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T-Mobile is once again being sued over its 2021 data breach

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Akamai plans to end its CDN services in China on June 30, 2026, moving clients to an Akamai CDN outside China unless they switch to a local option like Tencent (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

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Dublin-based NomuPay, formed in 2023 out of some of Germany-based fintech Wirecard's regional payment licenses, raised a $37M Series B at a ~$200M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang hints at ‘plans’ for its own desktop CPU

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Micron plans to invest $7B over the next few years to expand its manufacturing footprint in Singapore, and broke ground on an HBM chip plant set to open in 2026 (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)

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NHTSA: software fixes made up 15% of US automotive recalls in 2024, up from 6% in 2019, as traditional carmakers' legacy systems struggle with software updates (Brooke Masters/Financial Times)

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Thousands of New Apartments on Brooklyn’s Waterfront? Not So Fast, Say Some Local Leaders

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Inside Naver's 1784, a 36-level office tower in Seoul that has ~4,500 employees working with 120+ robots and serves as a testbed for various AI technologies (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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What time does Marvel Rivals season 1 release in your time zone?

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Sources: Bluesky is finalizing a new round at a ~$700M valuation led by Bain Capital Ventures; it raised a $15M Series A in October 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023 (Business Insider)

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Asus unveils the Zenbook A14, with a new base-model eight-core Snapdragon X processor, available mid-January starting at $1,100; a $900 variant debuts in March (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia's AI chips are improving faster than Moore's Law, claiming that today's Nvidia AI chips are 1,000x better than those made 10 years ago (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Zuckerberg demanded a review of an algorithm change after his 2023 knee surgery Facebook post got anemic attention; Meta downplays the significance (Wall Street Journal)

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Indonesian e-commerce pioneer Bukalapak will stop sales of physical goods to focus on virtual goods like mobile credits, amid competition from Shopee and others (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)

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AWS says it plans to invest "at least" $11B to expand data center infrastructure in Georgia, which is becoming a popular state for data centers in the US (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Ex-Facebook director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of "where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content" (Bloomberg)

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Global venture funding rose 3% YoY to ~$314B in 2024; venture funding to US companies totaled $178B, out of which $90B was invested in Bay Area startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that MediaTek will be able to sell the CPU chip that the two companies unveiled for Project DIGITS, Nvidia's first desktop computer (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

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Atlanta-based HR and payroll software startup OnPay raised a $63M Series B led by Carrick Capital Partners, taking its total raised to $165M+ in equity and debt (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Stephen 'tWitch' Boss Widow Allison Holker Shares the Shocking Discovery Hours Before Funeral

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