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Japan-Korea relations: Sanae's puzzling provocation (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-12-19 Japan Korea

A Whole New World (dailyreckoning.com)
2025-12-19

Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2025-12-19 Oracle Algorithm

AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2025 (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 AI

Sources: OpenAI's new fundraising round could value it at as much as $830B; it aims to raise up to $100B and complete the round by the end of Q1 at the earliest (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19

Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% (www.axios.com)
2025-12-19 Oracle Silver

Sources: Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model codenamed Mango, expected to be released in H1 2026 along with its new LLM dubbed Avocado (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19 AI

Judge Hints Vizio TV Buyers May Have Rights To Source Code Licensed Under GPL (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19

The element of surprise: Bondi and the Australian "conceptzia" (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-12-19 Australia

Formula 1 is Deploying New Jargon for 2026 (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19

US must ‘immediately stop' arms sale to Taiwan – China (www.rt.com)
2025-12-19 China Taiwan

YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (deadline.com)
2025-12-19 AI YouTube

YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 AI YouTube

Majority of Belgians oppose theft of Russian assets – poll (www.rt.com)
2025-12-19 Russia Asset

Clop ransomware targets Gladinet CentreStack in data theft attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-19

University of Sydney suffers data breach exposing student and staff info (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-19 Sydney

Instacart will pay $60M to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive tactics in its subscription signup and “satisfaction guarantee” advertising (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-19

Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M (fortune.com)
2025-12-19 AI

Mass Hacking of IP Cameras Leave Koreans Feeling Vulnerable in Homes, Businesses (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19

In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19

Tell Me What You Really Think… (dailyreckoning.com)
2025-12-19

A decline in churchgoing linked to more deaths of despair (www.eurekalert.org)
2025-12-19

Clues to Alzheimer's disease may be hiding in our ‘junk' DNA (www.eurekalert.org)
2025-12-19 Alzheimer

The Oligarch Part 2: How one powerful man made Zelensky president, Ukraine his pocket state, and sent it to war (www.rt.com)
2025-12-19 Ukraine

Super strain-resistant superconductors (www.eurekalert.org)
2025-12-19

NU-9 halts Alzheimer's disease in animal model before symptoms begin (www.eurekalert.org)
2025-12-19 Alzheimer

iPS cells from dish to freezer and back (www.eurekalert.org)
2025-12-19

We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher (www.eurekalert.org)
2025-12-19 AI

Your genes may influence gut microbiome of others, rat study shows (www.eurekalert.org)
2025-12-19

Amazon rolls out Alexa+ on the web to early access users, with chat functionality, smart home controls, file management, and cross-device conversations (www.geekwire.com)
2025-12-19 Amazon

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