"To bypass the Moon would be a mistake."Distract, Divert, DefundCongress is none too pleased after SpaceX CEO and unelected official Elon Musk declared that the "Moon is a distraction" and that NASA should instead be going "straight to Mars."AsPolitico reports, lawmakers who control NASA's budget are prepared to fight back against Musk's apparent plan to kibosh the space agency's forthcoming lunar landing in favor of his long-running Martian dreams.Though Musk previously criticized the lunar mission as a "jobs-maximizing program, not a results-maximizing program," the soon-to-be head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) hasn't mentioned specifically that Artemis is massively over-budget and behind schedule to boot.Mark Kelly, a former astronaut who was briefly considered a contender for the Democratic vice presidential nod, suggested that investment continues to make the program worthwhile."We have put a lot of time, effort, and money into Artemis," the Arizona representative told the magazine, "and I think we should allow NASA to complete that mission."Rep. Brian Babin, a Texas Republican who leads the House's space committee, agreed from across the aisle."To bypass the Moon would be a mistake," Babin reckoned in an interview withPolitico.Curious SilenceThus far, president-elect Donald Trump hasn't joined the fray over NASA's Moon mission, which launched its first uncrewed craft in 2022 and is slated to put human boots on lunar soil this decade for the first time in more 50 years.After pushing NASA to get back to the Moon by 2024 during his first presidency, Trump hasshown interest in the space agency going to Mars since kindling his on-off bromance with Musk.Given the real estate mogul's propensity to agree with either whoever spoke to him most recently or whoever fawns over him the most, there's little doubt that Musk could sway the president-elect to go forth with his Martian pet project over the costly lunar mission.Should that be the case, however, Congress won't likely go down without a fight."There would be a lot of congressional resistance," Casey Drier, the head of space policy at the nonprofit Planetary Society, told Politico.Never one to back down from a battle, Musk has, asPolitico notes, threatened to primary any Republicans who oppose Trump's cabinet nominations and there's no reason he couldn't exert similar pressure on his Mars-over-Moon agenda.More on Musk's politicking: MAGA Figures Turn on Elon Musk for Not Hating Immigrants EnoughShare This Article

Jan 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Data ProtectionAustrian privacy non-profit None of Your Business (noyb) has filed complaints accusing companies like TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat, and Xiaomi of violating data protection regulations in the European Union by unlawfully transferring users' data to China.The advocacy group is seeking an immediate suspension of such transfers, stating the companies in question cannot shield user data from being potentially accessed by the Chinese government. The complaints have been filed in Austria, Belgium, Greece, Italy, and the Netherlands."Given that China is an authoritarian surveillance state, it is crystal clear that China doesn't offer the same level of data protection as the E.U.," Kleanthi Sardeli, data protection lawyer at noyb, said. "Transferring Europeans' personal data is clearly unlawful and must be terminated immediately."Noyb noted that the companies have no choice but to comply with Chinese authorities' requests for access to data, and that Beijing lacks an independent data protection authority to raise issues related to government surveillance.It also said none of the companies responded to its access requests under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to seek clarity on the nature of data transfers, and if they are transmitted to China or any other country outside of the E.U."According to their privacy policy, AliExpress, SHEIN, TikTok, and Xiaomi transfer data to China," noyb said. "Temu and WeChat mention transfers to third countries. According to Temu and WeChat's corporate structure, this most likely includes China."The development comes as ByteDance-owned TikTok is preparing to shut down its app in the U.S. starting January 19, 2025, when a federal ban on the social media platform is scheduled to come into effect. In recent months, noyb has filed GDPR-related complaints against Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla for tracking users without consent through Privacy Sandbox, Xandr, and Firefox, respectively.FTC Takes Actions Against General Motors and GoDaddyThe complaints also coincide with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banning automaker General Motors from disclosing data that it collects from drivers, including geolocations and driver behavior information, to consumer reporting agencies for five years for sharing such data without their affirmative consent.According to a New York Times investigation in March 2024, the information was shared with two data brokers, LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Verisk, that worked with the insurance industry to generate risk profiles and increase auto insurance rates for some drivers. In a statement, General