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Microsoft’s cozy AI ties with China raise eyebrows in the US: ‘Make the world less safe’ (nypost.com)

The Vergecast USB-C Holiday Spec-tacular (www.theverge.com)

This was deeply silly and sort of made my day. Much more entertaining and funny that I expected from two hours of usb talk. Game show! This is a downer time of year for a lot of us so i hereby offer this little low stakes bright spot.

Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of ‘Suspected’ Child Sexual Abuse Material (www.404media.co)

Google’s loss to Epic Games leads to $700M settlement with users, states (arstechnica.com)

The man leading Kenyan content moderators’ battle against Meta (restofworld.org)

Teens, Social Media and Technology 2023 - Pew Research (www.pewresearch.org)

Spoutible Introduces Cross-Posting to Mastodon and Bluesky (wedistribute.org)

Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI (www.youtube.com)

cross-posted from: jemmy.jeena.net/post/413507...

IBM claims quantum computing research milestone (www.ft.com)

The papers presented on Monday are the work of IBM and partners including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Tokyo. They focus mainly on areas such as simulating quantum physics and solving problems in chemistry and materials science....

IBM releases 1,000+ qubit processor, roadmap to error correction (arstechnica.com)

Google search ads spotted in compromising placements (techcrunch.com)

Rhysida, the new ransomware gang behind British Library cyber-attack (www.theguardian.com)

Chinese companies are turning banned RTX 4090 cards into AI products (www.techspot.com)

Ransomware Awareness Part 3— Fixing (medium.com)

(Video) Obama warns big tech about lies amid outcry over Musk's 'antisemitism' & racist 'replacement' theory (www.youtube.com)

Plastic Waste in the Fuel Tank? (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

Consumer societies produce enough plastic waste to power at least 10% of motorized road traffic. Dutch designer Gijs Schalkx grabbed the opportunity and now drives his car on the plastic waste he collects.

This 3D-printed soft robotic hand has 'bones,' 'ligaments,' and 'tendons' (www.popsci.com)

TikTok and Meta challenge Europe's new rules that crack down on digital giants (apnews.com)

The world’s fastest temporary internet service gets turned on in Denver for one week only - The Colorado Sun (coloradosun.com)

Fascinating what we can do when there’s lots of money available and a lot of bright, motivated people. This is my home state so, heck yeah!

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