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Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/3

Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women
New research details how Civitai lets users buy and sell tools to fine-tune deepfakes the company says are banned.

»Akamai kauft WebAssembly-Spezialisten Fermyon:
Der Cloud- und Cybersecurity-Anbieter Akamai Technologies will mit der Akquisition des Serverless-Spezialisten Fermyon seine Edge-Computing-Strategie ausbauen. Im Fokus steht die WebAssembly-basierte Function-as-a-Service-Technologie.«
Schon länger ist WebAssembly (@…) im Aufwind, nun aber auch umf…

Akamai kauft WebAssembly-Spezialisten Fermyon
Akamai Technologies will mit der Akquisition des Serverless-Spezialisten Fermyon seine Edge-Computing-Strategie ausbauen.

Salt Typhoon hackers ‘almost certainly’ in Australia’s critical infrastructure
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/salt-typhoon-hackers-almost-certainly-in-australia-s-critical-infrastructure-20251231-p5nqwn.htm…

Salt Typhoon hackers ‘almost certainly’ in Australia’s critical infrastructure
China’s hacking campaign is one of the most effective long-term espionage moves ever seen, a top cybersecurity figure says.

"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html

Shares of Chinese AI chip designer Shanghai Biren Technology (6082.HK)
opened 82.1% higher in their Hong Kong debut on Friday,
kicking off the financial hub's first listing of 2026.
The strong debut follows a blockbuster year for Hong Kong's equity market in 2025
and points to a likely wave of AI and semiconductor offerings this year
as China accelerates efforts to build domestic chip alternatives
in response to U.S. curbs on technology exports.

Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/technology/college-compute…

College Students Choosing A.I. Majors Over Computer Science
At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major.

Why do none of these articles even touch on how much data DOGE stole from the US government, how much damage they caused to the security of government IT systems, and how much DOGE exposed all of our data to foreign adversaries?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

‘They sowed chaos to no avail’: the lasting legacy of Elon Musk’s Doge
The billionaire – who had no government experience – left various federal agencies in disarray while overseeing an ‘efficiency’ drive across Washington

An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative "off-label" uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyrev…

What’s next for AlphaFold: A conversation with a Google DeepMind Nobel laureate
“I’ll be shocked if we don’t see more and more LLM impact on science,” says John Jumper.

Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)

Anthropic Is at War With Itself
The AI company shouting about AI’s dangers can’t quite bring itself to slow down.

A look at how David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's WH benefits his investments, those of Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/3…

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.