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A US judge delays the CFTC v. Gemini trial to January 21, after Trump's inauguration; CFTC alleged Gemini misled the agency in its 2017 bid to debut BTC futures (Turner Wright/Cointelegraph)

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Sensitive data of over 800K VW Group EV customers, including GPS coordinates, was exposed on an unprotected AWS database for months before being reported (Thanos Pappas/Carscoops)

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The technology of passkeys is elegant, but the complexities of syncing them to password managers can contribute to platform lock-in and make them less usable (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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Source: ByteDance keeps using a loophole for US chip sanctions and told suppliers it planned to spend up to $7B to access Nvidia chips outside China in 2025 (The Information)

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Accounting startup Bench, which had raised $100M+ and abruptly shut down last week, will be acquired by Employer.com for an undisclosed price (Charles Rollet/TechCrunch)

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Waymo robotaxis, which are now ubiquitous in parts of CA, will often not stop for pedestrians using crosswalks there, unless a pedestrian is far into the road (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)

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The UK's CMA opens an antitrust investigation into IBM's planned acquisition of cloud software vendor HashiCorp; the US FTC has been investigating it since July (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Donald Trump's next term may widen the longstanding speech divide between the US and Europe, putting social media companies in the middle of a global tug-of-war (New York Times)

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Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator, signs a deal with Starlink to roll out text messaging in Q4 2025, and plans to add voice and data in later stages (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)

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Nvidia completes its $700M acquisition of Israel-based Run:ai, which helps orchestrate GPU clouds for AI, and plans to open source Run:ai's software (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

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Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon's stock jumped 383% in 2024, giving the company a $37B market cap, driven by the localization of AI chips in the country (Bloomberg)

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Ibiden CEO Koji Kawashima says the 112-year-old company, a dominant supplier of chip package substrates to Nvidia, may need to boost capacity due to AI demand (Bloomberg)

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Johns Hopkins and Stanford researchers say they trained robots with videos to perform surgical tasks with the skill of human doctors, even correcting mistakes (Mark Johnson/Washington Post)

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Elon Musk's new political influence may make it harder for regulators and politicians worldwide to resist SpaceX's Starlink, which added 20+ nations in 2024 (Bloomberg)

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How cloud computing, AI, and geopolitics could shape the evolution of ransomware, which could cost victims $265B annually by 2031, as the AIDS Trojan turns 35 (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

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2024 was a big year for Windows on ARM, and fierce competition between Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm promises to make 2025 an exciting year for Windows laptops (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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DFC Intelligence expects GTA VI to generate $3.2B in its first year, double that of 2013's GTA V, making it a bright spot in a lackluster video games market (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

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Philippine investigators say Alice Guo, ex-mayor of the Bamban town, owned the land on which a "pig butchering" scam center was built, housing ~3,000 scammers (Wall Street Journal)

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Reddit must continue growing its ad and content licensing revenue to justify its market valuation, which could fast-track the platform's "enshittification" (Farhad Manjoo/Slate)

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Some residents and lawmakers worry that the pace of Atlanta metro's data center growth, projected to hit 4,000+ MW by 2028, up 30x since 2012, has gone too far (Will Parker/Wall Street Journal)

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