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An estimated 55,000 people marched outside New Zealand's Parliament to protest The Treaty Principles Bill, targeting the Treaty of Waitangi, or Te Tiriti o Waitangi, that would dilute Indigenous rights by reinterpreting a treaty signed in 1840 by the British Crown and more than 500 Māori chiefs...
The peaceful demonstration was the culmination of a nine-day march, or hīkoi, that began at Cape Reinga, the northernmost point of New Zealand and the most spiritually significant place in the country for Māori, who are about 20% of the 5.3 million-person population.
Hundreds carried the Māori national flag.
Maori members staged a traditional dance called a haka into the Parliament to disrupt the first reading of the treaty.
Member of Parliament Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who at 22 is the country's youngest MP, started the haka then tore up a copy of the bill.
Other participants included the Māori Queen, Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō, and Te Pāti Māori Co-Leader Rawiri Waititi, who led the crowd in a chant to "KILL THE BILL".
Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy figure, for the first time took the stand in court since his arrest nearly four years ago, saying his newspaper represented the freedoms that people in the city valued.
One of the most vocal critics of China's ruling Communist Party, Mr. Lai, 77, is accused of being the mastermind behind anti-government protests that swept across the city in 2019.
Prosecutors in a landmark national security trial have charged him with conspiring and colluding with “foreign forces”.
Mr. Lai, who has pleaded not guilty, faces up to life in prison.
For decades he ran a popular newspaper, Apple Daily, that championed pro-democracy voices. The paper, now shuttered, was at the forefront of the 2019 demonstrations, amplifying protest slogans and publishing editorials and cartoons urging people in Hong Kong to join the movement.
“The more information you have, the more you’re in the know, the more you are free,” Mr. Lai said in a packed courtroom....
Il governo degli Stati Uniti vuole costringere Google a vendere Chrome. Il Dipartimento di Giustizia ha presentato la richiesta al giudice federale Amit Mehta, che lo scorso agosto ha dichiarato illegale il monopolio di Alphabet, la società madre di Google, nel settore delle ricerche online.
Attualmente, Chrome detiene circa il 66% del mercato globale dei browser (68% in Italia), mentre Google controlla l’89% delle ricerche su internet (94% in Italia).
Secondo Mehta, Alphabet ha ottenuto questa posizione dominante stringendo accordi non conformi alla legge con grandi produttori di dispositivi come Apple, Samsung e altri.
Google will also reportedly be asked to establish new measures around its artificial intelligence, Android operating system and use of data.
"The government putting its thumb on the scale in these ways would harm consumers, developers and American technological leadership", said Google executive Lee-Anne Mulholland in a statement.
X has initiated a High Court challenge against Ireland’s media authority, Coimisiún na Meán, over a newly introduced censorship code that imposes stringent regulations on video-sharing platforms.
Rooted in the European Commission’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD), the code obliges platforms under Irish jurisdiction to implement measures shielding users—particularly children—from harmful content.
For platforms like X, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and more, the code signals a dramatic shift away from self-regulation and gives Ireland’s regulators more control over online speech.
X’s objections center on the potential conflict between the Irish regulations and broader European legal standards, such as the Digital Services Act.
With Musk continuing to transform his social platform, now called X, at the same time as taking a role in US president-elect Donald Trump’s government, the Xodus has begun.
Bluesky promotes a “marketplace of algorithms instead of a single master algorithm”, Jay Graber, Bluesky’s CEO, outlined In a 2023 blog post,
The platform has the potential, once it reaches a critical mass of users, to act as the “de facto public town square”, as Musk dubbed Twitter before he purchased it.
Bitcoin has skyrocketed over 32% since Nov. 5 to an all time high of more than $91,000 dollars as traders bet President-elect Donald Trump's promised support for digital assets would lead to a less restrictive regulatory regime and inject some life back into bitcoin after a listless few months.
On Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange, the average bitcoin daily trading volume from Nov. 6 to Nov. 13 jumped to about $493 million, nearly double the year's average of around $252 million, as per crypto data provider Kaiko.
Meanwhile, U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds tracking the spot price of bitcoin, products favored by institutional investors, notched their biggest daily net inflows on record of $1.43 billion dollars on Nov. 7, according to CoinShares.
