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OpenAI is in discussions to raise at least $10 billion of investment from Amazon.com Inc. and use the online retailer’s AI chips, the Information reported, citing people familiar with the discussions... View Source

Digital banking firm PT Super Bank Indonesia surged 24%, hitting the daily trading limit, on its Jakarta debut following an initial public offering that ranks as Indonesia’s second largest this year... View Source

Irate lawmakers grilled executives from Coupang over South Korea’s biggest-ever data breach at a testy hearing that underscored rising public anger with the country’s dominant online retailer... View Source

Days after a rumor circulated that home arcade machine maker Arcade1Up would be shutting down, the company has finally shared a statement about its future. "Select assets" from Arcade1Up have been acquired by toy company Basic Fun, and although Arcade1Up isn't dead, what's next for the brand is still a little murky. Last week, a screenshot of an email appearing to be sent from an Arcade1Up staffer... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: Twenty On Capital CEO Jack Mallers and FG Nexus Digital Assets CEP Maja Vujinovic. CORRECT: The live airing of this show misattributed who won trust bank approval. The banner has been corrected to say BitGo and four other firms were approved. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elon Musk, a billionaire who decimated the United States federal workforce using the Department of Government Efficiency, is not remembered fondly by the most powerful woman in Washington: Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff and the gatekeeper to President Donald Trump. In several on-the-record interviews with Vanity Fair's Chris Whipple conducted over the past year, Wiles, who had corralled t... View Source

Databricks CEO and co-founder Ali Ghodsi discusses the company raising over $4 billion in a new funding round that values the software firm at $134 billion. Speaking on "Bloomberg The Close," Ghodsi also comments on the company's IPO plans. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as (L-4th L) White House “AI and Crypto Czar” David Sacks, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and first lady Melania Trump listen during a dinner at the State Dining Room of the White House on September 4, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Hello and welcome to 2025's last issue of Regulator. If you're not a Verge subscriber, get off the 2026 naught... View Source

Shares of GoTo Group are seeing signs of new life ahead of a shareholders’ meeting that may help pave the way for its long-awaited merger with larger rival Grab Holdings Ltd... View Source

For the longest time, I refused to upgrade my work-issued MacBook. I was leery of the hassle, and would much rather hang on to an aging Intel-powered laptop than have to transfer files, set up apps and sign in to accounts all over again. What did it matter if my notebook barely lasted long enough to cover an iPhone launch? My petty brain blamed it all on external factors (like being forced to use... View Source

Television broadcaster E.W. Scripps Co. rejected an unsolicited bid from rival Sinclair Inc. to acquire the company for $7 a share in cash and stock, saying it wasn’t in the best interests of shareholders... View Source

This one's been a long time coming. Mercedes-Benz has been researching, refining and even reshaping the car that would ultimately be the CLA for years now, teasing us with technical briefings and even showing off a sultry crimson concept car a full two years ago.That was the Concept CLA, and while the production CLA you see here doesn't look quite that good, it is a fine-looking little e... View Source

Following the release of the 115-inch Micro RGB TV back in August, Samsung has revealed today that its Micro RGB technology will extend into smaller sizes ranging from that 115-inch behemoth all the way down to 55 inches. While we all enjoy dreaming big, it's far more reasonable for most of us to consider putting a 55-, 65-, or 75-inch TV in a living room. The new Micro RGB TVs will be available i... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses Databricks’ latest $4 billion Series L funding round at a $134 billion valuation. Plus, Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and founder of the Hill and Valley Forum, discusses US efforts to secure its silicon supply chain. And TikTok starts to hit its stride with livestream shopping in the US. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Despite changing its name and using decidedly bird-free branding, X is trying to hold on to its original Twitter trademarks, TechCrunch reports. The xAI-owned social media platform has updated its terms of service to include references to Twitter after previously only mentioning X, and seemingly attempted to counter a startup's petition to cancel the company's Twitter trademarks with a p... View Source

New measurements demonstrate that smoke particles in the upper atmosphere are twice the size of lower-altitude ones... View Source

Alexa Plus now has a new home on the web. The Alexa.com website appears to be live for some users. The browser-based home for Alexa Plus, the company's revamped digital voice assistant, was first announced at the Alexa Plus launch event in February. But until recently, Alexa.com redirected to an information page. Now, some users, myself included, are seeing a new Alexa Plus web interface. Today, w... View Source

Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving unit, is in discussions to raise more than $15 billion at a valuation near $100 billion, in a round led by its parent company... View Source

Netflix has inked a deal with iHeartMedia to begin showing video podcasts, so the content will never, ever run out. The partnership covers new episodes from more than 15 popular podcasts, including The Breakfast Club, Dear Chelsea, My Favorite Murder and others. Customers will have access to video podcast episodes in early 2026.  In addition to new footage, the partnership includes a select l... View Source

Law offices of Robert D Perry reports 398 NHTSA reported Waymo involved accidents in the first half of 2025. Waymo was only allowing employees to drive or ride with Waymo on highways until a few weeks ago. Waymo has had 50 million miles up to end of 2024 and about 100 million miles in 2025. ... Read more... View Source

X Corp. is suing Operation Bluebird, a recently-announced startup that aims to reclaim the Twitter brand for a new social network. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the Elon Musk-owned company alleges Operation Bluebird is "brazenly attempting to steal" Twitter's trademarks, claiming "Twitter never left and continues to be exclusively owned by X Corp." Last week, Operation Bluebird filed a petition a... View Source

China will have another major chip debut on Wednesday, eagerly watched by stock-market investors after the stellar gains by its peer Moore Threads Technology Co. earlier this month... View Source

If you're looking for something to watch during a holiday break from work or school, you can't go wrong with anime, and right now you can sign-up for a year of Crunchyroll for as low as $65. Holiday discounts running through December 29 bring the anime streaming service's year-long Fan subscription from $80 down to $67 and its Mega Fan subscription from $120 down to $100. That'... View Source

