With Google's CEO on the stand today in the search remedies trial, I wrote a brief @Digiday rundown about what witnesses from rivals — OpenAI, Perplexity, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo — said last week about buying possibly buying Chrome if given the chance. Link in the thread.
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Digital Collapse Risk: Blackout Exposes Hyperconnected Society Vulnerability
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El apagón del lunes sirvió como un ensayo general de un colapso digital total.
No solo dejó a millones de personas sin luz: también expuso nuestra vulnerabilidad como sociedad hiperconectada. ¿Podría haber sido peor? Sí. Y también mejor https://
elpais.com/opinion/2025-0
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Europe’s 2025 Digitalisation Report Released
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Digitalisation in Europe – 2025 edition out now https://
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#digitaleu #digital #europe #innovation #technology @DigitalEU @ArturHabant @elaniazito @BetaMoroney @Khulood_Almani @Timothy_Hughes @IanLJones98 @Fabriziobustama @CurieuxExplorer @Shi4Tech @enilev @AkwyZ -
Ukraine’s Rare Earth Elements and AI Industrial Infrastructure Development
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Inevitable. Now: what does Ukraine actually have in terms of REE? Existing surveys are out of date (Soviet Era.) But as I argue, this is directly correlated to the Industrial buildout of Intelligence.
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Restricting electricity for minors: absurd tech regulation critique
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Je propose d’interdire l’électricité avant 14 ans Ce serait aussi con ! Nous sommes en 2025…. C’est ridicule Accessoirement ça empêcherait nos gamins d’accéder à CHATGPT
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China’s Manus AI: Autonomous Agents Challenge Western Leadership
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The Next AI Battleground: Why China's Manus Could Leapfrog Western Agent Technology China's #ManusAI represents a significant leap from chatbots to #autonomous #agents capable of executing real-world tasks with minimal human oversight. As U.S. and Chinese tech powers race for
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Photo Geolocation Technology Reveals Privacy Intelligence Implications
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I’ve independently verified this, twice, and have to spoil the thread to say “Any photo outdoors can be trivially location matched in a fashion you’d assume would imply capabilities of an intelligence agency. If that is news to you, feel free to incorporate it into decisions.”
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Congressional AI Adoption: How Many Lawmakers Actually Use Prompts?
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I think I’m short “they checked out all this AI stuff at some point.” What’s your over/under on members of Congress who have actually, with their own two hands, typed more than 800 words into prompt boxes? I think I’m at “low dozens.”
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Gemini API geographic availability restrictions explained
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This is because your location does not support Gemini API
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Predatory Business Models: Not All Industries with Whales Are Problematic
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Broadly agree that one should not make predation machines, but I’m not convinced every industry with whales is ipso facto a predation machine.