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US eyes more AI chip curbs on Chinese companies to close loophole (amp.scmp.com)

UK Tech Festival Showcases Startups Using AI for Creative Industries | NVIDIA Blog (blogs.nvidia.com)

Idemia: the hidden face of the French leader in biometric identity (www-francetvinfo-fr.translate.goog)

Google Just Made a Bittersweet Announcement. It's the End of an Era (www.inc.com)

Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits (apnews.com)

Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits::Utah has become the latest state to sue TikTok, alleging the social media company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy habits.

Google's enshittification memos (pluralistic.net)

When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.

USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (www.pcgamer.com)

Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS (appleinsider.com)

Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS::The IRS sent a surprise bill to Microsoft, hitting the company with a $28.9 billion bill for back taxes and penalties spanning a decade, starting in 2003.

Microsoft to kill off VBScript in Windows to block malware delivery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

[UK] Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away (www.bbc.com)

‘Overhyped’ generative AI will get a ‘cold shower’ in 2024, analysts predict (www.cnbc.com)

‘Overhyped’ generative AI will get a ‘cold shower’ in 2024, analysts predict::Analyst firm CCS Insight predicts generative AI will get a “cold shower” in 2024 as concerns over growing costs replace the “hype” surrounding the technology.

Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone (www.theregister.com)

Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone::Bernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case

More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars (jalopnik.com)

The weights for Show-1 have been released (github.com)

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New Raspberry Pi 5 comes with PCIe 2.0 x1 interface and power button (www.raspberrypi.com)

Broadcom BCM2712 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with cryptography extensions, 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache...

X removes hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts since attack, CEO says (www.reuters.com)

X removes hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts since attack, CEO says::undefined

Google announces updates to privacy controls related to browsing history, Password Manager and more | TechCrunch (blog.google)

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Intel might have slipped that Windows 12 is indeed coming next year | Company CFO sees benefits of a coming "Windows Refresh" (www.techspot.com)

Intel might have slipped that Windows 12 is indeed coming next year | Company CFO sees benefits of a coming “Windows Refresh”::undefined

I made a user script for youtube that adds a piped button beside each vid. (greasyfork.org)

I made a user script that will make a button on each video which jump you to piped, that way you can continue to use YT to manage your subscriptions and see your feed, but you never have to watch to video there

How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug (arstechnica.com)

Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle as Resellers Charge $250 (www.404media.co)

You’ve just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription | Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money... (www.theregister.com)

You’ve just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription | Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money…::Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money…

Six months ago NPR left X. The effects have been negligible — X wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic (niemanreports.org)

Six months ago NPR left X. The effects have been negligible — X wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic::Covering thought leadership in journalism

Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat Devices (www.thedrive.com)

Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat Devices::The Department of Justice alleges that eBay illegally sold 343,011 emissions defeat devices, and could face billions in penalties.