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The European Union has served Elon Musk’s X with a €120 million (about $140 million) penalty for violating the bloc’s digital service rulebook, in part for the “deceptive design” of its blue checkmark. Today’s announcement marks the first time that a company has been fined under the landmark Digital Services Act (DSA) law for curbing “illegal and harmful activities” on online platforms... View Source

Wall Street is gearing up to lend massive amounts of money to the biggest players in artificial intelligence — and simultaneously trying to figure out how to protect itself from any bubble that its financing may be helping to inflate... View Source

December's "Cold Moon" rose on Dec. 4 as it neared its closest point ot Earth in its monthly orbit... View Source

Elon Musk’s X social network was slapped with a lower-than-expected €120 million ($140 million) fine for violating the European Union’s controversial content-moderation law, in a move still set to raise tensions with the White House over free speech and tech regulation... View Source

What can today's scientists learn about astronomical phenomena from ancient texts?... View Source

The new hub centralizes account support options. Meta on Thursday announced it is launching a new, centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram, acknowledging that getting help hasn’t always been as easy as it should be. The space will bring together all the support features users of both networks need to report account issues or recover one they’ve lost access to. “Getting help with your ac... View Source

The CEO of Affirm on restructuring finance... View Source

Cryptocurrency-exchange operator HashKey Holdings Ltd. is set to start taking investor orders as soon as next week for its Hong Kong initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Cloudflare Inc. said it has fixed a problem that led to the websites for several banks, Shopify, Zoom and LinkedIn to go down Friday... View Source

Microsoft is finally updating the design of the Run dialog prompt in Windows after more than 30 years. After committing to adding a dark mode to Run, Microsoft is now testing a refreshed design that makes it fit with the aesthetics in Windows 11. X user Phantomofearth discovered the modern Run dialog in the latest preview builds of Windows 11. The overhauled Run prompt looks a lot more like a mode... View Source

Billionaire footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has taken a stake in Perplexity AI Inc., marking the Portuguese star’s most high-profile investment to date... View Source

Baidu Inc. is considering listing its Kunlunxin AI chip business in Hong Kong, people familiar with the matter said, as it looks to tap investor interest in China’s attempts to design products to compete with Nvidia Corp... View Source

Netflix is poised to purchase Warner Bros.’ studio and streaming business after being selected as the winner of the bidding war for the media giant. The two companies will now move forward into exclusive deal talks, TheWrap reports, likely including a $5 billion break-up fee in case regulators block the buyout. Netflix reportedly offered $30 a share for the studio and its streaming assets, which i... View Source

Ocado Group Plc will receive a one-time cash payment of $350 million from Kroger Co., more than previously announced, after the US grocer decided to close three automated warehouses and scaled back plans for a wider rollout... View Source

Netflix is in exclusive talks to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's film and TV studios and HBO Max streaming service, according to sources from Bloomberg. That suggests Netflix submitted a superior offer to rivals including Paramount Skydance Corp (owned by billionaire Larry Ellison) and Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal. The deal could be consummated within days and, if approved, would change... View Source

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.’s revenue rose 26% in November, suggesting demand for Nvidia Corp. servers remains strong during an AI development boom... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has entered exclusive negotiations to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max streaming service to Netflix Inc., according to people familiar with the discussions. The two companies could announce a deal as soon as in the coming days, assuming talks don’t fall apart, the people said. Bloomberg’s Manuel Baigorri breaks down the situation... View Source

South African private equity firms and lenders will invest $600 million in debt and equity on a dry port in the Democratic Republic of Congo to ease congestion on one of Africa’s busiest mineral corridors... View Source

Bali is considering a ban on Airbnb Inc.’s accommodation, its latest attempt to impose order on a resort island struggling to cope with a record surge in tourism... View Source

Using police diaries, mobile-phone records, WhatsApp messages and thousands of banking transactions, we were able to reconstruct—sometimes down to the minute—how “digital arrest” victims were targeted and scammed... View Source

The country’s digital revolution has created a criminal dystopia. Businessweek investigates the trail from victims to scammers... View Source

UiPath CEO Daniel Dines says AI is a complement to its existing automation offering. He discusses the company’s accelerating growth and third quarter earnings with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Sydney and Singapore with Paul Allen and Avril Hong, getting insight and analysis from newsmakers and industry leaders on the biggest stories shaping global markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has entered exclusive negotiations to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max streaming service to Netflix Inc., according to people familiar with the discussions... View Source

OpenAI is adapting to growing competitive pressure on multiple fronts. But first…... View Source

Taiwan said it was banning the Chinese app Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, due to fraud concerns — highlighting the democracy’s worries related to social media apps from across the strait... View Source

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. shares declined in extended trading after the company gave an outlook for sales in the current quarter that fell short of high expectations for the AI server business... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Matt Miller and Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Dollar General pops on stronger guidance as deal-hungry shoppers pile in. We'll take a deep dive on bargain-focused retailers. Meta is preparing deep cuts to its metaverse ambitions as Mark Zuckerberg weighs budget reductions of up to 30%. Plus, Rebecca Patterson of CFR joins Bloomberg Open Intere... View Source

On December 4, WIRED sat down with some of the biggest names in tech, culture, business, and science for a day full of in-depth interviews... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Meta’s plan to cut resources for building its metaverse, the virtual world that Mark Zuckerberg once framed as the future of the company. Plus, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he’s not sure China would accept more powerful AI chips - even if the US relaxes restrictions on sales. And, a look at the latest earnings from Snowflake, Salesforce and UiPath. (... View Source

