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2026-05-26 08:33:40
Huawei introduced the Tau Scaling Law, a principle that can guide chip development as Moore's Law weakens.
Huawei said her team has spent the past six years applying it and has mass-produced 381 chips based on the approach.
The principle argues that the semiconductor industry should shift its focus from shrinking transistors to speeding up transmission speeds across devices, circuits, chips and computing systems. #processor
https://cybernews.com/ai-news/huawei-chip-queen-faster-chips-us-tech/
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2026-05-25 08:43:49
As the #EU’s landmark Big Tech market power regulation DMA enters its third year and faces a mandatory European Commission review, a growing chorus of voices are raising concerns that the tool — pitched as a way to fast-track enforcement in quick-moving digital markets — is too slow and unwieldy. #bigtech
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-big-tech-law-meant-to-move-fast-it-hasnt/
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2026-05-22 09:20:37
The €5 billion EU fund should be considered a starting point, analysts said, with significantly higher levels of capital needed to put the European technology sector on par with the US — where deployed venture and growth capital annually runs into the hundreds of billions of dollars – and China – which benefits from state-backed investments. #EU
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4175860/eu-moves-forward-on-5-8b-scale-up-fund-to-keep-startups-from-leaving.html
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2026-05-20 08:59:58
Review of a #degoogled #Android:
--- Ultimately, iodéOS feels less like a “hardcore security OS” and more like a privacy-focused Android for regular people, and for many users, that may be exactly the right balance.
https://cyberinsider.com/iodeos-review-privacy-focused-android-that-doesnt-get-in-your-way/
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2026-05-18 16:12:38
The key points of the European Commission proposal for simplifying Europe-wide travel booking and #train travel are the following. #EU #Europe #travel
https://klaava.com/major-improvement-for-train-passengers-planned-in-europe-single-tickets-for-cross-border-travel/
Major improvement for train passengers planned in Europe: single tickets for cross-border travel
2026-05-17 16:15:00
EU Commission has created an ambitious plan for streamlining the booking of train tickets in European Union countries. The Passenger Package proposal aims at allowing travelers to book a single ticket for a cross-border train journey that may include multiple rail operators. Additionally, travelers are planned to have the right … Read >
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2026-05-15 09:08:31
VR headset, voice transcript device, tablet or phone with keyboard?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-ditched-laptop-for-xr-headset-tablet-phone-what-i-learned/
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2026-05-13 08:16:23
Early adopters want the latest tech, but the mass market will be more difficult to convince:
--- Should AI or smart glasses products from more companies end up selling as well as #Meta's version, researchers expect as many as 100 million people will buy a pair in the next few years. #privacy
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj37z8357e5o
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2026-05-10 08:40:20
The emergence of nonconsensual #cloning of coworkers, bosses and ex-partners is a new challenge to our sense of right and wrong, and yet another way #AI is challenging us to step up and figure out how to respond.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4168535/ai-clones-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.html
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2026-05-08 08:55:54
It takes surprisingly little to crack the average password hash. #security
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/07/60-of-md5-password-hashes-are-crackable-in-under-an-hour/5234954
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2026-05-06 08:50:43
Misidentified as a shoplifter by face recognition #algorithm:
“It was scary but what was more scary was when I got home and started looking into Facewatch, I saw they share the information between loads of retailers.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/guilty-until-proven-innocent-shoppers-falsely-identified-by-facial-recognition-struggle-to-clear-their-name
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2026-05-04 08:37:34
The bad news is that software now purports to glean insights into the depths and vagaries of human emotion using #AI, and it is coming to watch you. The industry term is #emotion AI or sometimes affective computing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/05/worker-surveillance-emotion-ai/687029/