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoA time-lapse video recorded at JPL in October shows engineers and technicians moving and attaching a full-scale model of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander on top of two lunar orbiters. The full stack w... View Source

Flag illustration representing the European Union The Office of the US Trade Representative posted on X Tuesday, claiming that US service providers have been hit by "a continuing course of discriminatory and harassing lawsuits, taxes, fines, and directives" from the EU. Earlier this month, X was fined $140 million under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), in addition to new laws, fines, and inves... View Source

"Bloomberg Markets" follows the market moves across every global asset class and discusses the biggest issues for Wall Street. Today's guests: University of Michigan Professor of Economics and Public Policy Betsey Stevenson, Visa Head of Crypto Cuy Sheffield and Unison Advisors Founder and Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Nir Kaissar. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The New York Times is getting in on the year-end roundup bandwagon. The publication's new Year in Games wraps up stats about which of its daily puzzles and brain-teasers readers played over the course of 2025. People can get their own personalized reports, or just look over the community stats for the Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee and Strands games. The Year in Games reviews are available... View Source

2 Min Read NASA Launches Research Program for Students to Explore Big Ideas NASA is now accepting concepts for a new research challenge. The Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology (ORBIT) challenge is a multi-phase innovation competition designed to empower university and college students to develop next-generation solutions that benefit life on Earth and deep-space explor... View Source

On December 9th, Rolling Stone published a story that some saw as a bombshell: a network of coordinated, "inauthentic" social media accounts had a hand in the weekslong discourse that trailed the release of Taylor Swift's recent album, The Life of a Showgirl. It was a big deal for those in the Swiftie/anti-Swiftie universe. Immediately following the record's release in October, discussion of Showg... View Source

Carol Schleif, chief market strategist at BMO Private Wealth, says investors are being discerning by putting money into both the public and private side of the AI trade. She joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

As part of its last Xbox-focused software update of the year, Microsoft is improving the Bluetooth performance of the Xbox Wireless Headset to make it work even better with Windows 11. Microsoft released the latest Wireless Headset as an accessory for Xbox Series X/S and PC, but as of this update, Xbox Wireless Headset owners on Windows will now have a leg up on their console counterparts thanks t... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Two composite images show side-by-side observations of the Perseus Cluster from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer) and Chandra X-ray Observatory. Scientists used data from both observatories, along with data from Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, to confirm... View Source

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured solar material looping back to the sun, revealing how it recycles magnetic energy and shapes future solar storms... View Source

Months after staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency were found in the Federal Communications Commission directory, the FCC is being accused of slow-walking demands for information about what they did there. On February 24th, advocacy group Frequency Forward and journalist Nina Burleigh filed a public records request to the FCC, seeking details about DOGE's activities and whether the... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. is planning to reject Paramount Skydance Corp.’s hostile takeover bid due to concerns about financing and other terms, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

‘Tis the season for gift-giving, family feasts and companies turning their harvested user data into lighthearted recaps. Valve's take on the year-end rewind, Steam Replay, is now available. It follows similar offerings from Spotify, Apple Music, PlayStation and, increasingly, just about every service you use. Hell, even Uber and The New York Times somehow justified getting in on the action th... View Source

After 25 years of continuous human presence in space, the International Space Station remains a training and proving ground for deep space missions, enabling NASA to focus on Artemis missions to the Moon and Mars. The orbiting laboratory is also a living archive of human experience, culture, and connection.   Creating community Expedition 34 crew members pictured in the Unity node of the... View Source

Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor star in Universal Pictures' eerie alien invasion project coming next summer... View Source

Google wants you to start your day with AI. Google's AI, to be specific, which is why the company is launching an experimental agent to comb through your emails, calendar, and documents to deliver a briefing to your inbox every morning. The new feature, called CC, delivers a daily "Your Day Ahead" briefing to your inbox each morning. The personalized briefing - which Google describes as "one clear... View Source

Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, discusses the State Department’s Pax Silica Summit and how the country is working with allies to secure access to critical minerals, semiconductors, and AI infrastructure. Helberg, also the founder of the Hill and Valley Forum, speaks with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Behold: Ken Paxton will now demonstrate that broken clocks are indeed right twice a day. The Texas Attorney General is notorious for, well, a very long list of reasons. But in this case, he at least appears to be doing consumers a solid: He sued five television companies for using ad-targeting spyware on their TVs.Texas sued Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense and TCL for allegedly recording what viewers w... View Source

2 min read How Small Is Too Small? Volunteers Help NASA Test Lake Monitoring From Space Jen Oden, Snohomish County Water Quality Specialist, and Megan Lane, LOCSS team member, report a lake height measurement at Flowing Lake, Snohomish County, Washington. Visit locss.org to contact the team or to get involved! Grant Parkins, 2018 Volunteers participating in the Lake Observations by Citizen Scienti... View Source

A screenshot from Divinity’s reveal trailer. The CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 studio Larian has inadvertently stirred up some controversy over the use of AI in the developer's next game. Based on an interview with Larian CEO Swen Vincke, Bloomberg reported that the studio uses AI tools for things like developing concept art and writing placeholder text. But following some initial backlash, Vincke later... View Source

European investigators are probing whether Russian military hackers breached computer systems on a vessel owned by MSC-Mediterranean Shipping Company SA, the world’s largest container shipping group, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Google's at it again, once more insisting that AI is something people need or want more of in their lives. The latest move comes from YouTube Gaming, which announced an open beta for a project called Playables Builder. This allows select YouTube Creators to use a "prototype web app built using Gemini 3" to make bite-sized games, no coding required. YouTube is launching a closed... View Source

Artemis II NASA astronauts (left to right) Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen stand in the white room on the crew access arm of the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as part of an integrated ground systems test at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 20, 2023. Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux With a second Trump... View Source

Is Elon Musk insane? Will a bet of over $200 billion go up in flames ? There are people who are saying that his plans will never work. Who is right ?... View Source

Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corp., during an executive order signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. Media is a business about dreams, and Larry Ellison's son is dreaming big. This might explain why the case for Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros. Discovery is so incoherent. In October, Warner Bros. pu... View Source

Bloomberg's Kurt Wagner discuses why Instagram is launching a new TV app and why TikTok's e-commerce efforts in the US have finally started to gain traction. The app is now letting creators host live shopping experiences on the platform. Wagner joins Caroline Hyde on "Blomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Back in September during Meta Connect, the company previewed a new ability for its smart glasses lineup called Conversation Focus. The feature, which is able to amplify the voices of people around you, is now starting to roll out in the company's latest batch of software updates.When enabled, the feature is meant to make it easier to hear the people you're speaking with in a crowded or o... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, Expedition 40 commander, holds the Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station. (30 June 2014) NASA The JSC toxicologists establish guidelines for safe and acceptable levels of individual chemical contaminants in spacecraft air (SMACs) an... View Source

NASA still hasn't heard from its MAVEN Mars orbiter, and the spacecraft appears to be spinning in an odd way as well... View Source

Hollyland, a company best known for affordable wireless microphones that are popular with creators, has announced its first webcam, the small 4K Lyra. While it lacks advanced features like the Insta360 Link's tracking gimbal, it's one of the first webcams we've seen that's designed to improve how you sound by connecting directly to one of Hollyland's wireless lav mics. The Lyra features a built-in... View Source

The Trump administration singled out prominent European companies as possible targets for new restrictions or fees as it threatened to retaliate against the European Union in response to efforts to tax American tech companies. Tyler Kendall reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

No matter what you think of James Cameron's Avatar movies, their technical ambitions are undeniable. Cameron developed his own camera system to shoot the first Avatar in 3D, but since most of the actors were digitally captured, he also had the freedom to construct scenes with a virtual camera after they were physically shot. For Avatar: The Way of Water, which arrived a whopping 13 years... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Microbiology Laboratory at JSC NASA. Microorganisms and Spaceflight Spaceflight poses a risk of adverse health effects due to the interactions between microorganisms, their hosts, and their environment. The JSC Microbiology team addresses the benefits and risks related to microorganisms, including infectious disease, al... View Source

The ash plume disrupted flights as far away as India... View Source

If you’re shopping for a book lover, it’s hard to beat a Kindle, especially if your giftee already owns a library of Kindle books. Amazon’s latest sale makes them even easier to recommend: the last-gen Kindle Scribe with 32GB of storage and ads is matching its best price to date starting at $279.99 ($140 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. Meanwhile, the ad-supported versions of the Kindle (Amazon, Best... View Source

The Trump administration threatened retaliation against the European Union in response to efforts to tax American tech companies, singling out prominent companies, including Accenture Plc, Siemens AG and Spotify Technology SA, as possible targets for new restrictions or fees... View Source

Following the release of GPT-5.2 last week, OpenAI has begun rolling out a new image generation model. The company says the updated ChatGPT Images is four times faster than its predecessor. If you're a frequent ChatGPT user, you'll know it can sometimes take a while for OpenAI's servers to create images, particularly during peak times and if you're not paying for ChatGPT Plus... View Source

By Amit Angal, Senior Engineer at Goddard Space Flight Center The Landsat Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) group helps uphold Landsat’s reputation as the gold standard of satellite imagery. They ensure that the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) aboard Landsats 8 and 9 provide high-quality scientific measurements to users around the world. In 2025, the Cal/Val... View Source

Angry Astronaut is arguing only about some mission timelines and only about getting first footsteps onto Mars. He is asking all the wrong questions. How would making trillions of dollars in profits every year in SpaceX and profitably scaling up Starships to thousands of flights per year and how would building up 100X on the ... Read more... View Source

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket is poised to launch a pair of Galileo satellites just after midnight on Wednesday (Dec. 17), adding to the continent's geopositioning constellation... View Source

OpenAI is overhauling its image generator with a new model and redesigned interface. On Tuesday, the company announced its "new flagship image generation model," GPT Image 1.5, which it said has a better ability to follow instructions, edit photos in specific ways, and generate results up to four times more quickly. It's available today to all users. The new model will be able to better "match you... View Source

JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty says the company expects to see the benefits in sales and cost efforts next year. Speaking exclusively to Bloomberg TV's Lisa Abramowicz inside the new JetBlue lounge at JFK airport, Geraghty says JetBlue has a lot of bookings coming in for the holiday season and the goal for 2026 is to break even on operating margin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The long-awaited Rainbow Six Mobile comes out on February 23 for iOS and Android devices. This is a global release and follows years of testing and some significant delays. This is basically a smartphone version of the popular tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege. It was "developed exclusively" for mobile devices and features a trio of 5v5 multiplayer modes. There's a team deathmatch,... View Source

NASA/Jonny Kim Clockwise from left, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and NASA astronauts Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, and Mike Fincke pose for a playful portrait through a circular opening in a hatch thermal cover aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 18, 2025. The cover provides micrometeoroid and orbital debris protection while maintaining cleanliness and pres... View Source

A Japanese H3 rocket will launch the Michibiki 5 navigation satellite to orbit tonight (Dec. 16), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Sucker Punch Productions, the PlayStation studio behind games like Ghost of Yōtei and the Infamous and Sly Cooper series, will be headed up by Jason Connell and Adrian Bentley starting January 1st, Sony announced on Tuesday. Studio co-founder Brian Fleming is stepping down and will be "passing Sucker Punch studio leadership on to a new generation." Connell recently served as co-creative direc... View Source

DoorDash Inc. is experimenting with a standalone artificial intelligence-powered app for users to find new restaurants, expanding its reach beyond its flagship food-delivery service... View Source

