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The European Commission approved up to €1.2B of state aid for a European cloud computing project, the IPCEI CIS, matched with €1.4B in private investments (Sudip Kar-Gupta/Reuters)

Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters: The European Commission approved up to €1.2B of state aid for a European cloud computing project, the IPCEI CIS, matched with €1.4B in private investments  —  The European Commission approved on Tuesday up to 1.2 billion euros ($1.30 billion) of state aid for a European cloud computing project …

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Meta, IBM, and 50+ other companies and organizations form AI Alliance, a coalition dedicated to work on open source AI including to share tech and reduce risks (Alexandra Barinka/Bloomberg)

Alexandra Barinka / Bloomberg: Meta, IBM, and 50+ other companies and organizations form AI Alliance, a coalition dedicated to work on open source AI including to share tech and reduce risks  —  Meta Platforms Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are joining more than 40 companies and organizations to create …

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Finally! A Typeface For Hardware People

When it comes to novelty typefaces there is no shortage of weird and wonderful fonts to be found when you have finally tired of Comic Sans. Everything from bananas forming letters to Wild West saloon lettering can be yours, plus of course our favourite, the embossed Dymo label. But there’s a new kid on the

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to build a network of chip plants in Japan in partnership with the country’s companies to meet AI chip demand (Yoshiaki Nohara/Bloomberg)

Yoshiaki Nohara / Bloomberg: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to build a network of chip plants in Japan in partnership with the country’s companies to meet AI chip demand  —  – Nvidia CEO seeks local partnerships to build ‘AI factories’  — Japan can create own AI infrastructure, Nvidia CEO says

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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says the company didn’t see much of an “interruption” from Hollywood’s strikes and is still targeting a $17B content budget for 2024 (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says the company didn’t see much of an “interruption” from Hollywood’s strikes and is still targeting a $17B content budget for 2024  —  Ted Sarandos is happy the twin Hollywood strikes are over — but the Netflix co-CEO claimed the streamer didn’t see significant …

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Google upgrades Gmail’s spam filters with RETVec, a text vectorizer that understands “adversarial text manipulations” like emojis, typos, and special characters (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google upgrades Gmail’s spam filters with RETVec, a text vectorizer that understands “adversarial text manipulations” like emojis, typos, and special characters  —  Gmail’s spam filters can now understand “adversarial text manipulations.”  —  The latest post on the Google …

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ArmorCode, which consolidates vulnerability data from connected apps and software infrastructure for analysis, raised a $40M Series B led by HighlandX (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: ArmorCode, which consolidates vulnerability data from connected apps and software infrastructure for analysis, raised a $40M Series B led by HighlandX  —  ArmorCode, a cybersecurity platform that gathers vulnerability data from connected apps and software infrastructure …

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Better 3D Printing Overhangs? Dive! Dive!

If you want better 3D-printed overhangs, you need better cooling, right? What would be better for cooling than printing submerged in water? It turns out [CPSdrone] tried it, and, at least for overhangs, it seems to work pretty well. Check it out in the video below. Of course, there are some downsides. First, the parts

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to build a network of chip plants in Japan in partnership with the country’s companies to meet AI chip demand (Yoshiaki Nohara/Bloomberg)

Yoshiaki Nohara / Bloomberg: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company plans to build a network of chip plants in Japan in partnership with the country’s companies to meet AI chip demand  —  – Nvidia CEO seeks local partnerships to build ‘AI factories’  — Japan can create own AI infrastructure, Nvidia CEO says

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Ofcom starts a consultation on draft guidelines on how porn sites should lock out underage users, including having a bank or mobile network confirm a user’s age (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge: Ofcom starts a consultation on draft guidelines on how porn sites should lock out underage users, including having a bank or mobile network confirm a user’s age  —  UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has laid out how porn sites could verify users’ ages under the newly passed Online Safety Act.

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