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Sources: the UK government wants Apple, Google, and others to block explicit images at the OS level by default to protect kids and have adults verify their ages (www.ft.com)
8 days ago Google Apple

Analysis: Tata, Infosys, and Cognizant are set to bear the brunt of Trump's $100K H-1B fee; from 2020 to 2024, 93% of Infosys' H-1B hires would have had to pay (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Trump H1B

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon's rivalry is moving beyond ads with explicit customer poaching efforts and lawsuits; AT&T twice blocked T-Mobile's Easy Switch tool (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago Mobile AT&T

DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust (www.ft.com)
9 days ago AI

London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (tech.eu)
9 days ago AI London

US sets out condition for Ukraine security guarantees – Axios (www.rt.com)
9 days ago Ukraine

Regional leaders reject Guinea-Bissau military transition plan (www.rt.com)
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Meeting the challenge of violent extremism (www.lowyinstitute.org)
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What we know about the Bondi attack (www.lowyinstitute.org)
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Filing: Reddit says in its lawsuit against Australia's social media ban that it is “a collection of public fora” and social interaction isn't its “sole purpose” (www.businessinsider.com)
9 days ago Australia Ban Reddit

US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago Equity

‘No candidates' for key Ukrainian cabinet posts – Reuters (www.rt.com)
9 days ago Ukraine

Western officials ‘alarmed' over secret FBI-Ukraine meetings – WaPo (www.rt.com)
9 days ago FBI Ukraine

AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley (www.theverge.com)
9 days ago AI

Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: job losses to AI, work used for training, falling wages and rates, freelancers losing clients, and more (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
9 days ago AI Freelance

How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame the opposition to Trump's AI EO, reaching out to lawmakers and finally modifying the text of the order (www.washingtonpost.com)
9 days ago Trump AI

EU's use of emergency powers on Russian assets will backfire – MEP (www.rt.com)
9 days ago Russia Europe Asset

Russia offers world-class engineering and technical education (www.rt.com)
9 days ago Russia

Microsoft: December security updates cause Message Queuing failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago Microsoft

Are Warnings of Superintelligence 'Inevitability' Masking a Grab for Power? (slashdot.org)
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How Nvidia's lobbying efforts grew after Howard Lutnick brokered Jensen Huang's access to Trump, ending with the president's approval of the H200 sales to China (t.co)
9 days ago Trump China Nvidia

“Identity is never fixed:” Interview with Iranian-American Artist Soraya Sharghi (www.juancole.com)
9 days ago U.S. Interview Iran

“Into this Universe:” Heidegger and FitzGerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:29 (www.juancole.com)
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Conflict in Mecca: The Prophet Muhammad and Soft Power (www.juancole.com)
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Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (www.theinformation.com)
9 days ago Oracle

SpaceX Alleges a Chinese-Deployed Satellite Risked Colliding with Starlink (science.slashdot.org)
9 days ago China SpaceX

Two dead in shooting rampage at elite US university (www.rt.com)
9 days ago

Bondi terror: sometimes we just need to pause and reflect (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
9 days ago Terrorism

EU state jails anti-NATO politicians for ‘treason' (www.rt.com)
9 days ago Europe

A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago China Amazon

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