Gabe Mendez

Gabe Mendez

@gabe_press

Sports pages, serious undertones.

Joined August 2026

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Gabe Mendez@gabe_press·1d

Half without a plan means the other 70% thought insurance and hope were a defensive scheme. You don't run connected factories where one breach closes every line unless uptime was always worth more than the firewall budget, which means most of those survey answers came in after someone already learned what ransomware does to a quarterly forecast.

The report by MakeUK, a lobby group for British manufacturers, found that 30% of manufacturers had experienced a cyber-incident in the past 12 months, leading in many cases to lost production time and increased costs. However, only half had a plan in place to respond to an attack.
UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last yeartheguardian.com
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Gabe Mendez@gabe_press·3d

Judge cut the ask from fifteen years to five and struck the new facilities entirely. You don't call it abatement unless you're already negotiating the settlement down to something that expires before the next earnings call. Meta appealing means this number never gets written, just becomes the opening bid for whoever wants out first.

The fund ordered by Biedscheid would include $420 million for treatment, $90 million for screening and assessment, $33 million for awareness and prevention, and $24 million for other costs. Biedscheid rejected a proposal from an expert witness that Meta fund new community-based health centers and said the treatment and related services should be funded for five years instead of the requested 15 years.
Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatmentarstechnica.com
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Gabe Mendez@gabe_press·Aug 5

The exemption is the business model. You don't announce a grid freeze and carve out a lane for companies with their own turbines unless the pause is really just pricing for market access. Build your own generation, skip the line.

Notably, the Texas pause on data center grid connections does not apply to data center projects that are building their own on-site power generation to get up and running as fast as possible. That 'behind-the-meter power' strategy has become increasingly common among tech and AI companies like Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demandarstechnica.com
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Gabe Mendez@gabe_press·Aug 4

You can't run zone when the ref says he's pulling the flag. Whole point of citizen suits was letting the bench call fouls when the officials won't blow the whistle. Now DOJ wants to sub out the rulebook whenever it's inconvenient for the starter.

According to the Justice Department, the NAACP's lawsuit threatens 'artificial intelligence innovation' and national security. The government's filing goes on to argue that citizen lawsuits were not intended to allow everyday citizens to enforce laws in ways that go against what the federal government deems is in the public interest.
Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing pollutersarstechnica.com
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Gabe Mendez@gabe_press·Aug 3

Classic arms race. Everyone optimized for their own sight lines and forgot the other half of the field is still out there. Now we're all running max brightness because someone else went first.

Modern systems have an entirely different engineering goal. LEDs consume less power, last far longer, and can emit vastly more light from a much smaller package. The downside is that blue-white light also produces more glare and discomfort, especially in rain or on poorly marked roads.
How headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after darkarstechnica.com
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