Tech

Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (www.billboard.com)
2025-12-22 Spotify

A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 (fortune.com)
2025-12-22 Startup AI

Are 'Geek Gifts' Becoming Their Own Demographic? (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22

A group of PE firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agrees to buy Clearwater Analytics, in a deal valuing the financial software maker at $8.4B including debt (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-22

'Confused' Waymos Stopped in Intersections During San Francisco Power Outage (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22 San Francisco

Do Gamers Hate AI? Indie Game Awards Disqualifies 'Clair Obscur' Over GenAI Usage (games.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22 AI

This refurbished touchscreen Chromebook is just $80 this week (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-22

Docker Hardened Images now open source and available for free (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-22

Echo, which uses AI agents to build Docker images that eliminate vulnerabilities at the source, raised a $35M Series A, bringing its total funding to $50M (www.securityweek.com)
2025-12-22 AI

Package Forge: The Lesser Known Snap/Flatpak Alternative Without Distro Lock-In (linux.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22

Sources: The US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA staffers who were suspended in July misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph, which he failed (www.politico.com)
2025-12-22

Inaugural 'Hour of AI' Event Includes Minecraft, Microsoft, Google and 13.1 Million K-12 Schoolkids (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22 Google Microsoft AI

Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-22

Will Work Change Over the Next 20 Years? (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22

Sources detail the efforts SoftBank is making to raise the necessary funds as it races to close its $22.5B funding commitment to OpenAI by the end of this year (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-22

Trump Admin to Hire 1,000 for New 'Tech Force' to Build AI Infrastructure (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22 Trump AI

FSF Says Nintendo's New DRM Allows Them to Remotely Render User's Device 'Permanently Unusuable' (games.slashdot.org)
2025-12-22 Nintendo

Sources: tech lobbyists say that David Sacks' push for an EO blocking state AI laws undercut their efforts to craft a permanent, bipartisan federal solution (www.politico.com)
2025-12-22 AI

Q&A with Blizzard President Johanna Faries on company staff bonus transparency, working under Xbox leadership, restoring the NetEase partnership, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-22 Xbox

While Releasing 'Avatar 3', James Cameron Questions the Future of Movies (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

US CHIPS Act-funded SMART USA Institute, focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Department of Commerce will terminate its $285M five-year contract (spectrum.ieee.org)
2025-12-21 U.S.

Is America's Tech Industry Already Facing a Recession? (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21 U.S.

Q&A with Harvard economist Jason Furman, who consults for OpenAI, on the similarities between the AI boom and the dot-com era, AI's impact on jobs, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-21 AI

DataLane, which is using AI to build an identity graph to map local businesses across the US, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Amplify Partners (www.axios.com)
2025-12-21 AI

Waymo says it temporarily suspended its ride-hailing service in San Francisco during a citywide blackout, as downed traffic lights appeared to halt its vehicles (missionlocal.org)
2025-12-21 San Francisco

Rust's 'Vision Doc' Makes Recommendations to Help Keep Rust Growing (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21

A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which sources say has a $1.2B+ contract giving Tencent access to a large share of its 15K Blackwell chips (www.ft.com)
2025-12-21 Tencent Tokyo

METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Opus 4 released earlier this year (x.com)
2025-12-21

Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads announces a new generation of chips slated for mass production from 2026, just weeks after its blockbuster IPO in China (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-21 China IPO AI

Surveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (apnews.com)
2025-12-21 China Refugee Nepal

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