Links with Friends Live 2025-12-01

List of Stories

  1. gov
  2. us
    1. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-patent-office-issues-new-guidelines-ai-assisted-inventions-2025-11-26/
    2. Pentagon contractors want to blow up military right to repair | The Verge
    3. Texas Buys $5M in BTC ETF as States Edge Toward First Government Crypto Reserves
    4. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/technology/realpage-doj-settlement.html
    5. Trump launches Genesis Mission, a Manhattan Project-level AI push that rewrites America’s tech future
    6. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-invest-up-50-billion-ai-supercomputing-us-government-customers-2025-11-24/
    7. NATO taps Google for air-gapped sovereign cloud • The Register
    8. Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento | Electronic Frontier Foundation
    9. White House launches tracker to call out 'media offenders' – DW – 11/30/2025
    10. Supreme Court music piracy case may affect internet users
    11. DJI ban: how the world’s biggest dronemaker is getting shoved out of the US | The Verge
  3. euro
    1. Social media giants liable for financial scams under new EU law – POLITICO
    2. Cross border electric car drivers call for more detail on new tax
    3. Staffordshire Police to trial AI 'agents' on 101 service
    4. Britain plots atomic reboot as datacenter demand surges • The Register
    5. https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/11/25/poland-probes-apple-again-over-app-tracking-transparency-rules
    6. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/21/army-will-use-call-of-duty-to-train-soldiers/
    7. https://www.techspot.com/news/110429-french-president-macron-us-sabotaging-europe-tough-new.html
    8. https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20251128-macron-pushes-for-new-legislation-to-rapîdly-block-viral-digital-disinformation
    9. European parliament calls for social media ban on under-16s | Internet safety | The Guardian
    10. GrapheneOS exits France over encryption backdoor pressure
  4. asia
    1. MSN
    2. Apple Asks Indian Court to Block Antitrust Law Allowing $38 Billion Fine - MacRumors
    3. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-cited-alibaba-china-military-180926280.html
    4. https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/metro-news/2025/11/26/no-more-low-tier-data-centre-approvals-in-johor
    5. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-orders-apple-google-prevent-government-spoofing-messaging-platforms-2025-11-25/
    6. Japan's gamble to turn island of flowers into global chip hub
  5. AU
    1. Bom: Why Australians are furious with their beloved weather website

business

  1. Genric
  2. https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-consumers-spent-118-billion-black-friday-says-adobe-analytics-2025-11-29/
  3. hardware
  4. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-warns-oracle-credit-215223845.html
  5. What’s going on at Nexperia? China’s Wingtech escalates war of words with Dutch chipmaker
  6. AWS builds DNS backstop for times flaky US East region fails • The Register
  7. Apple Set to Top Samsung in Global Smartphone Shipments, Analyst Says - CNET
  8. https://www.reuters.com/business/hp-cut-about-6000-jobs-by-2028-ramps-up-ai-efforts-2025-11-25/
  9. The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your data
  10. Lenovo stockpiles RAM to (hopefully) keep laptop prices down | PCWorld
  11. Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition - Ars Technica
  12. Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy
  13. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/private-equity-owned-data-center-162049294.html
  14. China claims domestically-designed 14nm logic chips can rival 4nm Nvidia silicon — architecture leverages 3D hybrid bonding techniques for claimed 120 TFLOPS of power | Tom's Hardware
  15. Nvidia reportedly no longer supplying VRAM to its GPU board partners in response to memory crunch — rumor claims vendors will only get the die, forced to source memory on their own | Tom's Hardware
  16. https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/allianz-cut-up-1800-jobs-due-ai-advances-says-source-2025-11-26/
  17. Trump Mobile phone customers left waiting after months of delay
  18. https://www.techspot.com/news/110442-amazon-data-centers-linked-rare-cancers-miscarriages-oregon.html
  19. software
  20. Dell says PC sales flat despite slow Windows 11 transition • The Register
  21. Plex is now enforcing remote play restrictions on TVs
  22. Google is testing ads in AI Mode
  23. Modder who first put Thomas the Tank Engine into Skyrim flips the bird at the lawyers, does it again in Morrowind: "I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people" | GamesRadar+

