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Backlash to AI data centers threatens GOP's grip on Ohio, Texas

Salience around AI data centers is growing this election cycle as the fight over the infrastructure's costs and environmental impacts may be threatening Republicans in battleground states like Texas and Ohio. Grassroots movements in rural communities, particularly where President Trump won by double-digit margins in each of his presidential bids, are threatening the rural vote...

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Backlash to AI data centers threatens GOP's grip on Ohio, Texas

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How to Keep Several Local AI Models Loaded at Once on Linux in 2026 (No Reload Wait)

Your editor plugin talks to a small coding model. Your chat client talks to a bigger one. A script on the same box wants a third.

  • Off Grid AI Desktop allows multiple AI models to remain loaded simultaneously on Linux.
  • App assesses GPU, RAM, and CPU resources before loading requested models.
  • Users can select models to keep loaded in the Gateway section of the app.

·dev.to

AI and the October 2026 vulnerability storm: what the numbers show

On 21 October 2026, PHP patched two flaws that allow remote code execution without logging in, and several European government agencies took websites offline to patch.

  • Two critical PHP remote code execution vulnerabilities patched on 21 October 2026
  • AI-assisted vulnerability discovery increased more than 20-fold in October 2026
  • Exploitation of vulnerabilities grew only about 20%, bottleneck lies with software maintainers

·dev.to

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