Apple Inc. hired Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Legal Officer Jennifer Newstead as its general counsel, part of a wave of executive changes at the iPhone maker... View Source

Microsoft Excel is expensive, derivative and depressing. The 40-year-old spreadsheet software might also be the most killer app of all time, Max Chafkin argues. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Skybound Game Studios is being sued by indie outfit iam8bit on charges including fraud and breach of contract, including the theft of original designs. Skybound Entertainment, the parent company of Skybound Game Studios, is chaired by Robert Kirkman, who may be best known for creating the original comic book of The Walking Dead. We've reached out to Skybound for comment on the lawsuit but hav... View Source

Moore Threads Technology Co., a leading Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker, will begin trading in Shanghai’s stock exchange on Friday in the year’s second-largest onshore IPO... View Source

The hunt is on for new Asian equity winners from the artificial intelligence trade, as a technological shift and bubble fears reshape the investment universe... View Source

A spectacular new view of two dwarf galaxies caught in the middle of a cosmic collision reveals a glowing gas bridge, streams of newborn stars and the ongoing gravitational tug-of-war reshaping both galaxies... View Source

The author of Super Agers believes AI could bring big changes to the world of medicine... View Source

In recent months, it has begun dawning on US lawmakers that, absent significant intervention, China will land humans on the Moon before the United States can return there with the Artemis Program. So far, legislators have yet to take meaningful action on this—a $10 billion infusion into NASA’s budget this summer essentially provided zero funding for efforts needed to land humans on the Moon this d... View Source

Australian data center group NextDC Ltd. and ChatGPT-developer OpenAI have agreed to partner on the development of a large-scale data center in Sydney... View Source

Following the recent retirement of former COO Jeff Williams, AI chief John Giannandrea stepping down, and the departure of head of design Alan Dye for Meta, Apple announced Thursday that environmental and policy lead Lisa Jackson is retiring and that Jennifer Newstead will replace Kate Adams as the company’s general counsel after Adams retires “late next year.” Jackson, technically “vice president... View Source

The ubiquitous spreadsheet software is expensive, derivative and depressing. It’s also the software the world can’t quit, even in the era of AI tools... View Source

The debut game from Liquid Swords will arrive in early 2026, it was announced at today's PC Gaming Show. Samson: A Tyndalston Story is billed as "a consequence-heavy noir action game" by its developer, and focuses on the eponymous Samson McCray, a man who's got himself into serious debt in a city that doesn’t seem particularly forgiving.  The debut trailer doesn’t give too... View Source

"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends."... View Source

Moor Insights & Strategy founder and CEO Patrick Moorhead reacts to Hewlett Packard Enterprise's sales outlook on "Bloomberg The Close." HPE said revenue will be $9 billion to $9.4 billion and profit, excluding some items, will be 57 cents to 61 cents in the period ending in January. Analysts, on average, projected sales of $9.88 billion and profit of 53 cents, according to data compiled by Bl... View Source

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Thursday (Dec. 4), sending 28 of them up from California's central coast... View Source

It has been months since a group of Trump administration officials put together a Signal group chat to discuss classified military intelligence ahead of a military strike in Yemen while inadvertently adding a journalist, and now the Pentagon’s inspector general has released its report on the mess. The results of Steven Stebbins’ eight-month-long investigation found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegs... View Source

The cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise roughly $700 million in a funding round that would value the company at $7 billion, according to a person familiar with the situation... View Source

We've been monitoring the upcoming rock climbing game Cairn for several months, as have the many folks who've already enjoyed the demo — which has an impressive 99 percent rating on Steam. In September, developer The Game Bakers pushed back the game's planned 2025 debut to give some extra time for polish. Today, the team dropped a fresh trailer announcing the revised launch date for... View Source

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form... View Source

The Trump administration has ordered US consulates to consider rejecting H-1B visa applicants involved in content moderation or “censorship,” according to a report from Reuters. A State Department cable viewed by the outlet says officials should check an applicant’s resume or LinkedIn profile for a job history involving moderation, fact-checking, online safety, compliance, and misinformation. As r... View Source

Minda Smiley, senior analyst at EMARKETER focused on social media, says she is not surprised by Meta's plans to cut resources for its metaverse unit. She discusses Meta’s challenges to monetize the metaverse and AI with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

School districts are paying extra for basic supplies thanks to unpredictable dynamic pricing on Amazon, which is costing them on average 17 percent more, according to a report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR). Unlike the contracts schools and local governments would traditionally make with local suppliers, who would bid to offer the best rates, Amazon Business doesn’t guarantee lock... View Source

Beijing-based Cambricon is set to triple production of AI chips in 2026, with plans to deliver half a million AI accelerators. Bloomberg’s Peter Elstrom discusses the company and wider plans by China to boost production of advanced AI chips. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

As he did eight months ago, Sen. Ed Markey asked Jared Isaacman if Elon Musk was in the room when President Trump first offered him the job of NASA chief. And, once again, Isaacman demurred... View Source

This picture taken on August 31, 2017 shows Honda Motor's new N-BOX mini-vehicles at its headquaters in Tokyo. Tiny kei trucks from Japan have a new fan: President Donald Trump. Trump expressed admiration for the pint-sized autos during a briefing with reporters to announce his plan to gut fuel economy standards. “They’re very small. They’re really cute,” Trump said. “And I said, how w... View Source

Mexico’s Esentia Energy Development expects a boom in data centers to bolster its pipeline business, as the country races to build out energy and AI infrastructure to compete with its regional peers... View Source

