Tech

Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives (www.ft.com)
2025-12-20 Bitcoin

Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by “several quarters” (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-20

China issues new rules letting online merchants set their own prices across platforms for goods and services they sell, effective April 10, 2026, for five years (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-20 China

Google Sues SerpApi Over Scraping and Reselling Search Data (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 Google

Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-20 AI

Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-20 Google

Airbus Moving Critical Systems Away From AWS, Google, and Microsoft Citing Data Sovereignty Concerns (slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 Google Microsoft Airbus

Stanford Computer Science Grads Find Their Degrees No Longer Guarantee Jobs (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20

OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-20

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing its prior IPO filing in October (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-20 IPO AI

Ten Mistakes Marred Firewall Upgrade At Australian Telco, Contributing To Two Deaths (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 Australia

Ten Bizarre Facts About The Doge Meme (listverse.com)
2025-12-20

Strava Puts Popular 'Year In Sport' Recap Behind an $80 Paywall (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53 (www.axios.com)
2025-12-20 AI New York California

TikTok Owner Signs Deal To Avoid US Ban (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 Ban

Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that an innocent Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted (www.fastcompany.com)
2025-12-20

Meta board member Dina Powell McCormick, an ex-top adviser to Trump, steps down after joining in April; source: she is considering retaining an advisory role (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-20 Trump

Source: Tencent has secured access to Nvidia's Blackwell chips through a cloud service operated by Tokyo-based Datasection (www.barrons.com)
2025-12-20 Tencent Nvidia Tokyo

YouTuber's Livestream Appears On White House Website (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 YouTuber

Riot Games Is Making an Anti-Cheat Change That Could Be Rough On Older PCs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20

The Delaware Supreme Court rules that Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla CEO pay package, worth around $56B when it vested, must be restored, ending a years-long fight (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-20 Tesla Elon Musk

2025 LLM Year in Review: shift toward RLVR, Claude Code emerged as the first convincing example of an LLM agent, Nano Banana was paradigm shifting, and more (karpathy.bearblog.dev)
2025-12-20

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (www.physicalintelligence.company)
2025-12-20 Startup AI Robot Intelligence

Microsoft Made Another Copilot Ad Where Nothing Actually Works (slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 Microsoft

California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details (sfstandard.com)
2025-12-20 Facebook California

Sources: the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cut ties with FWD.us, a pro-immigration advocacy group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, eliminating its main funding source (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-20 Immigration Zuckerberg

Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (www.wired.com)
2025-12-20

Google sues data scraping company SerpApi for allegedly using hundreds of millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted material from Google products (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-20 Google

Microsoft confirms Teams is down and messages are delayed (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-20 Microsoft

All That Cheap Chinese Stuff Is Now Europe's Problem (slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 China Europe

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