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California DMV says a California administrative law judge recently ruled Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-17 Tesla California

Dual-PCB Linux Computer With 843 Components Designed By AI Boots On First Attempt (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Linux AI

Mark Carney Criticised For Using British Spellings In Canadian Documents (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 U.K. Canada

Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios (mimo.xiaomi.com)
2025-12-17 Xiaomi

Cellik Android malware builds malicious versions from Google Play apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17 Android Google

Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Intel

Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise more than $15B at a valuation near $100B, in a round led by Alphabet; an October 2024 round valued Waymo at above $45B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 Alphabet

GhostPoster attacks hide malicious JavaScript in Firefox addon logos (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17 Firefox

Reporter Suggests Half-Life 3 Will Be a Steam Machine Launch Title (games.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17

Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on research tools, part of a push to add business customers, after launching Comet on Android (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 Android iPad

Volkswagen To End Production At German Plant, a First In Company History (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Germany

X updates its ToS, effective January 15, 2026, to explicitly claim rights to the “Twitter” trademark after a startup filed an application to trademark the term (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17 Startup Twitter

Utah Leaders Hinder Efforts To Develop Solar Energy Supply (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Energy Solar

Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M (www.theblock.co)
2025-12-17 Hong Kong Fintech

Amazon disrupts Russian GRU hackers attacking edge network devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17 Russia Amazon

MI6 Chief: We'll Be as Fluent in Python As We Are in Russian (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Russia

Racks of AI Chips Are Too Damn Heavy (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 AI

Amazon partners with payments startup Slope to offer loans of up to $5M to merchants selling on its platform, using Amazon sales data for candidate selection (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 Amazon Startup

Netflix announces a partnership with iHeartMedia to exclusively publish at least 15 video podcasts beginning in early 2026, including The Breakfast Club (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-17 Netflix

Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily “Your Day Ahead” briefing email based on users' emails and calendar (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-17 Google AI

US Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Europe

Grab a 2-in-1 open-box ASUS Chromebook for $160 + free shipping (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17

Leona Health, maker of an AI-copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts in LATAM to manage patient communications, raised a $14M seed led by a16z (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17 AI WhatsApp

The US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify, if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-17 Europe Spotify

OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17

Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M (www.axios.com)
2025-12-17

Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs (www.wired.com)
2025-12-17

OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17

DoorDash launches Zesty, a standalone AI-powered social app for users to find nearby restaurants, in public testing in San Francisco and New York (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 AI San Francisco New York

McKinsey Plots Thousands of Job Cuts in Slowdown for Consulting Industry (slashdot.org)
2025-12-17

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