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An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert about the US adopting authoritarian digital practices, the research group's accomplishments, and more (Finian Hazen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/2

Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone
Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.

"Chinese Scientists Develop Cooling Cement Technology that uses no Electricity"
#China #Cement
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Chinese Scientists Develop Cooling Cement Technology that uses no Electricity | Happy Eco News
Cooling cement technology from Chinese scientists reduces building temperatures over 5°C without electricity using radiative cooling while cutting carbon emissions by 25% through modified cement formulations.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/24/civil-liberties-groups-call-for-inquiry-into-uk-data-protection-watchdog
Dozens of civil liberties campaigners and legal professionals are calling for an…

Civil liberties groups call for inquiry into UK data protection watchdog
Campaigners including Good Law Project describe ICO ‘collapse in enforcement activity’ after Afghan data breach

Mexiko erhält einen nationalen Supercomputer
Das „größte öffentliche Hochleistungsrechnersystem“ Lateinamerikas gilt als zentral für die Strategie des Landes zur technologischen Souveränität.
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Anzahl der #Windkraftanlagen nach Technologie in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Berücksichtigt werden in Betrieb befindliche Anlagen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Was ist eine

Beijing-based DP Technology, which develops AI tools used by researchers for tasks like computer-aided drug design and battery design, raised a ~$114M Series C (Eunice Xu/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/ar

AI-for-Science start-up DP Technology raises US$114 million in Series C round
The Beijing-based AI-for-Science firm said the Series C round would fund hiring and R&D, as interest grows in using AI to speed up scientific discovery.

Tests show GPT-5.2 on ChatGPT citing Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan…

A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars (Lisa Bonos/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/25/waymo-robots-human-work…

When robot taxis get stuck, a secret army of humans comes to the rescue
Waymo robotaxis get stranded when a passenger leaves the door open. Tow truck operators can get paid $22 to close a door and set them free again.

Sources: Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports (Emilio Parodi/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tax-cus

Fleet management software provider Motive files for a US IPO, reporting a $138.5M net loss on $327.3M in revenue for the nine months ended September 30 (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/motive-technologies-files-us-ipo-2025-12-23/…