Tech

Why Floods Threaten One of the Driest Places in the World (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16

10 Things You Didn't Know About the American National Anthem (listverse.com)
2025-12-16 U.S.

Sources: xAI has created an enterprise AI sales group, but xAI's lack of experience in selling to big businesses is holding potential customers back (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-16 AI

GM is adding native Apple Music to select vehicles, and rolls out support for digital keys, after it started phasing out CarPlay in 2023 (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-16 Apple

Cloudflare Reveals How Bots and Governments Reshaped the Internet in 2025 (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16

Google To Retire 'Dark Web Report' Tool That Scanned for Leaked User Data (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16 Google Darknet

Ongoing SoundCloud issue blocks VPN users with 403 server error (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-16 VPN

Mexico-based fintech Plata raised up to $500M in a financing deal arranged by Nomura Securities International, as it moves toward becoming a full-fledged bank (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-16 Mexico Fintech

Google is shutting down its dark web monitoring tool, launched in 2024 to alert users when their personal info is detected on the dark web, on February 16, 2026 (9to5google.com)
2025-12-16 Google Darknet

Lidar manufacturer Luminar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and says it reached a deal to sell its semiconductor subsidiary to Quantum Computing Inc. for $110M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-16 Quantum

NY-based Octane, which offers “instant” financing for large recreational and lifestyle purchases, raised a $100M Series F at a post-money valuation of $1.3B (news.crunchbase.com)
2025-12-16

US Tech Force Aims To Recruit 1,000 Technologists (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16

700Credit data breach impacts 5.8 million vehicle dealership customers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-16

Scientists Thought Parkinson's Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16

Nvidia announces it has acquired SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for HPC and AI (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-16 AI Nvidia

The Trump administration launches US Tech Force to recruit ~1,000 staffers from Apple, Meta, xAI, and others for two-year stints to modernize the government (www.nextgov.com)
2025-12-16 Trump Apple

Thrive Capital announces it has hired Palantir CIO Jim Siders to serve as CEO of Shield Technology Partners, a newly created business focused on IT services (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-16

Source: Dragoneer raised $4.3B for its seventh VC fund and now has over $30B in AUM; it raised $3.8B for its sixth private fund in 2022 (www.axios.com)
2025-12-16

How Did the CIA Lose a Nuclear Device? (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16

LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to TV home screens, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG unveiled an AI TV strategy at CES (www.tomshardware.com)
2025-12-16 Microsoft AI

Electricity Is Now Holding Back Growth Across the Global Economy (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16

Microsoft: Recent Windows updates break VPN access for WSL users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-16 Microsoft VPN

2025's Top Phishing Trends and What They Mean for Your Security Strategy (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-16

Security Researcher Found Critical Kindle Vulnerabilities That Allowed Hijacking Amazon Accounts (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16 Amazon

LG's Software Update Forces Microsoft Copilot Onto Smart TVs (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-12-16 Microsoft

An interview with Marcos Galperin, the CEO of MercadoLibre, which has a $105B market cap, on deciding to resign, MercadoLibre's rivalry with Amazon, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-16 Amazon Interview

Internal documents: Meta earned $18B+ in annual ad sales from China in 2024, making up 10%+ of its global revenue, with $3B+ linked to fraudulent ads like scams (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-16 China

Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-16 Startup AI

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3, a family of AI models using a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and the Mamba-Transformer design, in 30B, 100B, and ~500B sizes (venturebeat.com)
2025-12-16 AI Nvidia

Memo: Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos lay out Netflix's WBD case, moving to quell concerns about job losses and the end of theater releases, after Paramount's bid (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-16 Netflix

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