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Japan Airlines halts ticket sales after a cyberattack hit its network equipment, causing delays to more than 40 flights, and says flight safety was not impacted — The airline also temporarily stopped selling tickets for flights departing Thursday, but said that there was no impact on flight safety.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky launches a Trending Topics feature in beta on its desktop and mobile apps in English, and says users' muted words will transfer to Trending — Social network Bluesky said on Christmas that it is testing a trending topics view. The trending topics are visible both on the desktop …
More: The Verge, Engadget, Neowin, Trusted Reviews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech in Asia, and Android Police
| Eric Enge / Search Engine Land: |
An in-depth analysis of 62 AI queries: ChatGPT search beat Google on content gap analysis and disambiguation queries, but Google was better for most searches — The emergence of ChatGPT search has led to many questions about the quality of the overall results compared to Google.| Qwen: |
Alibaba releases QvQ-72B-Preview, an experimental research model focused on “enhancing visual reasoning capabilities”, built on Qwen2-VL-72B — Language and vision intertwine in the human mind, shaping how we perceive and understand the world around us.| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Finland says it suspects an oil tanker in Russia's shadow fleet of damaging three undersea internet cables on December 25, the latest Baltic Sea cable damaged — Disconnection of power line follows series of suspected sabotage attacks on Baltic Sea infrastructure
More: Associated Press, Telegraph, Sky News, RTÉ, The Sun, Agence France-Presse, TechSpot, and Associated Press
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| New York Times: |
Electricians are flocking to regions around the US to build data centers, as AI shapes up to be an economy-bending force that creates boom towns — The rural region is changing fast as electricians from around the country plug the tech industry's new, giant data centers into its ample power supply.
X: @scottlincicome and @barbariancap
| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
How some doctors are using AI tools, like DAX Copilot from Microsoft's Nuance, to automate administrative tasks like taking and summarizing notes — Millions are already being treated by doctors using artificial intelligence to take notes and draft emails to patients.
Bluesky: @hypervisible
| Malcolm Moore / Financial Times: |
Italian energy giant Eni launches its HPC6 supercomputer, the most powerful outside the US, costing €100M to build and using 14K AMD GPUs, to find oil and gas — Italian energy giant switches on the world's most powerful machine outside the US — Italian energy giant Eni is firing … | Manuel Baigorri / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba agrees to merge its South Korean operations with E-Mart's Gmarket, creating a 50-50 joint venture; sources say the new company could be valued at ~$4B — - Companies announce JV deal in Korea, confirming earlier report — Alibaba seeks inroads abroad as growth slows in China
More: Investor's Business Daily, The Korea Herald, KED Global, Reuters, Benzinga, and Tech in Asia. Forums: r/baba
| Gleb Bryanski / Reuters: |
Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions — Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments following legislative changes …
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Bluesky: @schizanon, @hybridcap, @vernster, @sactosteve, and @lehtimaeki
Forums: r/Buttcoin, r/inthenews, r/Economics, and r/Bitcoin
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
AppLovin was 2024's top performing US tech stock, up 758% as of December 24, followed by MicroStrategy, up 467%, and Palantir, up 380%; the Nasdaq jumped 33% — Artificial intelligence is still an abstract concept for many everyday consumers unsure about how it will change their lives.
More: Cryptopolitan, Motley Fool, Tech in Asia, and Yahoo Finance
| Richard Deitsch / New York Times: |
Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight for the most part, after early glitches — If you believe in omens, Netflix appeared to be in for a very long day on Wednesday. As the streaming giant began …
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