I just want to point out that this widely cited study from the 70s has been thoroughly debunked and is not true.

This watermarking text is really smart. Here's the Computerphile deep dive video con how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Turns out, making AI's play Diplomacy agains each other has been done quite often already! But I would like humans to play against the popular AIs.

I would LOVE to know how AI would fare with the classic board game "Diplomacy"!
For the ones that don't know it - it's a bit like "Risk", but there is no luck anywhere involved. Between each turn, all the players engage in e.g. 15 minutes of "Diplomacy" and literally anything is allowed (except moving the pieces). You can negotiate alliances, bribe and blackmail people, whatever. Many friendships have been lost to this game, because sooner or later you will have to backstab allies and betray friends.
It's great fun, and I seriously would like to try it with an AI once.

Why is this something new? Isn't it just an ARM chip, and Linux has been running on ARM for ages? And I think Android still uses the Linux kernel, no?

Good for them, but I guess too late?
I was in San Francisco recently, and I was told that Waymo's prices just dropped beneath Uber's prices, which to me seemed to me like an important tipping point.
Tech is only going to get cheaper, and humans are only going to get more expensive - unionized, even more so.
I took quite a couple of Waymos on that trip, and was shocked how quickly one becomes used to the whole driverless thing. It works well enough. And I doubt there's a competetive way to get that genie back into the bottle.

Telegram is (was?) used extensively by the russian troops that are invading Ukraine, so they are right that it is helping terrorism!

Serious question: at what point will it be worth it for the tech companies to investt directly into Taiwan's defense from a Chinese invasion?
With hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, wouldn't it make sense to buy Taiwan some AA systems and coastal artillery, just to deter an invasion a little more and hence secure their investment?

What you are describing is, sadly, simply 'cognitive dissonance' at work. All our brains really, really dislike having two contradicting things face off in their mind, especially if one of them has a lot of emotional baggage. So, instead of doing the correct thing and coldy evaluating which is true, the brain loves taking shortcuts and simply ignores the fact it doesn't like, or somehow starts making up stuff to justify the more deeply held belief.
That's why it is so hard to convince someone that they have been fooled by their sect leader, or that the are simply and plainly wrong about something.
Cognitive dissonance is very very important for understanding us humans. It takes a lot of mental effort to really keep an open mind.

While I am all for research in general, how is low-power non-ionizing supposed to cause any interesting problems? This just seems like anti-vax level paranoia nonsense.
Also - similar to vaccionations - we already should have a gazillion data-points about this, and surely any significant patterns would already have been identified.

Assuming that their comms use top-notch encryption, what's the point of interecepting another satellite's signal and eavesdropping it?

I, for one, prefer the general move towards having diagnosis of stuff on a spectrum instead of cramming people and symptoms in neat either/or boxes. We should all get used that many phenomena should always be accompanied with a scale. We should really use stuff like "I have aprox 0.1 autism, so it's not that bad".
Even inside the previous defintions of Asperger's and Autism, there was HUGE variance inside the diagnosis.

do you have more information on that (that isn't a whole book)?

I don't understand Whatsapp's business strategy. There are so many valid revenue streams...and they go with ads?
I'd go with:

server-side storage for old chat data, to clear up valuable cell phone storage space

let companys pay for using their name/domain name as a Whatsapp 'number' instead of a phone number

make their bot-access more streamlined and charge for it in a normal way (not like now)

Something I don't get: Why don't people, for starters, just install a single cheap mini-split (with a reverser valve, i.e. heating funtion) in some room? Each time it runs, it should heat up the home at least a bit, which in turn should make the old-school heating furnance's thermostat swtich 'on' less often, right?
Next season, you install another mini-split or two, and go from there?
Sure, it will probably not be as super efficient as a perfect 'heat pump' installation or whatever, but that could be off-set by smart meters or whatever.
But we really need some gradual way to ween ourselved of out fossil fuel addiction.