Tech

Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 Netflix

A look at Microsoft Excel's evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 Google Microsoft

Sugars, 'Gum,' Stardust Found In NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5 NASA

A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned devs about “verification debt” (www.implicator.ai)
2025-12-5 Amazon

A look back at five years of Meta's Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have generally had limited impact (www.platformer.news)
2025-12-5

Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-5 AI chatbot

Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (the-decoder.com)
2025-12-5 AI

CEO Matthew Prince says Cloudflare has blocked 416B AI bot requests for its customers since July 1, and that Google can see 3.2x more internet pages than OpenAI (www.wired.com)
2025-12-5 Google AI

A review of LinkedIn profiles shows dozens of Apple staffers with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and more have joined OpenAI in recent months (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-5 LinkedIn Apple Robot

Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M+ context window (research.google)
2025-12-5 Google

The NHTSA asks Waymo about its self-driving vehicles illegally passing school buses, including 19 times in Texas this year, as part of a probe opened in October (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-5 Autonomous Car Texas

Sources: Masayoshi Son plans with the White House to build “Trump Industrial Parks” in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by Japan's trade deal (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-5 Trump Japan AI

Republicans Drop Trump-Ordered Block On State AI Laws From Defense Bill (politics.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5 Trump AI Republican

US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-5 China Canada

Pine, which offers an AI agent to automate digital chores, like making calls, handling emails, and operating software to complete tasks, raised a $25M Series A (www.finsmes.com)
2025-12-5 AI

RoboCop Statue Rises In Detroit (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5 Detroit

Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (x.com)
2025-12-5

Docusign reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $818.4M, vs. $807.1M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; DOCU drops 6%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 4Q

US Probes Reports Waymo Self-Driving Cars Illegally Passed School Buses 19 Times (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5

Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads raised ~$1.13B in the year's second-largest onshore IPO, valuing it at ~$7.6B, with the retail portion oversubscribed 2,750x (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 China IPO Retail AI

Micro1, which helps AI labs find experts for data annotation, says it has crossed $100M in annualized revenue and fielded investment offers at a $2.5B valuation (www.forbes.com)
2025-12-5 AI

A Polymarket trader netted $1M+ in 24 hours, mostly by placing suspiciously accurate bets on Google's 2025 Year in Search rankings (www.forbes.com)
2025-12-5 Google

Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-5 AI chatbot

Microsoft Faces New Complaint For Unlawfully Processing Data On Behalf of Israeli Military (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5 Israel Microsoft

Plane Crashed After 3D-Printed Part Collapsed (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5

Hackers are exploiting ArrayOS AG VPN flaw to plant webshells (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-5 VPN

TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video podcast the same on-floor access enjoyed by major financial networks such as CNBC (www.fastcompany.com)
2025-12-5

Russia Blocks Roblox, Apple's FaceTime (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5 Russia Apple

NCSC's ‘Proactive Notifications' warns orgs of flaws in exposed devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-5

Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-5 Google AI

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