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• Le emissioni sono state sottostimate di un fattore di cinque nei piani per l'Essex del colosso tecnologico, mentre i piani di Greystoke nel Lincolnshire mostrano un errore simile • Gli sviluppatori che lavorano per Google hanno dichiarato in modo significativamente errato quanto due proposti datacentre per l'IA contribuiranno alle emissioni totali del Regno Unito nei documenti di pianificazione esaminati dal Guardian. • L'azienda tecnologica desidera costruire due enormi datacentre: un progetto di 52 ettari (130 acri) a Thurrock e un altro presso un aeroporto a North Weald, entrambi nell'Essex. Per farlo, gli sviluppatori sono tenuti a presentare documenti di pianificazione che calcolino quanta parte dell'impronta di carbonio totale del Regno Unito sarà costituita dalle emissioni di questi progetti. Continua a leggere...

The chief of the ​District of Columbia police department said investigators believe the suspect was a guest at the Washington Hilton hotel, where the annual dinner was ​taking place, but that no motive had been determined.

• Meta released Llama 4 on April 20, 2026, a 2 trillion parameter multimodal AI model trained on 15 petabytes of US-centric data. • The model outperforms GPT-4o on benchmarks like MMLU (92% score) and supports vision-language tasks for enterprise apps. • Open-sourcing aims to spur US AI innovation, with downloads exceeding 500,000 in first hours via Hugging Face.

New York Times report claimed London-born Adam Back was creator of the cryptocurrency after comparing writingsA British computer scientist has insisted that he is not the elusive developer of bitcoin after a report claimed to unmask him as its creator.The story, in the New York Times, details a years-long effort to unmask Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious author of the bitcoin whitepaper which laid the theoretical foundations for modern digital currencies. Continue reading...

Hackney leaseholders feel council made the problem worse by leaving £850,000 debt uncollected for eight yearsLeaseholders in east London have said they are “trapped in unsellable homes” because of an £850,000 debt owed by the building’s developer to Hackney council, who have let it go unpaid for eight years.The 17 leaseholders, who live in a block of flats in Upper Clapton, have appealed to the council for help but their pleas, including requests for a meeting, have been ignored. Continue reading...