• Switch 2 security takes a hit as hackers unlock homebrew access
• Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%
• Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22.
• Comcast loses more customers, claims other ISPs' cheap prices are "irrational"
• Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4
• Leaked Mass Effect: Universe trailer gives a taste of what we're all missing
• Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest
• "Disillusioned" MAHA leader quits as Trump admin's food agenda spoils: Report
• Electric or gas? BMW goes both ways with new 2027 X5 and iX5.
• Samsung all but confirms iPhone Duo is goosing Galaxy Z8 sales
• US official: Russia's stalker satellite sure looks like an orbital weapon
• Meta shocked by $25B fine after N.M. refused to join multistate settlement
• US-backed vaccine trial on babies canceled after international outcry
• This emulator reimagines Nintendo’s Virtual Boy with a full color display
• Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability
• Sauron recruits his future Ringwraiths in Rings of Power S3 trailer
• Forget "Malaise 2.0," GM says it's still all-in on EVs and autonomy
• 333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email
• UN says we're going to blow past 1.5º warming, offers a "now what?" answer
• FCC chair warns media not to run the "fake polls" Trump keeps complaining about
| • Sources: Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agree to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses (Financial Times)
• Greece's parliament passes a bill to ban social media platforms for children under 15 from 2027 and gives companies two months to verify users' ages (Angeliki Koutantou/Reuters)
• Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove security properties at the assembly level across 100+ real-world open-source libraries (Anthropic)
• SK Telecom unit SK Hyper is in talks with tech firms and investors to finance 15GW of data center capacity in South Korea by 2035; the first 5GW will cost $350B (Bloomberg)
• Oura sues Indian smart ring rival Ultrahuman again to block US sales of Ring Pro, months after a redesign helped Ultrahuman return following an import ban (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
• Chinese state media: DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration and won approval to open-source and deploy AI models overseas under proposed export controls (Bloomberg)
• SK Hynix says its SSD subsidiary Solidigm has halted a review of a potential US IPO to fund a new US chip fab, citing "market conditions and share price trends" (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)
• OpenAI suspected the three fired researchers of leaking internal model designs to AI safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt, including via disappearing Signal chats (Wall Street Journal)
• Spotify confirms it is rolling out a new family plan verification method requiring members to scan QR codes on plan managers' phones within seven days of notice (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
• US Treasury proposes rules tightening restrictions on US investments in areas including AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other "countries of concern" (Associated Press)
• An interview with Ondřej Surý, a volunteer who maintains PHP and automates its patches, about his role in fixing two critical PHP security vulnerabilities (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
• German energy company PreussenElektra says it is working with Nvidia to assess whether the country's idle nuclear plants could be turned into data centers (Eva Brendel/Bloomberg)
• a16z rebrands a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier and expands the fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
• Sources: OpenAI has cut its valuation target to $1.25T, down from the $1.4T valuation it pitched earlier this month, after facing resistance from some investors (Financial Times)
• Sources: SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
| • Oura sues Ultrahuman (again) to block its latest smart ring from the US market
• A startup called Warhound is genetically engineering dogs for the military
• A new subscription service promises an evolving collection of 'bold and bizarre' indie games
• Spotify's Family plan QR code could cost you Premium access
• Rhode Island sues Meta over its approach to scam ads
• The trailer for Mass Effect 5 has leaked and unfortunately it looks good
• 2027 BMW iX5 first drive: You'll love the range, but maybe not the look
• Daft Punk is getting an official Lego set
• The Browser Company is officially killing Arc on December 22
• Bluesky adds iPad support in latest feature update
• Amazon rebrands Kindle Unlimited to Kindle+
• Unauthorized AI agents are reportedly already accessing US bank accounts
• Sundar Pichai (allegedly) draws the line at oceans
• PC shipments are in the toilet, plunging over 20 percent from last year
• iPhone Duo's next-gen prototypes are trying to cram in Face ID
• Insta360 Mic review: A midrange mic kit that's anything but boring
• Roku's Pro Series LX OLED TVs are now available on Amazon
• 1Password will let Muse, Dots and Grok Bot sign in to sites for you without getting your credentials
• Insta360 adds expandable storage to its new e-ink wireless mics
• Tesla plans to start selling Cybercabs by the end of the year
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