Tech

Freedom House's Freedom on the Net 2025 report: for the 15th straight year, global internet freedom is in decline; of the 72 countries surveyed, Kenya fell most (www.techpolicy.press)
2025-11-17

Danish startup Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, raised €145M at a €1.5B valuation and says it “crossed €100M of ARR in October” (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-17 Startup

Investigation: $28B+ in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-17 Trump

Chinese toymaker FoloToy suspends sales of its GPT-4o-powered teddy bear, after researchers found the toy gave kids harmful responses, including sexual content (www.theregister.com)
2025-11-17 China

An interview with Chris Gilliard on his new book Luxury Surveillance, how smart wearables could normalize pervasive surveillance, X's political shift, and more (techpolicy.press)
2025-11-17 Interview

Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who will become co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-17 Amazon Startup AI Jeff Bezos

Bitcoin Erases Year's Gain as Crypto Bear Market Deepens (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 Bitcoin

Chinese chipmaker Cambricon's revenue surged 500%+ in the past year and its stock jumped 765%+ in two years, as China pushes local chips amid US sanctions (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-17 China

FT's Tim Cook retirement story could be a “trial balloon” from people close to him, if Cook makes the decision to leave on a high note after Q1 earnings report (spyglass.org)
2025-11-17 Tim Cook

More Tech Moguls Want to Build Data Centers in Outer Space (science.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17

Tokyo-based Turing, which is developing an AI model for self-driving vehicles, raised a $99M Series A, sources say at a ~$388M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-17 AI Autonomous Car Tokyo

Microsoft Executives Discuss How AI Will Change Windows, Programming -- and Society (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 Microsoft AI programming

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai are exploring future lunar and orbital AI data centers which could offer steady solar power with fewer regulations (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-17 AI Solar Elon Musk Jeff Bezos

Chinese Astronauts Return From Their Space Station After Delay Blamed on Space Debris Damage (science.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 China

Rust in Android: More Memory Safety, Fewer Revisions, Fewer Rollbacks, Shorter Reviews (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 Android

BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating “phantom debt” (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-17

Some Americans Are Trying to Heat Their Homes With Bitcoin Mining (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 U.S. Bitcoin

Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are increasingly leaning on Google's new DeepMind prediction model, though questions about its methods remain (www.theguardian.com)
2025-11-17 Google Hurricane

Apple Speeds Planning for Replacing CEO Tim Cook Next Year (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 Apple Tim Cook

Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B valuation, following a ~$130M raise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial and US VC firms (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-11-17 Japan AI Tokyo Mitsubishi

Deaths Linked to Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Rose 17% in England in 2024 (science.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17

A look at Flighty, a flight-tracking app that often beats airline updates; downloads went up 3x when the FAA cut air traffic during the US government shutdown (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-17

The Internet Archive Now Captures AI-Generated Content (Including Google's AI Overviews) (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 Google AI

Could Firefox Be the Browser That Protects the Privacy of AI Users? (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 AI Firefox Browser

Samsung, SK Group, and others announce billions in domestic investment after US-South Korea trade deal; Samsung plans to invest $310B and SK Group pledged $88B (apnews.com)
2025-11-17 Korea Samsung

Get started learning the CISSP security domains for just $30 through 11/20 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-17

Google to flag Android apps with excessive battery use on the Play Store (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-11-17 Android Google Battery

Security Researchers Spot 150,000 Function-less npm Packages in Automated 'Token Farming' Scheme (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17

Are Data Centers Raising America's Electricity Prices? (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 U.S.

Sources: Apple to launch 3 high-end iPhones next fall, with lower-end iPhones and likely new Air in Q2 2027; Mac Pro gets deprioritized; Jeff Williams retires (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-17 Apple

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