Fabrizio Bartoloni
@bartoloni.bsky.social
Tech consultant & former IT journalist. QuoraIT Top Writer 2019, 2022. 日本語。
Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout restofworld.org/2025/ai-data...
Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout
The boom in AI data centers is colliding with weak power grids, soaring energy demand, and growing local pushback.
restofworld.org
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout restofworld.org/2025/ai-data...
So, games don't sell (see previous post), hardware doesn't sell, is the industry OK? games.slashdot.org/story/25/12/...
Video Game Hardware Sales Had a Historically Bad November In the US - Slashdot
U.S. video game hardware spending fell 27% year over year in November to $695 million, according to market analyst company Circana. "This is the lowest video game hardware spending total for a Novembe...
games.slashdot.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
So, games don't sell (see previous post), hardware doesn't sell, is the industry OK? games.slashdot.org/story/25/12/...
"New data from market research firm Circana reveals that 63% of U.S. gamers now purchase two games or fewer per year, and a third of American gamers don't buy any new games at all in a typical 12-month period." qz.com/us-video-gam...
America's video game boom is stalling out
The industry now finds itself in an unusual position of selling plenty of devices to play games on — but struggling to sell the games themselves
qz.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"New data from market research firm Circana reveals that 63% of U.S. gamers now purchase two games or fewer per year, and a third of American gamers don't buy any new games at all in a typical 12-month period." qz.com/us-video-gam...
Unscii is a set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts. Unscii attempts to support character cell art well while also being suitable for terminal and programming use. viznut.fi/unscii/
December 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Unscii is a set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts. Unscii attempts to support character cell art well while also being suitable for terminal and programming use. viznut.fi/unscii/
The Zig Software Foundation left GitHub after years of unresolved bugs - e.g. a "safe_sleep" script that could spin forever & cripple CI runners. Zig blames MS growing AI-first priorities & declining engineering quality. Other OSS developers express similar frustrations. slashdot.org/story/25/12/...
Zig Quits GitHub, Says Microsoft's AI Obsession Has Ruined the Service - Slashdot
The Zig Software Foundation has quit GitHub after years of unresolved GitHub Actions bugs -- including a "safe_sleep" script that could spin forever and cripple CI runners. Zig leadership puts the bla...
slashdot.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The Zig Software Foundation left GitHub after years of unresolved bugs - e.g. a "safe_sleep" script that could spin forever & cripple CI runners. Zig blames MS growing AI-first priorities & declining engineering quality. Other OSS developers express similar frustrations. slashdot.org/story/25/12/...
Fabio Ciucci quipped on LinkedIn: "The AI bubble is a wrapper of the data center bubble which is a wrapper of the Nvidia CPU bubble. "
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Fabio Ciucci quipped on LinkedIn: "The AI bubble is a wrapper of the data center bubble which is a wrapper of the Nvidia CPU bubble. "
Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job lemire.me/blog/2025/11...
Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job
Whenever I say I dislike debugging and organize my programming habits around avoiding it, there is always pushback: “You must not use a good debugger.” To summarize my view: I want my software to be a...
lemire.me
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job lemire.me/blog/2025/11...
He fled Assad. Now he’s leading Syria’s tech transformation restofworld.org/2025/syria-t...
He fled Assad. Now he’s leading Syria’s tech transformation
In his first interview on the job, Abdulsalam Haykal explains how he plans to rebuild the country’s shattered digital infrastructure — and why he came back after years in exile.
restofworld.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
He fled Assad. Now he’s leading Syria’s tech transformation restofworld.org/2025/syria-t...
PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism jamestown.org/prc-elites-v...
PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism - Jamestown
Executive Summary: Rapid advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) has become a point of national pride in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), driven in part by a cohort of accelerationist advisor...
jamestown.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism jamestown.org/prc-elites-v...
"Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal. The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal
The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal. The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Microsoft warns its new “AI” agents in Windows can install malware www.osnews.com/story/143868...
Microsoft warns its new “AI” agents in Windows can install malware – OSnews
www.osnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Microsoft warns its new “AI” agents in Windows can install malware www.osnews.com/story/143868...
Crypto giants moved billions linked to money launderers, drug traffickers and North Korean hackers www.icij.org/investigatio...
Crypto giants moved billions linked to money launderers, drug traffickers and North Korean hackers - ICIJ
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists traced tens of thousands of transactions and found major crypto trading platforms awash with dirty money.
www.icij.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Crypto giants moved billions linked to money launderers, drug traffickers and North Korean hackers www.icij.org/investigatio...
Idiocracy entered a new phase: news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/...
Some Americans Are Trying to Heat Their Homes With Bitcoin Mining - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:
[T]he computing power of crypto mining generates a lot of
heat, most which just ends up vented into the air. According to
digital assets brokerage, K...
news.slashdot.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Idiocracy entered a new phase: news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/...
Blocking LLM crawlers, without JavaScript www.owl.is/blogg/blocki...
Hej!
www.owl.is
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Blocking LLM crawlers, without JavaScript www.owl.is/blogg/blocki...
Petition to save American Studies teaching at the University of Nottingham, I've found this via a LinkedIn post by my friend PhD Eugenio Lilli: www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
www.change.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Petition to save American Studies teaching at the University of Nottingham, I've found this via a LinkedIn post by my friend PhD Eugenio Lilli: www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order. The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community. www.wired.com/story/apple-...
Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order. The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community. www.wired.com/story/apple-...
“AI” assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time www.osnews.com/story/143624...
“AI” assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – OSnews
www.osnews.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“AI” assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time www.osnews.com/story/143624...