Roskomnadzor, Russia's federal agency for monitoring and censoring mass media, has blocked access to Snapchat and FaceTime in the country, Bloomberg reports, citing Russian news service Interfax. The bans were reportedly put in place because the platforms were used "to organize and carry out terrorist acts,” and commit fraud.It's not clear if either service is still accessible by us... View Source

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is finally out after a long and difficult development - and despite some bright spots, the game really shows its age. Nintendo has a long and celebrated history of doing things its own way. During the original Switch era, going back to Super Mario Odyssey in 2017, Nintendo has focused on bringing open-world style exploration elements to many of its major releases. That stra... View Source

Brazil’s biggest utility is exploring options to guarantee the power supply for a $50 billion data center project aimed at putting Rio de Janeiro at the forefront of artificial intelligence in Latin America... View Source

Levels of potentially dangerous cosmic radiation in Earth's atmosphere rose to a two-decade high in November after a rare solar super-flare pummeled the planet with high-speed particles from the sun... View Source

Microsoft has been publishing data about the gender, race, and ethnic breakdown of its employees for more than a decade. Since 2019 it's been publishing a full diversity and inclusion report annually, and at the same time made reporting on diversity a requirement for employee performance reviews. Now it's scrapping its diversity report and dropping diversity and inclusion as a companywide core pri... View Source

Rebecca Patterson, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Bloomberg Open Interest with a reality check on Bitcoin — why it’s still a speculative bet and definitely not the inflation or dollar hedge some want it to be. She warns the real contagion risk isn’t gone and the bigger crypto gets, the bigger the shocks could be. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

If you've ever had something go wrong with your Facebook or Instagram account, then you probably have a good idea of just how frustrating the support process can be. The company's automated processes are so broken that some people have found that suing Meta in small claims court can be a more reliable way of getting help from the company.Now, Meta says it's trying to address some of... View Source

These aren’t real people! | Image: Nano Banana Pro I'm starting to understand where Google's visual AI model gets its name, because after playing around with it for a couple of days, that's how I'd sum it up: bananas. The images it generates are so realistic it's bananas. I feel like I'm going bananas after staring at them for too long. And if I had to pinpoint one reason why Nano Banana Pro's ima... View Source

Nearly all leading artificial intelligence developers are focused on building AI models that mimic the way humans reason, but new research shows these cutting-edge systems can be far more energy intensive, adding to concerns about AI’s strain on power grids... View Source

Amazon Luna’s December lineup of games has been announced, and there are plenty of early Christmas presents to sink your teeth into. For those unaware, Prime members automatically qualify for Luna standard, the entry-level tier of Amazon’s cloud gaming service, and each month the company also hands out a number of codes for PC games that permanently join in your library once redeemed. Among those... View Source

If you've never sighted this rocky little world for yourself, you'll never get a better opportunity than right now to see it... View Source

The last-gen model costs $155 less than the new pair. It sounds weird to say it’s a good thing if you missed the Ray-Ban Meta deal on Black Friday, but… it’s kind of true. The original Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses just fell to an even better all-time low of $224.25 ($75) at Amazon and Best Buy, which beats the Black Friday price by $15. Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 1) smart glasses Whe... View Source

Mark Douglas, MNTN President and CEO, join Bloomberg Intelligence to discuss the recent moves in the Warner Brothers bidding war and latest in streaming space. Netflix is in the lead in the bidding for Warner Bros. Discovery, CNBC’s David Faber reports on air, citing people familiar with the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

When it announced the latest series of Kindle Scribe writing tablets in October, Amazon didn’t have a specific release date to share beyond “later this year.” And now that we’re approaching the final weeks of 2025, the company is meeting its own deadline by sharing that it will be available on December 10. That detail is now posted on the Amazon product page for the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, if you... View Source

Over the course of several hours, technicians meticulously connected the inner and outer segments of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Nov. 25, 2025. This marked the end of Roman’s c... View Source

A mishap during the successful Nov. 27 launch of three astronauts damaged the only pad that currently supports Russian crewed orbital liftoffs. How long before things are back up and running again?... View Source

Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft | Photo: Todd Haselton / The Verge Amazon has finally given a release date for its new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe: They’ll be available to purchase starting on December 10th, Amazon spokesperson Rachel Erickson tells The Verge. They’ll cost the same as what Amazon announced back in September: $629.99 for the Colorsoft and $499.99 for the Scribe,... View Source

Volkswagen AG plans to convert its small-scale assembly plant in Dresden into an innovation hub after stopping car output, following through on a pledge to avoid factory closures in Germany... View Source

Based on what we've seen, Replaced is a gaming art director's dream. The long-delayed indie title has lush pixel-art environments, set in a cyberpunk fever dream. And now we finally know when it's arriving. Mark your calendar for March 12, 2026.If you've been following Replaced's journey, you'll know that's four years after its original release date. Shit happens... View Source

We don't often get a good look at X-class solar flares from ground-based observatories... View Source

After over 30 years, Amazon may be cutting ties with the United States Postal Service as it looks to expand its own delivery network, as reported by The Washington Post. The outlet, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, cites anonymous sources who said negotiations between Amazon and Trump-appointed USPS Postmaster General David Steiner have reportedly stagnated, pushing Amazon to consider concludin... View Source

Phoebe Gates, daughter of Microsoft Corp.’s billionaire founder Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, is raising $30 million in new funding for Phia, a startup applying artificial intelligence to online shopping, according to a pitch deck seen by Bloomberg... View Source

