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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Analysis: 50%+ of the US households showing highly-distorted power readings from February to October were within 20 miles of significant data center activity (Bloomberg)

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Four districts in southern China announce a pilot framework for connected cars, with the goal of allowing autonomous robotaxis to travel across cities (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

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Microsoft says that the issues with Xbox Cloud Gaming have been resolved after users experienced long wait times when launching games for over a day (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)

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Oracle's shares are up ~63% in 2024, lifting Larry Ellison's net worth to $217B+, as the company enjoyed its biggest stock rally since 1999 and the dot-com boom (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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A look at the EU's common charging regulations, which come into force on Dec. 28 and cover USB-C ports, fast charging, unbundling of charging bricks, and more (Callum Booth/The Verge)

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A profile of Tron founder Justin Sun, who wants to be the "Elon Musk of the crypto world" and advises the Trump-backed crypto project World Liberty Financial (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

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Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship and claim they were stripped of their X verification badges after challenging his views on H-1B visas (Angrej Singh/Axios)

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Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to "pursue a political resolution" of the dispute (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI is tripling the size of its DC policy team to 12 and beefing up its lobbying as it tries to promote a sweeping plan for cheaper energy to data centers (Mohar Chatterjee/Politico)

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DeepSeek-V3 sometimes identifies itself as ChatGPT when asked which model it is; some speculate that its training datasets may contain text generated by ChatGPT (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Bookkeeping startup Bench, which raised $100M+ including from Shopify, closes down effective immediately; several employees say Bench also laid off staff (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

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Eight free-speech groups, including the EFF, and three members of Congress file briefs with SCOTUS in support of TikTok's appeal against the divest-or-ban law (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Experts say hackers compromised several companies' Chrome browser extensions, including Cyberhaven's, in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December (Reuters)

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The US says it has identified a ninth telecom company impacted by the Salt Typhoon hacks, and the number of individuals directly impacted is "less than 100" (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)

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Sydney-based Sitemate, which offers no-code software tools for industries like infrastructure and utilities, raised a AU$27.5M Series A at a ~AU$150M valuation (Shivaune Field/Forbes Australia)

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Meta expects AI-generated characters to "generate and share content" and "over time, exist on our platforms", similarly to regular accounts (Financial Times)

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TSMC says it has started mass production at its first factory in Japan, located in Kumamoto, producing 12nm to 28nm chips for use in cars and image sensors (Kyodo News+)

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Montenegro says Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will be extradited to the US, potentially ending a standoff over competing demands by the US and South Korea (Bloomberg)

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OpenAI says the PBC will oversee commercial operations, and the nonprofit will hire staff to pursue charitable activities in health care, education, and science (Hayden Field/CNBC)

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OpenAI says its non-profit arm would receive shares in the new public benefit corporation at a valuation determined by independent financial advisors (Cade Metz/New York Times)

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