Yusin Hu / DigiTimes: IT news from AsiaXiaomis made-in-Vietnam smartphones delivered – Xiaomis first batch of made-in-Vietnam smartphones has been delivered by manufacturer DBG Technology, according to Vietnam Express... Read more »

webmaster@theregister.co.uk (Dylan Martin) / The RegisterIntel details advances to make upcoming chips faster, less costly – X86 giant says its on track to regaining manufacturing leadership after years of... Read more »

Bill Sarubbi, Contributor / Forbes.com Market NewsStocks This Week: Sell Short Dentsply Sirona And Ebay – Short selling has worked well over the last two weeks. Here are two... Read more »

Laura Miller / Slate MagazineHow Fandom Built (and Broke) the Internet – Two new books explore the pleasures, and dangers, of cultural obsession. … Read more »

WSJ.com: World NewsBrazilian Military Scours Amazon for Missing Journalist – An armed fisherman has been arrested as authorities search for British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira,... Read more »

Tech Times : TechGoogle Employee Claims Its AI LaMDA is Human-Like, Fears Being Turned Off – A Google employee claims LaMDA is sentient. … Read more »

FT.com – ITGoogle places engineer on leave after he claims group’s chatbot is ‘sentient’ – Blake Lemoine ignites social media debate over advances in artificial intelligence … Read more »

Yahoo! Finance: Company NewsApple Wants to End Passwords for Everything. Here’s How It Would Work. – Goodbye, complex, hard-to-remember passwords. Hello, logging in with your face and fingerprints. … Read more »

WSJ.com: TechnologyGoogle Suspends Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is Sentient – A software engineer at Google told the company he believed that its Language Model for Dialogue Applications,... Read more »