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Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-balancing-act-googles-co…

Inside the Balancing Act Over Google’s Compute Crunch
Earlier this year, Google convened a group of its top executives to address what some staffers see as an existential problem: the company doesn’t have enough computer chips for everyone who wants them. A shortage of computing capacity was creating internal tensions, as leaders of Google’s varied ...

"Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover"
#Cambodia #Environment #Oceans

Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover
A recent study provides the first detailed map of Cambodia’s coastal seafloor habitats and finds that simple, low-cost anti-trawling structures are helping seagrass meadows recover and support small-scale fishers in the Kep Marine Fisheries Management Area in the Gulf of Thailand. The study was published in Frontiers in Marine Science by researchers from Marine Conservation […]

Brainwaves meet spatial computing: Cognixion Vision Pro #noninvasive

Mishti Broor - 23. Brainwaves Meet Spatial Computing: Cognixion + Vision Pro
The partnership between Cognixion and Apple Vision Pro represents something bigger than a clever product integration. It represents the maturation of non-invasive brain-computer interface technology reaching beyond laboratory settings into a mainstream platform with millions of potential users. In

TFW you are into bikes but also into mini-computers and you get confused for a second...
#computer #bikeTooter

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Japan’s oddly retro (to Western eyes) websites, China’s reverse engineering of top-spec chipmaking equipment and North Korea’s ill-gotten crypto hoard.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/japa

Japan’s ‘weird’ websites - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Japan’s oddly retro (to Western eyes) websites, China’s reverse engineering ...

#TGIQF: Das Quiz rund um Konrad Zuse
Mit seinem Z3 war Konrad Zuse seiner Zeit voraus: Er erfand den ersten echten Computer. Unser Quiz widemt sich dem IT-Pionier unser Quiz. Knobeln Sie mit!

NFL Week 12 confidence picks: Why the Eagles will beat the Cowboys https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6819600/2025/11/19/nfl-week-12-confidence-picks-eagles-cowboys/

Holla… this is huge https://www.heise.de/en/news/BGH-bombshell-on-card-sharing-no-computer-fraud-in-pay-TV-piracy-11144974.html
The sentence by the highest German court is interesting as it seems to end a common practice …

BGH bombshell on card sharing: no computer fraud in pay-TV piracy
The Federal Court of Justice corrects previous case law and denies direct financial damage to providers for illegal pay-TV access.

Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/cursor-ai-coding-startup-graphite-competition-heats-up/

Exclusive: Cursor acquires code review startup Graphite as AI coding competition heats up
By purchasing Graphite, Cursor, currently valued at $29 billion, gains more code review and debugging capabilities

Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interf…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.