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Politico: The contract would last five years and has already been approved by the Italian intelligence services and Ministry of Defense. If successful, SpaceX would provide encryption services for the government and communications infrastructure for the military and emergency services. Musk's Italy representative Stroppa said in his post
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9to5Mac: The Chinese government forced Apple to remove VPN apps from the App Store there way back in 2017, and the company is now having to do the same in India. Link Blocking VPN apps is close to simply asking people not to use VPN. Anybody who signs up for
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Wall Street Journal: Before the dinner, Zuckerberg did a private demonstration for Trump of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, which he gifted to the president-elect, the people familiar with the discussions said. Zuckerberg’s team told the inaugural fund before the dinner that Meta planned to donate, one of the
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Financial Times, on Russian-backed campaign in Romania (paywalled): The Russian-backed influence campaign that prompted Romania to scrap its presidential election result echoes operations carried out in Moldova and other countries this year, according to Romanian intelligence reports and Moldovan officials. The short story is that presidential elections in Romania were
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The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote next week on an annual defense bill that includes just over $3 billion to help U.S. telecom companies remove equipment made by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE from American wireless networks. Link I may be missing something here: US
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This is an automated, AI managed, human washing machine, that gets you cleaned in 15 minutes. It also assesses your stress level and directs water jets to your tensioned muscles. The machine's designer was Manatsu Ueda, a 90-year-old resident of Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture And: The human washing machine
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The Browser Company, makers of ARC browser, are making another AI-based browser. This time better and smarter, it is called DIA and it is fully AI-based. Take a look: https://vimeo.com/1035951032 (I cannot link to X, it is against my religion…)
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The Biden administration said Tuesday that it would award up to $7.86 billion in direct funding to Intel, with the U.S. chip giant set to receive at least $1 billion of that money before the end of the year. The money is a reduction from Intel’s preliminary
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An "experimental art installation" dubbed "Deus in Machina" by the St. Peter's Church in Lucerne has seen a confessional booth outfitted with a vertically aligned monitor, a bunch of computer equipment and a big blue button for adventurous penitents willing to ask questions to
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“We’ve been impressed by Anthropic’s pace of innovation and commitment to responsible development of generative A.I., and look forward to deepening our collaboration,” Matt Garman, the chief executive of Amazon’s cloud computing division, AWS, said in a blog post announcing the deal. Link Let’s see
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These actions are in part a response to Republicans’ complaints that media companies and advertisers have silenced conservative voices, according to six people who have worked with major advertisers. Some of those criticisms have led to legal action: In August, Elon Musk’s X sued a coalition of large advertisers,
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The ChatGPT owner recently considered developing a web browser that it would combine with its chatbot, and it has separately discussed or struck deals to power search features for travel, food, real estate and retail websites, according to people who have seen prototypes or designs of the products. OpenAI has