Just 50 days before his reelection, Donald Trump took the time to hawk a new crypto platform.
If the country does not build out its cryptocurrency ecosystem, “we’re not going to be the biggest, and we have to be the biggest and the best,” Trump said on a livestream on X.
The livestream was sponsored by World Liberty Financial, which has given Trump the title “chief crypto advocate” and his sons, Barron, Eric, and Donald Jr., that of “Web3 ambassador”.
World Liberty Financial is the brainchild of Zak Folkman (the creator of an advisory firm called Date Hotter Girls LLC) and Chase Herro (an affiliate marketer who previously sold colon cleanses). It is a get-rich-quick scheme, and not one that seems designed to enrich its customers.
It is also an emblem of a financial world that Trump’s election seems set to supercharge.
Think of it as the bro-economy: a volatile, speculative, and extremely online casino, in which the house is already winning big.
Acknowledging that "the era of the billionaire" is still in full swing across the globe, economic justice advocates applauded a "landmark commitment" by G20 leaders at the group's annual summit in Rio de Janeiro, where delegates agreed to cooperate on efforts to ensure the richest households in the world are taxed fairly.
The final communiqué out of the G20 Summit includes a commitment from 19 countries, the European Union, and the African Union, to "engage cooperatively to ensure that ultra-high-net-worth individuals are effectively taxed".
"Now is the time to turn words into action and launch an inclusive international negotiation, extending beyond G20 countries, on the reform of the taxation of the superrich", said economist Gabriel Zucman.
A study estimates that tax dodging enabled by the United States, the United Kingdom, and other wealthy nations is costing countries around the world nearly half a trillion dollars in revenue each year, underscoring the urgent need for global reforms to prevent rich individuals and large corporations from shirking their obligations.
The study, conducted by the Tax Justice Network (TJN), finds that "the combined costs of cross-border tax abuse by multinational companies and by individuals with undeclared assets offshore stands at an estimated $492 billion". Of that total in lost revenue, corporate tax dodging is responsible for more than $347 billion, according to TJN's calculations.
The analysis estimates that just eight countries—the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Japan, Israel, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand—are enabling large-scale tax avoidance by opposing popular global reform efforts. Late last year, those same eight countries were the lonely opponents of the United Nations General Assembly's vote to set in motion the process ofestablishing a U.N. tax convention.
"The hurtful eight voted for a world where we all keep losing half a trillion a year to tax-cheating multinational corporations and the super-rich", Alex Cobham, chief executive of the Tax Justice Network, said in a statement.
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Developing countries publicly doubled down on their call for trillions in climate aid from richer nations — but privately, some acknowledged that a significantly smaller proposal European Union governments are discussing might be the best they will get for now.
The EU has explored offering $200 billion to $300 billion per year in climate assistance, as revealed in a report, an amount that could eventually be buttressed by much more private-sector financing. The U.S., meanwhile, has yet to show its hand, just two months before the dawn of a second Trump administration.
A U.N.-backed expert group estimates that developing countries — apart from China — need around $1 trillion annually in external climate financing. About $300 billion of that would need to be tied to the public purse of wealthy industrialized nations.
SARA SCHONHARDT, ZACK COLMAN, ZIA WEISE, KARL MATHIESEN Politico
China’s historical responsibility for climate change has become a major point of contention in global climate politics.
China, for its part, has argued that it has already provided roughly $24.5 billion in climate finance to other developing countries since 2016.
But European officials have said that China is not subject to the same transparency requirements and have urged the country to formalize the aid they provide under U.N. agreements. So far, China has been reluctant to do that.
In a speech last week, Ding Xuexiang, China’s vice premier, said that wealthy countries taking the lead on providing financial aid was a “cornerstone” of global climate agreements.
Le immagini recenti della città mostrano uno scenario post-apocalittico: la visibilità è quasi nulla e le persone in strada indossano tutte la mascherina. Il motivo è lo smog.
Il livello di inquinanti atmosferici PM 2.5 ha raggiunto i 907 microgrammi per metro cubo, record quest’anno, circa 65 volte più del limite massimo fissato dall’Organizzazione mondiale della sanità (15)
The G20 failure to make a direct mention of the need to transition away from fossil fuels in its leaders’ statement in Rio has escalated fears among key negotiators at the UN COP29 summit in Baku that Donald Trump’s US election victory - whose campaign slogan had been “drill baby drill” in reference to scaling up oil and gas production - has put the brakes on climate action.
