Tech

Stablecoin operator Ripple raised $500M from Citadel, Fortress, and more at a $40B valuation and says the value of payments on its platform passed $95B in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2025-11-6

Google Maps plans to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android and iOS, giving users a “hands-free, conversational driving experience”, in the “coming weeks” (9to5google.com)
2025-11-6 Android IOS Google

Letter: the MPA sent a cease-and-desist to Meta over Instagram's use of PG-13 for teen content restrictions, calling it “literally false and highly misleading” (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-6 Instagram

Giga, which develops voice-based AI agents for customer support, raised a $61M Series A led by Redpoint with participation from Y Combinator and Nexus (fortune.com)
2025-11-6 AI Y Combinator

Reevo, which aims to use AI to help bring products to market, raised $80M, split across a $10M seed and $70M Series A led by Kleiner, at a $500M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-6 AI

Shein opens a store in Paris, its first physical outlet, on the top floor of the historic BHV Marais department store, as politicians and retailers protest it (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-6 Paris

Sources: Deutsche Bank is exploring ways to hedge its exposure to data centres after extending billions of dollars in debt to hyperscalers like Alphabet (t.co)
2025-11-5 Alphabet

Netherlands-based Nebius unveils Token Factory, a platform to let companies use open source AI models like GPT-oss, in a bid to compete with AWS and Azure (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-5 AI Netherlands

XPeng says it plans to launch three self-developed robotaxis in 2026, the first Chinese EV maker to do so, using in-house chips and its own software system (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-5 China

Armis, which helps businesses secure and manage IoT devices, raised $435M at a $6.1B valuation, up from $4.2B after raising a $200M Series D in October 2024 (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-5 IoT

Block ads for your family with this $19 AdGuard Family Plan deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-5

Police busts credit card fraud rings with 4.3 million victims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-5 Credit Card

Motorola Edge 70 review: the new £699 ultra-thin device has a silicone back and great battery life, but the OS is full of ads; the phone won't launch in the US (www.theverge.com)
2025-11-5 Battery

Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically-made AI chips (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-5 China AI

A profile of Football Manager game developer Sports Interactive, which has ~280 full-time staff and licenses its scouting data to 40+ teams, as it releases FM26 (www.ft.com)
2025-11-5

Research: AI's ability to complete long and complex software engineering tasks doubles every 6-7 months, but there is a “messiness tax” for real-world tasks (windowsontheory.org)
2025-11-5 Tax AI

YouTube confirms it removed 700+ videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (theintercept.com)
2025-11-5 YouTube

Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport says the US DOJ concluded its review of Google's planned $32B acquisition; the FTC website dated the early termination to October 24 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-5 Google

Sources: Roelof Botha was asked to step aside after some Sequoia partners raised concerns about his leadership; Botha had declined to comment on Shaun Maguire (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-5

UK retailer M&S reports a £135.6M profit hit in H1 2025 after a cyber attack in April, which it attributes to DragonForce, and claimed £100M from its insurers (www.ft.com)
2025-11-5

US sanctions North Korean bankers linked to cybercrime, IT worker fraud (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-5 Korea

Insiders detail how Nepal's Gen Z protests, born on Discord servers, TikTok feeds, and encrypted messaging apps, ended with an online poll to pick the new PM (www.wired.com)
2025-11-5 Nepal

Singapore-based Video Rebirth, founded by Tencent AI veteran Liu Wei to develop AI video generation models, raised a $50M seed from Qiming, ActozSoft, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-5 AI Tencent Singapore

How “porno-troll” Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (www.theguardian.com)
2025-11-5

A profile of Chen Zhi, chairman of Cambodian conglomerate Prince Holding Group, accused by the US and UK of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-5

Trump Re-Nominates Billionaire Jared Isaacman To Run NASA (science.slashdot.org)
2025-11-5 Trump NASA

10 Fictional Kings Who Go from Good to Bad (listverse.com)
2025-11-5

Microsoft: October Windows updates trigger BitLocker recovery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-5 Microsoft

How ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-5 AI chatbot

Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the agency's long-term cyber capabilities (www.nextgov.com)
2025-11-5

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