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iTnews - Security - Chinese lidar sensors pose hacking risk to US military equipment)

Calls for a ban.

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Most Black Friday shoppers bagged their deals online this year, with record spending (Emma Bowman/NPR)

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MAGA Filmmaker Trump Praised Admits 2020 Election Fraud Doc Was B.S. (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

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America Just Failed the Test of Responding to Trump's Politicized Prosecutions (emptywheel)

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OpenAI explores advertising in its AI products.

In an interview with the Financial Times, OpenAI’s new CFO Sarah Friar said that the startup was considering an ads model and it planned to be “thoughtful about when and where we implement” ads.

In a statement following the interview, though, Friar added:

> “While we’re open to exploring other revenue streams in the future, we have no active plans to pursue advertising.”

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On pardons, smartglasses, an authoritarian administration, and a case of the Cyber Mondays (Alexander B. Howard/CIVIC TEXTS)

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Nancy Mace keeps saying 'penis' to restabilize the binary. Every proud trans woman like Sarah McBride challenges their fetishisizing sexual dimorphism. Reaching for the 'phallus' (pun intended) is a flailing attempt re-secure the cis-binary. It won't work.…