TSMC says the US government has granted the company an annual license to import US chip manufacturing equipment to its facilities in Nanjing, China (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-grants-annual-approv…
Call for Nominations: 16th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Awards
https://fpf.org/blog/call-for-nominations-16th-annual-privacy-papers-for-policymakers-awards/
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This is just obsene: ABC executive, Chris Oliver-Taylor, who sacked Antoinette Lattouf paid $836,000 for eight-month employment, annual report shows
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct
eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 48702 nodes and 77142 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal
Tether reports that it has generated profits of over $10B during the first three quarters of 2025 and it has issued an additional $17B in USDT during Q3 (RT Watson/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/377120/tethers-annual-profits-top-1…
my annual year-end mix, 103 mp3s i've known & loved, 7 hours of music ready for shuffling & affronting darkness. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GyQzP_3fHhu18hdu9FSl3mhPqCZZz3ye/view?usp=drive_link
Analysis: How Russia uses Western reporters to launder propaganda: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/analysis-how-russia-uses-western.html
Sources: the US has granted an annual license to Samsung and SK Hynix to ship their chip manufacturing equipment to their facilities in China for 2026 (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung…
Some 2025 takeaways in LLMs: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/