Tootfinder

Slack launches Slack Lists, a new feature for paid users to integrate project and task management into the app, including helping to structure conversations (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2024/06/06/sa…

Brandgefahr: Humane warnt vor Ladecase des AI Pin
Der Hersteller Humane rät davon ab, das Ladecase des KI-Gadgets AI Pin zu benutzen. In mindestens einem Fall sei es zu einem Brand gekommen.
https://www.<…

Russia’s war on Ukraine. 30.05.2024: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/05/russias-war-on.html

Yeah. OK. Good.
“Diamond industry ‘in trouble’ as lab-grown gemstones tank prices further”
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/05/diamond-industry-in-trouble-as-lab-grown-gemstones-tank-prices-further.html

Diamond industry 'in trouble' as lab-grown gemstones tank prices further
"A diamond is forever," but perhaps not for the increasing number of consumers who are spurning the gemstone for its lab-grown counterparts and gold.

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Der aktuelle BAföG-Höchstsatz ist 812€.
Jetzt überlegt mal, wie Ihr davon Miete in Berlin zahlen sollt. Und dann noch alles andere.

Comedy Pet Photo Awards
#FunnyPhotos

Comedy Pet Photo Awards winners announced, with image of dog squeezing through cat flap taking out top prize
A cat stuck in a hole, a dog who looks like his owner, and a Tarzan flying cat are among the winners of the 2024 Comedy Pet Photo Awards.  

NDR 1 Radio Niedersachsen: "Tag des offenen Hofes": Besichtige niedersächsische Aprikosenfarmen und staune wie gut die niedersäschsischen Landwirte sich auf den niedersächsischen Klimawandel eingestellt haben. :thisisfine: :no_pony_farm_blitzdings:
@…
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"NewsEye Project Wins European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2024" https://www.newseye.eu/europa-nostra-award-2024/
"The NewsEye project aims to enhance access to historical European newspapers (1850-1950) for researchers, libraries, and the genera…

Sources: Washington Post CEO Will Lewis criticized Sally Buzbee's judgment in publishing a May 2024 article about a UK phone-hacking lawsuit that involved him (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/business/media/washington-post…

Clash Over Phone Hacking Article Preceded Exit of Washington Post Editor
Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.

I stopped using Adobe software a few years ago, I just didn’t use it enough and was happy with the iPad and Mac alternatives.
I don’t do enough graphics design work to justify subscriptions (not even Figma that everyone loves)

Oh dear sounds like protection is in order: Virus that causes COVID-19 can remain in sperm for 110 days after infection
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-virus-covid-sperm-days-infection.html

Virus that causes COVID-19 can remain in sperm for 110 days after infection
Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have shown for the first time that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can remain in the sperm of patients for up to 90 days after hospital discharge and up to 110 days after the initial infection, reducing semen quality. The study is reported in an article published in the journal Andrology. The authors suggest that people who plan to have children should observe a period of "quarantine" after recovering from COVID-19.

Do my eyes deceive me....a sign for the #Cardiff bus interchange in central square!!!
#Caerdydd

Note that this is the same high school where those students back in 2018 posed for a group photo doing Nazi salutes.
From @…:
https://mas.to/@obeto/11256573007789486…

The hard choices facing the #EU as we go to vote in the #EP2024 elections. The populist right is flourishing and 3 women have an unusually important role to play.
🎁 The Economist You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
The three women who will shape Europe
https://econ.st/3VrMU1o

Ihr wollt es doch auch!
Biddescheen:
Extra 3 Extra: Verkehr (vom 05.06.2024)
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL25kci5kZS85XzIwMjQtMDYtMDUtMjItMDA
@…

#Wizardry は救出チームが順調に成長中。 :bis: を連れずに前列を :fig: :fig: :fig: にしたのが良かったのかもしれない。

Opioid and Asbestos Billionaires’ Make Political Donations to Dodge Justice
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/06/03/opioid-and-asbestos-billionaires-make-political-donations-to-dodge-justice/

Opioid and Asbestos Billionaires
Opioid and Asbestos Billionaires' Donations to Dodge Justice: Follow the money

It’s so funny when in 2024 people use “blah at whatevs dot com” to try to obfuscate their email address from scrapers like it’s 1995.
Like this hasn’t worked for the last 20 years and just makes it harder for people who actually need to email you.

