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Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a "secure, fortified space" to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/818364/google-private-ai-compute

Google is introducing its own version of Apple’s private AI cloud compute
Google is rolling out Private AI Compute to use the cloud for AI requests while keeping on-device levels of privacy, a similar feature to Apple. 

This comment on the "resonant computing manifesto" really nails it.
The job of that manifesto was to capture the growing trend of "fuck this tech landscape" vibe und direct it in a way that the same people who profited of the last decades will continue to profit. Off of us.
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the resonant computing manifesto
() background: the resonant computing manifesto counts among its drafters at least three xooglers with at least a decade of tenure each; three venture ca...

NFL Week 15 confidence picks: Why Green Bay will beat Denver https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6878138/2025/12/10/nfl-week-15-confidence-picks-packers-broncos/

George Pickens gets vote of confidence from CeeDee Lamb amid criticism https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/george-pickens-vote-confidence-ceedee-lamb-amid-criticism

🐹 A 1961 Relay Computer Running in Your Browser
#computers #emulation

Minivac 601 Simulator
A 1961 relay computer running in your browser

Quoting the Resonant Computing Manifesto.
Five principles for the future of computing: 
private, dedicated, plural, adaptable, and prosocial.
(I've signed.)
https://resonantcomputing.org/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

0:th day of the #icfpsplash25 week starts at NUS School of computing, on Computing Drive. (A glorious tree symbolising all the syntax trees we will see during the week;-)

Google launches a cheaper AI Plus plan in India, costing ~$2.21 per month for the first six months and ~$4.44 thereafter, to compete with ChatGPT Go (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/google-launches-sub-5-ai-pl…

Google launches sub-$5 AI Plus plan in India to compete with ChatGPT Go | TechCrunch
For new users in India, Google is offering an AI Plus subscription for ₹199 ($2.21) for the first six months, after which you'll have to pay ₹399 ($4.44).

U.S. House passes bill to combat stadium drones https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47266975/us-house-passes-bill-help-stadiums-combat-drones

🍚 Race to secure 2025 rice crop heats up, lifting prices
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/japan/new-rice-crop-competition/
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Race to secure 2025 rice crop heats up, lifting prices
Competition to secure new-crop rice is intensifying, pushing up the provisional payments that agricultural cooperatives advance to growers.