The G20 statement said countries “welcome and fully subscribe to the ambitious and balanced outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai (COP28), in particular the UAE Consensus”, without an explicit mention of the agreed shift from fossil fuels.
A bipartisan United States congressional commission said the country should develop an initiative similar to the Manhattan Project to advance artificial intelligence development amid growing competition with China.
In its November report, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) recommended that Congress "establish and fund a Manhattan Project-like program dedicated to advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI) capability".
The Manhattan Project was the codename for a joint US government and private research project that developed the first nuclear bombs during World War II. The report noted that AGI systems are those “as good as or better than human capabilities” which could “usurp the sharpest human minds at every task”.
HPC6 (High Performance Computing) ha una capacità di calcolo pari a 606 PFlops di picco, che - per i non addetti ai lavori - significa che è in grado di elaborare oltre 600 milioni di miliardi di operazioni matematiche complesse al secondo.
Per questa sua straordinaria potenza è balzato al quinto posto assoluto della nuova classifica mondiale TOP500 (rilasciata il 18 novembre 2024) e il primo in Europa. Ma è anche il primo al mondo a uso industriale e unico sistema non-Usa tra i primi cinque al mondo.
At the Microsoft Ignite 2024 conference, Microsoft and Atom Computing announced yet another breakthrough on the way to a fault-tolerant quantum computing: The two companies entangled 24 logical qubits using neutral atoms held in place by lasers. This is the highest number of entangled logical qubits on record (It takes a number of physical qubits to create the logical qubit that can then be used to run quantum algorithms).
Microsoft Azure Quantum Computeplatform provides a qubit virtualization system that allows the teams to design quantum error correction that is optimized for a specific quantum processor. This is also what drove Microsoft’s recent advances with Quantinuum, which achieved 12 logical qubits
The two companies plan to deliver quantum computers based on this technology to commercial customers next year. Those machines will feature over 1,000 physical qubits.
Time may not be a fundamental element of the universe but rather an illusion emerging from quantum entanglement, a new study suggests.
First author of the study, Alessandro Coppo, a physicist at the National Research Council of Italy, told Live Science: "The correlation between the clock and the system creates the emergence of time, a fundamental ingredient in our lives."
According to Einstein's theory of general relativity — which describes larger objects, such as our bodies, stars and galaxies — time is interwoven with space and can be warped and dilated at high speeds or in the presence of gravity. This leaves our two best theories of reality at a fundamental impasse. Without its resolution, a coherent theory of everything remains out of reach.
"It seems there is a serious inconsistency in quantum theory," Coppo said. "This is what we call the problem of time".
In place of time, their version of the famous equation ran according to the states of the tiny magnets acting as a clock. Their equations simplified into those for classical physics, suggesting that time's flow is a consequence of entanglement even for objects on large scales.
Henry Kissingerjoined forceswith technologists Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt to write a book on the subject that dominated his thinking in his final years: humanity's risk from AI.
That book,"GenesisArtificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit", is out nearly a year after the former secretary of state died at 100.
Kissinger warns that humanity is "trying to wield a power it cannot possibly understand".
"Humans won't any longerbe at the top of the scale in terms of intelligence, and that forces us to think differently about our relationship to everything", Mundie says.
Schmidt says humanity could become "the dog" to AI's human.
An unnamed man exists both in the recognizably real world and in a walled town where nothing ever changes. The inhabitants of the town wear simple clothes and live “plain but perfectly adequate lives”.
As a resident of the walled town, the narrator works at a library that archives not books but spherical objects containing “old dreams” that he is tasked with reading. Assisting him is a young woman, the librarian, with whom he falls in love.
The clock tower in the center of the town has a face with no hands, and to live in the community, a person must agree to be severed from his shadow by the Gatekeeper, who prevents the uninitiated from entering and the shadowless residents from leaving.
To remain in the walled town, the narrator must agree to a violent separation from his shadow, who becomes a separate being living outside the city walls and slowly wasting away.
What is the walled town? A prison or a utopia? Life or death? The past or the future?
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