Tech

The Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M in xLight, which develops lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-2 Trump Equity

Samsung says the Galaxy Z TriFold will go on sale in South Korea on December 12 for ~$2,440, in China this year, and in the US as early as Q1 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-2 China Korea Samsung

Swiss Illegal Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Shut Down (slashdot.org)
2025-12-2 Switzerland Cryptocurrency

Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z TriFold, with a 6.5-inch outer screen, a 10-inch 120Hz inner screen, three rear cameras, and a 3.9mm profile at its thinnest point (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-2 Samsung

Marques Brownlee plans to shut down his wallpaper app Panels on December 31; Appfigures: it had 900K downloads and $95K in user spending since its 2024 launch (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-2

Smartphones At Age 12 Linked To Worse Health (mobile.slashdot.org)
2025-12-2

Be a global communicator with with all 14 Babbel languages in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-2

Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-12-2 AI Apple

Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers To Build Its Surveillance AI (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-2 AI

Kalshi says users can now trade tokenized versions of their wagers on Solana, in a bid to court crypto holders; Polymarket already allows on-chain trading (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-2

Amazon launches Amazon Now, a new service that aims to deliver household essentials and groceries in ~30 minutes or less, available in Seattle and Philadelphia (www.geekwire.com)
2025-12-2 Amazon Seattle

Austria's Rebel Nuns Refuse To Give Up Instagram To Stay In Their Convent (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-2 Instagram Austria

Zipcar To End UK Operations (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-2

Apple says its AI chief, John Giannandrea, is stepping down; former Microsoft executive Amar Subramanya will lead AI, reporting to Craig Federighi (www.macrumors.com)
2025-12-2 Microsoft AI Apple

Vanguard will allow ETFs and mutual funds that primarily hold cryptocurrencies to be traded on its platform starting Tuesday, reversing a longstanding position (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-2 ETF

Korea's Coupang Says Data Breach Exposed Nearly 34 Million Customers' Personal Information (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-2 Korea

Glassworm malware returns in third wave of malicious VS Code packages (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-2

Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-2 AI

New York Now Requires Retailers To Tell You When AI Sets Your Price (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-2 AI New York

Shopify suffers an outage, leaving some merchants unable to log in or access POS systems, and says it has fixed an issue and is seeing signs of recovery (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-2 Shopify

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, which it calls “reasoning-first models built for agents”, after releasing V3.2-Exp in September (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-2

Singapore Extends Secondary School Smartphone Ban To Cover Entire School Day (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-2 Singapore Ban

Memo: Adam Mosseri asks Instagram US staff to return to office five days a week, starting February; sources: it's the first such RTO mandate for a big Meta unit (substack.com)
2025-12-2 Instagram

A Windows Update Broke Login Button, and Microsoft's Advice is To Click Where It Used To Be (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-2 Microsoft

Stop paying for many AI subscriptions—this tool combines them for $75 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-2 AI

Waymo Has A Charging Problem (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-2

SmartTube YouTube app for Android TV breached to push malicious update (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-2 Android YouTube

A look at ElevenLabs, as ~50% of its $193M in trailing 12-month revenue now comes from corporates, like Cisco, and ~50% from YouTubers, podcasters, and authors (www.forbes.com)
2025-12-2 Cisco

Netflix Kills Casting From Phones (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-12-2 Netflix

Colleges Are Preparing To Self-Lobotomize (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-2

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