Nvidia Buying Groq's Assets For $20 Billion in Its Largest Deal on Record
December 25, 2025 at 11:01PM
December 25, 2025 at 11:01PM
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Nvidia Buying Groq's Assets For $20 Billion in Its Largest Deal on Record
Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq, a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence accelerator chips, for $20 billion in cash, according to Alex Davis, CEO of Disruptive, which led the startup's latest financing round in September. From a report:…
Waymo Pays Workers $22 To Close Doors on Stranded Robotaxis
December 26, 2025 at 12:01AM
December 26, 2025 at 12:01AM
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Waymo Pays Workers $22 To Close Doors on Stranded Robotaxis
Waymo's fleet of autonomous robotaxis can navigate city streets and compete with human taxi drivers, but they become stranded when a passenger leaves a door ajar -- prompting the company to pay tow truck operators around $20 to $24 through an app called Honk…
Framework Raises Memory Prices Again, Suggests Customers Bring Their Own RAM
December 26, 2025 at 01:01AM
December 26, 2025 at 01:01AM
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Framework Raises Memory Prices Again, Suggests Customers Bring Their Own RAM
Framework has announced yet another price increase for memory modules, the second in roughly a month, and the company is now actively encouraging customers to source their own RAM elsewhere if they can find better deals. The laptop maker cited "extreme memory…
Chinese Social Media Users Criticize Authorities in Rare Sign of Dissent
December 26, 2025 at 02:00AM
December 26, 2025 at 02:00AM
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Chinese Social Media Users Criticize Authorities in Rare Sign of Dissent
An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese social media users criticized two key government policies, rare signs of public dissent in the country where the internet is heavily censored. The death of the former head of China's one-child policy agency --…
Wall Street Has Stopped Rewarding 'Strategic' Layoffs
December 26, 2025 at 03:01AM
December 26, 2025 at 03:01AM
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Wall Street Has Stopped Rewarding 'Strategic' Layoffs
Goldman Sachs analysts have identified a notable shift in how investors respond to corporate layoff announcements, finding that even job cuts attributed to automation and AI-driven restructuring are now causing stock prices to fall rather than rise. The investment…
Fake MAS Windows Activation Domain Used To Spread PowerShell Malware
December 26, 2025 at 05:00AM
December 26, 2025 at 05:00AM
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Fake MAS Windows Activation Domain Used To Spread PowerShell Malware
An anonymous reader shares a report: A typosquatted domain impersonating the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool was used to distribute malicious PowerShell scripts that infect Windows systems with the 'Cosmali Loader'. BleepingComputer has found that…
Apple Settles Brazilian Antitrust Case, Must Allow Third-Party App Stores and External Payment Links
December 26, 2025 at 08:39AM
December 26, 2025 at 08:39AM
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Apple Settles Brazilian Antitrust Case, Must Allow Third-Party App Stores and External Payment Links
Apple has agreed to a settlement with Brazil's antitrust regulator that will require the company to allow third-party app stores on iPhones and permit developers to direct users to external payment options, marking another country where Apple's tightly controlled…
Gmail Users May Soon Be Able To Change Their Email Address and Keep the Old One
December 26, 2025 at 09:55AM
December 26, 2025 at 09:55AM
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Gmail Users May Soon Be Able To Change Their Email Address and Keep the Old One
Google appears to be testing a feature that would let users change their @gmail.com address for the first time, according to an official support document. The support page exists only in Hindi, suggesting an India-first rollout, and Google notes that users…
两名古代人类都携带致癌病毒 HPV16
Ötzi aka 冰人(Iceman)是一具因冰封而保存完好的天然木乃伊,距今有约 5000 年历史,其发现地点是阿尔卑斯山脉厄茨塔尔山冰川。Ötzi 以其保存完好的衣物、武器和纹身而知名,他的死因可能是肩膀上的箭头。他还被发现饱受骨折、肠道寄生虫和熏黑肺部的折磨。根据发表在 bioRxiv 上的一篇论文,科学家又发现了他的一项新疾病:致癌的人类乳头瘤病毒 HPV16。科学家报告 Ötzi 以及在西伯利亚西部发现的距今 4.5 万年的智人化石都携带了 HPV16 的 DNA 片段。HPV16 致癌病毒同时存在于相距 5000 公里相隔 4 万年的人类身上,显示它已经在人类中间传播了很长时间,可能是现代人类将其传播给了尼安德特人,而不是尼安德特人传播给人类。研究人员发现尼安德特人携带的是低风险的人类乳头瘤病毒 HPV12,而非高致癌性的 HPV16。最新发现挑战了 HPV 病毒是人类与尼安德特人杂交而感染的观点。 via Solidot
Ötzi aka 冰人(Iceman)是一具因冰封而保存完好的天然木乃伊,距今有约 5000 年历史,其发现地点是阿尔卑斯山脉厄茨塔尔山冰川。Ötzi 以其保存完好的衣物、武器和纹身而知名,他的死因可能是肩膀上的箭头。他还被发现饱受骨折、肠道寄生虫和熏黑肺部的折磨。根据发表在 bioRxiv 上的一篇论文,科学家又发现了他的一项新疾病:致癌的人类乳头瘤病毒 HPV16。科学家报告 Ötzi 以及在西伯利亚西部发现的距今 4.5 万年的智人化石都携带了 HPV16 的 DNA 片段。HPV16 致癌病毒同时存在于相距 5000 公里相隔 4 万年的人类身上,显示它已经在人类中间传播了很长时间,可能是现代人类将其传播给了尼安德特人,而不是尼安德特人传播给人类。研究人员发现尼安德特人携带的是低风险的人类乳头瘤病毒 HPV12,而非高致癌性的 HPV16。最新发现挑战了 HPV 病毒是人类与尼安德特人杂交而感染的观点。 via Solidot
Apple's App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?
