Taiwanese prosecutors file additional indictments against Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit and three other defendants over the alleged theft of TSMC trade secrets (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
📉 COP30: Zimbabwe's forest and energy projects reveal the downside of carbon credits
#zimbabwe
Trump Mobile is offering phones for $500 —they are just refurbished, and three years old | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-mobile-trump-phone-refurbished-prices-b2879224.html
Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution?🗑️💨♨️🏭
Gasification of waste and biomass🪵 could be an enormously helpful tool to make valuable circular or renewable chemicals. Yet, the list of failed gasification projects is long.
Enerkem looked like it had finally unlocked successful waste gasification, with the world's only waste-to-Methanol/Ethanol plant operating in Edmonton, Canada🇨🇦, since 2014. But in early 2024, it was shut down.…
Live Updates: Venezuela Projects Unity as Trump's Threats Cause Jitters Around the World (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/06/world/venezuela-maduro-us-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p93#a260106p93
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To me this looks like what Rodney Brooks called the symbol grounding problem. LLMs can produce what looks like a Bruce Davie quote (although it didn’t quite ring true to my ear) but they lack the grounding in the real world to know that making up quotes is not Ok.
Whether this is a “precise” explanation depends on how much precision you want. …
CFP: Process Philosophy in Under-Explored Traditions in Philosophical History: An online Conference, May 19-29, 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127313/call-papers-process-philosophy-under-explored-…
Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically-made AI chips (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bans-foreign-ai-c…
Analysts expect Samsung's Q4 operating profit to jump 160% YoY to ~$11.7B, driven by a severe global shortage of memory chips amid booming AI demand (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/s…