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Boat rental services Boatsetter and GetMyBoat plan to merge; Boatsetter CEO Michael Farb says the combined company is set to have $100M+ in bookings in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19

France arrests Latvian for installing malware on Italian ferry (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-19 France Italy

Imprint, which helps retailers like Brooks Brothers offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $150M led by Khosla at a $1.2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-19 Credit Card

North Korean hackers stole a record $2.02B in crypto in 2025, a 51% YoY rise that takes its cumulative stolen total to $6.75B; individual wallet hacks hit 158K (www.chainalysis.com)
2025-12-19 Korea

Doublespeed Hack Reveals What Its AI-Generated Accounts Are Promoting (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 AI

Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable raised $330M led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures at a $6.6B valuation, up from $1.8B after raising $200M in July (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-19 Startup

This HP Laptop is now only $245 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-19

Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-18 Bitcoin AI

Documents: OpenAI has sold 700K+ ChatGPT licenses to ~35 US public universities for students and faculty, who used it 14M+ times in September, beating Copilot (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18

UK AI Security Institute report: AI models are rapidly improving at potentially dangerous biological and chemical tasks, and show fast jumps in self-replication (www.transformernews.ai)
2025-12-18 AI

TMTG agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and begin building the “world's first utility-scale fusion power plant” in 2026 (t.co)
2025-12-18 Google Energy

Microsoft: Recent Windows updates break RemoteApp connections (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-18 Microsoft

HPE warns of maximum severity RCE flaw in OneView software (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-18

Amazon CSO Stephen Schmidt says subtle keystroke data lag, measuring 110ms instead of the expected tens of milliseconds, helped catch a North Korean IT worker (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18 Korea Amazon

Apple says it will roll out more App Store ads in 2026 “to increase opportunity in search results”; Apple's website says 800M+ users visit the App Store weekly (9to5mac.com)
2025-12-18 Apple

Circana: Xbox Series console sales fell 70% YoY to an all-time low in November, compared to the PS5's 40% YoY drop and Switch 1 and 2's combined 10% YoY fall (www.ign.com)
2025-12-18 Xbox

Video Game Hardware Sales Had a Historically Bad November In the US (games.slashdot.org)
2025-12-18

Honda plans to halt production in Japan and China from December 29 to January 6, showing the ongoing fallout of the global chip shortage and Nexperia takeover (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18 China Japan Honda

Sources: Yann LeCun is in early talks to raise €500M for his startup at a ~€3B valuation, and plans to name Alexandre LeBrun as CEO, ahead of a January launch (www.ft.com)
2025-12-18 Startup

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tells a Senate committee the FCC “is not an independent agency”; the agency removed “independent agency” from its site as he testified (www.axios.com)
2025-12-18 Senate

An in-depth look at a recent research paper that offered a roadmap to the viability of 3D HBM-on-GPU integration for improved AI performance and utilization (morethanmoore.substack.com)
2025-12-18 AI

Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for protecting connected devices including cars and home routers, raised €100M led by Blue Cloud Ventures (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18

Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16% (restofworld.org)
2025-12-18 AI

Filing: Sony and Tencent reach a “confidential settlement” over Tencent's Light of Motiram, a game that Sony alleged was a “slavish clone” of its Horizon series (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-18 Tencent Sony

Tokyo-based Resonac, a crucial cutting-edge chip chemicals supplier whose shares are up 40%+ YTD, says it has bolstered China production capacity to meet demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18 China Tokyo

Oilfield service companies are moving into the data center business by supplying power and cooling tech as demand from traditional drilling customers weakens (www.ft.com)
2025-12-18

Another Starship Clone Pops Up In China (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-18 China

Sources: Pinduoduo and Temu owner PDD fires dozens following a fistfight between employees and Chinese officials probing fraudulent deliveries on its platform (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18 China

Tim Sweeney says Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in 2025, as Apple is “charging a competition-crushing 21% junk fee on third-party in-app payments” (x.com)
2025-12-18 IOS Japan Apple

Manus says it crossed $100M ARR eight months after launch and is growing at 20%+ MoM since Manus 1.5's release; its total revenue run rate is now over $125M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18

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