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US satellite startup Astranis and Taiwanese telco Chunghwa plan to launch a dedicated MicroGEO satellite by the end of 2025, with full bandwidth as soon as 2026 (Bloomberg)

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FCC Chair Brendan Carr says "allied western democracies" need to focus on China and those "concerned about Starlink" should be more fearful of a Chinese version (Financial Times)

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The controversial anti-poverty solution coming to public schools

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Chinese state media: police in Harbin accuse the NSA of launching "advanced" cyberattacks during the Asian Winter Games in February 2025 and name three agents (Reuters)

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Monster Hunter Now monster list

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An interview with eFishery CEO Gibran Huzaifah and 20+ sources detail how Gibran's "fake-it-till-you-make-it" deceptions spiraled, losing investors $300M+ (Bloomberg)

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What time does Indiana Jones and the Great Circle release on PS5?

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The Supreme Court threatens to bring “Don’t Say Gay” to every classroom in America

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Hertz says hackers stole customer credit card and driver’s license data

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Nvidia's $500B US spending plan follows a familiar pattern of companies trying to please President Trump and offers few details on what AI gear would be US-made (Wall Street Journal)

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Japan's FTC orders Google to stop alleged abuse of its market power over local smartphone manufacturers, ahead of high-stakes US trade negotiations this week (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

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How an Indicted Tow Trucker Gained Entree to the Top of the Adams Administration

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An interview with Google VP of Search Elizabeth Reid on AI Overviews' launch a year ago, the future of AI search, its impact on the ad revenue model, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

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At the request of a South Korean regulator, Apple blocked 14 crypto apps and Google blocked 17, including exchanges KuCoin and MEXC, from their app stores (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)

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India plans to add 200M to 300M UPI users, including via delegated kids accounts, and pitch UPI abroad; PwC: India makes up ~46% of global digital transactions (Bloomberg)

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Can Fomantis be shiny in Pokémon Go?

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Sources: TSMC is close to finalizing specs for a new chip packaging method, known in the industry as "panel-level", to meet rising demand for powerful AI chips (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

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Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand

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Science Corp., which was founded by Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak to develop a retina and brain implant system, raised $100M+ led by Khosla Ventures (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)

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AMD announces its first 2nm silicon fabricated on TSMC's N2 process, set to debut on its sixth-gen EPYC "Venice" chip, which is expected to launch in 2026 (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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