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Meta's head of Threads Connor Hayes says that fediverse compatibility isn't a priority for its current roadmap, but it is something that it's “maintaining” (sources.news)
2025-12-19

FTC: Instacart to refund $60M over deceptive subscription tactics (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-19

Trump's Social Media Business Is Merging With a Nuclear Fusion Company (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 Trump Social Media

Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world's first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around process, expected to power some Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus models (www.androidauthority.com)
2025-12-19 Samsung

The administrator winding down Do Kwon's Terraform Labs sues Jump Trading for $4B, alleging it unlawfully profited from and contributed to Terraform's collapse (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19

Trump signs the annual defense bill with provisions authorizing the president to screen and restrict US financing of Chinese tech companies (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19 Trump China

UK Actors Vote To Refuse To Be Digitally Scanned In Pushback Against AI (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 AI

Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's “code red” call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more (www.bigtechnology.com)
2025-12-19 IPO

The US Senate confirms FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill to lead the agency, which regulates stablecoin issuers and impacts how the crypto industry is banked (www.coindesk.com)
2025-12-19 Senate

The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-19 Trump Asset Senate CFTC

Windows 10 OOB update released to fix Message Queuing (MSMQ) issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-19

US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening (www.cfr.org)
2025-12-19 China Nvidia

Swearing Actually Seems To Make Humans Physically Stronger (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19

LG Will Let TV Owners Delete Microsoft Copilot After Customer Outcry (slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 Microsoft

Sources: Riot Games is working on a major overhaul of League of Legends, internally called League Next, for 2027; Riot confirms a big update is in the works (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-19

Compromised Apple Gift Card Leads to Apple Account Lockout (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 Apple

North Korean Infiltrator Caught Working In Amazon IT Department Thanks To Lag (it.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 Korea Amazon

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide (therecord.media)
2025-12-19 Google

Mistral launches Mistral OCR 3, featuring improvements in processing forms, scanned documents, complex tables, and handwriting, priced at $2 per 1,000 pages (mistral.ai)
2025-12-19

Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2025-12-19 Oracle Algorithm

AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2025 (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 AI

Sources: OpenAI's new fundraising round could value it at as much as $830B; it aims to raise up to $100B and complete the round by the end of Q1 at the earliest (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19

Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% (www.axios.com)
2025-12-19 Oracle Silver

Sources: Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model codenamed Mango, expected to be released in H1 2026 along with its new LLM dubbed Avocado (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-19 AI

Judge Hints Vizio TV Buyers May Have Rights To Source Code Licensed Under GPL (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19

Formula 1 is Deploying New Jargon for 2026 (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19

YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (deadline.com)
2025-12-19 AI YouTube

YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-19 AI YouTube

Clop ransomware targets Gladinet CentreStack in data theft attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-19

University of Sydney suffers data breach exposing student and staff info (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-19 Sydney

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