🤯 What a venue! 😍

really great article!
🌊🏄🏻‍♀️A Surf Legend’s Long Ride #Surf …

A Surf Legend’s Long Ride
For Sutherland, being hailed as the world’s best surfer was just one phase in an unlikely life. William Finnegan reports.

Important on Trump being let off the hook:
Republicans flaunt election law, because Republicans break the FEC by denying it a majority.
"foreign nationals and gov'ts have willfully manipulated our elections..."
And the FEC does nothing.
https://www.thenati…

Project 2025’s Guide to Subverting Democracy
A second Trump administration could weaponize existing government agencies to dismantle democracy itself.

10 Years of Kubernetes? Already? WOW. 🎉🎊🎂🍰🎈🎁🍾
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/06/06/10-years-of-kubernetes/

10 Years of Kubernetes
Ten (10) years ago, on June 6th, 2014, the first commit of Kubernetes was pushed to GitHub. That first commit with 250 files and 47,501 lines of go, bash and markdown kicked off the project we have today. Who could have predicted that 10 years later, Kubernetes would grow to become one of the largest Open Source projects to date with over 88,000 contributors from more than 8,000 companies, across 44 countries.

“help combat the rise of gender-neutral toilet spaces”
Yep, that’s the problem right there. Not climate change. Not Israel live streaming a fucking genocide with the support of the West. Not anything else. The rise of gender-neutral toilets is the real threat here, folks. Straight from a conservative’s mouth so you know it must be true.
Fuck these people.
#transRightsAreHumanRights

Ich frage mich, wann es soweit kommen wird, dass ein "KI-freies Produkt" allgemein als Qualitätssiegel angesehen wird. 🤔
#KI #AI

100% electric heavy truck spotted in the wild. My first, I think!
#evs #Electrictruck #energytransition

when people talk about #accelerationism, they usually mean that the world *feels* faster due to digitalisation.
But at the same time, there are plenty of phenomena that *actually are* happening very quickly out there in the physical world. And those might be much more dangerous... #birdflu

Ach so, die gute Frau schickt mir also ne Mail mit einem Bild in der Größe von einem Quadrat-Pixel. Ich möchte aber nicht mit ihr telefonieren. #SPAM

If you see a domain name ending in .ai that means the island of Anguilla got some money, as it is the owner of this country domain.

”For each domain registration, Anguilla’s government gets anywhere from $140 to thousands of dollars from website names sold at auctions, according government data.”

In 2023 just over 20% of the government’s total revenue came from these registrations.

”[…] the government used the money to provide free health care for citizens 70 and olde…

Sources: as Humane's Ai Pin flopped, with just ~10,000 orders by early April, the startup started talking to HP about a $1B sale; Humane has raised $240M (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/humane-ai-pin.html

How the Humane AI Pin Flopped
Humane’s Ai Pin was supposed to free people from smartphones, but sales have been slow. Now Humane is talking to HP and others about a potential sale.

Auf der Suche nach einer ganz besonderen Immobilie? 🏠
Der ehemalige #Cyberbunker in Traben-Trarbach an der Mosel steht zum Verkauf!
Zum Artikel: https://

Kakhovka power plant could be rebuilt in 6-7 years once liberated, Ukrhydroenergo says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/06/kakhovka-power-plant.html

„Haha, Jan Böhmermann ist voll witzig und sagt endlich wie es ist!”
Jan Böhmermann kritisiert eine Sache hinter der man selbst steht oder hat dazu eine andere Meinung
„...das kann man einfach nicht mehr links nennen...”
„...und das Erdogan-Schmähgedicht war ja auch ziemlich rassistisch...”
„...und die Folge über rituelle Gewalt war auch nicht differenziert genug...”
„...der arme Bienenbauer!”

Ich war heute auf Einladung des Landesschülerrats Brandenburg bei einer Konferenz von Kreisschülervertretungen zum Thema Hass und Hetze im Netz. Respekt, dass die sich so klar positionieren und auch gegenseitig weiterbilden.
Nach dem Papier der ostdeutschen LSVen gab es mehr Angriffe gegen den Vorstand des Landesschülerrats, erzählte einer, den das selbst betrifft. Und dass es weibliche Mitglieder noch härter trifft.
Beeindruckt, wie viel Rückgrat und Haltung die haben.

Hab vorhin auf einer Bank gesessen, die von der Seniorenunion der #CDU gestiftet wurde. CDU auch zu was gut.