Meta is reportedly planning steep cuts to its metaverse division, according to Bloomberg. This is happening just a few years after the company changed its name from Facebook to reflect its renewed interest in that same metaverse. Bloomberg notes that the metaverse department could get hit with significant budget cuts in the near future, with layoffs potentially occurring early next year. The budge... View Source

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands on April 20, 2025 (April 19 Eastern time) in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, with the Expedition 71/72 crew aboard. NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, is preparing to depart the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and ret... View Source

Check out the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted stream and see the sci-fi and space games you'll be playing in 2026 and beyond... View Source

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Get ready for a lot more video content on Spotify. Sometime later this month, the service will start incorporating music videos into its app, and give US-based subscribers the ability to easily switch back and forth between audio and v... View Source

Netflix shares fell after CNBC reported the company is the leading bidder for Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount Skydance more than doubled the proposed breakup fee in its offer to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery to $5 billion. Bloomberg Intelligence's Kevin Near has the latest on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

If you missed the Black Friday sale on Apple's AirPods 4 with ANC, you're in luck — they're back on sale at the same $99 price for a substantial $80 savings (45 percent). What's more, if you're one who frets about damaging your gear, you can grab them with AppleCare+ for $118, saving 43 percent from the normal price.  We think that the AirPods Pro 2 are the best AirPo... View Source

It turns out my parents were wrong. Saying "please" doesn't get you what you want-poetry does. At least, it does if you're talking to an AI chatbot. That's according to a new study from Italy's Icaro Lab, an AI evaluation and safety initiative from researchers at Rome's Sapienza University and AI company DexAI. The findings indicate that framing requests as poetry could skirt safety features desig... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason why he changed the name from Facebook. Sources say cuts could be as high as 30%. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

If you like both electric vehicles and emotional roller coasters, 2025 was an excellent year. However, for those of us whose nerves are already sufficiently frazzled, the highs and lows of the last 12 months were a bit hard to stomach.In 2025, we saw the introduction of new, compelling models like the Lucid Gravity and refreshed Nissan Leaf, the latter available at a price on par with its internal... View Source

NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now fully assembled following the integration of its two major segments on Nov. 25 at the agency’s Godd... View Source

The Apple Watch SE 3 is on sale starting at $199. The Apple Watch SE 3 was one of the best smartwatches we tested in 2025, and you can still pick up the 40mm GPS model for its Cyber Monday price of $199 ($50 off) at Amazon and Walmart. The 44mm GPS model is also matching its all-time low of $229.99 ($50 off) at Amazon and Walmart.  Apple Watch SE 3 The Apple Watch SE 3 offers some big upgrade... View Source

Polymarket has been recruiting new staff members for an internal market making team that could face off against customers on the company’s exchange, even though a similar feature has exposed its chief rival to criticism... View Source

Amazon is reportedly considering discontinuing use of the US Postal Service and building out its own shipping network to rival it, according to The Washington Post. The e-commerce behemoth spends more than $6 billion a year on the public mail carrier, representing just shy of 8 percent of the service's total revenues. That's up from just shy of $4 billion in 2019, and Amazon continues to... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Researchers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland used the Glenn Icing Computational Environment (GlennICE) software to create 3D computational models of this advanced air mobility rotor and study propeller icing issues. The physical model of this rotor was installed and tested in the Icing Research Tunnel in 202... View Source

The Geminid meteor shower is active from Dec. 4 and hits its peak on the night of Dec. 13-14... View Source

Proton has added a new privacy-focused spreadsheet app to its productivity suite to tempt users over from Google and Microsoft’s platforms. The new Proton Sheets tool provides real-time collaboration features and end-to-end encryption, according to Proton’s announcement, “ensuring that no one else, not even Proton, can access your spreadsheet and the information it contains.” A Proton Drive accoun... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason for changing its name from Facebook Inc... View Source

Sony Interactive Entertainment has signed a deal to produce and publish a game from Bad Robot, JJ Abrams’ production company. The two sides are keeping most of the details close to their chest for now, but the game is a four-player co-op shooter for PlayStation 5 and PC directed by someone who knows a thing or two about that genre: Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth.Bad Robot Games — which is a fully... View Source

Russia is restricting access to Roblox after the country’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor accused it of promoting extremism and “LGBT propaganda,” according to reports from Reuters and Meduza. As reported by Meduza, Russian lawmakers began raising concerns about Roblox days after The Guardian published a report about the platform last month, detailing how the author was able to access conte... View Source

Royal Philips NV said it hasn’t issued an early view of its 2026 outlook, after the Dutch medical technology firm’s shares dropped following comments Chief Executive Officer Roy Jakobs made during an industry summit... View Source

The Antigravity A1 is what happens when Insta360’s 360-degree cameras are given wings and flying feels like a video game. Spinning out as its own brand, Antigravity’s debut drone is a big swing: a three-piece set with a drone that captures 8K 360-degree video, FPV goggles and a motion controller. Challenging the dominance of DJI’s (many!) consumer drones is a big ask. Antigravity’s approach is to... View Source

Nvidia launched its first RTX 50-series graphics cards earlier this year without support for PhysX, the GPU-accelerated technology that let games realistically simulate shattering glass, moving liquids, smoke, fog, and more. Now, Nvidia is bringing back PhysX support for the RTX 50-series GPUs for top-played games like Borderlands 2, Mirror’s Edge, and Batman: Arkham City. “We heard the feedback f... View Source