December 26, 2025 at 12:30PM
December 26, 2025 at 12:30PM
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Apple's App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?
Apple's Developer Academy in Detroit has spent roughly $30 million over four years training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps, but not everyone lands coding jobs right away, according to a WIRED story published this week. The program launched in 2021…
Cursor CEO Warns Vibe Coding Builds 'Shaky Foundations' That Eventually Crumble
December 26, 2025 at 03:00PM
December 26, 2025 at 03:00PM
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Cursor CEO Warns Vibe Coding Builds 'Shaky Foundations' That Eventually Crumble
Michael Truell, the 25-year-old CEO and cofounder of Cursor, is drawing a sharp distinction between careful AI-assisted development and the more hands-off approach commonly known as "vibe coding." Speaking at a conference, Truell described vibe coding as…
'Memory is Running Out, and So Are Excuses For Software Bloat'
December 26, 2025 at 06:01PM
December 26, 2025 at 06:01PM
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'Memory is Running Out, and So Are Excuses For Software Bloat'
The relentless climb in memory prices driven by the AI boom's insatiable demand for datacenter hardware has renewed an old debate about whether modern software has grown inexcusably fat, a column by the Register argues. The piece points to Windows Task Manager…
China Launches $21 Billion Venture Capital Funds To Invest in 'Hard Technology'
December 26, 2025 at 08:31PM
December 26, 2025 at 08:31PM
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China Launches $21 Billion Venture Capital Funds To Invest in 'Hard Technology'
An anonymous reader shares a report: China on Friday launched three venture capital funds to invest in "hard technology" areas, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The capital contribution plans for the funds have been finalised, each with more than 50 billion…
AI's Hunger For Memory Chips Could Shrink Smartphone and PC Sales in 2026, IDC Says
December 26, 2025 at 10:05PM
December 26, 2025 at 10:05PM
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AI's Hunger For Memory Chips Could Shrink Smartphone and PC Sales in 2026, IDC Says
The global smartphone and PC markets face potential contractions of up to 5.2% and 8.9% respectively in 2026, according to downside risk scenarios from IDC that trace the problem to memory chip manufacturers shifting production capacity away from consumer…
Retreating From EVs Could Be Hazardous For Western Carmakers
December 26, 2025 at 11:08PM
December 26, 2025 at 11:08PM
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Retreating From EVs Could Be Hazardous For Western Carmakers
Western carmakers retreating from electric vehicles amid softening government mandates could find themselves in a precarious position as Chinese rivals continue gaining ground in the EV market they're choosing to de-prioritize. The EU on December 16th dropped…
The Economic Divide Between Big and Small Companies Is Growing
December 27, 2025 at 12:24AM
December 27, 2025 at 12:24AM
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The Economic Divide Between Big and Small Companies Is Growing
While America's largest corporations are riding a wave of surging profits and AI-fueled stock market enthusiasm to record highs, small businesses across the country are cutting staff and scaling back operations as years of high inflation, cautious consumers…
As AI Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary
December 27, 2025 at 01:37AM
December 27, 2025 at 01:37AM
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As AI Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary
While stock investors have pushed AI-related shares to repeated highs this year, debt markets are telling a more cautious story as newer AI infrastructure companies find themselves paying significantly elevated interest rates to borrow money. Applied Digital…
Indian IT Was Supposed To Die From AI. Instead It's Billing for the Cleanup.
December 27, 2025 at 02:40AM
December 27, 2025 at 02:40AM
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Indian IT Was Supposed To Die From AI. Instead It's Billing for the Cleanup.
Two years after generative AI was supposed to render India's $250 billion IT services industry obsolete, the sector is finding that enterprises still need someone to handle the unglamorous plumbing work that large-scale AI deployment demands. Less than 15%…
FFmpeg Developer Files DMCA Against Rockchip After Two-Year Wait for License Fix
December 27, 2025 at 04:00AM
December 27, 2025 at 04:00AM
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FFmpeg Developer Files DMCA Against Rockchip After Two-Year Wait for License Fix
GitHub has disabled Rockchip's Media Process Platform repository after an FFmpeg developer filed a DMCA takedown notice, nearly two years after the open-source project first publicly accused the Chinese chipmaker of license violations. The notice, filed December…