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Aston Martin Valkyrie GTP Performing About As Well As Its Last Prototype

Aston Martin Valkyrie GTP Performing About As Well...

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News influencers survey: 20% of US adults say they get news from social media influencers, 85% of influencers are on X and 27% identify as right-wing, and more (Pew Research Center)

News influencers survey: 20% of US adults say they...

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Low Cost Spirit Airlines Files For Bankruptcy, Promises All Tickets Remain Valid

Low Cost Spirit Airlines Files For Bankruptcy, Pro...

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What Are Your Worst Mechanic Stories?

What Are Your Worst Mechanic Stories?

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Trump Does Tesla A Favor, Plans To Make It Easier For Self-Driving Cars To Hit The Road

Trump Does Tesla A Favor, Plans To Make It Easier ...

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Australian Company Wants EV Owners To Volunteer Their Cars As Generators When Natural Disasters Hit

Australian Company Wants EV Owners To Volunteer Th...

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Traffic Jams: The Avalanches - 'Because I'm Me'

Traffic Jams: The Avalanches - 'Because I'm Me'

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Check Your Engine Bay For Giant Snakes

Check Your Engine Bay For Giant Snakes

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MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds $29B in bitcoin (Dave Liedtka/Bloomberg)

MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B be...

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A Rope And A Milk Carton Make The Only Fake EV Sound You Need

A Rope And A Milk Carton Make The Only Fake EV Sou...

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At $3,600, Will This 1985 Volvo 245DL Go The Distance?

At $3,600, Will This 1985 Volvo 245DL Go The Dista...

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PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of shares back to investors, the lowest amount since 2011, and invested $60B more than they collected, a record (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of ...

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Roblox rolls out parental controls and gatekeeping features, like letting parents link accounts with a child and banning text chat for under 13s outside games (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)

Roblox rolls out parental controls and gatekeeping...

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Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt begins an early trial of its digital wallet in Belgium to help deliver social services to 7M citizens, as he worries over AI's rise (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt begins an early trial of ...

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How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to buy it in April 2023 (New York Times)

How Substack is betting on politics content and re...

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Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$12.8B, above ~$12.4B est., and a ~$738.5M net income, above ~$653M est., buoyed by growing smartphone and EV sales (Bloomberg)

Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$12.8B, a...

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Sources and ads: Foxconn tells recruiters that help hire iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age, gender, and marital criteria and its name from ads (Reuters)

Sources and ads: Foxconn tells recruiters that hel...

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Samsung unveils a $7.2B share buyback plan, its first since 2017, aimed at boosting its stock, which has fallen 30%+ in 2024 on concerns over Chair Lee Jae-yong (Financial Times)

Samsung unveils a $7.2B share buyback plan, its fi...

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Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on upcoming FCC chair Brendan Carr, the alliance between Trump and Musk and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more (Oliver Darcy/Status)

Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on upcoming FCC...

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How Wall Street is preparing to cash on AI hysteria; analysis say delivering on AI's promise will require $1T+ for data centers, electricity, and more (Bloomberg)

How Wall Street is preparing to cash on AI hysteri...

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Chinese smartphone manufacturers are ramping up their efforts in Europe to grab marketshare from Apple and Samsung with tech such as foldable devices (Financial Times)

Chinese smartphone manufacturers are ramping up th...

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Edison: 31% of US weekly podcast listeners say YouTube is their most used platform to listen to podcasts, surpassing Spotify at 27% and Apple Podcasts at 15% (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Edison: 31% of US weekly podcast listeners say You...

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Trump: FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the FCC; Carr has suggested limiting Section 230 of the Communications Act to curb Big Tech content moderation (Bloomberg)

Trump: FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair th...

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Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chair the agency; Carr can immediately assume control once Trump is inaugurated as he is already on the commission (John Hendel/Politico)

Trump says FCC commissioner Brendan Carr will chai...

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Sources detail efforts by Google and Meta to sink KOSA, which passed in the Senate almost unanimously, by dividing US House lawmakers with culture war issues (Wall Street Journal)

Sources detail efforts by Google and Meta to sink ...

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Sources: Trump's transition team is looking for candidates to lead the US Department of Transportation and develop a federal framework for autonomous vehicles (Bloomberg)

Sources: Trump's transition team is looking for ca...

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Sources: CISA's director Jen Easterly and deputy director Nitin Natarajan plan to leave the agency on January 20, 2025, the day Trump will be inaugurated (Nextgov/FCW)

Sources: CISA's director Jen Easterly and deputy d...