Have you ever just wished you could watch Instagram Reels right on a TV? Maybe? Well, if so, you're in luck. Meta has launched an Instagram app exclusively on Fire TV. It will be solely for "short-form video content," so Reels. TikTok launched an app on Fire TV in 2020 before rolling it out to other platforms.  Instagram and Fire TV users can download the former through Amazon... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Statistics and Data Science Enabling Successful Research A major aim of biomedical research at NASA is to acquire data to evaluate, understand, and assess the biomedical hazards of spaceflight and to develop effective countermeasures. Data Science (S&DS) personnel provide statistical support to groups within the NAS... View Source

The first trailer for Steven Spielberg's upcoming film Disclosure Day is here, and it will leave you with more questions than answers about what exactly is going on. There is no denying that something strange is happening to a Kansas City newscaster (Emily Blunt) who goes into a strange trance on-air in Disclosure Day's new trailer. The odd clicks coming out of her mouth sound inhuman and leave ev... View Source

Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch, who has speculated about a connection between Covid vaccines and “turbo cancer” and promoted ivermectin, says he'll chair the President's Cancer Panel... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram unveiled its first dedicated TV app, which lets users watch the short-form video feature Reels on a larger screen... View Source

The company which popularized robot vacuum cleaners around the world has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. iRobot, makers of the Roomba, has been synonymous with the category since its inception, but its star had dulled in recent years. The company plans to sell its assets to its primary supplier, China’s Picea Robotics, in the hope of maintaining its business.Everyone’s got a strident opinion as t... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) An environmental chemist at NASA JSCNASA Ensuring Astronaut Safety Achieving safe exploration of space in vehicles that rely upon closed environmental systems to recycle air and water to sustain life and are operated in extremely remote locations is a major challenge. The Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry (TEC) gro... View Source

The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it was hovering over Bethlehem when Jesus was said to have been born... View Source

Over four decades after its launch, the Quickshot II is back. | Image: Retro Games Retro Games, a company known for its upgraded revivals of iconic '80s and '90s era computers, including the Commodore 64 and Amiga, has announced that it's bringing back another accessory from the same era. If you grew up gaming before the NES hit the US, you were probably using (or drooling over) the Quickshot II... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is partnering with a JPMorgan Chase & Co.-backed startup to provide financing for small online businesses, many of which need immediate capital to replenish depleted holiday inventories... View Source

The zombie-decapitating sim Dead Island 3 is still being developed, according to financial documents from Dambuster Studios that were published on X and reported on by Video Games Chronicle. These documents suggest a 2028 release date, so that's something to look forward to. Dambuster Studios' financial statements are out (as of March 2025)The company employed 194 employeesDead Island 3... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This view of a region called Syrtis Major is from the 100,000th image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera. Over nearly 20 years, HiRISE has helped scientists understand how the Red Planet’s surface is constantly changing. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Mesas and dunes stand out... View Source

Okey Dokey! Prime Video's post apocalyptic adventure heads for New Vegas starting tonight!... View Source

Here's a list of things you can bet on, right this second. This year's Super Bowl winner, sure. The winner of Survivor season 49, okay. But the number of gifts Santa will deliver this year? The number of tweets Elon Musk will send in the next 7 days? How much money Avatar: Fire and Ash will make at the box office? The next president of of Portugal? On Polymarket and Kalshi, if you can dream it up,... View Source

Perplexity AI Inc. is relaunching its iPad app with features that include improved multitasking and an emphasis on research tools, part of a larger effort by the artificial intelligence search startup to court business customers... View Source

Amazon is set to fire 370 people at its European headquarters in Luxembourg in the coming weeks, as Bloomberg reports. That accounts for about 8.5 percent of the workforce. Amazon initially planned to reduce its headcount there by 470, but under European Union law, companies have to negotiate layoffs with employee reps and, in some cases, governments.Amazon reportedly told employees at the Europea... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA Immunology and Virology LabNASA Does Spaceflight Alter the Human Immune System? Getting sick on Earth is nothing to sneeze at, but for astronauts on deep space exploration missions, the risk for contracting diseases may be elevated due to altered immunity. The Human Health and Performance Directorate’s Immuno... View Source

Stuck for a small gift for a skywatcher? From compact binoculars to power banks and SD cards, we've rounded up the ideal sub-$100 stocking stuffers... View Source

Texas is suing five of the biggest TV makers, accusing them of "secretly recording what consumers watch in their own homes." In separate lawsuits filed on Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims the TVs made by Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL are part of a "mass surveillance system" that uses Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to collect personal data used for targeted advertising... View Source

Emerging-market currencies were jolted Tuesday by the latest US job report that showed the labor market remains weak, with the Mexican peso and the South African rand — two bellwethers of risk appetite — briefly spiking higher... View Source

If you're still debating what gifts to get the important people in your life, sales can be a good starting point. Take Apple's 2024 Mac mini M4, which is down to $479, from $599. The 20 percent discount brings the device back down to its all-time low price seen over Black Friday.  Apple released the Mac mini M4 in late 2024 and we were impressed with how something so small could be... View Source

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"This was an absolute surprise. It's extremely different from what we expected."... View Source

In the almost 20 years since James Cameron first introduced us to the alien world of Pandora, 20th Century Studios has repeatedly tried to parlay the Avatar films' financial success into a sprawling multimedia franchise. Almost immediately after the first movie hit theaters, there was a video game, plans for a book series that never came to fruition, and announcements for multiple big screen seque... View Source

Mozilla Corp. elevated the head of its Firefox web browser to chief executive officer of the company, which is trying to position itself as an independent, privacy-focused alternative to Big Tech options... View Source

PayPal is the latest company looking to become a bank in the US. On Monday, the company announced it had submitted applications for PayPal Bank to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Utah Department of Financial Institutions (UDFI). PayPal is already a bank in Europe, based in Luxembourg.  According to PayPal, it has provided "over $30 billion in loans and working ca... View Source

The most impressive thing about Fallout's first season was how well it nailed the tone. The games are a mix of grim and goofy, a postapocalyptic story in a bleak world that's also full of crude jokes and ridiculous characters. It's a tough balance to get right - too serious and it's a miserable place to be; too silly and it renders the whole thing meaningless - but the Amazon Prime Video series st... View Source

‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says... View Source

The follow-up to a successful debut is often harder to make than the first, and that goes double when the inspiration for a show comes from the most beloved installment of the underlying franchise. That's precisely the challenge Fallout season 2 is facing as the TV series shifts its stage to the irradiated lights of New Vegas when the series returns on December 16 at 9PM ET/6PM PT on Prime Vi... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Sentinel-6B and Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich captured data on Nov. 26 of sea levels across a vast stretch of the Atlantic. Within the crisscrossing bands, red indicates higher water relative to the long-term average; blue indicates lower water. The tracks are layered atop the combined observations of other sea-level sate... View Source

Amazon and Bethesda return to the Wasteland with a second Fallout season that's all about New Vegas and not letting businessmen and fanatics run the world... View Source

I never felt done with my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. Despite playing every day for two years, and racking up 1,700 hours of playtime, I somehow never finished decorating. I had plenty of ideas for my island, sure, but actually implementing them was another story: The decorating and terraforming systems that helped make New Horizons a huge success are also slow, manual, and cumbersome, a... View Source

Technology dealmakers are just beginning a supercharged period of mergers and acquisitions activity after racking up a record run this year, according to a senior Morgan Stanley banker... View Source

China has taken another step forward in the self-driving car market. The country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has made its first approval for cars with level-3 autonomous driving capabilities. The two electric sedans come from state-owned automakers Changan Auto and BAIC Motor. The US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) defines level-3 dri... View Source

Think you know your Dyson spheres from your dark blobs? This cosmic crossword dives into the strangest, most mind-bending structures ever spotted — or imagined — in the universe... View Source

An aerial view of a 33 megawatt data center (LOWER L) with closed-loop cooling system, amid warehouses on October 20, 2025 in Vernon, California. | Image: Mario Tama/Getty Images In the span of a decade and a half, from 2010 to the end of 2024, the number of data centers in the US quadrupled. The trend is similar worldwide: more data centers, bigger, now or soon. The number of the construction pro... View Source

Databricks is raising over $4 billion in a new funding round that would value the private software firm at $134 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an interview with the company’s chief executive... View Source

The definitive version of Divinity: Original Sin 2, the sequel to Original Sin first released back in 2017, is now available for the PS5, Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox X|S. The role-playing game was developed by Larian Studios, the same company that developed Baldur’s Gate 3. To be clear, the game’s new release isn’t a remake or even a remaster — it’s just a port for new consoles so that old and new... View Source

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As anxiety over an artificial-intelligence bubble reached a fever pitch in recent months, no Wall Street bank helped the industry power past the noise like Morgan Stanley... View Source

One of 2025's splashiest games, Hollow Knight: Silksong, is getting its first major DLC expansion, developer Team Cherry announced in a blog post. The nautically-themed Sea of Sorrow update will come to the moody Metroidvania some time in 2026, and better still, it will be free for all players.  The DLC will include "new areas, bosses, tools and more," the developer wrote. Ther... View Source

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Brody Ford and Drake Bennett report on Larry Ellison’s bet to return Oracle to the forefront of the tech world... View Source

iRobot, the company that brought robotic vacuum cleaners to homes and popular culture, has filed for bankruptcy. It plans to sell all assets to its primary supplier, the Chinese company Picea Robotics. Investors “will experience a total loss and not receive recovery on their investment” if the deal is approved, iRobot said. The company didn’t discuss how the move might affect its employees in the... View Source

Ed Murray has been in the solar business long enough to remember the bloodbath of 1985. That's when President Ronald Reagan ended Jimmy Carter-era solar tax credits meant to decrease US reliance on fossil fuels following the 1970s oil crisis. "It was a sad time," says Murray, who is president of the trade group California Solar & Storage Association. Membership to the organization (which hadn'... View Source

Gene editing has the potential to cure thousands of people suffering from devastating rare diseases. But the Nobel Prize-winning technology faces a basic math problem: It’s not profitable to spend millions of dollars making a drug that may only treat one person... View Source

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe" is for dark matter... View Source

Last Energy Inc., a nuclear startup, raised $100 million from investors led by Astera Institute to commercialize a small reactor it’s developing as soaring demand for power to run artificial intelligence stokes interest in the industry... View Source

EcoFlow Technology Inc. is considering an initial public offering in the US, according to people familiar with the portable battery maker’s plans, marking a rare move for a Chinese company of that size... View Source

Kim Kardashian logged onto TikTok earlier this month and did something new: Tried to sell pajamas, slippers and matching sweat sets like the host of an old-fashioned TV infomercial... View Source

The surge in artificial intelligence investment that has buoyed world growth is set to continue and deliver longer-term gains, OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann said. “We do expect that the level of investment in relation to AI will continue to increase for some time,” Cormann said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “Over the medium-to-long term we do expect a significant beneficial i... View Source

Russia is aiming for the damaged Baikonur Cosmodrome launchpad, its only site capable of sending crewed rockets to space, to be operational again by late February as restoration work intensifies... View Source

Grocery delivery firm Zepto Ltd. is preparing to file for an initial public offering of about $500 million in Mumbai as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, as competition hots up in India’s quick-commerce market... View Source

As Europe rearms, the US weapons maker is trying to break through in the UK by co-funding major programs, cutting manufacturing deals, and billing itself as an ‘Anglo-American’ company... View Source

Global smartphone shipments may decline 2.1% next year as a shortage of memory chips drives up costs and squeezes production, according to industry tracker Counterpoint Research... View Source

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The production ready Tesla Cybercab with no steering wheel or pedals will start production in about 4 months. This shows that the updates to Tesla FSD are ready. Building billions of dollars of cybercab that can only be for unsupervised robotaxi driving... View Source

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a million years."... View Source

30% savings on the Canon 18x50 IS UD all-weather binoculars are great for stable stargazing at a high magnification. They are at their cheapest price ahead of the Christmas holidays in this deal from Amazon, for only $11... View Source