Motors said it had already discontinued the "Smart Driver" data collection program in April 2024 "due to customer feedback." The company said customers could access and delete their personal information through a U.S. Consumer Privacy Request Form on its website.The FTC has also ordered website hosting provider GoDaddy to implement a comprehensive information security program to overhaul its "unreasonable security practices" that led to multiple customer data breaches between 2019 and 2022. GoDaddy has not admitted to any wrongdoing, nor has it been fined."GoDaddy has failed to implement reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect and monitor its website-hosting environments for security threats, and misled customers about the extent of its data security protections on its website hosting services," the FTC said.The agency pointed out that GoDaddy failed to properly manage its assets and inventory; patch its software; assess risks to its hosting services; use multi-factor authentication; log security-related events; monitor for security threats; segment its network; and secure connections to services providing access to consumer data.The consumer protection agency has since also announced amendments to online privacy safeguards for children under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) that require obtaining verifiable parental consent prior to processing their data for advertising purposes or sharing it with third-parties.Furthermore, the rule imposes new data retention policies, necessitating that companies only retain children's information "for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill a specific purpose for which it was collected." "By requiring parents to opt in to targeted advertising practices, this final rule prohibits platforms and service providers from sharing and monetizing children's data without active permission," FTC Chair Lina M. Khan said.Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.SHARE

Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career. Summary / Role Purpose The SimAI platform is a SaaS AI-based technology that brings unprecedented speed, innovation and accessibility to simulation. It is based on proprietary Deep Learning algorithms at the forefront of AI state of the art. With Ansys SimAI, users can train AI models using simulation results and then can reliably predict the performance of complex problems in minutes instead of hours or days. It empowers users to take faster decisions, make faster iterations and ultimately faster innovation. The Senior Devops Engineer will be responsible for maintaining and scaling the SimAI SaaS platform. The Senior Devops Engineer will use next-generation tools (kubernetes, aws, pulumi, terraform, python, bash). The Senior Devops Engineer uses problem-solving skills that will help us tackle complex issues centered around:scaling GPU and CPU computing resources as well as servicescreating new monitoring and alerting capabilitiessupporting SimAI R&D team efficiently and robustly deploy new services coming from state-of-the-art AI researchTo do this, The Senior Devops Engineer will collaborate with a team of experts who are, together, building the future of computer-assisted system design. In our team, autonomy is key. 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I dont know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at a waterpark. The ending in shit kind. The issues are complicated, the reasons diverse, but there are a few culprits who have been making themselves extremely visible.Alongside those holding political office, tech gragillionnaires (I had to invent a new number) like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg obviously wield huge global influence with their computers and numbers and whatnot. There has been a lot written about them and there will be more, as they continue to shape the world and win favour with Donald Trump. Big, scary, probably ruinous things lie ahead. But Im here to discuss the smaller part. The insult to injury, the sprinkling of salt in the wound.Whether I am engaging with the news, or with Musk tweeting constantly like a man with no job or friends, or with Zuckerbergpainfully cringe.I knew that one day we might have to watch as capitalism and greed and bigotry led to a world where powerful men, deserving or not, would burn it all down. What I didnt expect, and dont think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly cringe it would all be. I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers.Ive always been someone who cannot tolerate embarrassment. I hate being embarrassed more than just about any other emotion and Ive always skipped content based on cringe humour like Meet the Parents, Borat or Nathan for You. It makes my skin crawl and it makes the contents of my stomach try to crawl out of my mouth. But I cannot skip world events.Nor can I skip Musks clear desperation, even as he holds this much wealth and power in his hands, to be thought of as cool. There are endless examples of him embarrassing himself while attempting to be funny or to gain respect. Unfortunately, while you may be able to buy power, its impossible to buy a good personality. Watching his Nigel-no-friends attempts to be popular, his endless pathetic