social

  1. generic
  2. Americans’ Social Media Use 2025 | Pew Research Center
  3. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/starmer-67-meme-tiktok-dance-trouble-pp52nctfm
    1. Starmer apologises for leading pupils in 6-7 dance
  4. meta
  5. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/meta-is-building-an-ai-powered-morning-brief-in-push-to-compete-with-chatgpt/ar-AA1QT38D
  6. https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-allegedly-buried-research-showing-its-products-are-harming-users-152236073.html
  7. https://www.theverge.com/news/829808/chatgpt-copilot-ai-llm-leaving-whatsapp-meta
  8. https://www.theverge.com/news/827658/meta-17-strike-policy-sex-trafficking-testimony-lawsuit
  9. twitter
  10. https://newrepublic.com/post/203562/maga-trolls-elon-musk-x-new-feature
  11. https://www.wcjb.com/2025/11/24/university-florida-law-student-accused-antisemitism-can-return-class-judge-rules/

security

  1. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/us-banks-scramble-to-assess-data-theft-after-hackers-breach-financial-tech-firm/
  2. https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/25/cisa_spyware_gangs/
  3. https://www.theverge.com/news/826902/gmail-ai-training-data-opt-out
  4. https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/magician_password_hand_rfid/
  5. https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-chatgpt/openai-confirms-major-data-breach-exposing-users-names-email-addresses-and-more-transparency-is-important-to-us
  6. https://www.dexerto.com/roblox/roblox-ceo-defends-ai-facial-age-scans-says-predator-problem-is-also-an-opportunity-3286403/

robot

  1. ai
  2. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/
  3. https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-can-already-do-the-work-of-12-of-america-s-workforce-mit-study-says/ar-AA1Re4XQ?ocid=BingNewsVerp
  4. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/28/leonardo-unveils-michelangelo-dome-ai-powered-shield-system.html
  5. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/music-industry-getting-used-ai-100000489.html
  6. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6
  7. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-sweeney-says-platforms-should-stop-tagging-games-made-with-ai
  8. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/openai-says-dead-teen-violated-tos-when-he-used-chatgpt-to-plan-suicide/
  9. https://nerds.xyz/2025/11/newegg-paypal-agentic-commerce-ai/
  10. https://theconversation.com/more-than-half-of-new-articles-on-the-internet-are-being-written-by-ai-is-human-writing-headed-for-extinction-268354
  11. https://www.theverge.com/news/829189/warner-music-group-suno-ai-licensing-deal
  12. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/25/ai-could-replace-3m-low-skilled-jobs-by-2035-research-finds
  13. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827096/udio-users-cant-download-their-ai-music
  14. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-google-finally-leapfrogged-rivals-with-new-gemini-rollout/ar-AA1QWgd8
  15. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/20/university-of-staffordshire-course-taught-in-large-part-by-ai-artificial-intelligence
  16. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/google-must-double-ai-serving-capacity-every-6-months-to-meet-demand.html
  17. https://www.techspot.com/news/110418-nvidia-jensen-huang-urges-employees-automate-every-task.html
  18. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/
  19. physical
  20. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/amazon-faa-probe-delivery-drone-incident-texas.html
  21. https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/china-simulated-a-starlink-blockade-over-taiwan-ccp-scientists-say-around-1-000-drones-would-be-enough-to-cut-satellite-internet-to-the-island
  22. https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-celebrates-automation-us-job-cuts-reach-multiyear-high-11107369
  23. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/27/andurils-autonomous-weapons-stumble-in-tests-and-combat-wsj-reports/

nonsense

  1. adult babies
  2. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl6klez226o
  3. Culture
  4. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewjxqvqzgyo
  5. https://automaton-media.com/en/news/erotic-gay-web-novel-suspended-for-allegedly-basing-protagonist-on-pro-league-of-legends-player-faker/
  6. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp39yw120kdo
  7. https://iol.co.za/news/south-africa/limpopo/2021-03-31-limpopo-pastor-farts-on-congregation-to-heal-them-with-gods-power/
  8. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cze83804nyzo
  9. https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-divorces-wife-after-she-puts-him-in-debt-sending-94000-to-male-streamer-3286939/
  10. Hygeine
  11. https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/japan-launches-human-washing-machine-for-public-use-after-expo-success-9721446
  12. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251128/p2a/00m/0na/007000c
  13. https://wtfdetective.blog/hr-director-arrested-drugging-women/
  14. Food
  15. https://archive.ph/20251124172518/https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/22/forever-chemicals-pesticides/
    1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/22/forever-chemicals-pesticides/
  16. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/28/europe/escargots-stolen-france-snail-farm-latam-intl
  17. https://www.newsweek.com/campbells-soup-vp-mocks-poor-people-food-secret-recording-11097497
  18. https://www.firstalert4.com/2025/11/23/police-suspect-breaks-into-circle-k-steals-only-beef-sticks/
  19. ANimal
  20. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98678nere8o