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AOC's two jars of brown water from a Meta data-center community got the EPA to commit on the record to investigate. PickBits Daily May 26, 2026

By Mark Pickering · 2026-05-26 Read on Substack ›

AOC pulled jars of brown water from a Meta data-center community; the EPA agreed to investigate. An open-source tool stripped Meta and Google's AI safety guardrails in ten minutes. Trump's DOE issued its fifth coal-plant order. Microsoft canceled internal Claude Code licenses. Anthropic's Mythos found 23,019 vulnerabilities across 1,000 OSS projects. Nvidia's Huang told CEOs blaming AI for layoffs to stop.

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