tweets that read as though they come from the brain of an 11-year-old poser, has made me start to believe we should bring back bullying. If yet another humiliating report in the last couple of days is to be believed, he appears even to have lost the respect of some of his gamer audience, who the report claims suspect that he may have been lying about his achievements in hardcore gaming (cursed sentence).Zuckerberg is a different kind of cringe but cringe all the same. His cringe moments drip through more sparingly but, when they do, my body tries to turn inside out at my bellybutton. His physical makeover for Maga reasons, performing music because no one will stop him, trying to look cool on a surfboard all these are extremely difficult to watch. He has been trying to suck up to Trump, going on Joe Rogans show to say society has been neutered and companies need more masculine energy.Putting on what is clearly a bro disguise to join the boys club and sit at the big boy table it should feel humiliating. This came as Zuckerberg rolled back hate speech and factchecking rules at Meta, in a clear swerve to the right before Trumps inauguration. What could be more masculine and cool than selling out vulnerable communities and women to impress the alpha male?Climate crises keep coming, genocides continue, women keep getting murdered, art is being strangled to death by AI, bigotry is on the rise, social progress is being rolled back AND these men insist on being cringe? Its a rotten cherry on top. This combination of evil and embarrassment is a unique horror, one that science fiction has failed to prepare us for. The second-hand embarrassment we have to endure gets even more potent when combined with other modern influences on young men, like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate.Peterson is a big voice in mens rights well, a small Kermits voice in mens rights and hes also an embarrassment. So much so that he has his own Know Your Meme page, which covers that time hereportedly retweeted an image from a fetish film, apparently believing it was a Chinese communist sperm extraction facility. He deleted it shortly afterwards.Tate is facing human trafficking charges but rose to fame as a voice for young men, a misogynist in bad outfits who does really cool things like smoking cigars, wearing sunnies inside and trying to drag human rights back 100 years.Living your life to impress other men by hating women is one of the most embarrassing things I can imagine. Looking up to any of these men for how to live your life is even sadder.Ive worked hard to keep these kinds of men out of my personal life, to keep them away from me, out of my goddamn sight. Now they are in my face daily, not only influencing the world for the worse but making me nauseous at how uncool and pathetic they are, on top of their other sins. Its too much, I cant take it, there needs to be a change.Its time for us to start getting revenge on the nerds.Rebecca Shaw is a writer based in Sydney

Image: NintendoAs exciting as new console launches are, it's become increasingly difficult in recent years to secure certain systems on release. Sony's PlayStation 5 was hugely impacted by this coming off the pandemic, so how will it be for Nintendo's Switch successor this many years on?Bloomberg has released a new report about the possible shipment data for the Switch 2 in the first year of its life, and according to Robin Zhu - an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, Nintendo's supply chain is ready to sell more than 20 million units in 2025.In comparison, the original Switch shifted around 15 million units in its opening year, but the Switch 2 launch will now be nearly a decade later. During the Switch's beginnings, the company was also still recovering from its troubled Wii U generation all while extending the life of its 3DS just in case.Now that the Switch has proven itself (shifting over 146 million units globally), there's likely a lot more confidence within Nintendo about the system's successor - so if this figure from Bloomberg's source is accurate, hopefully, it means we don't have to worry as much about acquiring these new hybrid units when the release date is announced and pre-orders go live.Of course, one thing we also don't know just yet is the price of the Switch 2 - which will likely be a deciding factor for many fans. There have already been all sorts of price estimates and predictions based on the rumoured technology inside of Nintendo's new hardware, so hopefully the upcoming Direct presentation confirms this. Official details, rumours, leak historyFollowed by a hands-on tourEvery confirmed Switch 2 gameAre you hoping to pre-order or generally just purchase a Switch 2 in the first year of its life? Let us know.[source bloomberg.com, via bsky.app]See AlsoShare:01 Liam is a news writer and reviewer for Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox. He's been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario and Master Chief. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...Related ArticlesNintendo Asks Wii U Owners To Refrain From Using "Unauthorised" Online ServicesUpdate: Pretendo respondsNintendo Breaks Silence On 'Switch 2' Image And Video LeaksThe "official" announcement will take place this fiscal yearRumour: 'Switch 2' Will Reportedly Be Officially Revealed This ThursdayThough software won't be the focus

