Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions

Microsoft has just signed a deal with Vaulted Deep, paying it to remove 4.9 million metric tons of waste over 12 years sourced from manure, sewage, and agricultural byproducts for injection deep underground. According to Inc., the current cost of CO2 removal with the company is $350 per ton. If you multiply that by Microsoft’s […]

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DOJ Drops Charges Against Plastic Surgeon, Friend of RFK JR., For COVID Vaccine Fraud

from the injustice-league dept Back when the COVID-19 vaccines were first rolled out, to the surprise of nobody intelligent, fraud schemes around vaccination cards began to pop up. Groups, including some doctors, were illegally handing out vaccination cards without actually vaccinating anyone. One of those doctors, according to charges brought by the DOJ, was Michael […]

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Good Riddance: CalPERS’ Atrocious General Counsel Matt Jacobs to Retire

Why, pray tell, would the nation’s biggest public pension fund that also runs its own health insurance program hire a general counsel with no experience whatsoever in investment management, financial regulatory compliance, insurance, government public disclosure and other state agency requirements, and instead had been a private sector criminal defense attorney? Oh, and by credible […]

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Ethereum Just Approached $3,500. 3 Reasons This Leading Cryptocurrency Is Still a Buy

Cryptocurrencies are rounding into form. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, hit fresh all-time highs of more than $123,000 on July 14. The asset’s run has also sent a jolt into Ethereum (ETH 4.66%), which shot up to almost $3,500 per token on July 17 after having a difficult year so far. Ethereum […]

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Rust Async Web Framework Performance Breakthrough(4081)

GitHub Homepage As a junior computer science student, I have encountered various frameworks during my web development learning journey. From traditional Apache to modern Node.js, each framework has its unique advantages and limitations. Recently, I discovered an impressive Rust web framework whose performance made me reconsider the design philosophy of web servers. Performance Bottlenecks in […]

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There Are Too Many Rich People

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South Plains (SPFI) Q2 2025 Earnings Transcript

Image source: The Motley Fool. DATE Wednesday, July 16, 2025, at 5 p.m. EDT CALL PARTICIPANTS Chairman & CEO — Curtis Griffith President & CEO — Cory T. Newsom Chief Financial Officer — Steven Crockett Chief Banking Officer — Brent Bates Need a quote from one of our analysts? Email [email protected] TAKEAWAYS Loan Portfolio: Loans […]

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