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We're finally benchmarking GPU performance in Linux, first using the Bazzite OS following thousands of community requests specifically for this operating system.

I have informed President Xi, of China, that the United States will allow NVIDIA to ship its H200 products to approved customers in China, and other Countries, under conditions that allow for continued strong National Security. President Xi responded positively! $25% will be paid to the United States of America. This policy will support American Jobs, strengthen U.S. Manufacturing, and benefit American Taxpayers. The Biden Administration forced our Great Companies to spend BILLIONS OF DOLLARS building “degraded” products that nobody wanted, a terrible idea that slowed Innovation, and hurt the American Worker. That Era is OVER! We will protect National Security, create American Jobs, and keep America’s lead in AI. NVIDIA’s U.S. Customers are already moving forward with their incredible, highly advanced Blackwell chips, and soon, Rubin, neither of which are part of this deal. My Administration will always put America FIRST. The Department of Commerce is finalizing the details, and the same approach will apply to AMD, Intel, and other GREAT American Companies. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

The Open Rights Group warns the government's digital ID plan is a "surveillance infrastructure" leading to "unprecedented tracking." They point to the faulty eVisa scheme.

“The future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled A-I.”

The survey found people in the UK spent on average four hours and 30 minutes online every day in 2025

Our recent research into Snapchat shows that its uses misleading notification. This is not legally allowed. Namely, the European Digital Services Act prohibits misleading and manipulative design on online platforms. The research serves as input for possible enforcement actions by the Dutch Authority for Consumer and Markets (Autoriteit Consument & Markt) and supports our advice to include the regulation of attention-grabbing notifications in the Digital Fairness Act.

Exclusive: Campaign urges PM to show independence from US and push to rein in development of superintelligence

The complaint alleges that Temu does much more than provide Arizonans access to cheap goods. Modeled after an earlier Chinese app, Pinduoduo, the Temu app is allegedly designed to harvest sensitive user data without users’ knowledge or consent and to evade detection.

Temu allegedly collects an alarming amount of sensitive user data and personally identifiable information (PII) that goes far beyond what is necessary for a typical online shopping app. According to the lawsuit, the app secretly infiltrates users’ devices to access and harvest sensitive information, including the user’s precise physical location, the phone’s microphone and camera, and the user’s private activity on other apps installed on the phone, all without their knowledge or consent.

A review of the Temu app’s code allegedly shows that it is purposely designed to evade front-end security review, using multiple layers of encryption to shield its processes from forensic inspection. The app is even able to edit its own code once downloaded to a consumer’s phone, potentially allowing it to exploit users’ PII and other data—or otherwise control the device—in unknown and unknowable ways. These serious privacy risks are compounded by the fact that Temu is wholly owned by a Chinese company and subject to Chinese law, including laws that mandate secret cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party’s intelligence apparatus.

In addition to the alleged privacy violations, the complaint also alleges that Temu has engaged in deceptive and unfair trade practices in the offer and sale of products and in the resolution of consumer complaints, including:

• Advertising items that look nothing like the items that eventually arrive;
• Faking customer reviews;
• Using consumer payment information to order items the consumer never asked for;
• Misappropriating the intellectual property of U.S.-owned companies, including some of Arizona’s most iconic brands including the Arizona Cardinals, Fender Guitars, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona University;
• Charging for goods not ordered or not delivered;
• Using bait and switch signup schemes to lure users to invite their friends to the app in exchange for the promise of prizes and rewards that never arrive; and
• Using forced labor in clear violation of U.S. trade policies.

• A clear divide persists between top performers and the rest

A clear divide persists between the top performers (Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind) and the rest of the companies reviewed (Z.ai, xAI, Meta, Alibaba Cloud, DeepSeek). The most substantial gaps exist in the domains of risk assessment, safety framework, and information sharing, caused by limited disclosure, weak evidence of systematic safety processes, and uneven adoption of robust evaluation practices.

• Existential safety remains the industry’s core structural weakness

All of the companies reviewed are racing toward AGI/superintelligence without presenting any explicit plans for controlling or aligning such smarter-than-human technology, thus leaving the most consequential risks effectively unaddressed.

• Despite public commitments, companies’ safety practices continue to fall short of emerging global standards

While many companies partially align with these emerging standards, the depth, specificity, and quality of implementation remain uneven, resulting in safety practices that do not yet meet the rigor, measurability, or transparency envisioned by frameworks such as the EU AI Code of Practice.

Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI are backing the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation, donating MCP, Goose, and AGENTS.md to standardize AI agents, boost interoperability, and curb proprietary fragmentation.

In theory, you just @ it and it gets to work.

This is a frontend for the asknostr hashtag on nostr, a more decentralized fediverse alternative.

More questions are needed, if you can help. You can sign up instantly with no email address or anything, but it's hard for the user base to grow, because the questions are usually too focused on a small (honestly cultish) number of topics. I find that odd when anyone can ask anything.

The website has content filters to remove spam and stuff from its own display, but the nostr protocol is open source, and you can self host your own backups of removed posts and display them on your own website without losing any data. I also haven't heard of anyone getting a "ban" where all their past posts are filtered at once / they have to stop posting.

As someone who constantly gets banned from places like asklemmy for being a radical communist or whatever, it's especially important to me that there are no bans here, because it means I don't have to worry about admins repeatedly wiping out time I invest in helping people with answers to their questions.

Note: asknostr.site is still early in development and kinda buggy. Remember you can also post to it through the asknostr hashtag from other nostr apps if you want.

Meta's Facebook redesign elevates Marketplace, refreshes profiles, and aims to win back Gen Z users.