Fast Company: Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies. “According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and […]

Struggling Silicon Valley fine dining restaurant has closed after 43 years

A former Michelin-starred Bay Area restaurant has closed after 43 years. Chez TJ, at …
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2604322/struggling-silicon-valley-fine-dining-restaurant-has-closed-after-43-years/

‘Ethics must guide scientific progress’: Dattatreya Hosabale in Silicon Valley #Ethics #DattatreyaHosabale #SiliconValley #socialnewsxyz

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/04/17/ethics-must-guide-scientific-progress-dattatreya-hosabale-in-silicon-valley/

#SiliconValley #EU #AI #DataCenters #pollution #PublicHealth

'The secrecy provision, which the European Commission added to its proposal almost verbatim after industry lobbying in 2024, hinders scrutiny of the pollution that individual datacentres emit.'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions

The Guardian: US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret. “Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of green metrics from public view written almost word for word into EU rules.”

Mother Jones: Geek Tragedy. “Two years ago, we devoted an entire issue to the rise of the American oligarchy. Since then, our oligarchic system has become more entrenched and pervasive, revolving around a small crew of tech titans whose quest for wealth and power—in all of its forms—is destabilizing our democracy and reshaping our society. In the May + June 2026 issue, we investigate our […]