• 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
| • 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)
• Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 (Anthropic)
• Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of an IPO (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
• Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
• Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, a venture of OKX and ICE, to trade blockchain-based versions of their shares (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
• Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting "President Trump's Federal Trade Commission," the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president (Alfred Ng/Politico)
• Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors (Robert Hart/The Verge)
• Sources: Datadog offered to acquire Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for nearly $4B; Upwind is finalizing a $300M round at a ~$3.8B valuation (The Information)
• Amazon rebrands its Kindle Unlimited subscription as Kindle+ and expands access to audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI (Maria Diaz/ZDNET)
• Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going public as soon as December or waiting until 2027, as it closely watches Anthropic's IPO, expected in November (The Information)
| • 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
• Fortnite is coming back to Apple's Australian App Store following court ruling
• Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is 'entering a new phase' with Muse
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