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Arizona attorney general sues Chinese online retailer Temu over data theft claims
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-temu-lawsuit-14615cec4bb7927493a7208f9d23431b

Arizona targets Chinese retailer Temu in data privacy lawsuit
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing online retailer Temu and its parent company PDD Holdings Inc., claiming the Chinese company is stealing customers' data and violating state consumer protection laws. She announced the lawsuit during a news conference Tuesday. Arkansas, Nebraska and Kentucky have outlined similar allegations in separate lawsuits filed in those states. Mayes is calling for Arizonans to delete their Temu accounts and scan their devices for malware.

Arizona AG Kris Mayes sues Temu for allegedly stealing customers' data, including their physical location, and counterfeiting local brands (Sejal Govindarao/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-temu-lawsuit-14615cec4bb7927493a7208f9d23431b…

Arizona targets Chinese retailer Temu in data privacy lawsuit
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing online retailer Temu and its parent company PDD Holdings Inc., claiming the Chinese company is stealing customers' data and violating state consumer protection laws. She announced the lawsuit during a news conference Tuesday. Arkansas, Nebraska and Kentucky have outlined similar allegations in separate lawsuits filed in those states. Mayes is calling for Arizonans to delete their Temu accounts and scan their devices for malware.

Argentina declares emergency over Patagonia wildfires https://phys.org/news/2026-01-argentina-declares-emergency-patagonia-wildfires.html
Argentina fires ravage pristine Patagonia forests, fueling criticism of Milei’s austerity

Argentina declares emergency over Patagonia wildfires
Argentina's government on Thursday declared an emergency in Patagonia, where wildfires have ripped through vast tracts of forest since the start of the Southern Hemisphere summer.

Als erstes ging es heute in Richtung Kameoka, um von dort mit einer touristischen Bahn durch die Schlucht des #Katsura-Fluss nach Arashiyama zu fahren. Andere waren abenteuerlicher und nahmen einen Kahn durch die Stromschnellen.
In #Arashiyama gab es als erstes den berühmten Bambuswald zu sehe…

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear that he’d prefer we all quit the term "AI Slop".
“We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,”
Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by Windows Central, arguing that humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the
“new equilibrium” of human nature.
Going on, Nadella said that we now know enough about
“riding the exponentials of model capabilities”
as well as managing AI’s
“‘jagged’ …

Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop”
In a year-end writeup on the state of AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear he'd really like us to stop saying "slop."

Chip giants' efforts to turn Phoenix into a US hub may hinge on training local workers; an estimated 115K local chip jobs are set to be created in four years (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/tsmc-arizona-workers-…

A Growing U.S. Tech Hub Needs Workers. Colleges Try to Keep Up.
The success of efforts to turn Phoenix into a dominant center of semiconductor manufacturing may hinge on efforts to train local workers.

"China will use this as justification when they attack Taiwan later this year."
China has just denounced the US for breaking international law. Technically that puts the boot on the other foot, and it would now be hypocritical to point to Venezuela if and when.
Does that lower the probability of them attacking Taiwan? Or of pointing to Venezuela when the US criticizes them for it?
I think we all put too much stock in the value of sound arguments. Any argument wil…

Small nit-pick but especially if your argument is about the unreliability of US tech in light of the US' (and its tech sector's) turn towards fascism publishing on motherfucking Substack, a service actively platforming and supporting literal Nazis, defeats the point.

How Arizona is training talent for its growing chip industry as suppliers fear tighter US immigration policy; Arizona has drawn $200B in investments since 2020 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors/how…

How Arizona is cultivating talent for a US chip revival
TSMC and Intel need talent and advanced programs are in place, but H-1B visas a hurdle