Tech

Microsoft Teams strengthens messaging security by default in January (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-24 Microsoft

Malicious extensions in Chrome Web store steal user credentials (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-24 Chrome

Google's Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT Images can make nonconsensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit bans r/ChatGPTJailbreak (www.wired.com)
2025-12-24 Google Reddit

The Canada Pension Plan Board and Australia's Goodman agree to invest $2.6B+ in data centers in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Paris, starting to build in June 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-23 Australia Canada Paris Frankfurt

Cyberattack knocks offline France's postal, banking services (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-23 France

China's MiniMax releases M2.1, an upgrade to its open-source M2 model that it says has “significantly enhanced” coding capabilities in Rust, Java, and others (www.minimax.io)
2025-12-23 China

Italy fines Apple $116 million over App Store privacy policy issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-23 Italy Apple

Get a fast Mac-native PDF editor for $60 off in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-23

Chinese automakers delay plans to mass-produce self-driving vehicles as Beijing becomes more cautious, after a fatal Xiaomi crash in March caused public concern (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-23 China Xiaomi Autonomous Car

The European Commission says Apple will bring AirPods-like pairing and iPhone notification access to third-party devices under the DMA in iOS 26.3 in 2026 (www.macrumors.com)
2025-12-23 IOS Europe iPhone Apple

Samsung's Harman agrees to acquire ZF's radar and automotive computing driver-assistance business for €1.5B, as the European auto-supplier sector struggles (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-23 Europe Samsung

Safety Panel Says NASA Should Have Taken Starliner Incident More Seriously (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-23 NASA

Baker University says 2024 data breach impacts 53,000 people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-23

How AI can work across scales, from individuals to organizations to economies, like steel and the steam engine before it, as AI arrives as “infinite minds” (x.com)
2025-12-23 AI

How a Power Outage In Colorado Caused US Official Time To Be 4.8 Microseconds (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-23

US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds in 2025, nearing the $1.8T 2020 record, driven by AI infrastructure borrowing; Goldman says AI makes up ~30% (www.ft.com)
2025-12-23 AI Goldman

Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads on X in 2024, down from £9M in 2021 (www.ft.com)
2025-12-23

10 Political Scandals That Sent Crowds Into the Streets (listverse.com)
2025-12-23

HK shares of Chinese short-video app Kuaishou fell as much as 6% to ~$8, lowest since November 21, after the company was hit by a cyberattack on December 22 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-23 China

Sources reveal inconsistencies in Megaspeed's chip inventory, as the US probes the Singapore AI startup over alleged Chinese ownership and Nvidia chip smuggling (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-23 China Startup AI Singapore Nvidia

Garmin Emergency Autoland Has First Save (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-23

The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026 (www.foxnews.com)
2025-12-23 AI Pentagon

The US FCC bans imports, marketing, and sales of new foreign-made drones and components, including from China's DJI and Autel, citing national security concerns (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-23 China Drone

FCC Bans Foreign-Made Drones Over National Security, Spying Concerns (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-23 Drone

Sources: ByteDance has made preliminary plans to spend ¥160B, or ~$23B, in AI capex in 2026, up from ¥150B in 2025, and has budgeted ~$12.07B for AI processors (www.ft.com)
2025-12-23 AI

Microsoft To Replace All C/C++ Code With Rust By 2030 (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-12-23 Microsoft

Kargo, which uses cameras and sensors to inspect pallets in a warehouse and provide accurate inventory data, raised a $42M Series B led by Avenir (www.axios.com)
2025-12-23

Alphabet Acquires Data Center and Energy Infrastructure Company Intersect For $4.75 Billion (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-23 Energy Alphabet

OpenAI details efforts to secure its ChatGPT Atlas browser against prompt injection attacks, including building an “LLM-based automated attacker” (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-23 Browser

Cyberattack Disrupts France's Postal Service, Banking During Christmas Rush (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-23 France

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