Sources: Costco plans to stop selling books regularly at US stores year-round from January 2025, and will instead sell them during the holiday shopping period (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/books/c

Costco Plans to Stop Selling Books Year-Round
The decision, which will be implemented in January 2025, could significantly impact publishers.

It’s weird, but sometimes I watch a movie halfway and have to stop because I don’t have the emotional/empathy bandwidth to follow the story.

"A journal veracity–diligence index" #AcademicPublishing

How exposed are you to Climate Disasters? Check this map.
#climatechange

How exposed are you to Climate Disasters?
Reduce your Risk from Climate Disaster. Vote for President Biden and Democrats to fight Climate Change.

Oh no, accidentally ended up in the dark corners of the Internet

Capitalism is a having a burger delivered to your door in minutes but dying because you can’t afford medical care.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal on choosing someone's mode of execution
#SMBC

Hilarious - I cannot unsubscribe from the IAPP emails :blobugh:

Amazon acquires key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player; a source says the deal values the streamer at $100M, below its $500M valuation in 2019 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/06/amazon-buys-indian-vid…

Amazon buys Indian video streaming service MX Player | TechCrunch
Amazon has agreed to acquire assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet, the latest step by the Amazon has agreed to acquire the Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet.

KI-Training mit Nutzerdaten: Noyb beschwert sich über Meta
Nutzerbeiträge auf Facebook und Instagram sollen Metas KI-Modelle trainieren. Noyb sieht Missbrauch persönlicher Daten.
https://www.

Kakhovka dam destruction was one of Russia's 'most serious crimes against the environment and people,' Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/06/kakhovka-dam-destruction.html

And now: back to the best feminist tech event in town: /etc - Eclectic Tech Carnival

Google rolls out its Gemini-powered note-taking assistant NotebookLM to 200 new countries, including Brazil and the UK, and adds Slides and web URLs as sources (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/06/goog

Google's updated AI-powered NotebookLM expands to India, UK and over 200 other countries | TechCrunch
Google has expanded NotebookLM, an AI-powered note-taking assistant, to over 200 new countries and over 100 languages.

MAGA Supreme Court Justices: America’s Untouchable Royalty
#alito

Royal MAGA Supreme Court Justices
Can you get an abortion? Will you be able to vote? These are just a few decisions that the Roberts Supreme Court has decided.

"#AI and the #Humanities: Nina Beguš discusses "Artificial Humanities"" @ New Books Network:

Capitalism is a having a burger delivered to your door in minutes but dying because you can’t afford medical care.

Stability AI releases Stable Audio Open, a text-to-audio model for generating up to 47 seconds of samples and sound effects, prohibited for commercial use (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/stability-ai-releases-a-sound-generator…

Stability AI releases a sound generator | TechCrunch
Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, has released a sound-generating AI model called Stable Audio Open.

Haven’t heard about Apple’s eye sweat band in a while.
When they announce they’re “fully committed to spatial computing” we’ll know that they will cancel it soon.

Gazprom won't recover losses from full-scale war, report says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/06/gazprom-wont-recover.html

Link auf linksunten.indymedia: Freispruch für verantwortlichen Redakteur
Vor anderthalb Jahren sorgte eine Razzia bei einem Radiosender in Freiburg bundesweit für Aufregung. Nun folgte die nächste Schlappe für die Behörden.

A look at the now-shuttered news site BNN Breaking, which former staff say mostly published AI-generated content; Microsoft had licensed BNN content for MSN.com (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/…

The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet
BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content.

France to provide Ukraine over $700 million in critical infrastructure support: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/06/france-to-provide.html

"La cartographie numérique pour mieux lire et mieux écrire" https://eduscol.education.fr/4032/la-cartographie-numerique-pour-mieux-lire-et-mieux-ecrire
"Comment aider les élèves Š s’approprier les univers des tex…

Those of us who oppose genocide don’t have to justify ourselves to you or to anyone else. We’ve already justified ourselves by opposing genocide.
That said, those of you who support genocide don’t have to justify yourselves either. Because there is no justification for supporting genocide.
#Israel #Palestine

The Columbia Law Review's website was taken offline by its board of directors after the journals' student editors published an article criticizing Israel (Sharon Otterman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/nyregion/columbia-law-…

Columbia Law Review Website Is Taken Offline Over Article Criticizing Israel
The board of directors of the student-run publication said that the article, by a Palestinian human rights lawyer, had not been subject to sufficient review.

