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

An in-depth look at Elon Musk's criticisms of Wikipedia, as he joins a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking information sources outside their control (Molly White/Citation Needed)

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Microsoft says it expects to spend $80B in FY 2025 on the construction of data centers that can handle AI workloads, with 50%+ of the spending in the US (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Sources: Getty Images is exploring a merger with rival Shutterstock; Getty jumped 13% for a $983M market value, Shutterstock rose 7.9% for a $1.1B market value (Bloomberg)

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After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in "an early experiment", and it is deleting the profiles (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

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That Elon Musk 'Adrian Dittmann' screenshot is almost certainly fake (The Verge)

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Apple Intelligence, with features like Genmoji and Image Playground in iOS 18.2, requires 7GB of storage, compared to 4GB in iOS 18.1 (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)

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The US sanctions Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology over its alleged links to China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

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An unredacted lawsuit from Utah's AG claims TikTok has long known that TikTok Live promoted sexual content streams to minors and facilitated money laundering (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)

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Elon Musk fanboy Adrian Dittmann's X activity and alleged 4chan posts suggest he might be Musk's fake online persona; source: the viral 4chan screenshot is fake (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Meta required a public statesman like Nick Clegg after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but now turns to the in-house Republican Joel Kaplan to appease Trump (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)

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Influencer marketing company Later acquires Mavely, which pays commissions to social-media creators for the sales they generate, for $250M in cash and stock (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)

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Apple and Strava partner to feature Strava athletes in Apple Fitness+ programming, add more detailed Fitness+ workout summaries in the Strava app, and more (Victoria Song/The Verge)

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China says shipments of foreign smartphones, including iPhones, fell 47.4% YoY in November, after a 44.25% YoY drop in October, marking four months of decline (Reuters)

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Tass: a Russian court orders Yandex to hide access to maps and photos of a Russian oil refinery from search results due to repeated attacks by Ukrainian drones (Alexander Marrow/Reuters)

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A look at the Texas Responsible AI Governance Act, which was formally introduced in the Texas legislature and has very broad negligence liability for developers (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)

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China plans to expand its national consumer subsidies to smartphone, tablet, and smartwatch purchases to boost domestic spending as external headwinds pick up (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Apple and Google removed over six VPN apps, including Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1, from their Indian app stores after the government issued removal orders (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

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Google fixes a days-old issue wherein Nest Hub and Nest Audio devices stopped responding to basic commands, like about the weather and the time, for many users (Rita El Khoury/Android Authority)

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Car rental app Turo, which uses a risk algorithm to screen drivers, was used to book trucks in both fatal New Year's Day incidents in Las Vegas and New Orleans (Bloomberg)

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Anthropic agrees with three publishers to stop Claude from providing lyrics to their songs or new lyrics based on copyrighted content, pending a court ruling (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)

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