Tech

Decentralized exchange Ostium raised a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst and Jump Trading, a source says at a ~$250M valuation, after previously raising $8M (fortune.com)
16 days ago Decentralize

Japanese Devs Face Font Licensing Dilemma as Annual Costs Increase From $380 To $20K (news.slashdot.org)
16 days ago Japan

Zig Quits GitHub, Says Microsoft's AI Obsession Has Ruined the Service (slashdot.org)
16 days ago Microsoft AI GitHub

TikTok plans to invest $37.7B+ to build a data center in Brazil's port of Pecém, partnering with Omnia and Casa dos Ventos, its first Latin American project (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago U.S. Brazil Latin America

Sources: multiple Microsoft divisions lowered how much salespeople are supposed to grow sales of certain AI products after missing growth targets, a rare move (www.theinformation.com)
16 days ago Microsoft AI

Aisuru botnet behind new record-breaking 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
16 days ago

University of Phoenix discloses data breach after Oracle hack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
16 days ago Oracle

Q&A with Valve executive Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped build SteamOS and the Steam Deck, on quietly funding open-source tech to play Windows games on Arm (www.theverge.com)
16 days ago

Spotify unveils 2025's top 50 most popular US podcasts, led by The Joe Rogan Experience for the fifth consecutive year; 24 of the top 50 now offer video content (variety.com)
16 days ago Spotify

Spotify releases Wrapped 2025, adding features like Wrapped Party, its first live interactive experience, a Top Song Quiz, Listening Age, and Wrapped Clubs (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Spotify

Uber partners with Avride to launch robotaxi rides in Dallas, marking Uber's fourth US city to offer autonomous ride options after Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Uber

Score 65% off a Microsoft Surface with impressive performance (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
16 days ago Microsoft

10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2025 That'll Change Everything (listverse.com)
16 days ago

Sources and docs: Palantir's Immigration OS helps ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them; a decade ago, Alex Karp said Trump's plans made “no sense” (www.washingtonpost.com)
16 days ago Trump Immigration

Some YouTube creators are using AI video tools to make content for kids and babies, causing concern that their brains are being shaped by AI-generated videos (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago AI YouTube

AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material (www.theguardian.com)
16 days ago AI Immigration

Vinci, which uses AI simulations to accelerate chip and other hardware design, raised a $36M Series A led by Xora Innovation, taking its total funding to $46M (www.reuters.com)
16 days ago AI

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's American Bitcoin closed down 38.8% on December 2, wiping out ~$1B in market value; TMTG is down nearly 70% in 2025 (www.ft.com)
16 days ago Trump U.S. Bitcoin

HBO Max's 4K Mad Men re-release had multiple errors, including lacking post-production edits in some scenes; a source says Lionsgate delivered the wrong 4K file (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
16 days ago

Sources: Anthropic taps law firm Wilson Sonsini to begin work on its IPO, which could come as soon as 2026, and held preliminary talks with big investment banks (t.co)
16 days ago IPO

ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
16 days ago

LandSpace Could Become China's First Company To Land a Reusable Rocket (science.slashdot.org)
16 days ago China

A look at startups like AGI and Plato, which build replicas of websites to let AI agents learn to navigate and complete specific tasks, like booking flights (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

Study Finds Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells (science.slashdot.org)
16 days ago

Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law (www.404media.co)
16 days ago

London-based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross-border payments, raised a $50M Series B led by Prysm Capital at a $300M valuation (tech.eu)
16 days ago London

Copper demand is being boosted by AI data centers, which require 27-33 tonnes per MW, over 2x that of conventional data centers, according to miner Grupo México (www.ft.com)
16 days ago AI

Binance names co-founder Yi He as co-CEO alongside Richard Teng, making her one of the few women leading a crypto company; she also has children with ex-CEO CZ (fortune.com)
16 days ago

An analysis of Waymo's data covering ~100M driverless miles across four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago

Waymo's self-driving cars appear to be bending traffic laws and growing impatient with pedestrians as the company seeks to make them “confidently assertive” (www.wsj.com)
16 days ago Autonomous Car

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