Reichweitendrosselung: Rechter EU-Abgeordneter gewinnt Verfahren gegen Meta
Meta muss dem belgischen Rechtsextremen Tom Vandendriessche laut einem Berufungsurteil über 27.000 Euro Schadenersatz wegen "Shadowbanning" auf Facebook zahlen.

Sources: the US DOJ will take the lead in investigating whether Nvidia has violated antitrust laws; the FTC will lead the inquiries into OpenAI and Microsoft (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

U.S. Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.

"#Research trends in #memes: insights from bibliometric analysis" https://doi.org/10.1108/IDD-07-2023-00

Starlink bringt abgeschotteten Völkern Probleme mit Internetsucht, Pornografie
In Brasilien gibt es noch Völker, die bislang weitgehend von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten waren. Starlink ändert das – und bringt uns nicht unbekannte Probleme.

Air Force: Ukraine downs 12 Russian drones overnight: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/06/air-force-ukraine.html

Jetzt sicher: Microsoft schmeißt NTLM endgültig aus Windows
Bereits vor einem halben Jahr hatte Redmond den Schritt angekündigt, nun ist es offiziell: Nach dem nächsten Windows-Release ist Schluss für "NT LAN Manager".

An investigation based on 22M flight coordinates reveals how the US' first police drone program, in Chula Vista, CA, impacts residents amid privacy concerns (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-age-of-the-drone-police-is-here/

"Information management in social media to promote engagement and physical activity behavior" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2024.102803

Vor 40 Jahren entstand der Spieleklassiker Tetris, der bis heute nichts von seiner Faszination verloren hat. 🕹️ Erfunden wurde das Spiel vom russischen Programmierer Alexei Leonidowitsch Paschitnow.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-9749419?wt_mc=sm.red…

Russia claims 6 killed, 35 injured in drone attack on Belgorod Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/06/russia-claims-killed.html

TSMC's Taiwan-listed shares hit a new record high after its US-listed stock jumped 6.85% overnight, following a rally by shares of Nvidia, a major TSMC customer (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Fahren oder Laufen? Potenzieller Liefer-Roboter wählt Fortbewegung selbst
In Abhängigkeit vom Gelände wählt ein Roboter selbst, ob er fahren oder laufen soll. Das könnte ihm Vorteile als Lieferroboter verschaffen.

Jonathan Kanter, the US DOJ's assistant AG for antitrust, says he is examining "monopoly choke points and the competitive landscape" in AI and microchips (Financial Times)
https://t.co/pP9LAQ51wJ

Top Congress Democrat says 'Pro-Putin faction' of Republicans stalled Ukraine aid: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/06/top-congress-democrat.html

Umfrage: Kein ausreichender Verbraucherschutz im digitalen Raum
Forsa hat für den Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband 1500 Menschen dazu befragt, wo ihnen der Verbraucherschuh am meisten drückt.
https…

Coinbase-backed advocacy group Stand with Crypto passes 1M members after targeting voters in swing states, including ~24K members in Georgia and 16K in Arizona (Andrea Shalal/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-cryp

gamescom jobs & career powered by heise Jobs
Finde Deinen neuen IT-Traumjob in unserer Recruiting-Area auf der gamescom.
https://www.heise.de/news/gamescom-jobs-ca

eBay emails customers to say the service will drop American Express cards as a payment option because of "unacceptably high fees", starting on August 17 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

40 Jahre Klötzchen drehen: Tetris hat Geburtstag
Tetris wird 40, ohne zu altern: Remakes, Sequels, Remixe und Raubkopien haben den Klötzchenklassiker von Alexei Paschitnow unsterblich gemacht.
https://www…

Börse: Nvidia knackt 3-Billionen-Dollar-Marke
Nvidia hat einen Meilenstein beim Börsenwert erreicht. Das Chip-Unternehmen löst Apple als zweitwertvollstes Unternehmen ab.
https://www.he…

ASML's shares jumped 8.1% on July 5 to reach a €377B market cap, passing fashion conglomerate LVMH for the first time; only Novo Nordisk is worth more in Europe (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06…

Interview: "E-Patientenakte läutet Ende der Schweigepflicht ein"
Warum die elektronische Patientenakte einen Eingriff in die ärztliche Schweigepflicht darstellen könnte, erklärt Psychiater Andreas Meißner im Interview.