The interstellar comet will pass safely by Earth, giving astronomers their best chance to study it up close... View Source

Tesla Inc. shares extended a rally climbing as much as 4.9% Monday and are on pace to close at an all-time high for the first time since December 2024, defying growing concerns about the company’s soaring valuation... View Source

With the Fallout TV show venturing back out into the Wasteland, what better time to rank every Fallout game from worst to best?... View Source

TikTok, Instagram and other major social media platforms will automatically come under Malaysia’s laws starting Jan. 1, part of a government push to shield children from online harms and strengthen platform accountability... View Source

Google will stop sending out dark web reports starting early next year, as it shuts down the free tool that can tell you if your personal information has appeared on the seedy underbelly of the internet. The tool used to be exclusively available to Google One subscribers until the company opened it up to everyone in mid-2024. If you switch it on, you’ll receive a notification whenever your name, e... View Source

New York officials have told rideshare companies, driver representatives and others in the for-hire vehicle industry that insurance policy rates will rise by an average 25% over the next three years, according to people with knowledge of the state’s plans, likely sending passenger fares up as a result... View Source

Natalie Gallagher, principal economist and director at the AI-powered enterprise planning platform Board, says the AI boom has been backed by real capital and spending that has served as an anchor for the broader economy. She joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

For years all the Tesla haters would talk about how EV competition was coming for Tesla. Now Ford is cancelling the F-150 Lightning and it will be replaced with an extended range hybrid. Ford CEO Jim Farley: “Instead of plowing billions into the future knowing these large EVs will never make money, we are pivoting.” ... Read more... View Source

In what is sure to be the beginning of a slew of announcements, LG has confirmed it is releasing its first flagship RGB TV in 2026. It wasn't a huge secret, considering "a premium LCD TV with Micro RGB technology" won a CES 2026 Innovation Award in November. But it's now certain that the LG Micro RGB evo TV will be released in 2026 in 100-, 86-, and 75-inch sizes, with US pricing to be announced a... View Source

Hiba Anver, a partner at Erickson Immigration Group, says a lawsuit brought by a group of states against the Trump administration over its new $100,000 H-1B visa fee has the strongest case among the suits filed so far. She joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

LG is getting in on one of the newest trends for televisions with the introduction of Micro RGB. The company will unveil the LG Micro RGB evo at CES 2026, but it shared some preliminary information about the screen today. Micro RGB is a newer screen technology where rather than white lights, the backlight can be any hue thanks to individually controlled red, green and blue Micro LEDs, offering a w... View Source

It's still hard to believe that Hollow Knight: Silksong actually came out this year, but now, we all have a new thing to wait for: the game is getting a free expansion in 2026, titled Sea of Sorrow. Team Cherry calls it the game's "first big expansion." "New areas, bosses, tools, and more!" Team Cherry says in a blog post. "Hornet's adventures continue in our nautically themed expansion, coming fr... View Source

OpenAI is getting access to Disney’s kingdom without cutting a check... View Source

Microsoft made a big punt this year with Copilot. The company put its AI chatbot into a special line of laptops and has also tried to integrate it into other tech products. The latest place you may find Copilot is on your LG smart television, whether you want it or not. Several LG smart TV owners have taken to Reddit over the past few days to complain that they suddenly have a Copilot app on the d... View Source

The U.S. Space Force unveiled the new naming scheme that it will use for its spacecraft and space-based weaponry, drawing inspiration from mythology and the natural world... View Source

Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Katie Greifeld, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A Louisiana law that would have required social media platforms to verify the ages of their users has been blocked by a judge. The law, known as the Secure Online Child Interaction and Age Limitation, was passed in 2023 and required Meta, Reddit, Snap, YouTube Discord and others to implement age verification and parental control features.The ruling came just days before the law, which technically... View Source

Intel Corp. named Robin Colwell as senior vice president of government affairs, enlisting a Trump administration official to oversee the chipmaker’s relationship with policymakers and regulators... View Source

Using high-resolution observations from the GHGSat satellite constellation, researchers have produced the first global, facility-level estimate of methane emissions from the energy sector... View Source

Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood SVP and General Manager of Crypto, discusses the company’s crypto plans and new tools for advanced traders. He tells Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close" that Robinhood plans to expand crypto features, including allowing users to manually add cost basis for crypto deposits, with a strong focus on serving advanced traders. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

On Monday, nearly two dozen states, plus the District of Columbia, filed an amended complaint in the FTC's lawsuit against Uber. According to the lawsuit, Uber charged consumers for the Uber One subscription without their consent, billed them before the end of a free trial, and shared misleading claims about how much consumers can save with the subscription. Uber One subscribers were allegedly for... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses AI anxiety bubbling during the last full trading week of 2025. Plus, ServiceNow closes in on a deal to buy cybersecurity startup Armis for as much as $7 billion, while Intel eyes AI startup SambaNova Systems. And shares of Italian football club Juventus jump after a bid from stablecoin firm Tether is rejected. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Roomba is way past code red. For many, iRobot's Roomba robot vacuum was their first experience with a home robot. When I got my Roomba in 2005, I felt like I was a step closer to my dream of living in a Jetsons-style home where a robot did my chores for me. It was expensive, around $300 for a small black disc on wheels that sucked up dirt, but its promise to do one of my most-hated chores while I... View Source

Today on the Big Take: All year, the jobs market, consumer sentiment, AI and inflation flashed economic warning signs — what does this mean for 2026?... View Source

Just last month, Ford seemed to be on the brink of sunsetting the F-150 Lightning. Today, the vehicle manufacturer announced plans to reboot the truck as a hybrid. This next generation of the F-150 Lightning will contain Extended Range Electric Vehicle. An EREV is similar in concept to a plug-in hybrid but with a larger battery that's topped up by a gas generator — the powertrain itself is all ele... View Source

