Tech

Meta board member Dina Powell McCormick, an ex-top adviser to Trump, steps down after joining in April; source: she is considering retaining an advisory role (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-20 Trump

Source: Tencent has secured access to Nvidia's Blackwell chips through a cloud service operated by Tokyo-based Datasection (www.barrons.com)
2025-12-20 Tencent Nvidia Tokyo

YouTuber's Livestream Appears On White House Website (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 YouTuber

Riot Games Is Making an Anti-Cheat Change That Could Be Rough On Older PCs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20

The Delaware Supreme Court rules that Elon Musk's 2018 Tesla CEO pay package, worth around $56B when it vested, must be restored, ending a years-long fight (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-20 Tesla Elon Musk

2025 LLM Year in Review: shift toward RLVR, Claude Code emerged as the first convincing example of an LLM agent, Nano Banana was paradigm shifting, and more (karpathy.bearblog.dev)
2025-12-20

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (www.physicalintelligence.company)
2025-12-20 Startup AI Robot Intelligence

Microsoft Made Another Copilot Ad Where Nothing Actually Works (slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 Microsoft

California reaches a $50M settlement with Meta to resolve claims that Facebook users were misled about their ability to limit who could see personal details (sfstandard.com)
2025-12-20 Facebook California

Sources: the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cut ties with FWD.us, a pro-immigration advocacy group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, eliminating its main funding source (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-20 Immigration Zuckerberg

Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (www.wired.com)
2025-12-20

Google sues data scraping company SerpApi for allegedly using hundreds of millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted material from Google products (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-20 Google

Microsoft confirms Teams is down and messages are delayed (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-20 Microsoft

All That Cheap Chinese Stuff Is Now Europe's Problem (slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 China Europe

Nigeria arrests dev of Microsoft 365 'Raccoon0365' phishing platform (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-20 Microsoft Nigeria

Microsoft AI Chief: Staying in the Frontier AI Race Will Cost Hundreds of Billions (slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 Microsoft AI

Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $100M Series C, bringing its total funding to $130M (www.axios.com)
2025-12-20 Deep Learning

2025 Was the Beginning of the End of the TV Brightness War (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20

Microsoft 365 accounts targeted in wave of OAuth phishing attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-20 Microsoft

Netflix acquires avatar creation platform Ready Player Me to let its subscribers carry their personas and fandoms across games; the startup raised $72M (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-20 Startup Netflix

Uber is Hiring More Engineers Because AI is Making Them More Valuable, CEO Says (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20 Uber AI

'How Lina Khan Killed iRobot' (slashdot.org)
2025-12-20

A Paris court rejects a French government request to suspend Shein in the country after finding illegal weapons and child-like sex dolls for sale on the site (apnews.com)
2025-12-20 France Paris

ACM To Make Its Entire Digital Library Open Access Starting January 2026 (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20

The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China (www.techdirt.com)
2025-12-20 Trump China

New UEFI flaw enables pre-boot attacks on motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, ASRock (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-20

Food Becoming More Calorific But Less Nutritious Due To Rising Carbon Dioxide (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-20

Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product (fortune.com)
2025-12-20 Startup

Sources: ByteDance is on track for ~$50B profit in 2025 after generating a ~$40B net income in the first three quarters, surpassing its internal target for 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-20

Criminal IP and Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR integrate to bring AI-driven exposure intelligence to automated incident response (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-20 AI Intelligence

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