Google loses its final EU antitrust appeal and faces a €4.3 billion fine over Android bundling, while a departing VP's farewell letter accuses leadership of losing its moral compass. Infineon opens a five-billion-euro chip plant in Dresden, advancing Europe's push for semiconductor autonomy. Japan's top court rules AI cannot be listed as a patent inventor, Spain blacklists Palantir from public contracts, and Virginia bans warrantless geolocation data sales. Plus: a Linux LUKS encryption bug, the
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00:00:00 Opening00:00:27 Google loses record €4.3 billion EU antitrust appeal00:01:56 Infineon opens €5 billion chip plant in Dresden00:03:26 Japan rules only humans can be inventors; Spain blacklists Palantir00:05:20 Virginia bans geolocation data sales; EFF presses FTC on X00:06:43 Linux LUKS suspend bug leaves encryption keys in memory00:08:09 DNA solves mystery of Everest's 'Green Boots' climber00:09:03 Single frozen layer matches full RL training; short-leash coding beats Fable00:10:35 Egg producers fined a fraction of price-fixing profits00:11:19 MCP Cloud launch and Claude-real-video let any LLM watch video00:13:13 LMDB 1.0 released; crustc translates the Rust compiler to C00:14:21 Immich 3.0 shifts to web-first self-hosted photo serverRelated links
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