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US may pay 3x more than EU for Moderna’s US-funded COVID shot (arstechnica.com)

Compared with other countries, the US is again seeing exorbitant prices for a medicine—even one it helped develop....

Military leaders back Biden decision to keep Space Command in Colorado (www.stripes.com)

Military leaders back Biden decision to keep Space Command in Colorado::Military leaders on Thursday defended President Joe Biden’s decision to nix U.S. Space Command’s planned move from Colorado to Alabama as a necessary and nonpolitical decision to avoid operational problems.

Taliban meets Huawei to discuss mass surveillance plan in Afghanistan (www.verdict.co.uk)

Is Wealth University job application process a scam? (www.wealthuniversity.io)

I just had a inquiry call with the person in charge of the site and it all seems to good to be true. 1,000$ and they handle the workload to get you a job offer you like. They apply to 30-50 jobs a day on your behalf until you have a job. They also mentor your through the entire process. I can’t find any reviews of comments...

Haikun: Taiwan unveils new submarine to fend off China (www.bbc.com)

Taiwan has unveiled its first domestically-made submarine as it bolsters its defences against a possible Chinese attack....

New Orleans officials seek to build a freshwater pipeline as saltwater wedge inches closer (www.cnn.com)

Water barges and salt-filtering reverse osmosis units will not be enough to prevent saltwater from contaminating New Orleans’ largest water facility, officials said at city council meeting on Wednesday. Instead, a pipeline will be needed to deliver freshwater from upstream — not just for New Orleans, but likely for...

Introducing GNOME 45 – The GNOME Foundation (foundation.gnome.org)

FCC announces plans to resurrect net neutrality rules. (www.theverge.com)

FCC announces plans to resurrect net neutrality rules.::The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules meant to guarantee fair access to the internet and its information.

FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality (techcrunch.com)

FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality::After a long battle and eventual defeat, the FCC is set to reinstate rules that broadband providers must treat all internet traffic equally.

LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find (venturebeat.com)

Senate leaders reach deal on short-term spending bill in push to avert shutdown (www.cnn.com)

With just days to go before the government runs out of money, the Senate has unveiled a bipartisan stopgap bill in a bid to avert a shutdown – but there’s no guarantee that it will be able to pass in the House....

Creating a centralized podcast destination on YouTube Music (blog.youtube)

US offers Poland rare loan of $2 billion to modernize its military (apnews.com)

How to Hide a $2 Trillion (Google) Antitrust Trial (www.thebignewsletter.com)

We did an analysis of the Google antitrust trial. Last week, over half of the trial was held behind closed doors because the judge, Amit Mehta, is deferring to Google on the need for secrecy.

18 dollar Cocktail (i.imgur.com)

T-Mobile users say other people’s account information is appearing in their app (www.theverge.com)

Matrix 2.0: Radically faster client, OAuth logins and native video calls (matrix.org)

Back at FOSDEM we announced the idea of Matrix 2.0 - a series of huge step changes in terms of Matrix’s usability and performance, made up of Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC(industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins...