How AI works is often a mystery — that's a problem (www.nature.com)
Beijing shrugs at U.S. call for help protecting Red Sea shipping (www.politico.com)
China’s disinterest in Red Sea policing role underscores Beijing’s reluctance to back its rhetoric on Middle East peace with substantive action....
Milei begins dismantling the Argentine State by imposing 300 reforms in a single decree (english.elpais.com)
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims (www.theguardian.com)
Danger (lemmy.zip)
Cobalt - download social media without ads, trackers (cobalt.tools)
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Intel CEO laments Nvidia's 'extraordinarily lucky' AI dominance, claims it coulda-woulda-shoulda have been Intel (www.pcgamer.com)
Intel CEO laments Nvidia’s ‘extraordinarily lucky’ AI dominance, claims it coulda-woulda-shoulda have been Intel::Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has taken a shot at his main rival in high performance computing, dismissing Nvidia’s success in providing GPUs for AI modelling as “extraordinarily lucky.” Gels
Virgin AK Clone vs Chad Western Firearm (sh.itjust.works)
YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest (lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu)
YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest::New research shows that a person’s ideological leaning might affect what videos YouTube’s algorithms recommend to them. For right-leaning users, video recommendations are more likely to come from channels that share...
US supreme court refuses to overturn Illinois assault weapons ban (www.theguardian.com)
Law was passed following Highland Park shooting in 2022, and has been challenged by gun shops and gun rights groups...
X outage breaks all outgoing links, again (www.theverge.com)
X outage breaks all outgoing links, again::An outage on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, caused the site to display an error message when users tried to click outgoing links.
Florida mother fears her family will be devastated as trial on trans health care ban begins (apnews.com)
The mother of a transgender girl sobbed in federal court Wednesday as she contemplated having to move away from her Navy officer husband to get health care for her 12-year-old if Florida’s ban on gender dysphoria treatments for minors is allowed to take affect....
Andre Braugher, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ and ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ Star, Dies at 61 (variety.com)
UN General Assembly overwhelmingly demands Gaza ceasefire (www.bbc.com)
Google’s Android app store monopoly violates antitrust law, jury finds (arstechnica.com)
Apple Offers iPhone NFC Chip Access to Apple Pay Rivals in EU (www.macrumors.com)
Donald Tusk becomes Poland's prime minister with the mission of improving European Union ties (apnews.com)
Donald Tusk, a leader of a centrist party, returned as Poland’s prime minister for the first time in nearly a decade after a vote in parliament on Monday, paving the way for a new pro-European Union government following eight years of stormy national conservative rule....
‘Putin must lose’: Zelenskiy arrives in US to try to save $61bn Ukraine aid package (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has flown to Washington DC in an attempt to rescue a critical $61bn military aid package, while the UK separately hinted that it could increase the value of the arms, ammunition and training that it donates to Kyiv....
Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights (www.theregister.com)
Tesla says California’s Autopilot action violates its free speech rights::Elon’s biz claims 1st Amendment rights
Philippines says Chinese coast guard assaulted its vessels with water cannons for a second day (www.nbcnews.com)
The confrontation happened as Philippine supply boats and escort ships attempted to deliver food to forces near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea....
Turkey's Erdogan accuses the West of 'barbarism' and Islamophobia in the war in Gaza (apnews.com)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a speech on human rights Saturday to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war and what he alleged was its toleration of Islamophobia....
YouTube Premium says the price party is over for grandfathered accounts (www.androidauthority.com)
Israel has just given BP licences to drill for gas off the coast of Gaza. So, people blockaded its head office (www.thecanary.co)
On Wednesday, 6 December, dozens of activists from Fossil Free London assembled outside BP’s London headquarters to protest Israel’s approval of 12 new licences for natural gas exploration off the west coast of Gaza to six companies, including BP....
Wall Street CEO tells Penn president: Resign or I'll pull $100 million (www.businessinsider.com)
US announces visa bans for Israeli ‘extremist settlers’ in West Bank (thehill.com)
The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will implement visa bans on Israelis viewed as “extremist settlers” in the West Bank. The policy move follows President Biden’s warning last mont…
