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Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M (www.theblock.co)
2025-12-17 Hong Kong Fintech

Amazon disrupts Russian GRU hackers attacking edge network devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17 Russia Amazon

MI6 Chief: We'll Be as Fluent in Python As We Are in Russian (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Russia

Racks of AI Chips Are Too Damn Heavy (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 AI

Amazon partners with payments startup Slope to offer loans of up to $5M to merchants selling on its platform, using Amazon sales data for candidate selection (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 Amazon Startup

EU ‘light years away' from seizing Russian assets – Polish PM (www.rt.com)
2025-12-17 Russia Europe Asset Poland

Netflix announces a partnership with iHeartMedia to exclusively publish at least 15 video podcasts beginning in early 2026, including The Breakfast Club (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-17 Netflix

Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily “Your Day Ahead” briefing email based on users' emails and calendar (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-17 Google AI

US Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 Europe

Grab a 2-in-1 open-box ASUS Chromebook for $160 + free shipping (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17

Leona Health, maker of an AI-copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts in LATAM to manage patient communications, raised a $14M seed led by a16z (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17 AI WhatsApp

The US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify, if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-17 Europe Spotify

OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17

Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M (www.axios.com)
2025-12-17

Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs (www.wired.com)
2025-12-17

OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17

DoorDash launches Zesty, a standalone AI-powered social app for users to find nearby restaurants, in public testing in San Francisco and New York (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 AI San Francisco New York

McKinsey Plots Thousands of Job Cuts in Slowdown for Consulting Industry (slashdot.org)
2025-12-17

Texas sues TV makers for taking screenshots of what people watch (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-17 Texas

OpenAI launches FrontierScience, a benchmark to measure models' expert-level scientific reasoning with 700+ questions, finding GPT-5.2 is its strongest model (openai.com)
2025-12-17

China's dispute with India over Arunachal Pradesh (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-12-17 China India

European NATO nations push plan to send troops to Ukraine (www.rt.com)
2025-12-17 Europe Ukraine

High-Speed Traders Are Feuding Over a Way To Save 3.2 Billionths of a Second (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17

Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings (siliconangle.com)
2025-12-17

A look at Apple's iPhone roadmap; sources say the iPhone 18 Pro lineup will get under-screen Face ID, and the front camera will move to the top-left corner (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-17 iPhone Apple Face ID

Indi-no-go: What brought the world's third-largest aviation market to a standstill? (www.rt.com)
2025-12-17

Instagram unveils its first TV app, initially available on Amazon's Fire TV as a test with plans to expand to other TV platforms (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 Amazon Instagram

Statue of Liberty replica in Brazil toppled by strong winds (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2025-12-17 Brazil

The cost-per-watt of compute for orbital solar data centers is $51.10/W vs. just $15.85/W for terrestrial sites; SpaceX is uniquely positioned to try orbital (andrewmccalip.com)
2025-12-17 Solar SpaceX

Tech Giants Can't Agree On What To Call Their AI-Powered Glasses (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-17 AI

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