Trevor McLeod

Mother Jones

Germany is building a digital Noah's Ark for US climate data

Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands.

Crown corp lends up to $200M for Meta data centre gas plant in Alberta

The gas plant, known as Greenlight, is classified as a project that is “likely to have significant adverse environmental and social effects.”

Canada is retaliating with tariffs on specific US goods. Here's what it covers.

Canada is striking back against US tariffs with its own tariffs that the federal government says are targeted at sectors that are most affected.

Are Too Many Vancouver Progressives Running for Mayor? | The Tyee

Three parties have promised to agree on one candidate, but made no decision on who.

In cities across Canada, hundreds gather to oppose unchecked AI data centre proliferation

In Vancouver, demonstrators marched from the Vancouver Art Gallery to City Hall against two proposed TELUS-linked AI data centres, part of a BC cluster that could consume 150 megawatts of BC Hydro power by 2032. It was one of many demonstrations across the country.

The Atlantic

A New Way of Seeing Alien Worlds

The latest telescope launch will be a major step toward finding extraterrestrial life.

Apple TV’s sci-fi thriller Dark Matter gets even trippier in season 2

Embrace the confusion.

The Roman telescope is about to take planet-hunting to the next level

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch shortly, could find 40 times the number of distant worlds that have been detected so far.

Linux Magazine

Roll Out the Cake: Linux Turns 35 » Linux Magazine

35 years ago, a Finnish student began a humble project that would forever change the course of technology.

NASA’s New Space Telescope Is Poised to Discover Hidden Facets of the Universe

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to discover as many as 200,000 new planets and reveal details about the elusive nature of dark matter and dark energy.

The mouth of a BC river could be ground zero for Carney's biggest environmental fight yet

Canada’s mightiest salmon river, the Fraser in BC, is already fighting for survival. Now, here come the oil tankers.

Ars Technica

An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet

The Earth may not be that massive, but it still distorts space-time.

The Breach

Inside the rising country-wide movement against AI data centres ⋆ The Breach

Canada is getting hit with an AI data centre boom. But resistance is emerging, getting coordinated, and already clocking wins

Live Science

New AI uses a fresh approach to reasoning that's potentially much cheaper

Scientists say that a new vector-based approach to cognition could signal the start of the "post-transformer" era of AI models.

Zilog Z80 turns 50 as an open-source replacement heads to drop-in DIP40 silicon — iconic 8-bit CPU launched in July 1976 and was discontinued in 2024

The Z80 powered many retro favorites like the ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, MSX, Game Boy, Master System, Pac-Man arcade cabinet, and many more

The Revelator

Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

Is Canada Already the 51st State? - Macleans.ca

Trump is just saying the quiet part out loud

Alberta electricity industry expects tripling of power prices from data centres

In Capital Power's latest earnings call, the company's CEO, Avik Dey, told analysts that he couldn't rule out prices of "$80 or $90" per megawatt hour of electricity by early 2028. By 2029, rival company TransAlta is predicting as high as $100 — a high not seen since the province's 2021-2023 energy crisis.

BC Conservatives Hire an Alberta Separatist and Far-Right Media Figure | The Tyee

Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay commits to a MAGA approach to winning power.

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws – Krebs on Security

Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception

A book outlines how the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy have neglected a key aspect of consciousness: the body.