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Reliance, Brookfield, and Digital Realty's joint venture Digital Connexion plans to invest $11B by 2030 to build a 1 GW data center in India's Visakhapatnam (Sanjai P R/Bloomberg)

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My AI shopping assistants are stuck in the past

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Intel says star hire from TSMC didn’t steal secrets

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EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera accuses the US of using "blackmail" to strong-arm the EU into watering down its tech rulebook during trade negotiations (Politico)

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Welcome to Hellfire Club is the perfect D&D entry for Stranger Things fans

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How to avoid the dreaded Thanksgiving food coma

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The VPN panic is only getting started

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Jefferies: Tether, which said it held 116 tons of gold in September, is "the largest holder of gold outside central banks", buying 26 tons in Q3 and 24 in Q2 (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)

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Taiwanese prosecutors search Intel executive Wei-Jen Lo's homes days after TSMC alleged he leaked sensitive info, suggesting Taiwan is deepening its probe (Bloomberg)

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Stranger Things' big Vecna reveals are all hidden in a show you can't stream

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OpenAI says a Mixpanel security incident on November 9 let a hacker access API account names and more, but not ChatGPT data, and it terminated its Mixpanel use (OpenAI)

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Popular MTG promo program will end after 17 years

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Square Enix's Black Friday deals have FF7 Rebirth at 50% off

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Alibaba starts selling Quark S1, its first smart glasses powered by its Qwen AI models, for ~$537 in China, and plans to release international versions in 2026 (Bloomberg)

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Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

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An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which measures job automation potential (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security flaws, raised $36M led by Notable Capital and Team8 (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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South Korean crypto exchange Upbit suspended deposits and withdrawals after saying ~$30M worth of Solana tokens were moved to an unauthorized external wallet (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

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Tidalwave, whose AI agents automate mortgage docs checks and give real-time multilingual feedback to borrowers, raised a $22M Series A led by Permanent Capital (Fortune)

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London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M (Nicholas Fearn/Financial Times)

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