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Half of US states now require users to upload IDs or biometric data to access pornographic content, as Missouri became the 25th state to enact such a law (www.404media.co)
2025-12-3

London-based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross-border payments, raised a $50M Series B led by Prysm Capital at a $300M valuation (tech.eu)
2025-12-3 London

Copper demand is being boosted by AI data centers, which require 27-33 tonnes per MW, over 2x that of conventional data centers, according to miner Grupo México (www.ft.com)
2025-12-3 AI

Binance names co-founder Yi He as co-CEO alongside Richard Teng, making her one of the few women leading a crypto company; she also has children with ex-CEO CZ (fortune.com)
2025-12-3

Former top EU diplomat detained in anti-fraud raid – media (www.rt.com)
2025-12-3 Europe

France wants direct role in Ukraine conflict – Russian intelligence (www.rt.com)
2025-12-3 Russia France Ukraine Intelligence

An analysis of Waymo's data covering ~100M driverless miles across four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-3

Waymo's self-driving cars appear to be bending traffic laws and growing impatient with pedestrians as the company seeks to make them “confidently assertive” (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-3 Autonomous Car

Software testing startup Antithesis raised $105M led by trading firm Jane Street, as demand grows for software to vet code generated by AI coding tools (www.ft.com)
2025-12-3 Startup AI

MongoDB stock jumped 22% on December 2 after Q3 revenue rose 19% YoY to $628M, above $592M est., and raises full-year guidance on Atlas growth and AI demand (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-3 AI

Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding (metronome.com)
2025-12-3 SaaS

Anthropic Acquires Bun In First Acquisition (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-12-3

Rebuking U of Guelph for Cancellation of People's Conference for Palestinian Solidarity (www.juancole.com)
2025-12-3

Iran's Capital, Tehran, Faces Zero Day without Water: Climate Change and Bad Policy (www.juancole.com)
2025-12-3 Climate Iran Tehran

AI in theatre: gaining decision advantage at machine tempo (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-12-3 AI

YouTube says it will comply with Australia's social media ban for under-16s, after rejecting its inclusion in the crackdown and calling the regulation “rushed” (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-3 Australia YouTube Ban

Rethinking the Indo-Pacific as a single ocean system (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-12-3

San Francisco Will Sue Ultraprocessed Food Companies (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-3 San Francisco

After a backlash, India says its pre-installed cybersecurity app is optional for users, who “have complete freedom to activate, or delete the app at any time” (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-3 India

Waymo Hits a Dog In San Francisco, Reigniting Safety Debate (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-3 San Francisco

Japan lost its climate leadership – and now Australia can help (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-12-3 Australia Japan Climate

Filing: JD.com's JingDong Industrials, or JDi, a supply chain technology and services provider in China, aims to raise up to ~$420M in its Hong Kong IPO (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-3 China Hong Kong IPO

Kubernetes Is Retiring Its Popular Ingress NGINX Controller (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-3

Sources: Anthropic has tapped a law firm to begin work on its IPO, which could come as soon as 2026, and has held preliminary talks with big investment banks (www.ft.com)
2025-12-3 IPO

Bookshelf: A new history of Vietnam's American War (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-12-3 U.S. Vietnam

ServiceNow announces a deal to acquire identity security startup Veza, sources say for between $1B and $1.5B; Veza had a private valuation of $808M in March (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-3 Startup

Check Point is raising $1.5B from the sale of a five-year zero-coupon convertible bond; proceeds will go toward buying back as much as $225M of stock (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-3

American Life: Less Ordinary (dailyreckoning.com)
2025-12-3 U.S.

OpenAI Declares 'Code Red' As Google Catches Up In AI Race (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-3 Google AI

Apple To Resist India Order To Preload State-Run App As Political Outcry Builds (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-12-3 India Apple

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