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Australian outback data centre pulls timeline after regulator stalls

The regulator said it would seek advice from the federal government

• Northern Territory regulator delays environmental parameters, stalling timeline
• Energy North's initial target start date of June 28, 2028, scrapped
• Project remains largest in Australia to delay timeline due to AI investment challenges

1h ago ·businesstimes.com.sg

Linux 7.4-rc1 Released With Nice Performance Improvements, AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Preparations & AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Default

Even with Linus Torvalds having been on holiday, Linux 7.4-rc1 is out today on-schedule for capping off the Linux 7.4 merge window...

1h ago ·phoronix.com

Changing one number from 32 to 34 made a Postgres query 6,000 faster. Here's exactly why.

Who this is for: anyone who has seen a Postgres query that should be fast but isn't, and EXPLAIN shows a bad plan without saying why. You don't need to know planner internals.

• Raising joincollapselimit from 32 to 34 made query 6,000 times faster
• Nested loop step joined 435 tables, then filtered out non-matching rows
• Selecting fewer columns reduced unnecessary tables returned by planner

1h ago ·dev.to