Activist investor Barington Capital Group has taken a stake in business payments firm Bill Holdings Inc., joining Elliott Investment Management and Starboard Value LP, and is urging the company’s board to explore a sale... View Source

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The EURECA spacecraft flew on the space shuttle Atlantis in 1992... View Source

Big data centers equipped to supply their own power during heatwaves and other emergencies can begin operations much more quickly than those reliant solely on traditional utility hookups, according to a new study... View Source

The UK has fined a porn operator called AVS Group £1 million ($1.33 million) for failing to have strong enough age checks, regulator Ofcom announced. The company which was also hit with an additional £50,000 fine for its failure to respond to information request and now has 72 hours to introduce effective age checks or face a further penalty of £1,000 a day.  In July, the UK government announ... View Source

A new joint analysis from the NOvA and T2K experiments offers the most precise look yet at neutrino behavior, bringing scientists closer to understanding why the universe is made of matter... View Source

Zanskar uses AI to identify hidden geothermal systems—and claims it has found one that could fuel a power plant, the first such discovery by industry in decades... View Source

Yann LeCun, the artificial intelligence pioneer who is leaving Meta Platforms Inc. at the end of the year, said Meta will not financially back his new AI company and hinted it could be based in Paris... View Source

The European Union has launched a formal investigation into Meta over antitrust concerns with AI restrictions in WhatsApp. The probe aims to “prevent any possible irreparable harm to competition in the AI space” according to the EU, and follows Meta announcing changes to WhatsApp’s terms for businesses in October that will prohibit companies from using the platform’s API to distribute third-party... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Alexandra S. Levine follows her report on the growing use of AI videos on YouTube aimed at children younger than 2 years old... View Source

When songwriter Patrick Irwin moved to Nashville last year, he was entering a lottery. Each day hundreds of sessions take place where writers create a song demo to pitch to a publisher. Publishers then share those songs with labels and managers, who may share those songs with the artists. Even if a major country star records ("cuts") the song, it still takes a stroke of luck for that song to becom... View Source

The European Commission is seeking industry feedback on Google’s offer to fix alleged antitrust violations linked to its ad tech business that sparked a fine of nearly €3 billion ($3.5 billion)... View Source

Louisiana’s hunting and wildlife authority is one of more than 1,000 state and local agencies that have partnered with US immigration authorities this year alone... View Source

Germany’s financial watchdog warned the country’s banks that they face risks from the increasingly opaque ties between companies driving the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

The latest addition to Proton's workplace suite is a spreadsheet tool called Proton Sheets. It will offer real-time collaboration, and users can control who has access to view and edit files. Proton Sheets can also be accessed on any device, including mobile ones. It supports importing CSV and XLS files, and the spreadsheets also support commonly used formulas for calculations.A big part of P... View Source

See a stunning supermoon take flight on Dec. 4... View Source

iPhone 17 Pro models have been left in the dark. | Image: The Verge iPhone 17 Pro users have fewer ways to take photographs in low-light conditions compared to those using older iPhone models. Specifically, the option to select Night mode when taking snaps in Portrait mode — which gives the camera app an artsy depth-of-field effect — isn’t supported on iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max devices, per a supp... View Source

Alphabet Inc. investors are growing increasingly confident that the company’s semiconductors could represent a significant driver of future revenue for Google’s parent... View Source

The Oversight Board is getting ready to tackle a new pain point for Facebook and Instagram users. Up to now, users have been able to appeal content moderation decisions related to specific posts to the board, but haven't been able to ask the group to intervene in other situations that affect their accounts. That could soon change. The board says that it will weigh in on individual accoun... View Source

As the European Union seeks to wrap up unfinished business before the end of the year, Elon Musk is once again taking center stage... View Source

PC gamers have almost too many options when it comes to titles to play, which is a great problem to have. With decades of games to choose from (and the first port of call for most indie titles, too), the options are endless. You also get the perks of (nearly always flawless) backward compatibility and console-beating graphical performance — if you've got the coin for it when you’re building y... View Source

DayOne Data Centers Ltd. is in advanced talks to raise more than $2 billion in an upsized Series C funding round to help support its expansion in international markets, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK raked in more donations that any other British political party in the third quarter, boosted by a £9 million ($12 million) gift from crypto investor Christopher Harborne, in a sign business and the wealthy are taking the party’s polling lead seriously... View Source

Ven Ram, Guy Johnson and Anna Edwards break down today’s key themes for analysis and investors on “The Opening Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. faces a full-scale antitrust investigation from the European Union as early as this week over how its AI features in WhatsApp may be harming competition, in the latest probe into Big Tech’s dominance on the continent... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. has agreed to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi Pte back to the mobile advertising company for about $250 million, unwinding much of an investment that created India’s first unicorn in 2011... View Source

Cambricon Technologies Corp. plans to more than triple its production of AI chips in 2026, aiming to wrest market share from Huawei Technologies Co. in China and fill a void left by Nvidia Corp.’s forced exit... View Source

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Die Trumps setzen eifrig auf Krypto. In den letzten zwei Monaten hat Bitcoin jedoch rund 25% verloren. Noch tiefer ging es für Krypto-Projekte der First-Family bergab. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Vodacom Group Ltd., South Africa’s biggest mobile operator, will take control of East Africa’s largest telecommunications provider Safaricom Plc in a multi-billion deal... View Source

