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coevcan··on Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system
I don't know why anyone would trust the Liberal government with a payment system, after they went rogue and froze about 200 bank accounts without court orders during the convey protests using the emergencies act which has since been deemed illegal.

> Using powers granted under the Emergencies Act, the federal government has directed banks and other financial institutions to stop doing business with people associated with the anti-vaccine mandate convoy occupying the nation's capital.

> ... financial institutions are required to monitor and halt all transactions that funnel money to demonstrators — a measure designed to cut off funding to a well-financed protest ...

If you think they wouldnt abuse this, good luck to you.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-banks-ottaw...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergency-bank-measures-fin...

https://reclaimthenet.org/court-rules-trudeau-freezing-civil...

coevcan··on Local AI needs to be the norm
Apple includes a local LLM on all recent iPhones, https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels. Seems like a bad idea to force your users to download a 3GB LLM just to parse a text field.
coevcan··on Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal
Intel chip fab facility in Arizona came online recently, probably has something to do with it, the manufacturing capability didn't exist before.
coevcan··on USA FCC Prohibits All New Models of Foreign-Made Consumer Routers
They already did something similar at the provider level years ago (2021): https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-prepares-to-ban-and-remove-hu...
coevcan··on Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts
Are you really going to suggest trump cares about an $820k bet? He doesn't even care to collect his presidential salary.

I'm sure he exaggerates his wealth, but we know he's at least a billionaire.

coevcan··on Honda is killing its EVs
> 96% of all new cars in Norway were EV last year.

Thats of course because people wanna go green and certainly has nothing to do with the 25% VAT exemption that ICE cars are subject to.