Now it will be easier for Android users to watch Apple TV content on their TV with the addition of Google Cast support. However, even after this update, Google Cast is only an option on the Android version of Apple TV, not the iOS version. Likewise, the Android version still doesn't support AirPlay. The addition of Google Cast adds a core feature that's been missing from the Android version of App... View Source

Jared Kushner’s private equity firm, Affinity Partners, dropped its plans for a hotel in Serbia, after tensions around the project culminated in the indictment of a government official who helped clear a path for its development... View Source

Meta revealed that Disney+ was coming to its Quest headsets earlier this year during its Connect event. Now, the streaming app and its vast catalog are finally available to Meta's VR users in the United States.Meta recently overhauled the Quest's entertainment experience with a new Horizon TV hub that brings its streaming features into one place. Horizon TV also added support for Dolby V... View Source

Chai Discovery, an AI drug-discovery startup, raises a $130 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation, with plans to build a “computer-aided design suite” for molecules. Chai Discovery co-founder Joshua Meier and investor Elena Viboch, managing director at General Catalyst, join Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple TV is adding Google Cast support to its native Android app. This update allows subscribers to stream Apple TV shows from their smartphones to their televisions. Apple's streaming service only just released the dedicated app for the Android operating system in February 2025. Adding in Google Cast support helps fully integrate the app into the experience for people whose gear is part of t... View Source

Ford announced a series of changes to its gas- and electric-powered vehicle business aimed at dramatically increasing hybrid vehicle production in the face of slowing EV sales. The automaker also will introduce some new products as part of this plan, including an extended-range EV version of its F-series truck and battery storage systems to meet growing demand from AI data center construction. The... View Source

Prediction markets companies are likely to see their revenues grow by a factor of five to more than $10 billion by 2030, according to analysts at Citizens Financial Group Inc... View Source

In an era where we often have to twiddle our thumbs for three years before a new season of a TV show we enjoy returns to our screens, the second season of Fallout has had a relatively short turnaround. It's set to hit Prime Video 20 months after the first batch of episodes. As it turns out, the season two premiere is going to arrive a little earlier than you may have anticipated as well... View Source

Sony’s annual PlayStation sale has been going on for nearly a month now, offering discounts on everything from the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition and PlayStation Portal to Sony’s standard DualSense controller. However, the end of the sale is quickly approaching, with Sony’s website showing that some deals are set to expire as soon as Friday, December 19th, while others have a little more runway thr... View Source

"Bloomberg Markets" follows the market moves across every global asset class and discusses the biggest issues for Wall Street. Today's guests: BoFA Securities Head of Agency MBS Research, Bloomberg's Ryan Gould, Brooke Sutherland and Zeke Faux. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bungie’s Marathon has a new release window. The survival extraction shooter was originally set to hit PlayStation 5 and PC in September, but by June, Sony had delayed it indefinitely. Now, with a plagiarism issue largely in the rearview mirror, Bungie has confirmed that Marathon will arrive in March and and plans to sell it for $40. Alongside the release date and price announcement, Bungie release... View Source

The second season of Fallout is debuting one day earlier than previously announced: the new season will now launch on Tuesday, December 16th at 9PM ET / 6PM PT on Prime Video, Amazon says. The season will have eight episodes that will premiere weekly on Wednesdays (besides this first episode), with the season finale airing on February 4th, 2026. "The new season of Fallout will pick up in the after... View Source

Oracle Corp.’s aggressive artificial intelligence spending plan has put the cloud computing giant’s corporate bonds under a harsh spotlight as Wall Street searches for cracks in the AI boom... View Source

Notice ID: M2M-MSFC-0001 December 15, 2025 – Synopsis Released NAICS Codes: 541715 – Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) NASA seeks industry-led architecture concept development, concept refinement studies, and risk-reduction activities that address Moon to Mars Architecture gaps through the Next Space Technologie... View Source

Luminar, the lidar manufacturer that rode a wave of self-driving car hype to land deals with major automakers like Volvo and Mercedes-Benz, filed for bankruptcy Monday. The company has been mired in a legal fight with its founder and former CEO, Austin Russell, who was ousted earlier this year following an ethics inquiry. As part of its bankruptcy, Luminar is seeking permission to sell both its li... View Source

ServiceNow is said to be in advanced talks to buy the cybersecurity startup Armis in a deal that may be valued at as much as $7 billion. Bloomberg's Ryan Gould talks about the story on "Bloomberg Markets" with Scarlet Fu. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

President Donald Trump will recruit workers from Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other tech giants to form the US Tech Force, a new program that aims to "modernize the federal government," according to an announcement on Monday. Under the new program, Trump plans to hire around 1,000 technology specialists to work across federal agencies for an up to two-year period. Workers can then p... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s asset management arm is launching its first ever tokenized money market fund built on Ethereum, joining a growing list of Wall Street firms pushing into blockchain-based finance... View Source

Ubisoft is moving deeper into MOBAs after buying March of Giants from Amazon and acquiring the team that made the game. As part of the agreement, Amazon will help promote March of Giants on Twitch. The deal is expected to close on December 16There’s no release date as yet for March of Giants. Amazon announced the free-to-play game back in August and there was a closed alpha playtest the following... View Source

Bungie's Marathon, its upcoming extraction shooter that it delayed from a planned September release, will now launch in March 2026. The studio is "targeting" a price of $39.99, and "purchasing Marathon will give you full access to the game, including a roadmap of free gameplay updates as the year progresses," according to a blog post. Bungie delayed Marathon in June after alpha test feedback, and... View Source

Some lenders to CommScope Holding Co. are demanding an immediate repayment of their loans and more than $100 million of additional payout after the company sold its key asset... View Source

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence." We've seen an absolute deluge of AI slop this year, from fake movie trailers on YouTube to AI-generated bands on Spotify. Not even fo... View Source

General Motors is adding native Apple Music to the infotainment systems of select 2025 model year Cadillac and Chevrolet vehicles, the company announced today. The news comes as the automaker is racing to add more native app experiences to some of its vehicles to make up for the absence of popular phone mirroring services like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Apple Music will arrive in 2025 or newe... View Source