After two years of relatively muted investment activity, it seems that VCs are starting to pour capital into startups at pandemic-era levels once again. But a closer look shows that they arent really.In the fourth quarter of last year, investors funneled $74.6 billion into U.S. startups, a substantial increase from the average of $42 billion invested in each of the previous nine quarters, according to PitchBook data released on Tuesday.While these funding levels were previously seen only during the peak of the ZIRP era (end of 2020 through 2021), the reality is that this recent increase in venture capital funding is disproportionately benefiting a select few companies. In fact, $32 billion, or 43.2% of Q4 investment activity, was invested in precisely a handful of colossal-sized deals:Databricks: In December, the data analytics company raised $10 billion at a $62 billion valuation.OpenAI: The ChatGPT maker secured $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation in early October.xAI: Elon Musks xAI thats developing a generative AI foundational model called Grok, which landed $6 billion from investors in December.Waymo: Self-driving car developer that operates robotaxi services in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix secured a $5.6 billion Series C in November led by parent company Alphabet and joined by a whos who of Silicon Valley venture firms.Anthropic: In November, the generative AI model developer raised $4 billion from Amazon.Without these megadeals, Q4 investment activity would have mirrored the previous two years average of $42 billion. This stark concentration of venture capital investment highlights the widening gap between a few well-funded companies and the broader startup ecosystem.Whether 2025 will see a continuation of the high venture capital investment levels observed in Q4 of last year remains to be seen. However, most venture capital funding will probably continue to flow toward a small cohort of the most promising AI companies.

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ALLIANZ STADIUM, TORINO, ITALY - 2025/01/12: Jake Paul looks on during the Kings League world cup ... [+] nations final match between Brazil and Colombia . Brazil wins 6-2 over Colombia. (Photo by Marco Canoniero/LightRocket via Getty Images)LightRocket via Getty ImagesIf youre eagerly awaiting Jake Pauls first MMA bout, you might not want to hold your breath. According to Donn Davis, the owner of the Professional Fighters League, who signed the YouTuber-turned-boxer to an MMA contract, Pauls MMA debut wont come before the fall of 2025.Davis was interviewed by MMA Fightings Mike Heck and covered a variety of topics. Particularly important, Davis said this about Pauls debut with the promotion:I just talked to Nakisa [Bidarian] (Pauls partner with MVP Promotions) an hour ago, PFL founder Donn Davis said. Two things are happening: Jake is super successful in boxing. Whether you love Jake or hate Jake, we can all agree that guys the man when it comes to generating attention, revenue, and viewership with his boxing career. Its more successful than it was when we signed him. On the boxing side, that has delayed MMA because hes killing it in boxing. So will MMA happen with the PFL? Yes, it will. Has it been delayed? Yes, it has. My guess is the fall of this year, but I dont think its going to be before that. Hes got so many things going on in boxing.Here is a look at the entire interview.Credit to Davis for being transparent and not making promises that might not be kept. Paul is in a great position.He can do whatever he wants and take any fight that he believes is in his best interest. As Davis said, at this point, Paul is having so much success in boxing, unless the perfect opportunity in MMA comes along, it could be very difficult to pull him into the PFL Smartcage.MORE FOR YOUTruthfully, because Paul has had almost no mixed martial arts training, the matchmaking for his first MMA fight will have to be carefully crafted.Paul did call out Nate Diaz, and there was reportedly a $10 million offer made to the UFC legend. However, it is unlikely Paul climbs into the cage with a seasoned mixed martial artist. If he does, hes probably fighting someone who isnt going to take him down.I dont think its Nate Diaz or bust, Davis added. I think there are other opportunities. It matters. The opponent matters. The opponent always matters. Jake is brilliant at picking opponents. Of course, it matters who the name and the opponent are, but I think theres a broader set than Nate Diaz. How big is that set? Maybe four or three; its not a lot, but I think its bigger than Nate.Perhaps the best thing the PFL can do is to sign someone they can build to become Pauls MMA opponent. The ideal path is to have that fighter grow his social media presence while consistently calling Paul out.Here comes the hard part: he needs to keep winning and doing it impressively. He needs to go viral in ways that the casual fan can understand.Thats not likely to come to fruition in 2025. Without that scenario or the emergence of an ideal big name, it might be tough to lure the Problem Child away from the boxing ring.