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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
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Ahead of COP30, the State of the Energy Union Report 2025 shows progress towards our targets.
Clean, affordable energy and continued efforts to cut emissions remain crucial in reaching our security, independence, competitiveness, and climate neutrality objectives.
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My Trade Secrets today. Trump is signing geopolitical trade deals in Asia which let the US dictate countries' trade policy and turn them against China.
But I reckon governments can steer a middle course if they're smart and nimble. (I speak to Malaysia's trade minister, who unsurprisingly agrees.)
on.ft.com
The US can’t force Asian countries into its trade camp
[FREE TO READ] Trump’s deals with Malaysia and Cambodia will not turn them into economic satellites in a cold war of commerce
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Refund requests flood Microsoft after tricking users into AI upgrades www.afr.com/technology/m...
www.afr.com
Refund requests flood Microsoft after tricking users into AI upgrades
The software company wrote to Australian customers to apologise for a lack of transparency when it increased fees for Office plans by up to 45 per cent.
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This article is a really, really stunning example of how wind power is received in Norway.
A proposed wind farm site right next to a massive highway and industrial area is being opposed on the grounds that it 'destroys nature' and is too noisy
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www.nrk.no
Mener vindkraft er verre enn motorvei og industri
Vindkraftmotstandere i Grimstad foretrekker både E18 og industriområder fremfor vindkraft. Forsker mener vindturbiner har blitt et symbol på en feilslått energipolitikk.
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“A bill that’s expected to pass early next year would change copyright law by imposing a ban on the sharing of deepfakes to protect citizens’ personal characteristics — such as their appearance or voice — from being imitated and shared online without their consent”
apnews.com/article/denm...
apnews.com
Denmark eyes new law to protect citizens from AI deepfakes
Deepfakes have become not only easier to make worldwide but also look or sound exponentially more realistic thanks to technological advances and the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence...
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“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
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How NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans:
Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech….
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How Big Tech uses NDAs to hide AI data center details from Americans
Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards.
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The AI boom is driving coordinated innovation in the US as it builds fabs and energy infrastructure that could have lasting value even if the bubble bursts (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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"Sarah Friar, the CFO of OpenAI, says the company wants a federal guarantee to make it easier to finance massive investments in AI chips for data centers. Friar spoke at WSJ’s Tech Live event in California." www.wsj.com/video/openai...
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This has been an extraordinary set of data to process: 1.3B unique passwords, 2B unique email addresses (including mine 😭) and almost 3M of our @haveibeenpwned.com subscribers in there. It’s been weeks of processing to get this loaded, and finally, it’s done www.troyhunt.com/2-billio….
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2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned
I hate hyperbolic news headlines about data breaches, but for the "2 Billion Email Addresses" headline to be hyperbolic, it'd need to be exaggerated or overstated - and it isn't. It's rounded up from ...
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New Podcast Episode:
Intelligent Machines: Poob Has It For You
Spiky Superintelligence vs. Generality
with @leolaporte.me, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social, @paris.nyc, Jeremy Berman
twit.tv
Poob Has It For You | TWiT.TV
Is today’s AI stuck as a “spiky superintelligence,” brilliant at some things but clueless at others? This episode pulls back the curtain on a lunchroom full of AI researchers
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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this is far from over - bonnie prince billy www.youtube.com/watch?v=O…. (nice lullaby)
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "This is Far From Over" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Drag City
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"How we choose to act now will determine whether our shared basis for reality — what we see and hear — remains trustworthy."
Generative video's threat to visual truth and what we can do about it, and why concerted action matters now, in @transformernews.ai
www.transformernews.ai/p/….
www.transformernews.ai
Sora Is Here. The window to save visual truth is closing
Opinion: Sam Gregory argues that generative video is undermining the notion of a shared reality, and that we need to act before it’s lost forever
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This will weed out the posers: "New bipartisan bill would require companies to report AI job losses." www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/a...
www.cnbc.com
New bipartisan bill would require companies to report AI job losses
The AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act would require companies and federal agencies to submit quarterly reports of "AI-related job effects."
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Repeat after me: Do not fill in and sync your government ID data to your Google account
blog.google/products/chr...
blog.google
Chrome now helps you fill in passport, driver’s license, vehicle information and more.
Chrome already saves you time every day by securely filling in your addresses, passwords and payment information. Today, we’re making it even more helpful. For desktop u…
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Wow -- look at OpenAI trying to shift responsibility to the users:
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www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
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The question everyone wants an answer to is: How will the bubble pop?
www.wired.com/story/ai-nor...
www.wired.com
The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down
When the AI bubble bursts, the nerds will do their best work.
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Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit
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Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit
Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don’t want Microsoft Australia has apologized to users of its M365 suite after regulators accused it of steering them towards pricey bundles that include its Copilot AI service.…
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Taiwan FORMOSAT-8 satellite arrives in California for launch
Satellite named after filmmaker Chi Po-lin set for launch mid-November
www.taiwannews.com.tw/new…
www.taiwannews.com.tw
Taiwan FORMOSAT-8 satellite arrives in California for launch | Taiwan News | Nov. 3, 2025 08:33
Satellite named after filmmaker Chi Po-lin set for launch mid-November | Nov. 3, 2025 08:33
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"The Democratic sweep of gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey and public service commissioner races in Georgia offers an early glimpse of what could be a sleeper issue in the 2026 midterm elections: the politics of AI infrastructure."
fortune.com
The under-the-radar factor that helped Democrats win in Virginia, New Jersey, and Georgia | Fortune
As the AI land rush accelerates, local fights over water, power, and land may shape who wins and loses in American politics.
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Whoops: Your ‘Smart’ Vacuum May Be Broadcasting A 3D Map Of Your Home
We've long established that modern "smart" devices aren't always all that smart. Whether it's "smart" door locks that are easily hacked to gain entry, "smart" refrigerators that leak your Gmail credentials, or "smart" vehicles…
www.techdirt.com
Whoops: Your ‘Smart’ Vacuum May Be Broadcasting A 3D Map Of Your Home
We've long established that modern "smart" devices aren't always all that smart. Whether it's "smart" door locks that are easily hacked to gain entry, "smart" refrigerators that leak your Gmail credentials, or "smart" vehicles that sell data to insurance companies without your permission, the act of modernizing something with internet access and a CPU isn't always a…
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They cited past cyberattacks from Beijing as evidence of the threats posed by Chinese tech in areas like AI or energy generation. via @timstarks.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/house-gop-le...
cyberscoop.com
House GOP leaders seek government probe, restrictions on Chinese-made tech
They cited past cyberattacks from Beijing as evidence of the threats posed by Chinese tech in areas like AI or energy generation.
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A federal judge has reimposed a sentence on Paige Thompson, the former Amazon Web Services engineer convicted in the 2019 Capital One data breach that compromised the personal information of more than 100 million people. via @gregotto.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/court-reimpo...
cyberscoop.com
Court reimposes original sentence for Capital One hacker
A federal judge has reimposed a sentence on Paige Thompson, the former Amazon Web Services engineer convicted in the 2019 Capital One data breach that compromised the personal information of more than...
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