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Mercedes-Benz EV owners can start using Tesla Superchargers in February

The Verge - All Posts

Come on Karen Bass? Amid Fires, L.A. Mayor is Being Taken to Task For a Poorly-Timed Move

The Root

Dublin-based Xocean, which provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels, raised €115M, taking its total to ~$189M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

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Irish scaleup XOcean bags $115M to expand autonomous ocean vessel fleet

The Next Web

Apple says it "has never used Siri data to build marketing profiles" and never sold it for advertising or other purposes, after paying $95M to settle a lawsuit (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

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Meta is highlighting a splintering global approach to online speech

The Verge - All Posts

Disney says it has an estimated 157M global MAUs watching ad-supported content across its streaming services Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, including 112M US users (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)

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LA residents find a lifeline in this free wildfire-tracking app

The Verge - All Posts

Ivanti warns that threat actors exploited a critical-rated zero-day in its widely used Connect Secure VPN tool to compromise its corporate customers' networks (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

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Child’s AI-Generated Russian Videos Ruining YouTube Recommendations For Father’s AI-Generated Russian Videos

The Onion

This Majestic Photo: Was It Worth The 6-Car Pileup We Caused To Get It?

The Onion

How long should you meditate?

Vox - All

Why we shouldn’t ban kids from social media

Vox - All

Sources: Eric Schmidt has spent the last few months working on Hooglee, an AI startup that describes its mission as "democratizing video creation with AI" (Sarah Emerson/Forbes)

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xAI is testing a standalone iOS app for its chatbot Grok in several countries, like the US, Australia, and India; Grok was available only to X users until now (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Up close with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 FE, an incredibly compact flagship video card

The Verge - All Posts

Bluey is getting some Lego sets

Polygon - All

Taiwan's National Security Bureau says daily average cyberattacks on government departments doubled YoY to 2.4M in 2024, and most were by Chinese cyber forces (Yimou Lee/Reuters)

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The madman theory of Trump and tariffs

Vox - All

Istanbul-based gaming startup Grand Games, the publisher behind Magic Sort and Car Match, raised a $30M Series A led by Balderton, after a $3M seed in 2024 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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