Tech

Intel appoints Robin Colwell, deputy assistant to President Trump and deputy director of the National Economic Council, as its head of government affairs (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-16 Trump Intel

Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year Is 'Slop' (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16

PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-16

Russian Ban On Roblox Gaming Platform Sparks Rare Protest (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16 Russia Ban

Ford Ends F-150 Lightning Production, Starts Battery Storage Business (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16 Battery Ford

Sources: Disney's Sora deal is entirely in OpenAI stock rather than a cash licensing fee; Disney has the option to buy additional stock beyond the $1B stake (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-16

Sources: Notion told staff it is doing a $300M tender offer at an $11B valuation, ahead of a potential IPO; it passed $600M in ARR, half of it from AI products (www.forbes.com)
2025-12-16 IPO AI

How crypto entrepreneur Bill Zanker helped Trump and Melania launch memecoins; as of December 10, $TRUMP was down 92% since its peak and $MELANIA was down 99% (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-16 Trump Entrepreneur

Verizon Refused To Unlock Man's iPhone, So He Sued the Carrier and Won (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16 iPhone

The US FTC, along with 21 states and DC, files an amended complaint against Uber, alleging deceptive billing and cancellation practices related to Uber One (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-16 Uber

Cloudflare 2025 report: global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025, ChatGPT was the most popular AI service, global traffic from Starlink grew 2.3x, and more (radar.cloudflare.com)
2025-12-16 AI

Why Floods Threaten One of the Driest Places in the World (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16

10 Things You Didn't Know About the American National Anthem (listverse.com)
2025-12-16 U.S.

Sources: xAI has created an enterprise AI sales group, but xAI's lack of experience in selling to big businesses is holding potential customers back (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-16 AI

GM is adding native Apple Music to select vehicles, and rolls out support for digital keys, after it started phasing out CarPlay in 2023 (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-16 Apple

Cloudflare Reveals How Bots and Governments Reshaped the Internet in 2025 (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16

Google To Retire 'Dark Web Report' Tool That Scanned for Leaked User Data (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16 Google Darknet

Ongoing SoundCloud issue blocks VPN users with 403 server error (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-16 VPN

Mexico-based fintech Plata raised up to $500M in a financing deal arranged by Nomura Securities International, as it moves toward becoming a full-fledged bank (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-16 Mexico Fintech

Google is shutting down its dark web monitoring tool, launched in 2024 to alert users when their personal info is detected on the dark web, on February 16, 2026 (9to5google.com)
2025-12-16 Google Darknet

Lidar manufacturer Luminar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and says it reached a deal to sell its semiconductor subsidiary to Quantum Computing Inc. for $110M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-16 Quantum

NY-based Octane, which offers “instant” financing for large recreational and lifestyle purchases, raised a $100M Series F at a post-money valuation of $1.3B (news.crunchbase.com)
2025-12-16

US Tech Force Aims To Recruit 1,000 Technologists (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16

700Credit data breach impacts 5.8 million vehicle dealership customers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-16

Scientists Thought Parkinson's Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16

Nvidia announces it has acquired SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for HPC and AI (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-16 AI Nvidia

The Trump administration launches US Tech Force to recruit ~1,000 staffers from Apple, Meta, xAI, and others for two-year stints to modernize the government (www.nextgov.com)
2025-12-16 Trump Apple

Thrive Capital announces it has hired Palantir CIO Jim Siders to serve as CEO of Shield Technology Partners, a newly created business focused on IT services (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-16

Source: Dragoneer raised $4.3B for its seventh VC fund and now has over $30B in AUM; it raised $3.8B for its sixth private fund in 2022 (www.axios.com)
2025-12-16

How Did the CIA Lose a Nuclear Device? (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16

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