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December 9, 2024, 5:40 PM

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John Russell / HPCwire:
Google says it had a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap  —  Google today introduced its latest quantum chip — Willow (~100 qubits) — coinciding with two key achievements run on the new chip …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Reddit says it is testing Reddit Answers, which lets select US users ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and threads in English  —  As more AI companies gobble up Reddit's data to fuel their own chatbots, the popular online forum site has begun testing a new conversational AI feature of its own.
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
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 and no camera or display ports  —  Cramming a Raspberry Pi 5 into a keyboard  —  Tom's Hardware Verdict … When the Raspberry Pi 400 was released …
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.
Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg:
Filing: TikTok asks a US court to put on hold a law forcing a sale or ban of the app until SCOTUS can review it and the Trump admin can decide its position  —  TikTok asked that a US law forcing a sale or ban of the app by China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. be put on hold to give the US Supreme Court a chance to review.
Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg:
Report: a network of 24 Facebook Pages ran 3.6K+ ads allegedly breaking Meta ad rules and attacking Romania's pro-EU candidate, with up to 179M views since Aug.  —  - Political ads promoted far-right figures including Georgescu  — Network of Facebook pages shared similar, polarizing messaging

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