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PostNord, the postal service that the country has shared with Sweden since 2009, will no longer deliver letters in Denmark<\/a> from December 30. Its 1,500 remaining red boxes already started vanishing in June and a handful of them are to be displayed in museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia\u2019s final strategy for fighting Europe is to rely on Chinese assistance<\/a>. Russia\u2019s own industrial base is very weak, and relied heavily on imported European parts and machinery that has now been partially cut off. But Chinese tech has largely plugged that hole, as the Carnegie Endowment reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe is also going to have to change its political mindset. Lavish pensions<\/a> and other elements of Europe\u2019s social model are going to have to be temporarily curbed to help give Europe the fiscal space and physical resources to fight off its enemies. All nuclear plants need to be restarted, and Europe should build more nuclear, ignoring \u201cgreen\u201d parties and environmental activists who irrationally hate nuclear power. Europe needs to reform its land-use regulation to require greater construction of solar and wind power. And Europe is going to have to back off of its aggressive regulation of AI software, in order to produce cutting-edge autonomous weaponry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, Sony Electronics Inc. sold its San Diego campus at 16535 Via Esprillo in Rancho Bernardo for $67.4 million to an entity affiliated with Irvine-based real estate investment and management company LBA Properties, property records show. The electronics company spent $150 million to build the property<\/a>, which was completed in 2009, according to news reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week marked the 17th anniversary of Chicago selling 36,000 parking meters to private investors<\/a> for 75 years in exchange for $1.15B in cash. The parking meters have since generated $2B for the investors, with 58 years still left on the lease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US consumes about 100 quadrillion BTUs<\/a> of energy per year. Of this, about 80 start life as coal, oil or gas, and roughly a third of the energy mix serves the electrical grid. Less than 1% is food, reflecting our enormous energy wealth<\/a> in comparison to our pre-industrial forebears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched in partnership with the data-connectivity platform LiveRamp, Uber Intelligence will let advertisers securely combine their customer data with Uber’s<\/a> to help surface insights about their audiences, based on what they eat and where they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silicon Valley isn\u2019t building apps anymore.
It\u2019s building empires<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But using a next-generation Starlink satellite manufactured on Earth is just the beginning of his vision. \u201cThe level beyond that is constructing satellite factories on the Moon and using a mass driver (electromagnetic railgun<\/a>) to accelerate AI satellites to lunar escape velocity without the need for rockets,\u201d Musk said this weekend on X<\/a>. \u201cThat scales to >100TW\/year of AI and enables non-trivial progress towards becoming a Kardashev II civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This tool aims to show the extent of ALPR camera coverage in your local area<\/a>. It uses OSM data for homes, amenities, and tagged ALPR cameras. Want to improve the accuracy? Tag all of the above in your neighborhood on OpenStreetMaps (try Every Door<\/a> for an easy to use app).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historic aerial photography shows the growth and changes in England’s urban and rural landscapes. Aerial<\/a> photos can reveal hidden archaeology and sites that are difficult or even impossible to see from the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Boston Globe became aware of this litigation<\/a> on Nov. 25 and began requesting additional details about the case, but Rockingham County Superior Court Judge David W. Ruoff issued a gag order under seal on Nov. 26 prohibiting the Globe from disclosing any information about the case to anyone. Ruoff vacated the gag order when he unsealed the case.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only did this court order prevent the Boston Globe from reporting this story, it prohibited<\/a> the Boston Globe from disclosing the existence of the court order itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration\u2019s effort to replace the United Nations Charter and international law<\/a> with a so-called \u201crules-based order\u201d dictated by the United States and other members of the G-7 utterly failed to gain traction. Instead of buttressing the global leadership of the West, we Americans discredited our pretentions to exemplify a civilisation entitled to impose its allegedly superior values on others. Consider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You start seeing an algorithmic market<\/a> \u2013 one where visibility compounds, demand snowballs, and who gets to survive is increasingly decided by code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coincidence? That\u2019s what the students from the Axel Springer Academy decided to find out. What followed was a five-week investigation involving leaked classified documents, tens of thousands of ship tracking data points<\/a>, a 2,500-kilometer car chase across three countries, and\u2014in a delicious bit of turnabout\u2014their own drone flight over one of the suspect vessels. \u201cWir haben zur\u00fcck-gedrohnt,\u201d they told their audience today during a presentation of the project. We droned back.The scale of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In light of the deteriorating security situation, the Federal Council is realigning Switzerland’s security policy for the coming years<\/a>. To this end, it has developed a security policy strategy that incorporates the resources of both the federal government and the cantons. The Federal Council intends to address the heightened threat level by strengthening Switzerland’s resilience, improving protection and prevention measures, and enhancing the country’s defence capabilities. At its meeting on 12 December, it launched the consultation procedure and instructed the relevant departments to start implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deputies found the suspect devices, a Dewalt Sawzall, 13 red Diablo Sawzall blades, and 26 block radio antennas resembling those used in Wi-Fi signal jammers<\/a> \u2014 tools criminals use to disrupt security systems, according to investigators. Officers also located window punchers similar to those used to break patio doors in the burglaries, along with multiple fraudulent IDs and passports, the complaint said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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