🎅 Dear Santa, send V-Bucks

Nearly half of American kids say they want → in-game currency for Christmas.

According to a new survey, video games are among the top holiday gifts, with most children planning to ask Santa for something gaming-related.

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🛸 Shopping just got even lazier

OpenAI has rolled out → a new shopping research tool in ChatGPT.

The model can now help you search and compare products and suggest the best deals based on your budget and requirements.

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🤐 Get your wallets ready

Analysts say the first foldable iPhone → is shaping up to be even more expensive than expected.

Early forecasts now point to a higher price driven by Apple’s advanced foldable tech.

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😆 Serious business

Telegram’s digital gift economy has nearly hit 300 million USD → in trading volume, according to marketplace data across third-party Telegram platforms and TON NFT exchanges.

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🚘 Fine then, don’t

Elon Musk said on X that no automaker is willing to license Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system, calling → the lack of interest “crazy.”

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🤔 New foundations

Google is developing a new Android-based system → called Aluminium OS, which is expected to fully replace its current desktop platform.

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🤫 What post?

Posts promoting Telegram’s exclusive collectible gifts have disappeared → from Khabib Nurmagomedov’s social media accounts.

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😾 Fight night online

Conor McGregor has sharply criticized → Telegram’s digital gift sale, telling Khabib Nurmagomedov that “sell something means it is not a gift.”

Khabib, who earlier called McGregor an “absolute liar” amid backlash to the papakha-themed Telegram gifts, faced a new wave of insults and accusations of scamming from the Irish fighter.

McGregor also demanded that Khabib “apologise this instant” for using his late father’s name to promote gifts that “cost his fans so much of their money.”

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🤐 You are under arrest

Police in the United States are increasingly detaining → teenagers after their ChatGPT queries were linked to potentially criminal intent.

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🍏 3…2…1, sold

The 1976 partnership contract that founded Apple Computer goes → to auction at Christie’s on 23 January.

It is expected to sell for 2–4 million USD, potentially becoming the most valuable Apple-related item ever auctioned.

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🧠 Humanoid hype

China’s National Development and Reform Commission has warned → that the country’s humanoid robotics sector may be overheating, noting the rapid surge in manufacturers and increasingly uniform models entering the market.

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🕹 Dynamic pricing

Sony has begun A/B testing prices → in the European PlayStation Store, meaning the same game may now appear at different prices for different users.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

💘 Telegram launched Cocoon, a decentralized confidential compute network designed to securely handle AI workloads and reduce reliance on centralized providers.

💘 OpenAI and Google tightened generation limits in Sora and Nano Banana Pro due to heavy server load from growing demand.

💘 Mercedes-Benz unveiled its new electric CLA sedan with a 600 km range, positioning it as a direct competitor to the Tesla Model 3.

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🤔 Time to change your password

Hackers in South Korea breached 120,000 home and office IP cameras and sold the leaked 18+ footage, earning roughly 40,000 USD before their arrest.

The breach → was possible due to weak passwords on the devices.

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🤩 Telegram wants to be Discord now?

Telegram has launched a new design contest inviting creators to draw up concepts for Telegram Nodes → the upcoming feature that will function like Discord-style spaces inside the app.

We explain what Nodes are and how they are expected to work.

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😾 Here comes the pop-up era

ChatGPT users have started seeing built-in promotional blocks → urging them to connect third-party services like Spotify, Peloton and Target, even when their queries have nothing to do with those apps.

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🇫🇷 Vive la Regulation

Pavel Durov publicly criticized France on X over ongoing criminal investigations into tech companies.

💘 The exchange began when the popular account Parisian Aesthetics asked followers to name something France excels at compared to other countries.

💘 In response, the Telegram founder issued a sharp remark accusing French authorities of leading the world in prosecuting technology companies.

💘 The official French Response account replied to Durov’s post, saying that France and the EU are acting under the Digital Services Act (DSA) in the name of "user's right, transparency and platform accountability.”

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🍏 Don’t even ask

Apple has no plans → to preinstall India’s Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity app on its devices.

The government-mandated tool is designed to track stolen phones, block them and prevent misuse, but Apple is pushing back against the requirement over privacy concerns.

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👍 A new way in

Telegram is testing passkey login, letting users sign in → with credentials stored in password managers, no SMS codes required.

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🦴 Pick up, it’s important

Google is testing a new Call Reason feature → for Android that lets callers mark their outgoing calls as urgent. The beta is already rolling out to Android devices.

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🛸 The perfect recipe

Elon Musk says AI becomes a threat → unless it follows three core principles: truth, beauty and curiosity.

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