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Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers (Anthropic)

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Spanish police arrest a suspected 19-year-old hacker in Barcelona over allegedly stealing and attempting to sell 64M records from breaches at nine companies (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

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Anthropic, OpenAI, Block, Google, AWS, Microsoft, and others launch the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source agent standards under the Linux Foundation (Will Knight/Wired)

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Circle launches USDCx, a privacy-focused version of its USDC stablecoin on the Aleo blockchain, to give users "banking-level privacy" with a "compliance record" (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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'Trail's End' quest walkthrough in Hollow Knight: Silksong

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An EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an "at least 3%" stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports (Mathieu Rosemain/Reuters)

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The world of Cyberpunk 2077 and Edgerunners returns to tabletop in new TCG

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Arc Raiders' expeditions reward 'gear fear' — and that's a mistake

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The US DOD says it has chosen Google's Gemini for Gov to power its new GenAI.mil platform for the US military, as part of a $200M contract from July (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A is giving away a free Alpha Charizard

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Fortnite leaks tease new storm shapes are coming

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The Verge’s 2025 holiday gift guide for tinkerers

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YouTube creators can now test multiple video titles

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Guillermo del Toro reveals his perfect vision for Justice League Dark

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Some of Ikea’s Matter-compatible smart devices are now available in the US

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Ice Belt interactive map in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

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Some Biden-era officials say access to Nvidia chips could help China's AI companies buy time while China's chipmakers improve their chip supply and performance (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)

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Horses developer interview: 'We might not be able to do a new thing.'

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Stripe and Paradigm launch a public trial for their blockchain project Tempo, targeting real-world stablecoin payments, with Kalshi and UBS as new partners (Bloomberg)

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How to reach the Putrified Ducts in Hollow Knight: Silksong

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