What Can Europe Learn From China’s Critical-Tech Innovation Push?

Conor here: Noting the authors’ backgrounds, their argument is unsurprising. But seeing that so much of what is sold as tech breakthroughs and AI innovation is really just theft on an unprecedented scale, demands for endless resources for the benefit a few, shredding the social contract, environmental destruction, new and improved surveillance, and tools that […]

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Bullish chart setups – Tiong Woon & Zixin (3 Nov 25) – Ernest Lim’s Investing Blog

Bullish chart setups – Tiong Woon & Zixin (3 Nov 25) Dear all Last month has been an extremely busy month with numerous trades; completion of my blog upgrade; back-to-back catch-ups with listcos’ management (before their blackout periods); travelling and rounding it up with a wisdom tooth extraction! Thus, I have not posted anything on […]

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Ryzen 7 9800X3D sales help AMD hit record-breaking $2.8 billion in client revenue for Q3 2025

AMD has once again beaten its all-time best quarterly revenue stream this year: the company published its financial results for Q3 FY2025, with record-breaking quarter-over-quarter growth driven by $2.8 billion in client revenue — thanks to sales of Ryzen processors. AMD also had strong sales in EPYC CPUs, MI350 GPUs, and Radeon GPUs, which helped […]

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Why the for-profit race into solar geoengineering is bad for science and public trust

Many people already distrust the idea of engineering the atmosphere—at whichever scale—to address climate change, fearing negative side effects, inequitable impacts on different parts of the world, or the prospect that a world expecting such solutions will feel less pressure to address the root causes of climate change. Adding business interests, profit motives, and rich […]

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Vibe coding needs a spec, too

Kiro is AWS’ AI IDE that brings structure to AI coding with spec-driven development. Connect with Deepak on the Kiro Discord server and read more about spec-driven development on The New Stack. We last spoke to Deepak Singh in March about how enterprise-ready agents are. Congratulations to user Whymarrh for winning a Populist badge on […]

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When AI And Secure Chat Meet, Users Deserve Strong Controls Over How They Interact

from the you-control-it,-it-doesn’t-control-you dept Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which apps those AI systems can access. Recent issues around WhatsApp on both Android and iPhone demonstrate how these interactions can go sideways, risking revealing chat conversations […]

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Coinbase CEO turns earnings call into unexpected jackpot for prediction market traders

Key Takeaways Brian Armstrong just “airdropped” alpha straight into the bags of traders on Polymarket and Kalshi. He literally hit nearly every keyword that the prediction market traders had wagered on. Share this article Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong surprised listeners during the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Thursday after mentioning nearly every keyword that prediction […]

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