Abhijit Dubey, President, CEO, and Chief AI Officer at NTT DATA, discusses the company’s data center business, the launch of six AI‑powered cyber defense centers, and its outlook going forward. He spoke exclusively on Bloomberg’s Insight with Haslinda Amin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It borders Brazil, but French Guiana is now a remote outpost of the EU. It is home to Europe’s only spaceport, some of the most biodiverse forest on the planet and a military mission that is testing the limits of western powerAbove me, a ceiling of rough wooden branches and tarp. To my right, an officer in the French Foreign Legion types up the daily situation report. In front of me a French genda... View Source

OpenAI agreed to buy Neptune, a startup that makes tools for analyzing progress during AI model training... View Source

Sam Altman declared a “code red” for ChatGPT, partly over competition from Google Gemini. But OpenAI doesn’t have much to worry about, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson says. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Roblox Corp.’s popular gaming platform was blocked in Russia, local news outlets reported, cutting off millions of daily users... View Source

A 200 billion reais ($38 billion) commitment from ByteDance’s TikTok to help build a massive data center complex in Brazil is cementing the nation’s position as the leading location in the region for AI-related investment... View Source

Logitech International SA’s chief executive officer said the computer accessory maker is done for now with price hikes, while dismissing other hardware makers’ rush to build artificial intelligence-centric gadgets... View Source

No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare. ... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. has poached Apple Inc.’s most prominent design executive in a major coup that underscores a push by the social networking giant into AI-equipped consumer devices... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Rothschild & Co’s Alex Haissl, Goldman Sachs’ Alexandra Wilson-Elizondo, MorningStar’s David Swartz, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Rohit Chopra, GenTrust’s Elena Hernandez, Apollo’s David Sambur, Wedbush Securitie... View Source

Intel Corp. said it’s shelving plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division, after the company decided it’s more likely to succeed as an internal unit... View Source

The Antigravity A1. With DJI facing an imminent import ban in the US and its flagship drones disappearing from shelves, the new Antigravity A1 didn’t need to be a groundbreaking gadget to make headlines. It just needed to be a competent alternative that you can actually buy in the United States. In August, the Chinese brand couldn’t promise that for sure. But today, it’s happening: the Antigravity... View Source

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei suggested that some artificial intelligence companies are taking on too much risk by committing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars, if not more, to develop and support AI systems... View Source

Sylvia Jablonski, chief investment officer at Defiance ETFs, says she sees the tech pullback as a buying opportunity and expects AI to lead the market for years. Jablonski joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Department of Transportation under President Donald Trump is moving to reverse more of the climate policies that had been enacted by President Joe Biden. Under a proposed rulemaking by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks in model year 2031 will be reduced to an average of 34.5 miles per gallon, down from the standard of 50.4 m... View Source

Some YouTube creators are leaning into low-effort, low-quality AI videos - what critics call "AI Slop" - to attract viewers under 2 years old. Bloomberg’s Alex Levine joins Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech" to discuss why babies are becoming a target audience for AI content. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI announced today that it is working on a framework that will train artificial intelligence models to acknowledge when they've engaged in undesirable behavior, an approach the team calls a confession. Since large language models are often trained to produce the response that seems to be desired, they can become increasingly likely to provide sycophancy or state hallucinations with total... View Source

BMW has been peppering us with teasers and bits and pieces about its next-gen EV platform, Neue Klasse, for so long - fully two years now - that I confess I've become a bit numb to the hype. I'd seen the dashboard-filling displays, talked to engineers endlessly about the completely retooled active safety suite, and even got a go behind the wheel of a prototype machine. All this for the launch of a... View Source

Snowflake Inc. gave an outlook for operating margin that fell short of analysts’ estimates, raising concerns among investors about the profitability of new AI-based tools... View Source

Bungie and Sony Interactive Entertainment appear to have settled the plagiarism scandal that rocked Marathon before the game was indefinitely delayed in June 2025. Fern Hook, an artist who goes by the name “Antireal” online, posted on X that her issues with Bungie using her work without credit in Marathon have been resolved to her "satisfaction."Marathon's distinct art style is one... View Source

Billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman didn't mince words Wednesday (Dec. 3) during his second hearing before the Senate committee considering his nomination for NASA administrator... View Source

Motorists drive on Interstate 210 during the morning commute on December 03, 2025 in Pasadena, California. President Donald Trump announced a new plan that lets carmakers pollute more by making less fuel efficient vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said today that it’ll roll back fuel economy rules finalized last year by the Biden administration for model year 202... View Source

Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities global head of technology research, says it is "way premature" to call an AI bubble. Speaking with Romaine Bostick on "Bloomberg The Close," Ives says the US will not give away the chips market in China to Huawei and take it away from Nvidia. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In a lot of social media use, the algorithm is an intangible entity, silent and all-powerful in controlling what we see in our feeds. And like supplicants to a deity, sometimes we may find ourselves calling into the void, hoping to receive aid from that mighty being. Seems that for Threads users, at least, those prayers have been heard. Many people on the Threads platform have taken to writin... View Source

The final full moon of 2025 rises on Dec. 5... View Source

It’s getting harder and harder for the Hubble and other telescopes orbiting Earth to capture pristine images thanks to the sudden surge in satellite launches. Satellite trails could mess up nearly 40 percent of images the Hubble takes and up to 96 percent of those taken by three other telescopes over the next decade, according to a study by NASA researchers published today in the journal Nature. ... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde digs into anxieties and losses coming from the Magnificent 7 as big tech stocks lag the wider market. Plus, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon discusses the software maker’s earnings as the company boosts its full year profit forecast. And TikTok plans to invest more than $37 billion to build its first Latin American data center in Brazil.  (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Alan Dye, Apple's Vice President of Human Interface Design, has been poached by Meta, Bloomberg reports. The designer played a pivotal role in the look and feel of Apple's products since Jony Ive left the company in 2019, and now he’ll be taking his talents to Meta.Dye will reportedly work under Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth as the head of a new studio that will oversee the de... View Source

