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Waymo, which paused its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20, says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/waymo-updating-fleet-af…

Waymo will update driverless fleet after San Francisco blackout to improve navigation during outages
Three days after blackouts in San Francisco brought down Waymo's service, the company said it's implementing changes for when "infrastructure fails."

USA: FCC untersagt faktisch Import einiger neuer ausländischer Drohnen
Die Telekommunikationsbehörde FCC hat auf Anweisung von Sicherheitsbehörden bestimmte neue ausländische Drohnen auf eine Schwarze Liste gesetzt.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/impersonators-are-targeting-companies-with-fake-techcrunch-outreach/
“A growing number of scammers are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads and reaching out to companies, pretend…

Impersonators are (still) targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach | TechCrunch
Fraudsters are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads, and reaching out to companies. Here's what we're doing about it, and what you can look out for.

When you are a C developer, every day is Xmas!
https://www.swift.org/blog/improving-usability-of-c-libraries-in-swift/

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift
There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.

"Library Futures: Information Literacy in the Age of GenAi: my slides, notes, and an addendum"
https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/12/22/library-futures-information-literacy-in-the-age-of-genai…

🎭 AI-Generated Faces Fool Most People, But Photo Training Improves Detection
https://petapixel.com/2025/12/29/ai-generated-faces-fool-most-people-but-photo-training-improves-detection/

AI-Generated Faces Fool Most People, But Photo Training Improves Detection
You just need some training to spot a fake face.

What 60 Minutes won't show, ProPublica will
#CECOT

Deported and Imprisoned
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of the region’s most notorious maximum-security prisons.

How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade
#EU #CBAM #CO2

Added information on HTML, CSS, and Markdown Fragments to the Kitten Components and Fragments tutorial, including a little TypeScript type declarations file you can add to your projects so you don’t get type warnings for them when you import them in your projects:
https://k…

New Books Network: "Information Literacy and Critical Thinking: Using Perspective Transformation to Break Information Bubbles" https://newbooksnetwork.com/information-literacy-and-critical-thinking