Tech

Sources: Roelof Botha was asked to step aside after some Sequoia partners raised concerns about his leadership; Botha had declined to comment on Shaun Maguire (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-5

UK retailer M&S reports a £135.6M profit hit in H1 2025 after a cyber attack in April, which it attributes to DragonForce, and claimed £100M from its insurers (www.ft.com)
2025-11-5

US sanctions North Korean bankers linked to cybercrime, IT worker fraud (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-5 Korea

Insiders detail how Nepal's Gen Z protests, born on Discord servers, TikTok feeds, and encrypted messaging apps, ended with an online poll to pick the new PM (www.wired.com)
2025-11-5 Nepal

Singapore-based Video Rebirth, founded by Tencent AI veteran Liu Wei to develop AI video generation models, raised a $50M seed from Qiming, ActozSoft, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-5 AI Tencent Singapore

How “porno-troll” Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (www.theguardian.com)
2025-11-5

A profile of Chen Zhi, chairman of Cambodian conglomerate Prince Holding Group, accused by the US and UK of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-5

Trump Re-Nominates Billionaire Jared Isaacman To Run NASA (science.slashdot.org)
2025-11-5 Trump NASA

10 Fictional Kings Who Go from Good to Bad (listverse.com)
2025-11-5

Microsoft: October Windows updates trigger BitLocker recovery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-5 Microsoft

How ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-5 AI chatbot

Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the agency's long-term cyber capabilities (www.nextgov.com)
2025-11-5

China Achieves Thorium-Uranium Conversion Within Molten Salt Reactor (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-11-5 China

Barclays: hyperscalers have announced a total of 46 GW of AI data center capacity, which at full utilization will consume as much energy as ~44.2M US households (on.ft.com)
2025-11-5 Energy AI

A look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks (www.latimes.com)
2025-11-5 Startup AI Robot

VW says it's developing an AI chip for advanced driving in China via a JV between its Cariad unit and Horizon Robotics, with deliveries in three to five years (www.ft.com)
2025-11-5 China AI Robot

A look at US efforts to train workers for semiconductor manufacturing, led by Arizona, which has secured over 60 semiconductor expansion projects since 2020 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-11-5 Manufacturing

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it ramps up AI investment (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-5 AI Goldman

Google's proposed Epic settlement includes reduced app store fees globally and a new program for alternative app stores to become first-class Android citizens (www.theverge.com)
2025-11-5 Android Google

Google and Epic Games reached an agreement to settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with proposed changes to Android and Google Play pending court approval (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-5 Android Google

Google removed 749M URLs linked to Anna's Archive, a popular shadow library for pirated books, over copyright claims, representing ~5% of all takedown requests (torrentfreak.com)
2025-11-5 Google

Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M+ in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical adviser (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-5 India Nvidia

Google's New Hurricane Model Was Breathtakingly Good This Season (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-5 Google Hurricane

A look at Fermi, a startup co-founded by ex-US Energy Secretary Rick Perry that aims to build one of the world's largest datacenter campuses in Texas by 2038 (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-5 Energy Startup Texas

The Fantastic Chemistry Behind Why 10 Popular Foods Taste So Good (listverse.com)
2025-11-5

Bitcoin dropped below $100K for the first time since June on Tuesday; ETH also fell as much as 15% on Tuesday, and many altcoins are down 50%+ this year (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-5 Bitcoin ETH

Apple Brings Its App Store To the Web (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-5 Apple

Google Removed 749 Million Anna's Archive URLs From Its Search Results (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-11-5 Google

Shares of Asian AI-linked companies fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry about stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 9%+, Advantest 7%+ (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-5 AI

Sources detail Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw the design of the racy chatbot Ani, employees turned over biometric data to train avatars, more (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-5 chatbot

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