• DCU shake-up: James Gunn and Peter Safran out post-merger
• Man who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues Kalshi for offering illegal gambling
• A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management
• Vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices is under active exploitation
• Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moon
• Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub
• SpaceX now fundamentally an "infrastructure company," senior official says
• Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem
• F1 in Brazil: You’ve got to keep your tires alive
• New Democratic Congress will likely strip the gilding from Trump's Golden Dome
• Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mystery
• The Bantu expansion changed Africa. Scientists are still tracing how.
• British soldier ignored order to pull his SIM card, then got blackmailed
• Doctors pull knife from man's eye that went through his brain—and he's fine now
• Ships loiter near subsea cables amid Iran's warnings to Trump
• Re-releases of Wing Commander, Ultima titles hit Steam and GOG
• Chainalysis says hackers stole credentials and tokens for all of its customers
• Earth's churning mantle may have created the Great Unconformity
• Nvidia hardware worth $11.4M vanished between Oakland and Texas
• Developer ends lucrative screensaver deal with Roku because Fox bought it
| • Trump says the FBI is "looking into" Jensen Huang's affair, and the Nvidia CEO told him he "had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy" (Associated Press)
• Jensen Huang's affair shines a spotlight on Nvidia's weak board and opaque succession planning at what has become the world's most important company (Semafor)
• AI infrastructure provider Fireworks says hackers accessed some customers' datasets, incomplete model weights, and billing information over the past month (Anna Tong/Forbes)
• SpaceX plans a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility in Starbase, TX, with ~$24B of investment for initial phases, per a public hearing notice (Bloomberg)
• Anthropic prices Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 at $8/1M input and $40/1M output tokens, down 20% from 5.1; fast mode costs $16/1M input and $80/1M output tokens (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
• Anthropic says during prerelease testing Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2 formalized the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and solved two open black hole physics problems (Jay Peters/The Verge)
• Anthropic releases Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2, saying they are "best for the most ambitious, open-ended technical work", with outputs up to 30% faster than 5.1 (Anthropic)
• Mavria, which aims to build modular data centers that can be shipped by trucks, raised $130M across pre-seed and seed rounds at a $1B valuation led by Paradigm (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
• Elliptic: hackers behind the $6.3B Binance heist created at least six memecoins on the NEAR blockchain network to launder about $430,000 of stolen funds (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
• Meta releases Muse Ember, its smallest and most cost-efficient AI model yet, saying it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
• Uber launches Uber Parking, an in-app parking reservation tool powered by its SpotHero acquisition, in 15 US cities, including Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
• French officials say Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind the cyberattacks that knocked out commercial refrigerators and freezers across France in October (Reuters)
• Sources: a Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips to China was transferred to the DOJ after Nvidia intervened (New York Times)
• In a 60 Minutes interview, Trump says the DOJ threatened a top exec at "one of the big" AI companies over "bad" activities and this "person totally changed" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
• An interview with ex-Shein Executive Chair Donald Tang who insists it was his decision to step down ahead of the troubled IPO, Shein's valuation rout, and more (Patrick Jenkins/Financial Times)
| • YouTube will once again be part of Billboard chart calculations in 2027
• 5 Nintendo Switch 2 features everyone should know about
• Apple starts offering $50 extended usage packs for AI features in Creator Studio
• Windows 11 is finally adding an easier way to disable the Sticky Keys pop-up
• How to use your iPhone to take the best picture of the Moon
• Gmail users should know about this little-noticed feature
• How does Google Wallet's notification feed work and can you disable it?
• The reason your laptop can get hot after extended use
• What the tiny blue dot on your Android phone is telling you
• Venmo finally launches an in-app bill splitting feature
• Uber is launching its own parking reservation service
• Why EV fast charging slows down after 80 percent
• NHTSA investigates if Waymo robotaxis are still running school bus stop signs
• Think twice before using a webcam cover on your MacBook
• Meta is expanding AI age detection for Instagram teen accounts
• The pros and cons of using OnePlus smartwatches
• This prototype camera is fighting the good fight against AI photography
• Military radar can make your router switch Wi-Fi channels - here's why
• What hardware does your PC need to run a local AI model?
• Coinbase receives approval to become a chartered trust bank
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