One of the hottest corners of the US stock market, chipmakers, meets the definition of a bubble as measured by professors at Harvard Business School... View Source

NASA A camera on the International Space Station captured this Oct. 2, 2025, photo of the Bassac River in Cù Lao Dung, a river islet district in southern Vietnam. The Bassac River surrounds the district before emptying into the South China Sea. The river’s brown waters at its mouth result from massive amounts of silt, clay, and organic matter carried from upstream regions of the Mekong River Basin... View Source

Google notified users in an email today that, beginning next month, it will stop sending its dark web reports, an opt-in feature that alerted users when Google detected their personal information on the dark web, as reported by 9to5Google. On January 15th, Google will stop scanning for that data, like contact info and home addresses, and any data it collected so far will no longer be available to... View Source

Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested and charged with the murder of his parents, the Hollywood director and actor Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner... View Source

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that there are as many as two trillion galaxies in the observable universe. At first glance, these galaxies might appear to be randomly scattered across space, but they’re not. Careful mapping has shown that they are distributed across t... View Source

After years of false promises and missed deadlines, several Tesla vehicles have been spotted over the weekend driving autonomously without safety monitors on public roads in Austin. For months, Tesla's robotaxis in Austin and San Francisco have included safety monitors with access to a kill switch in case of emergency - a fallback that Waymo currently doesn't need for its commercial robotaxi servi... View Source

Every other week, it seems, a new Chinese launch company pops up with a rocket design and a plan to reach orbit within a few years. For a long time, the majority of these companies revealed designs that looked a lot like SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. The first of these copy cats, the medium-lift Zhuque-3 rocket built by LandSpace, launched earlier this month. Its primary mission was nominal, but the Z... View Source

Luminar Technologies Inc, which manufactures laser-based sensors for cars, filed for bankruptcy shortly after it lost a contract with Swedish carmaker Volvo AB... View Source

There's a growing sentiment that gadgets have gotten boring. And while I don't fully agree, I understand why people might feel that way. Just think about some of the novel device types that companies have tried to push since the original iPhone came out. 3D TVs were a massive flop and tablets still feel like extra-large smartphones despite Apple's efforts to prop them up as lap... View Source

Scientists have created the first detailed maps of the sun's atmospheric boundary, where solar material breaks free and streams into space... View Source

Merriam-Webster has settled on a word that represents 2025 - and that word is "slop." The dictionary-maker defines "slop" as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence," something that many people have become familiar with as AI-generated content permeates the internet. This year, some of the most popular sites on the web took steps to... View Source

The Canadian government will provide up to C$92 million ($66.8 million) in funding to help quantum computing firms to scale up and remain in the country, as competition with the US in the emerging field heats up... View Source

My boyfriend texted me those dreaded four words: "Is your Spotify down?" Sure enough his, mine and thousands of other users' Spotify accounts appear to be down and out at the moment, with Downdetector recording over 10,000 reports from users. Spotify is apparently working on the problem. The account, Spotify Status, shared an update on X at 9:45 AM on Monday, "We’re aware... View Source

Earlier this month, the GNOME Shell Extensions store updated its review guidelines to include a new section specifically stating that "extensions must not be AI-generated," as reported by It's FOSS and Phoronix. Developers producing add-ons for the Linux desktop environment can still use AI as a tool, but if their extension's code contains signs of being mostly written by AI, the updated guideline... View Source

Monique Hinton se frota los dedos en uno de sus videos recientes de YouTube, indicando a su más de un millón de seguidores en la plataforma que les tiene una idea de negocio rentable. Primero, le pidió a ChatGPT que reprodujera letras de canciones infantiles “simples y repetitivas” con “palabras divertidas y sin sentido como ‘la la’ o ‘na na’”, por ejemplo. Luego, ingresó los resultados en un gene... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. Between The Game Awards and showcases like Day of the Devs, Wholesome Snack, Latin American Games and Women-Led Games, there’s been a ton of video game news over the last week (I need Control Resonant ASAP, please and thank you, Remedy). And hey, guess what? I've got even more for you to dig into, including info on... View Source

It is rare for the richest person or the richest family to double the wealth of the next richest. Bill Gates achieved this in 1999 when he reached $90 billion while Warren Buffett was at $36 billion, and was close in 2001. The Walton family also achieved this in 1993 and 1994. As of December ... Read more... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Prashanth Chandrasekar, who is the CEO of Stack Overflow. I last had Prashanth on the show in 2022, one month before ChatGPT launched. While the generative AI boom had tons of impact on all sorts of companies, it immediately upended everything about Stack Overflow in an existential way. Stack Overflow, if you’re not familiar with it, is the question and answer forum for dev... View Source

Amazon.com Inc.’s business ties with Israel’s military and the US Department of Homeland Security are the focus of a shareholder proposal demanding that the company investigate whether such contracts comply with its responsible AI policies... View Source

Warning: the following contains spoilers for part one of Stranger Things season fiveWith just over a week to go until Netflix releases the next batch of Stranger Things episodes, the company has dropped a trailer for the second part of season five. The clip begins in the aftermath of the action-packed ending to the first bunch of episodes, with bodies and blazes surrounding Will as he says in a vo... View Source

To develop more robust next-generation aerial explorers, NASA's Mars Exploration program is turning to drones... View Source

Deepfakes and chatbots are now good enough that many web users don’t trust they are interacting with real people... View Source

The Meta Quest 3S is back on sale at its all-time low price of $250. That's $50 off, or a discount of 17 percent, and matches a deal we saw on Cyber Monday. The 3S is the more affordable model in the company's current VR headset lineup. It features the same Snapdragon XR2 processor as the more expensive Meta Quest 3, but with lower resolution per eye and a slightly narrower field of view... View Source

Two commercial spacecraft pulled off a surprise rendezvous in Earth orbit recently, showcasing skills that could pave the way for satellite servicing missions down the road... View Source