Tech

An interview with Citizen Lab founder Ronald Deibert about the US adopting authoritarian digital practices, the research group's accomplishments, and more (www.technologyreview.com)
2025-12-26 Interview

Apple settles with Brazil's regulator to allow alternative app stores; report: Apple will charge a 5% fee for alt app stores and 15% on App Store linkouts (www.macrumors.com)
2025-12-26 Apple Brazil

Xiaomi unveils $999+ 17 Ultra in China with three rear cameras, including a 50MP 1" sensor and a 200MP periscope lens; Leica edition gets a mechanical zoom ring (www.gsmarena.com)
2025-12-26 China Xiaomi Sensor

Wall Street Has Stopped Rewarding 'Strategic' Layoffs (slashdot.org)
2025-12-26 Wall Street Layoffs

Your cybersecurity skills start with 18 courses for just $33 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-26

Google will finally allow you to change your @gmail.com address (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-26 Google

Chinese Social Media Users Criticize Authorities in Rare Sign of Dissent (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-26 China Social Media

AI sector minted 50+ new billionaires in 2025; Crunchbase: investors poured $200B+ into AI startups in 2025, or about 50% of global funding, up from 34% in 2024 (www.forbes.com)
2025-12-26 Startup AI

Framework Raises Memory Prices Again, Suggests Customers Bring Their Own RAM (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-26

Waymo Pays Workers $22 To Close Doors on Stranded Robotaxis (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-26

Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin significantly trails Waymo, deploying an estimated 30 cars with safety drivers, vs. Waymo's 200 cars without human monitors (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-26 Tesla

Nvidia Buying Groq's Assets For $20 Billion in Its Largest Deal on Record (slashdot.org)
2025-12-26 Nvidia Asset

Trump Administration To Overhaul Lottery System For H-1B Visas (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-26 Trump H1B

A look at the humans employed to rescue robotaxis; Waymo uses the Honk app to pay $20 to $24 to manually close robotaxi doors and $60 to $80 to tow its cars (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-26

Bitcoin Miners' Pivot To AI Has Lifted Bitcoin-Mining ETF By About 90% This Year (slashdot.org)
2025-12-26 Bitcoin ETF AI

A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges (www.wired.com)
2025-12-25 Apple Budget Detroit

Fake Video Claiming 'Coup In France' Goes Viral (slashdot.org)
2025-12-25 France

PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025 vs. $2.17B in 2024; 11 crypto IPOs raised $14.6B worldwide, up from $310M from four IPOs in 2024 (www.ft.com)
2025-12-25 IPO

10 Surprising Origin Stories of Your Favorite Holiday Songs (listverse.com)
2025-12-25

NASA Will Soon Find Out If the Perseverance Rover Can Really Persevere On Mars (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-25 NASA

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-25 Trump Netflix

10 Less Than Jolly Events That Occurred on December 25 (listverse.com)
2025-12-25

A teardown of Huawei's Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows 57% of components were made in China; similarly priced Huawei phones in 2023 had 32% Chinese components (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-25 China

Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-25 Nvidia

Nuclear Developer Proposes Using Navy Reactors For Data Centers (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-25

Q&A with Google DeepMind VP of Research Pushmeet Kohli on launching AlphaFold 2 five years ago, hallucinations, building an “AI co-scientist”, and more (www.wired.com)
2025-12-25 Google AI

'Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes' (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-25

Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over $300M led by China Mobile's industry investment fund at a $3B valuation, bringing its total funding to $800M (www.dealstreetasia.com)
2025-12-25 China Mobile Startup Robot

Apple To Allow Alternative App Stores For iOS Users In Brazil (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-12-25 IOS Apple Brazil

Apple's App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It? (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-12-25 Apple

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