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An interview with El Salvador's top crypto regulator Juan Carlos Reyes on taking a tech-minded approach to crypto regulation, how his agency works, and more (Tom Carreras/CoinDesk)

An interview with El Salvador's top crypto regulat...

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Q&A with Future of Life Institute co-founder Max Tegmark on AGI, how Elon Musk could constructively engage with the Trump administration on AI safety, and more (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

Q&A with Future of Life Institute co-founder Max T...

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Sources: in recent months, Nvidia has asked its suppliers to change the design of server racks for Blackwell GPUs several times to overcome overheating problems (The Information)

Sources: in recent months, Nvidia has asked its su...

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Sources: Tata Electronics agrees to buy a 60% stake in Pegatron's iPhone plant in Tamil Nadu, India, forming a joint venture, and will run the daily operations (Reuters)

Sources: Tata Electronics agrees to buy a 60% stak...

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How Tim Cook may navigate Trump's presidency, a closer look at Apple's upcoming smart home command center, sources detail a new AirTag coming in 2025, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

How Tim Cook may navigate Trump's presidency, a cl...

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Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu (Daniela Dib/Rest of World)

Research center Bitácora Social estimates t...

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Q&A with Jakob Uszkoreit on his contribution to the Attention Is All You Need paper, Google's conservatism, ChatGPT's success, biological computers, and more (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Q&A with Jakob Uszkoreit on his contribution to th...

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The US FTC's DNC Registry data shows the agency received ~1.1M consumer complaints about robocalls in FY 2024, down from ~1.2M in FY 2023 and 3.4M+ in FY 2021 (Federal Trade Commission)

The US FTC's DNC Registry data shows the agency re...

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US DHS issues guidance on adopting AI in critical infrastructure, identifying AI-driven attacks, targeted attacks on AI systems, and design flaws as core risks (GovTech)

US DHS issues guidance on adopting AI in critical ...

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Internal memo: Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone said the Tyson-Paul boxing bout peaked at 65M concurrent viewers, rivaling some of the most-watched sporting events (Bloomberg)

Internal memo: Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone said th...

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FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the UK's Ministry of Justice about using its tech to calculate the "reoffending risks" of prisoners (Ben Quinn/The Guardian)

FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the...

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Ukraine's drone suppliers are using US-based Auterion's tech to ramp up production of automated attack drones that are cheap and can evade electronic jamming (Wall Street Journal)

Ukraine's drone suppliers are using US-based Auter...

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Bluesky is working to become fully decentralized but it could take years amid financial concerns as it makes money only by selling domains for usernames (Gavin Anderegg/anderegg.ca)

Bluesky is working to become fully decentralized b...

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Some GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits; a Texas researcher claims someone is impersonating him to make the submissions and smear him (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)

Some GitHub projects have been targeted with malic...

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Sources: ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300B as part of a recent buyback offer, one of its highest valuations ever (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300...

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A profile of and an interview with Aura Salla, a f...

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City-Ruining Self-Driving Cars And The Billionaires Who Love Them In This Week's Beyond Cars Roundup

City-Ruining Self-Driving Cars And The Billionaire...

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MAGA Cars, Automotive Gimmicks And Cars That Could Save Stellantis In This Week's QOTD Roundup

MAGA Cars, Automotive Gimmicks And Cars That Could...

6 days ago 5

Tesla Hits A Trillion, Guy Destroys Cars Dressed As Bear And Trump Hates Buses In This Week's Car Culture Roundup

Tesla Hits A Trillion, Guy Destroys Cars Dressed A...

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Depreciating Porsche Taycan And A 'Cheap' Mercedes-AMG GT In This Week's Car Buying Roundup

Depreciating Porsche Taycan And A 'Cheap' Mercedes...

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Dodge Focuses On Gas-Powered Charger Meanwhile There's Plenty Still For Sale From 2 Years Ago In This Week's News Roundup

Dodge Focuses On Gas-Powered Charger Meanwhile The...

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An interview with Apple's Tim Millet and Tom Boger on Apple's chip strategy, making big changes to the Neural Engine after the 2017 transformer paper, and more (Nandagopal Rajan/The Indian Express)

An interview with Apple's Tim Millet and Tom Boger...

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How To Unlock LinkedIn Premium For Free

How To Unlock LinkedIn Premium For Free

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