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December 9, 2024, 8:40 AM

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Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware:
Raspberry Pi 500 review: the Pi 5's power in a convenient keyboard form factor with awesome thermal performance, but lacks NVMe storage and camera connections  —  Cramming a Raspberry Pi 5 into a keyboard  —  Tom's Hardware Verdict … When the Raspberry Pi 400 was released …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has been working with Sony on a months long effort to add PS VR2 controller support to visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K Vision Pros  —  Apple and Sony have discussed forging a partnership that could change gaming on the Vision Pro.  Also: Apple has a three-year road map …
SemiAnalysis:
A look at Intel's problems, starting with 2016's 10nm node: 7/11 board members have no chip experience, most CEO options are worse than Pat Gelsinger, and more  —  Intel's board is incompetent and its horrible decisions over the decades are going to push it towards death.
Jeanna Smialek / New York Times:
How FRED, a data tool created in 1991 by the St. Louis Federal Reserve, gained a major following in recent years, hitting nearly 15M website users in 2023  —  From Facebook political debates to college classrooms, the St. Louis Fed's data tool has gained a major following.  —  Fans post about him on social media.
New York Times:
Ukrainian officials worry over Telegram, which has soared in popularity during the war with Russia, questioning if its upsides outweigh the its security risks  —  Telegram's Air Raids Map channel.  Roughly 70 percent of Ukrainians use Telegram as a main source of news, according to a recent survey.Sasha Maslov for The New York Times
Evgeny Morozov / Boston Review:
A look at generative AI's impact, its structural issue of concentrated power among a few companies, and utopian questions over an alternative version of AI  —  Critiques of artificial intelligence abound.  Where's the utopian vision for what it could be?  —  With responses from Brian Eno …
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
A look at Grand Theft Auto VI, set for release in 2025 after Rockstar started development in 2018, as Rockstar tries to improve its culture after the 2022 hack  —  Expectations are dangerously high for the first GTA in more than a decade.  —  Grand Theft Auto VI isn't just going to be the biggest video game of 2025.
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Chinese state media: the State Administration for Market Regulation opened an anti-monopoly investigation into Nvidia tied to its Mellanox acquisition in 2020  —  - Probe from the market regulator is looking into Mellanox deal  — Nvidia shares dropped in early trading after the announcement

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