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Amkor breaks ground on advanced chip packaging campus in Arizona, with production expected by early 2028; state officials say Amkor's investment could reach $7B (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Amkor breaks ground on Arizona advanced packaging campus, plugging critical gap in US semiconductor supply chain — production expected in 2028, investment could extend to $7 billion with 3,000 jobs in tow
Amkor moves in next door to TSMC as CHIPS Act funding continues to turn the Phoenix metro area into a chips hub.

13 Republicans defy GOP leadership, vote with Dems to advance repeal of Trump order on federal unions (Elizabeth Elkind/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/13-republicans-defy-gop-leadership-vote-dems-advance-repeal-trump-order-federal-unions
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p131#a251210p131

Raiders drop AFC West matchup to Broncos but the youth movement advances https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/09/raiders-drop-afc-west-matchup-to-broncos-but-the-youth-movement-advances/

Want a used car that works?
You’d be wise to not get an older Tesla.
In Consumer Reports’ latest ranking for used cars,
the Elon Musk-run automaker came dead last in terms of reliability,
trailing by over forty points from the top spot on a scale between 0 and 100
https://futurism.co…

Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.

From the You-didn't-see-this-paper-coming department today: #PrimordialBlackHoles as Technosignatures of Extraterrestrial Advanced Civilizations -> "Our findings provide a new avenue for searching for extraterrestrial advanced civilizations by extending microlensing studies to include artificial, dynamic modulation signatures" (noting in passing that ET and Dyson Spheres and PBHs are all speculative).

The #EV roaming system in Europe is increasingly being hit by hidden fees and absurd price discrimination.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

In principle, EV roaming enables every driver to charge anywhere on a single invoice, with information about the different prices and charging options available in advance, for example in an app. For… | Jaap Burger
In principle, EV roaming enables every driver to charge anywhere on a single invoice, with information about the different prices and charging options available in advance, for example in an app. For an operator, it is a method of attracting more customers to its stations. In recent years, a clear trend has emerged: providers who want to offer roaming at other charging points to their own customers, but at the same time keep roaming customers from others out with absurd price mark-ups and tari…

I've been working on this one for a while. The multi-trillion-dollar AI industry? Their *most advanced platforms* are controlled by a plain text format that John Gruber made up for his blog, and then bounced off of a 17-year-old Aaron Swartz, before sharing it with the world for free. *That* is the internet. Here's the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world.

How Markdown took over the world
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Warum und wie setzen #Spitäler #Temporärkräfte ein? 🏨🤔
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem TAILR-Team im Iran haben wir unsere Analyse dazu in IJNS Advances veröffentlicht. 🥳🤓
Was haben wir dabei gelernt?👇
💡 Temporärkräfte und Pflegehelfer wurden in 12,…

Eagles vs. Packers prediction, odds, start time: 'Monday Night Football' picks, best bets from advanced model

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-p…

President Trump letting Nvidia sell advanced AI chips to China reverses decades of US tech restrictions on its adversaries, giving China a boost in the AI race (David E. Sanger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/trump-nvidia-ai-chip…

Trump’s Nvidia Chip Deal Reverses Decades of Technology Restrictions
President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its chips to China has raised questions about whether he is prioritizing short-term economic gain over long-term American security interests.