10 Years Later: Malaysia To Resume Hunt For Flight MH370 - Slashdot
10,000 Amazon Workers Go On Strike Ahead of Holiday Rush - Slashdot
2024 Was the Year the Bottom Fell Out of the Games Industry - Wired
77% of African angel investors limit deals to $25,000, ABAN finds - Techcabal
9mobile apologises for service outages, assures prompt resolution - Vanguard
A look at a lawsuit from 64 families against Snap that alleges Snapchat's design is responsible for connecting teens to dealers selling counterfeit drugs (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
A Spacecraft Is About to Fly Into the Sun's Atmosphere for the First Time - Wired
A study by Waymo and insurer Swiss Re finds Waymo's vehicles were safer than those driven by humans, with a 92% reduction in bodily injury claims and more (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge) - Techmeme
A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO (Joseph Menn/Washington Post) - Techmeme
After causing outrage on the first day of Y Combinator, AI code editor PearAI lands $1M seed - Techcrunch
Android 16 has a handy new fingerprint unlock feature - Pocket Lint
Android's new motion sickness prevention feature could be a game changer - Pocket Lint
Apple is reportedly canceling its unreleased iPhone subscription service, and good riddance - Pocket Lint
Apple Pulls Lightning-Equipped iPhones From Swiss Stores Ahead of EU USB-C Mandate - Slashdot
Are you ready for laptops with rollable screens' Lenovo could be releasing one soon - Pocket Lint
Arizona's Getting an Online Charter School Taught Entirely By AI - Slashdot
As part of its remedies proposal, Google would make its Android agreements with OEMs non-exclusive and allow them to unbundle Play Store from Chrome and Search (Jody Godoy/Reuters) - Techmeme
Axiom's Private Space Station Could Arrive As Early As 2028 - Slashdot
CFPB Sues America's Largest Banks For 'Allowing Fraud To Fester' on Zelle - Slashdot
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot - Techcrunch
Cory Doctorow's Prescient Novella About Health Insurance and Murder - Slashdot
Dealogic data: the global M&A activity in the tech sector in 2024 jumped 20%+ YoY to $534B, accounting for the largest share of the total $3.45T in M&A activity (Reuters) - Techmeme
EU Wants Apple To Open AirDrop and AirPlay To Android - Slashdot
EV startup Canoo places remaining employees on a 'mandatory unpaid break - Techcrunch
Exclusive: YC-backed Mecho Autotech restructures amid macroeconomic challenges and FX volatility - Techcabal
Feds clear the way for robotaxis without steering wheels and pedals - Techcrunch
Global shipments of VR and MR headsets are expected to reach ~9.6M units in 2024, up 8.8% YoY; Meta remains the global leader with a 73% market share (TrendForce) - Techmeme
Google calls DOJ's proposed Chrome sale "extreme" and at odds with the law, urging the judge to take caution to avoid stifling innovation and future investment (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Google counters bid by US to force sale of Chrome - Vanguard
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms (Lee-Anne Mulholland/The Keyword) - Techmeme
Google hired 100+ staffers of Magic Leap as contractors to assist with Google's work on its new Android XR OS, raising questions about the future of Magic Leap (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information) - Techmeme
Google's Gemini Deep Research tool is now available globally - Engadget
Hisense's HT Saturn speakers feature wireless Dolby Atmos and room calibration - Engadget
Hohem iSteady M7: Your ticket to first-class smartphone video - Pocket Lint
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with "ghost artists" to cut its royalty payouts (Liz Pelly/Harper's) - Techmeme
How to schedule messages on Instagram - Engadget
Illicit drugs: NDLEA strengthens airport operations - Tribune
Intel Arc B580 review: The new king of $250 GPUs (for now) - Engadget
James Bond (the movie franchise, not the spy) may be in deep jeopardy - Engadget
Justice Department Unveils Charges Against Alleged LockBit Developer - Slashdot
Kenya: Innovative Bundled Fibre Trunks Make Debut - Itnewsafrica
LG's transparent OLED TV has arrived and it looks like an aquarium - Pocket Lint
LockBit Developer Rostislav Panev Charged for Billions in Global Ransomware Damages - Hackers News
Michael Dell Says Adoption of AI PCs is 'Definitely Delayed - Slashdot
Music Can Thrive in the AI Era - Wired
Netflix scores another big sporting event for its platform - Pocket Lint
Oops, Amazon accidentally reveals the OnePlus 13R's chipset - Pocket Lint
OpenAI's next-generation o3 model will arrive early next year - Engadget
Qualcomm prevails at trial against Arm's claim that it breached a chip tech license acquired in the $1.4B Nuvia purchase in 2021; Arm plans to seek a retrial (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Qualcomm Processors Properly Licensed From Arm, US Jury Finds - Slashdot
Report: Alibaba splits the team developing apps for its AI chatbot Qianwen from the team that builds its LLM, following similar moves by ByteDance and Baidu (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post) - Techmeme
Researchers at Anthropic, Oxford, Stanford, and MATS create Best-of-N Jailbreaking, a black-box algorithm that jailbreaks frontier AI systems across modalities (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media) - Techmeme
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumps 35%+ after hours (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk) - Techmeme
Safaricom accused of 'business fraud' in dispute over $23.9m money market fund - Techcabal
Sam Altman disputes Marc Andreessen's description of AI meetings with Biden administration - Techcrunch
Sega considering Netflix-like game subscription service - BBC
Sensor Tower: Indian quick commerce startup Zepto had 31M MAUs in Nov. 2024, up from 6M in May 2022; Blinkit had 30M MAUs in Nov. 2024, up from 28M in May 2022 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch) - Techmeme
Shivakumar Venkataraman, a longtime Google executive who joined OpenAI earlier in 2024 to help lead the development of search and AI for enterprise, has left (The Information) - Techmeme
Sources: David Sacks' role as WH AI and crypto czar will be limited to an adviser role, overseen by Michael Kratsios, partly because he won't divest from Craft (Kali Hays/Fortune) - Techmeme