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This article examines how geopolitical tensions have shaped the emergence and stabilization of RISC-V, an open and royalty-free Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that has rapidly expanded in the global semiconductor industry. Rather than treating geopolitics as an external constraint acting upon standardization, the study analyzes how geopolitical rivalry has actively contributed to RISC-V’s development.
Les trumpistes accusent la « pensée 68 » d’avoir été le ferment du « wokisme ». Mais certains d’entre eux cherchent à revendiquer l’héritage d’une autre école française, d’inspiration chrétienne, qui trouva à s’exprimer à Stanford, sous l’influence du philosophe, théoricien du désir mimétique et du bouc émissaire.
Calls to a clinic in Uganda are helping create a therapy algorithm that works in local languages, as specialists look to technology to address the global mental health crisis
Cool project my friend Jana is working on
For the United States, the coming compute war isn’t just a Ukrainian problem—it’s a preview of US challenges in future conflict.
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
btw this page was Claude-coded
Absurdist video urges policymakers and users to resist deliberate deterioration of platforms and devices
Drawing on interviews and social media data, the study reveals that Web3 fraud thrives among African youth due to economic hardship and weak regulatory oversight.
How did trumpet legend Nat Adderley become a white guy playing with a three-handed bassist?
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Far-right populist parties have been particularly early adopters of new generative AI imaging tools. Beyond concerns raised about misinformation, 'sloppificatio
Fruit d'un développement mené grâce à des outils open source, LaSuite est la réponse française (et souveraine) aux suites bureautiques du marché, comme celle de Microsoft. BFM Tech a pu rencontrer ceux qui se cachent derrière l'ensemble des logiciels qui n'ont rien à envier à ceux développés par les...
[in French] great overview of how the French gov produced a market-shaping digital common
A conversation with Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center for Justice.