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Meta launches a centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram, with AI-powered search and an AI assistant to answer queries, on its iOS and Android apps (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-5 Android IOS Facebook AI Instagram

This $160 open-box touchscreen Chromebook can be used as a tablet and laptop (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-5

Contractors with hacking records accused of wiping 96 govt databases (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-5

Critical React, Next.js flaw lets hackers execute code on servers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-5

How strong password policies secure OT systems against cyber threats (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-5

Microsoft 365 license check bug blocks desktop app downloads (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-5 Microsoft

Apple announces its 2025 App Store Award winners and names visual planner Tiimo as the iPhone App of the Year; many of the winning apps have AI integrations (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-5 iPhone AI Apple

OnePlus launches US preorders for the $899.99+ OnePlus 15 after receiving FCC clearance, which had been delayed due to the US government shutdown (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-5

Subaru Owners Are Ticked About In-Car Pop-Up Ads For SiriusXM (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5

Meta Poaches Apple Design Exec Alan Dye (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5 Apple

A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT user logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by the New York Times and other news outlets (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-5 New York

7AI, which builds AI agents that analyze and triage cybersecurity alerts, raised a $130M Series A at a ~$700M valuation, bringing its total raised to $166M (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-5 AI

A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip (www.wired.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI

Flex, which offers AI-based financial services, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $60M Series B led by Portage, source says at a $500M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-5 AI

'End-To-End Encrypted' Smart Toilet Camera Is Not Actually End-To-End Encrypted (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5

New Homes In London Were Delayed By 'Energy-Hungry' Data Centers (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-5 Energy London

Sources: Meta plans deep budget cuts to its metaverse efforts in 2026, potentially as high as 30% and most likely including layoffs as early as January (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 Layoffs Budget

Sources: last summer, Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-5

Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700+ fraud cases since 2024 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-5 China Taiwan Ban

The EU expects to launch a formal bidding process for its AI gigafactories in early 2026 and close it in summer 2026, as the bloc seeks to catch up with the US (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-5 AI

AI legal software startup Harvey raised $160M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from $3B after raising $300M in February, taking its funding in 2025 to $760M (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI

Yann LeCun says his unnamed AI startup will not receive financial backing from Meta, will focus on advanced AI world models, and hints it will be Paris-based (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 Startup AI Paris

The EU says it is gathering information and feedback from ~200 stakeholders on Google's offer to fix alleged antitrust violations linked to its ad tech business (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-5 Google

University of Virginia professor Ken Ono, one of the world's most prominent mathematicians, joins AI startup Axiom Math, which is building an “AI mathematician” (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-4 Startup AI Mathematics Virginia

Sources: Amazon, the USPS' top customer with $6B+ in revenue in 2025, is considering ending its deal at the end of 2026 and expanding its own delivery network (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-4 Amazon

A look at “TSMC Village” in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings an influx of skilled workers from Taiwan who face challenges like adapting to a sprawling suburbia (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-4 Taiwan

Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners over power theft, which cost a state energy company $1.1B over five years (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-4 Bitcoin Energy Drone Malaysia

Chip giants' efforts to turn Phoenix into a US hub may hinge on training local workers; an estimated 115K local chip jobs are set to be created in four years (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-4

Documents: Foxconn's subsidiaries and China's Luxshare plan expansions in Vietnam to boost gaming device production, reinforcing Vietnam's supply chain role (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-4 China Vietnam

How TSMC, Intel, and Amkor are transforming Phoenix into the US' chip hub, investing tens of billions and showing the difficulties of large-scale US projects (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-4 Intel

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