Crypto miners are trying to ride the AI boom by converting data centers to rent out to AI companies or by selling computing power directly to AI clients (David Pan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

An analysis finds 90K images of popular anime characters on generative AI image sharing sites; ~2.5K images had multiple similarities to the original artwork (Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/V8sk4qDtT5

AI anime flood - An infringement investigation of 90,000 images：Nikkei
Generative AI is rapidly evolving, using innovative methods to produce text and images. Although new copyright rules are on the way, the illicit use of AI is undermining Japanese anime. A Nikkei investigation reveals how AI anime is flooding the internet.

The US FTC opens an antitrust probe of Microsoft's deal with Inflection AI that included hiring Mustafa Suleyman and paying $650M to resell Inflection's tech (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ftc…

"Handy wird nicht zurückgeschickt": Google ändert strittige Reparatur-Richtlinie
Behält Google ein Handy, das in den USA mit "unautorisierten Teilen" zur Reparatur geschickt wird? Die fragwürdige Passage soll nun geändert werden.

Washington DC's AG says Michael Saylor and his company MicroStrategy will pay $40M to settle a tax suit, calling it "the largest income tax recovery" ever in DC (Kelly Phillips Erb/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kell…

Bitcoin Billionaire Saylor Will Settle D.C. Tax Suit For $40 Million
Billionaire Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy, Inc., are paying an amount called “the largest income tax recovery in District history" to settle a lawsuit.

Macht mit bei unserer anonymen Umfrage.
Wir brauchen eure Hilfe, um das heise online Forum noch besser zu machen! 🙏
Als kleines Dankeschön erhaltet ihr das Sonderheft zum 40. Jubiläum der c't. 🎁📖
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Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-…

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

Threads erlaubt mehr Kontrolle über "Quote Posts"
Nicht wenige meinen, dass die Möglichkeit, Beiträge zu zitieren, die Atmosphäre auf Twitter vergiftet hat. Die Alternativen wie Threads wollen es besser machen.

Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/fo…

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.

"Helldivers 2": Sony streicht nach Shitstorm die Account-Pflicht
Pläne für eine nachgereichte Account-Pflicht haben Spieler von "Helldivers 2" verärgert. Nach massiver Kritik zieht Sony sie nun zurück.
…

The FBI urges LockBit ransomware victims to come forward after obtaining 7,000 decryption keys to recover data; police seized 2,500 keys in February 2024 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

#Verpasstodon
Die xz-Hintertür: Das verborgene Oster-Drama​ der IT
Mit einer Hintertür in einer unbekannten Kompressionsbibliothek hätten Unbekannte beinahe große Teile des Internets übernehmen können. Leider kein Scherz.

iPhone 15 Pro Max was Q1's best-selling smartphone; Pro phones were 50% of Apple's sales, up from 24% in 2020; Apple and Samsung each had five phones in top 10 (Counterpoint Research)
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insig

iPhone 15 Pro Max Best-selling Smartphone in Q1 2024
Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro Max was the best-selling smartphone of Q1 2024 reflecting a trend of consumer preference for high-end smartphones.

#Verpasstodon
Neuer Rekord in der Fusionsforschung: Südkoreanischer KSTAR erreicht Meilenstein
Fortschritt in der Fusionsenergieforschung: KSTAR erreicht 48 Sekunden Plasma-Stabilität bei 100 Millionen Grad.

Robinhood plans to acquire crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M, in a deal expected to close in H1 2025, and says Bitstamp will still operate under its own brand (Caitlin Ostroff/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

A look back at Sam Altman's career, starting as Loopt CEO before moving to YC and founding OpenAI in 2015, as many former allies now view his charm as duplicity (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)
http://alturl.com/44bj9

Ikea plans to hire 10 people to run its virtual Roblox store, including to help pick out furniture and serve meatballs in the Bistro, and will pay £13.50/hour (Joshua Robertson/TheGamer)
https://www.thegamer.com/ikea-hiring-roblox-players-run-virtual…

Ikea Is Paying Roblox Players To Run Its In-Game Store
Ikea has announced it will be hiring ten people to run its in-game Roblox store, with duties of helping people choose furniture and serve meatballs.

A profile of ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, a 51-year-old Frenchman who sources say supports global tech collaboration, as ASML starts to worry about geopolitics (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-ceo-trapped-i…