Andrew Ross Sorkin and Dario Amodei speak onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 03, 2025 in New York City. | Image: Getty This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Dario Amodei took the stage at the DealBook Summit on Wednesday to throw punch... View Source

Salesforce Inc. gave an outlook for revenue in the current period that topped analysts’ estimates, suggesting the software company is persuading customers to buy its AI tools... View Source

Earlier this year, Apple launched a new tool that makes it easier to read anything on your device’s screen. Designed for people with visual disabilities, Accessibility Reader provides a full-screen view of any on-screen text. (It’s a bit like Safari’s Reader Mode, only for any app.) The feature also lets you listen to your text read aloud.Accessibility Reader is available for iPhone, iPad, Mac and... View Source

Blue Origin's next space tourist launch will make history, sending a wheelchair user to the final frontier for the first time... View Source

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman. Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and plans to replace it with “better, more relevant and personalized feeds,” according to CEO Steve Huffman (aka Spez). Huffman also notes that r/popular “sucks.” “For a long while, we were known as the ‘front page of the internet,’ but we’ve outgrown a singular front page for everyone,” Huffman says... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said he’s unsure whether China would accept the company’s H200 artificial intelligence chips should the US relax restrictions on sales of the processors, following a meeting Wednesday with President Donald Trump... View Source

The developer of Cozy Grove and Alphabear is leaving Netflix. Spry Fox is being sold back to its original founders, Game File reports, and will continue to work on its upcoming "cooperative village life sim" Spirit Crossing as an independent company. Unlike other shuttered Netflix games studios Team Blue and Boss Fight Entertainment, Netflix will remain involved with the studio as Spirit... View Source

Woojer is best known for its vibrating vests and belt straps that let you feel the sounds from games, movies, and music. Now the company has taken that same haptic technology and incorporated it into a new mattress topper called the Woojer Mat that will let you feel those same vibrations across your entire body to make what you’re watching or playing feel more immersive. But the company claims tha... View Source

Okta CEO Todd McKinnon discusses what’s driving the software maker’s boosted forecast. He speaks with Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sony is bringing another of its long-running game franchises to iOS and Android in the shape of MLB The Show Mobile. This is a free-to-play “standalone experience built from the ground up to deliver realistic baseball gameplay on mobile devices.” San Diego Studio, the developer of every MLB The Show game since the series debuted in 2006, is behind this mobile game as well.MLB The Show Mobile, whic... View Source

‘I wanted to elevate it. I didn’t want to do it like the original 'Battlestar Galactica' or 'Babylon 5.''... View Source

Alan Dye, who has led Apple’s UI design team since 2015, is leaving to join Meta as its chief design officer, Bloomberg reports. He’ll join Meta on December 31st, and Meta is opening a design studio and giving Dye oversight of design for “hardware, software and AI integration for its interfaces,” according to Bloomberg. Dye will report to Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth. Designer Steve Lemay will replace... View Source

Private astronaut Jared Isaacman returned to Congress on Wednesday for a second confirmation hearing to become NASA administrator before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in Washington, DC. There appeared to be no showstoppers during the hearing, in which Isaacman reiterated his commitment to the space agency’s Artemis Program and defended his draft plan for NASA, “P... View Source

JoAnne Feeney, partner and portfolio manager at Advisors Capital Management, discusses Amazon's latest AI chip release, and efforts to expand chipmaking in the US. She joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tencent has agreed to stop promoting and publicly testing Light of Motiram as a lawsuit with Sony works its way through the courts, according to a report by TheGamePost. This is Tencent's game that looks suspiciously similar to Sony's Horizon franchise, so much so that Sony sued the publisher. Sony wants the court to block the game from sale entirely, but as the case continues Tencent ha... View Source

The JBL Charge 6 portable Bluetooth speaker is currently down to an all-time low of $129.99 ($70 off) at multiple retailers. REI took a hike during Black Friday, but the retailer is back with a full week of deals. Now through December 8th, REI is hosting a Cyber Week sale that offers big discounts on gadgets and gear designed for the outdoors. If you’re planning to hit the slopes this winter, now’... View Source

SEC has issued a flurry of warning letters to some of the country’s most prolific providers of high-octane ETFs, effectively blocking the introduction of products designed to deliver three and even five times the daily returns of stocks, commodities and cryptocurrencies. Bloomberg Intelligence's James Seyffart discussed the story on "Bloomberg Markets" with Vonnie Quinn. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Micron Technology is winding down its consumer-facing Crucial brand to focus on providing RAM and other components to the AI industry, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company plans to continue shipping Crucial RAM and storage through February 2026, and will honor warranty service and support for its existing Crucial products even after it stops selling directly to consumers."The AI-drive... View Source

This is a screenshot from the PS5 version of MLB The Show 25. MLB The Show is coming to iOS and Android. Sony has revealed MLB The Show Mobile, which it says is “a new standalone experience built from the ground up to deliver realistic baseball gameplay on mobile devices.”  The game is live now only in the Philippines (here’s a Google Play link for the game), and Sony plans to “expand availab... View Source

Lockheed Martin Corp. has opened a new lab focused on hypersonic weapons in Alabama, as the US struggles to catch up with China and Russia in deploying the advanced technology... View Source

