USPTO Wants To Make Bad Patents Unchallengeable. You Have Until December 2nd To Tell Them No.

Mike Masnick, Techdirt

The US Patent Office is about to gut the only effective tool we have for killing bad patents—and they’re doing it by administrative fiat, without Congress, in a way that would make patent trolling easier than it’s been in over a decade. They need to hear from…

The Arms Dealer’s Nintendo 64 Will Be Fully Unveiled on Black Friday

Kyle Barr, Gizmodo.com

It's hard to get truly excited about ModRetro's M64 when Palmer Luckey is on board.

Marc Andreessen-Backed Super-PAC Pours Millions Into Fighting State AI Regulations

Ece Yildirim, Gizmodo.com

The advocacy offshoot wants a "uniform national approach."

Saudi Arabia Might Be Headed For Its Own Embracer Moment

Ethan Gach, Kotaku

Also: James Cameron explains his hatred of Netflix The post Saudi Arabia Might Be Headed For Its Own Embracer Moment appeared first on Kotaku.

Roblox is a problem – but it's a symptom of something worse

Casey Newton, Platformer.news

What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?

AWS to build 1.3 gigawatts of government-grade supercomputing power for Uncle Sam

Simon Sharwood, Theregister.com

Aims to wash away Washington's vast tech woes with a dose of cloud magic Amazon Web Services on Monday announced a plan to build 1.3 gigawatts of compute capacity in new datacenters dedicated to serving the US government, at a cost of up to $50 billion.…

Here’s one possibility nobody is considering about the future of Tim Cook at Apple

Marcus Mendes, 9to5Mac

There may be a different way to look at what could happen to Apple’s top leadership over the next few years. more…

Meta Allegedly Profited by $16B From Scam Ads. US Senators Demand FTC, SEC Probe

Macy Meyer, CNET

The lawmakers say Meta's platforms may be implicated in "about a third of all US scams" and linked to more than $50 billion in consumer losses last year.

Where Is the Trump Phone?

Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo.com

Is it located in the same place as the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare?

Steam Machine Price: Valve May Have Just Given The Best Clue Yet

Eddie Makuch, GameSpot

Valve will not say what the Steam Machine's price is just yet, and in this information vacuum, people are offering all kinds of different theories and guesses as to what the six-inch cube-like system may cost. Now, Valve has yet again commented on the pricing…

Stop buying USB Wi-Fi adapters for your PC

Tanveer Singh, XDA Developers

Just use PCIe cards and skip all the limitations of USB adapters

Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy

Mila Fiordalisi, Wired

The Trump administration's pressure on European regulators is having an impact, with fewer restrictions on Big Tech and canceled measures.

How the Nexperia chip crisis upended auto supply chains - again

Reuters, Yahoo Entertainment

DONGGUAN, China (Reuters) -A factory next to a weed-ridden lot in China's industrial south has become a global choke point for automotive chips, upending a...

Michael Burry Takes On Nvidia And The AI Boom, Here's Why People Are Loving It

Bibhu Pattnaik, Yahoo Entertainment

Michael Burry, famous for his accurate prediction of the mid-2000s US housing bubble burst, has once again stirred the pot in the financial world. This time,...

Dubai Air Show Highlights Importance Of The Mid-East

Jerrold Lundquist, Contributor, Jerrold Lundquist, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/jerroldlundquist/, Forbes

Growing importance of Dubai Air Show to commercial and military aerospace

Why Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) Is Under Analyst Spotlight

Rameen Kasana, Yahoo Entertainment

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is among the stocks Wall Street analysts are watching closely. On November 19, Reuters reported that a federal judge had...

This Week In Techdirt History: November 16th – 22nd

Leigh Beadon, Techdirt

Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we featured a guest post about the many problems with the idea of upload filters, while Poland was trying to get them excluded from the EU Copyright Directive. Twitch was continuing to trip over itself in response to its DMCA…

New York-based emergency alerts platform RapidSOS raised $100M led by Apax Digital Funds, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, for US and international expansion

bloomberg.com, Biztoc.com

Ubisoft’s Mysterious Delay Explained: Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, AI, And Debt Accounting

Ethan Gach, Kotaku

The publisher silences speculation with a very normal earnings call The post Ubisoft’s Mysterious Delay Explained: Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, AI, And Debt Accounting appeared first on Kotaku.

WATCH: AI toy's sale suspended over dangerous messages to kids

ABC News

Sales of an A.I. toy bear have been suspended after researchers found that the bear openly discussed sexually explicit and dangerous content with children.

Grok Claims Elon Musk Is More Athletic Than LeBron James — and the World’s Greatest Lover

Miles Klee, Rolling Stone

Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, keeps declaring that he's a peak physical specimen and one of the most brilliant minds in history.

Trump, Republicans try again to stop states from regulating AI

Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com

If at first you don’t succeed, swing again - Big Tech certainly isn’t complaining The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are trying again to eliminate state-level AI regulations in favor of a federal standard. The plan faces opposition from ma…

MAGA is once again divided over AI

Bryan Metzger, Business Insider

Trump is re-upping efforts to ban states from regulating AI, and it's drawing pushback from members of his own party.

The Download: what’s next for electricity, and living in the conspiracy age

Rhiannon Williams, MIT Technology Review

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Three things to know about the future of electricity The International Energy Agency recently released the latest version…