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Broadcoms VMware-Übernahme: EU-Kommission soll Warnsignale ignoriert haben
Der Cloud-Verband CISPE greift die EU-Kommission vor Gericht scharf an: Bei der Genehmigung der VMware-Akquisition durch Broadcom habe die Aufsicht versagt.

This image was in one of the magazines I had as a kid when I was like 9 or 10 probably. I used to look at it a lot, and I'd imagine these huge mutant turtles hanging out in dark alleys, on old, dirty discarded mattresses under bridges

Péniblement, Raoul énumère les châtiments auxquels il aurait été soumis : « J’ai reçu des gifles, des coups de pied, j’ai été enfermé, privé de nourriture plusieurs jours d’affilée. » Il rapporte une « condamnation » particulièrement violente : « J’ai reçu 108 coups sur les fesses, en public.

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Ukraine war latest: Russia intensifies push on Chasiv Yar, Ukrainian military says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/12/ukraine-war-latest-russia-intensifies.html

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build "frontier-grade research capability" and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-

OpenAI used to prevent Microsoft pursuing AGI. Now, the software giant is free to compete, Mustafa Suleyman says.
A renegotiated deal lets Microsoft independently pursue artificial general intelligence. Suleyman is seizing the moment.

One of the points Mr Masala made was that one of big requirements for democracies and free countries in Europe to be successful in resisting Russian and American imperialism is for societies to be resilient and cohesive. My comment there would be that we have seen a general reaction in Canada of common resolve against Trump’s comments and actions. I don’t have any doubt that if push came to shove, the Canadian population would be extremely united and resistant against any kind of attack by the USA. Likewise, I think Danish citizens are showing a similar reaction. But would Canada band together to send troops to protect and potentially die in Europe?
Maybe. But I am less sure.
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Back in April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers delivered a scathing judgment
finding that Apple was in “willful violation” of her 2021 injunction
intended to open up iOS App Store payments.
That contempt of court finding has now been almost entirely upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
a development that Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney tells Ars he hopes will
“do a lot of good for developers and start to really change the App Store situation worldwi…

Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case
But Sweeney warns iOS devs are still afraid of “totally illegal” retaliation by Apple.

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An Ai2 research scientist argues that AGI, as commonly conceived, will not emerge because it ignores, among other things, the physical realities of computation (Tim Dettmers)
https://timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/why-agi-will-not-happen/