Indie studio Santa Ragione is facing more strife after claiming its latest game has been blocked on another major storefront. The developer previously said it was at risk of closure after Valve banned Horses from Steam, noting that it would be very difficult to recoup its investment without access to the world’s largest PC gaming storefront. The situation became more dire this week after Epic Game... View Source

Smartwatches have become health gadgets. Over the last five years or so, Apple, Garmin, Google, Samsung, and practically every other company wanting to strap their wares to your wrist have emphasized exercise integrations, sleep tracking, hypertension monitoring, and more. The most expensive among these devices are also satellite communicators, because now that you have a smartwatch, you are surel... View Source

Amara NZero is working with financial adviser Houlihan Lokey Inc., as the Spanish distributor of renewable energy products grapples with pressure on its cash flows, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Russia has blocked the popular gaming platform Roblox, according to a report by Reuters. The country's communications watchdog Roskomnadzor accused the developers of distributing extremist materials and "LGBT propaganda." The agency went on to say that Roblox is "rife with inappropriate content that can negatively impact the spiritual and moral development of children." Th... View Source

A cosmic ray from a faraway supernova explosion may have sent a packed passenger jet into free fall in late October, forcing an emergency landing... View Source

The X8S is a premium thermostat that supports Matter and works as a video doorbell intercom. Resideo’s newest thermostat looks like a compelling alternative to Nest or Ecobee if you’re looking for a premium smart thermostat. The Honeywell Home X8S is compatible with Matter, supports room sensors, and features a sleek 5-inch touchscreen that works as an intercom for Ring and First Alert video doorb... View Source

OpenAI’s nonprofit foundation announced it’s awarding $40.5 million in grants this year to 208 nonprofits across the US supporting local communities — the largest outside philanthropic commitment the artificial intelligence giant has made to date... View Source

Amazon’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales might be over, but the company is still running a deal on its premium music streaming service. Right now, you can get three months of Amazon Music Unlimited for free if you’re a new subscriber. As with most offers of this nature, your subscription will auto-renew for the full price of $12 per month (or $11 for Prime members) after your three months are... View Source

ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, which is situated about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden). Through a small telescope, this galaxy appears extremely faint, giving it the nickname ‘Lost Galaxy’. With a mirror spanning nearly eight feet (2.4 meters) acro... View Source

Elon Musk envisions Grokipedia - xAI's AI-generated, anti-woke spin on Wikipedia - as a definitive monument to human knowledge, something complete and truthful enough to etch in stone and preserve in space. In reality, it's a hot mess, and it's only getting worse now that anyone can suggest edits. Grokipedia was not always editable. When it first launched in October, its roughly 800,000 Grok-writt... View Source

The best opportunity to view this spectacle will be shortly after sunset on December 4... View Source

More than 33 million people impacted... View Source

India will no longer require smartphone makers to preinstall the Sanchar Saathi "security" app. After blowback from Apple, Samsung and opposition leaders, the Modi government issued a statement saying it "has decided not to make the pre-installation mandatory for mobile manufacturers." The app is still available as a voluntary download.India's Ministry of Communications fr... View Source

Select walls at NASA’s Johnson Space Center have been transformed into works of art. Each piece reflects creativity, collaboration, and the spirit of discovery. Painted by Texas students, the murals honor the legacy of the International Space Station and 25 years of continuous human presence in space.  The International Space Station Program Mural Project began in 2022 as part of a broader ef... View Source

Spotify may have popularized the Wrapped user recap trend, but more companies are jumping on that bandwagon every year. From rival music streaming providers like Apple, Amazon, YouTube, and Deezer, to completely unrelated services across tech, gaming, and other industries, a huge range of companies are using fun visuals, stats, and personalization features to show how you’ve been using their platf... View Source

Motorola isn’t just flip-phone nostalgia anymore. From car radios to AI-powered body cams and license-plate readers, it’s become a quiet powerhouse in policing and defense. CEO Greg Brown joined Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about how he built a nearly 1,000% stock-return machine over 14 years — and where it goes next.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Zillow has dropped its climate risk score program just one year after it started, according to a report by TechCrunch. It has removed climate risk scores from over one million listings after real estate agents complained that the data was misleading and leading to lost sales. In their place, listings now feature a small link to data sourced from climate risk startup First Street, which is the orga... View Source

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoThree Martian dust devils can be seen near the rim of Jezero Crater in this short video made of images taken by a navigation camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover on Sept. 6, 2025. The microphone on the rover’s SuperCam previously captured audio when a dust devil passed over.NASA/JPL-Cal... View Source

The U.S. Air Force has given SpaceX permission to develop SLC-37 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as a launch site for its Starship megarocket... View Source

Last year, the House of Representatives was the place where a leading kids online safety bill came to die. On Tuesday, a powerful House committee positioned itself as the place where that bill could be resurrected… along with 18 other proposals. During a three-hour hearing, an Energy and Commerce subcommittee discussed 19 bills recently packaged together in an effort to make the internet safer for... View Source

Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said technical problems had bogged down one of Germany’s biggest military procurement projects: digital communication gear for army vehicles... View Source

Waymo is adding four new US cities to the gradual rollout of its robotaxi service. As reported by TechCrunch, the company said it has already started trialling self-driving cars in Philadelphia, albeit with a human safety monitor, and that it will now commence similar manual tests in Baltimore, St. Louis and Pittsburgh. After the initial supervisory and data-collecting stage, the plan is to deploy... View Source