beyond the scope of the function you’re passing them to. In other words, closures that aren’t @escaping don’t usually cause memory leaks. I’m sure there are exceptions but generally…

Edge computing downtime in industrial IoT environments can be both inconvenient and costly. Systems at the edge require continuous operation to maintain business continuity. While AWS IoT Greengrass delivers powerful edge computing capabilities, achieving true enterprise-grade high availability requires additional orchestration. This post shows how to use Pacemaker, a cluster resource manager, to build resilient edge infrastructure with automated failover. In this walkthrough, you’ll learn to implement active/passive and active/active high availability patterns using Pacemaker with AWS IoT Greengrass, complete with automated failover, state replication, and monitoring integration. The high availability challenge for edge computing Traditional cloud applications benefit from…

Microplastics have been found in our food, water and even in the kitchen utensils we use to cook and store our food, so it’s no surprise that it’s been estimated that Americans consume between 39,000 and 52,000 microplastic particles on a yearly basis. As for how this is affecting our health, although more research is required, studies have connected microplastics to a weakened immune system, certain types of cancer and cell damage.Despite my awareness of microplastics, I’d put off searching through my own kitchen to find potential sources of microplastics. Once I finally did, these are the items I discovered and plan to…

The concept of targeted protein degradation (TPD) was proposed in 1999 [1]. Two years later, the first proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTAC) demonstrated selective synthetic molecule-mediated protein removal inside cells selectively [2]. Unlike occupancy-driven inhibitors, TPD eliminates “undruggable” proteins by directing the proteins of interest (POI) to cellular degradation machinery, including the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) and the autophagy-lysosome pathway (Fig. 1A) [3], [4]. A typical TPD platform comprises a POI-binding ligand, an effector (e.g., E3 ligase) recruiter, and a chemical linker [5]. The induced proximity between POI and effector triggers efficient POI degradation [6].PROTACs, first entered clinical trials in 2019 (ARV-110/471) [7], rely…

There are many let’s encrypt automatic tools for azure but I also wanted to see if I could use certbot in wsl to generate a wildcard certificate for the azure Friday website and then upload the resulting certificates to azure app service. Azure app service ultimately needs a specific format called dot PFX that includes the full certificate path and all intermediates. Per the docs, App Service private certificates must meet the following requirements: Exported as a password-protected PFX file, encrypted using triple DES. Contains private key at least 2048 bits long Contains all intermediate certificates and the…

Jennings Anderson, a Software Engineer with Meta Platforms, and Amy Rose, the Chief Technology Officer at Overture Maps Foundation, speak with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Overture Maps project, which creates reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data. After exploring the foundations of geospatial information systems, Gregory and his guests dive deep into the implementation of Overture Maps through features like the Global Entity Reference System (GERS). In addition to discussing the organizational structure of the Overture Maps Foundation and the need for a unified database of geospatial data, Jennings and Amy explain how to implement applications using data…

When it comes to price, the fact you can pick up the same machine I tested for $1,799 makes these Macs an absolute steal. Yes, I know that amount isn’t peanuts, it’s a lot of money – more than I can afford on the ever-shrinking pittance I make in journalism. But if you’re a professional user doing professional tasks that require this much horsepower, the price seems plenty attractive.  Given that the Mac consistently delivers significantly higher Geekbench test results than its PC brethren, Windows laptops with Snapdragon X Elite and Intel Core Ultra 7 200 processors can’t match these…