PowerMate Driver

John Gruber’s post on DaringFireball about the Griffin PowerMate reminded me that I still own one. I had more or less given up on it after Griffin stopped supporting newer versions of macOS, but his write-up got me curious again. Unfortunately, the repository Gruber linked to targets the original USB version of the PowerMate, while… Continue reading PowerMate Driver

Apple Quietly Just Gave Your Mac an Unexpected New Feature

Apple Quietly Just Gave Your Mac an Unexpected New Feature: With the new Power Control setting turned on, your iMac, Mac Mini or Mac Studio will automatically turn on when reconnected to power. So if it’s off, you can just unplug and replug it into a power outlet and it’ll automatically turn on. It’ll also… Continue reading Apple Quietly Just Gave Your Mac an Unexpected New Feature

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A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure

A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure: “We get this notification from Fayette County water system saying you need to stop watering your lawns to help conserve water,” said James Clifton, an attorney and property rights advocate who obtained and shared the 2025 letter to… Continue reading A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure

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Utah’s data center could create a massive heat island that could devastate the Great Salt Lake, scientists say

Utah’s data center could create a massive heat island that could devastate the Great Salt Lake, scientists say: equivalent of about 23 atom bombs worth of energy dumped into this local environment every single day The professor predicts dumping that much heat and energy into Hansel Valley will raise local temperatures by five degrees Fahrenheit… Continue reading Utah’s data center could create a massive heat island that could devastate the Great Salt Lake, scientists say

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Trump official boasts that Americans’ credit card spending is ‘through the roof.’ That’s far from a good thing

Trump official boasts that Americans’ credit card spending is ‘through the roof.’ That’s far from a good thing: And just as Secretary [Scott] Bessent said, credit card spending is through the roof. They’re spending more on gasoline, but they’re spending more on everything else, too. The gaslighting continues…

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Elon Musk offers warning following reports of Amazon meeting to address AI-related outages | Fortune

Elon Musk offers warning following reports of Amazon meeting to address AI-related outages | Fortune: Dave Treadwell, Amazon’s senior vice president of e-commerce services, reportedly wrote in an email that the team’s weekly “This Week in Stores Tech” (TWiST) meeting would in part be used to implement additional guardrails on how AI is used by… Continue reading Elon Musk offers warning following reports of Amazon meeting to address AI-related outages | Fortune

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