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First Bipedal Robots With Hands Coming to BMW Factory (gizmodo.com)

I’ve seen this movie and it doesn’t end well.

Modder Who Put Pokémon Into Palword Says 'Nintendo Has Come for Me' (sea.ign.com)

I'm a California restaurant operator preparing for the $20-an-hour fast-food wage by trimming hours, eliminating employee vacation, and raising menu prices (www.businessinsider.com)

FedEx is launching a new e-commerce platform as it competes with Amazon (www.theverge.com)

Artists are making creative companies apologize for using AI (www.theverge.com)

Businesses that rely on creatives should probably avoid angering them.

Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives (www.zdnet.com)

Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives::How fast do you want your Wi-Fi to go? How does 5.8 Gigabits per second sound? Fast enough for you?

Elon Musk's alleged drug use puts 13,000 jobs at risk, report suggests (www.euronews.com)

Elon Musk’s alleged drug use puts 13,000 jobs at risk, report suggests::Elon Musk’s possible use of illegal drugs is causing concern for bosses within his companies, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI (www.spacebar.news)

2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.

Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter (www.theguardian.com)

Xi says China will ‘surely be reunified’ with self-ruled Taiwan in New Year’s address (apnews.com)

Chinese President Xi Jinping said China would “surely be reunified” with Taiwan during his televised New Year’s address, renewing Beijing’s threats to take over the self-ruled island, which it considers its own....

Michael Cohen cites AI-generated court cases in his defense (www.theverge.com)

Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to citing fake, AI-generated court cases in a legal document that wound up in front of a federal judge, as reported earlier by The New York Times. A filing unsealed on Friday says Cohen used Google’s Bard to perform research after mistaking it for “a super-charged...

Gentoo goes Binary (packages) (www.gentoo.org)

To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates - not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors,...

German property prices plummet as housing bubble bursts (www.telegraph.co.uk)

The Day Before Servers Shutting Down Next Month, Leaving Game Active for Just 45 Days - IGN (www.ign.com)

• Controversial game The Day Before will have servers shut down in January 2024, just 45 days after its troubled launch....

Scientist Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades (www.scientificamerican.com)

Russian courts halt cases against Alexei Navalny after jailed activist disappears | Alexei Navalny | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

A new Type of Mastodon Signup that gives people a sense of Agency (fungiverse.wordpress.com)

TL;DR: The current Mastodon-signup is only removing the confusion of users on first glance, because it either hides the server-choice altogether, or leaves them with a choice that is impossible to make at this point of their Mastodon-journey. Instead, it should introduce them to decentrality on a lower scale, with a handful of...

YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix (www.tomshardware.com)