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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 (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago Spotify

US Treasury proposes rules tightening restrictions on US investments in areas including AI and supercomputing in China, Russia, and other “countries of concern” (apnews.com)
4 days ago Russia China AI

An interview with Ond&rcaron;ej Surý, a volunteer who maintains PHP and automates its patches, about his role in fixing two critical PHP security vulnerabilities (www.theatlantic.com)
4 days ago Interview

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Germany Energy Nvidia

To Make Way For Data Centers, Google Will Pay Others to Use Less Power (hardware.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Google

a16z rebrands a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier and expands the fund's scope to back startups developing AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies (fortune.com)
4 days ago Startup AI Robot

Warp Sciences, founded by former OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil to speed up drug development using AI, emerges from stealth with $215M at an $865M post-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago AI

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 (www.ft.com)
4 days ago

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago SpaceX

How the AI boom is boosting paint maker PPG's sales: its specialized gray coatings resist fire, rust, and more, and total $3M to $8M per data center, per JLL (www.nytimes.com)
4 days ago AI

Railway warns devs to rotate secrets after potential breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago

The Browser Company Retires Its Arc Browser, Pushes Users to Dia (tech.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Browser

Capcom confirms data breach affecting 11.7 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago

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 (www.anthropic.com)
4 days ago AI

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 (www.cnbc.com)
4 days ago IPO

Moderna Shares Plunge After Leak of Cancer Vaccine Data (slashdot.org)
4 days ago

Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago chatbot

Bose Is Buying Skullcandy (entertainment.slashdot.org)
4 days ago

LiteLLM release pipeline hacked to distribute info-stealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago

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 (fortune.com)
4 days ago Blockchain Microsoft Alphabet

Amazon rebrands its Kindle Unlimited subscription as Kindle+ and expands access to audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI (www.zdnet.com)
4 days ago Amazon AI

Sources: Datadog offered to buy Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for ~$4B; Upwind is finalizing a $300M funding round at a ~$3.8B valuation (www.theinformation.com)
4 days ago Israel Startup

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 (www.theverge.com)
4 days ago Microsoft

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 (www.politico.com)
4 days ago Trump Amazon

US officials say Trump asked Elon Musk to lift Starshield restrictions; Ukraine officials said it was not fully fixed Thursday but was working at higher speeds (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago Trump Ukraine Elon Musk

Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going public in December or possibly waiting until next year as it monitors Anthropic's IPO, expected next month (www.theinformation.com)
4 days ago IPO Energy

Zoe Kleinman: PHP Is the Cyber Equivalent of an Unexploded Bomb (tech.slashdot.org)
4 days ago

Get 2TB of cloud storage with zero-knowledge encryption for $59 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago

Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing (www.axios.com)
4 days ago Robot Asset

The Browser Company plans to shut down its Arc browser on December 22, as it shifts attention to the AI-focused Dia browser (www.theverge.com)
4 days ago AI Browser

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