If anything, a building still otherwise in use would be superior, more noise to hide the power draw in.
The BBC's version of the article stated abandoned buildings.

But sure. Find a room not being used at the end of some hall. Create some means of covert entry into the space from outside like a new hatch cut behind a bush, or whatever. Quietly frame up new walls inside the building during some holiday while everyone is gone and nobody's looking.. Fresh coat of paint to match surroundings, coat rack, or old spare fridge stuck in its place, so the hallway is just blocked or obscured and ends early. Space likely to be forgotten and available for nefarious uses forever, then.

Fun fact: MAGA and "Fundamentalist Muslim" are no different. They're both rapey shit-eating satanic death cults that should be removed from humanity for the good of actual people.

Everything in Rand "The Klan Lying Shitrag" Seed's post here is a lie. Nothing they said is real and if you look at their posts they have NO experience in medical practice.

Congratulations you toddler-raping subhuman fuck, you've proven what a ChatGPT-written garbage screed is like.

Now kill yourself you worthless fucking toddler-raping sack of shit. NOBODY wants you disgracing our species any more "Randseed." You need to stop fucking breathing NOW you fucking disgusting childraper and grandparent-murderer.

And if you raise the Jolly Roger you have a permanent file and can watch it later, even if they take it OFF their "streaming service."

combined with Sinclair media

Sinclair Media is literally Klan Media (John Oliver Expose' Link).

Fuck that whole White-Supremacist Garbage Shitbag Company and every Fucking Klan Subhuman who works for them.

Keep on lying "sinij" you disgusting Subhuman Toddler-Raping White-Supremacist Klan Shitrag. We all know what you Fucking Toddler-Raping Nazi Shitbags are good for - FERTILIZER.

There you MAGA toddler-raping fucks go lying again. No surprise, all of you should be rounded up and Kirked for raping children.

Hey "iamthecheese" nothing is worse than an antivaxer. Just stick a gun in your mouth and end yourself you babyraping fucking inhuman.

Jimmy Kimmel just got pulled off the air for saying something TRUTHFUL

There. Fixed that for you, you Klan Fuck Retard from Ku Klux Kirk's Terrorist Shitbags Bowel Movement. Terrorist Satan Worshiping Shitrag Charlie Kirk crowed and laughed and made jokes when one of his Shitbag Terrorist followers assassinated Melissa Hortman and three other people.

Nobody should be shot for their speech, and at the same time Satanic Shitbag Charlie Kirk PROMOTED assassinations. And that's the TRUTH.

I have an idea. Maybe we shouldn't let science-denying Fucking Inbred Retards like "DaHat" decide what's misinformation.

Abandoned hotel rooms? How is anything abandoned in NYC in 2025?

Just bc rent is high in NYC does not mean they have no buildings being kept empty.
There must be, since the news indicates the seized network was scattered across 5 sites. In short; they were hidden within rooms in 5 different abandoned buildings - not just one.

If not, why and under what authority was it dismantled?

Police can seize equipment in order to investigate possible crime, so long as they have probable cause to suspect the gear might be evidence, then they can take it in.

Also, the location being Abandoned hotel rooms, and the unauthorized nature of the presence of many racks' worth of gear being installed there by the owners of the property is probably plenty probable cause.

Was the installation used to commit a crime?
It sounds like they are still investigating. The article does not mention any crime as being alleged, Only that the network they seized in theory would be capable of causing disruption if the operators had wanted it too.

That TLAs cannot actually break the TOR system itself?

Probably not true. Presumably the third-letter-agencies can break TOR, but I would guess the criminal spies they're trying to recruit from the Russian government or whatever to betray and sell their own countries' secrets aren't just hopping on Tor from a device identifiable to them without additional safeguards.

It's likely for example that possibly the US or UK can track down Tor users much more quickly, and the Russians can't get physical access to the nodes to subvert the crypto as easily.

I dont know, I would like to have a an HTML page back as an option

Microsoft just needs to add option of "pinning a Window to the background". To make the Window become fullscreen with no title bar, and prevent focus or interaction with the Window while it is pinned -- with your Desktop Icons and UI simply stacked on top of the Window, so your background could be any Window.

if you want HTML, then you could pin a shortcut to open a dedicated chromeless full-screen browser app.

This would be better than having a Video file or a HTML file as background - the background can be any application.

That's what you think.. but AI makes coding so easy in management's eye that they can create temporary seasonal coding positions for the winter each year - bring on a bunch of Desk Clerks. Add AI usage and basic coding to the job skills equirements, and stick them in the coding positions.