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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of users' instructions — Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting …
More: Reuters, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, New York Post, Engadget, Forbes, Euro Weekly News, Neowin, Daily Caller News Foundation, ZeroHedge News, Mother Jones, The Decoder, American Banker, PaymentsJournal, Techaeris, The Tech Portal, Gizmodo, The American Bazaar, Cyber Security News, The Daily Hodl, and NewsMax.com
X: @chafkin, @madisonmills22, @hedgiemarkets, @chrisgpt, @hosseeb, @kimmonismus, @andrewcurran_, @benbajarin, @thestalwart, @mjnblack, @alaneyre1, @rondesantis, and @davidsacks. LinkedIn: Srikanth Nallabilli
Bluesky: @jasonkoebler, @carlquintanilla, @kevincollier, and @jessefelder.com
Forums: r/technology, r/cybersecurity, r/BetterOffline, and r/Destiny
| Matthew Prince / @eastdakota: |
Cloudflare's Matthew Prince says PHP2Shell exploit attempts on its network rose from thousands in the 10 hours before the disclosure to millions afterward — Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
More: Reuters, BBC, New York Times, Gizmodo, The Register, PYMNTS.com, Politico, ITPro, SecurityWeek, Kotaku, and Cloudflare
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
AWS analysts say that at least one actor attempted to exploit the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities on October 17, four days before their public disclosure and patching — Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They're now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
More: Amazon Web Services, BleepingComputer, Axios, New York Times, Reuters, SecurityWeek, Financial Times, Recorded Future, The Verge, The Guardian, Metacurity, TechRadar, Implicator.ai, AI Policy Daily, and Wall Street Journal
X: @lukolejnik, @anthonyronning, @sughanthans1, @jeremy_kirk, @dinodaizovi, @frichette_n, @4n6lady, and @dnvolz
LinkedIn: Giovanni Ferraz, CJ Moses, and Peter White
Bluesky: @ericjgeller.com, @brbarrett, and @couts. Mastodon: @joebeone@techpolicy.social. Forums: Hacker News
| Wired: |
More: PHP, W3Techs, Wiz, Reuters, BBC, AppleInsider, The New Stack, National Cyber Security Centre, Livemint, Fortune, Bloomberg Law, Nextgov/FCW, TechTarget, Elias Taylor, Metro.co.uk, Bitcoin Insider, The Business Times, The Irish Times, Times of India, Daily Mail, The Indian Express, CNBC, SOPHOS, Polygon.com, and Ars Technica
Bluesky: @mondoab, @charles.littlegreenfootballs …, and @mattburgess1. Mastodon: @Schneems@ruby.social
Forums: r/theprimeagen, r/BetterOffline, r/ReverseEngineering, r/ItalyHardware, and r/technology
| Victoria Craw / Washington Post: |
President Trump says he called Sundar Pichai to ask to rename the Atlantic Ocean in Google Maps, but that he would “probably pass” following Pichai's pushback — President Donald Trump said he called Google's Sundar Pichai to discuss renaming the Atlantic Ocean, but would …
More: The Verge, Mashable, Gizmodo, The A.V. Club, RTÉ, Variety, Ukrainian National News, The Guardian, New York Post, Newsmax, India Today, 2paragraph News, The American Bazaar, LADbible, The Indian Express, Baller Alert, and EasternEye
X: @andrewcurran_, @clashreport, @goneoldie, @cbsnews, and @cwarzel
Forums: r/politics, r/degoogle, r/technology, and r/google
| Wall Street Journal: |
US officials say Trump asked Elon Musk to lift Starshield restrictions; Ukraine officials said it was not fully fixed Thursday but was working at higher speeds — Military-grade system appeared to be working more normally on Thursday, soon after the call — WASHINGTON—President Trump …
More: Reuters, National Review, Associated Press, NewsMax.com, Forbes, New York Post, The Sun, Mediaite, The Kyiv Independent, Bloomberg, and CNBC
Forums: r/Destiny, r/technology, r/SpaceXBets, and r/politics
| Rohan Goswami / Semafor: |
Sources: Elon Musk has invested ~$1B in Ellisons' Skydance; in 2022, David Ellison's father, Larry Ellison, invested $1B in Musk's deal to take Twitter private — Elon Musk has invested roughly $1 billion in Skydance, according to people familiar with the matter, providing …
More: The Guardian, Reuters, Gizmodo, Washington Examiner, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, TechCrunch, Telegraph, New York Post, Proactive, Daily Kos, Deadline, Forbes Middle East, CNBC, ZeroHedge News, NewsMax.com, TheDesk.net, and Graphic Policy
X: @justinbaragona. Bluesky: @robertscotthorton, @benschwartz, @billkuchman, @melissaryan, @masnick.com, @web.kim, and @iansociologo
Forums: r/movies, r/television, r/blankies, r/boxoffice, r/Warner_Bros, and r/MediaMergers
| Abhirami G / Reuters: |
eMudhra says it will exit the SSL/TLS certificate business, 1% of its revenue, after its TLS certificates with private keys of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised — Indian digital trust services provider eMudhra (EMUD.NS) on Thursday said it would voluntarily withdraw from the global SSL/TLS … | Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an “opportunistic” bridge ahead of an IPO — OpenAI is closing in on a funding round that could value the artificial intelligence giant at more than $1 trillion ahead …
More: TechCrunch, Financial Times, and Crypto Briefing
| AJ Vicens / Reuters: |
Microsoft says China-linked hackers used AI penetration testing tool ARTEX to compromise ConnectWise as part of a campaign targeting hundreds of organizations — A Chinese state-aligned hacking group used an AI-driven penetration testing tool to compromise IT services firm ConnectWise as part … | Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Warp Sciences, founded by former OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil to speed up drug development using AI, emerges from stealth with $215M at an $865M post-money valuation — Kevin Weil, the former OpenAI executive who led the ChatGPT maker's AI-for-science efforts, is launching a new startup aimed …
More: TechCrunch, VC News Daily, Pulse 2.0, and Lightspeed Venture Partners
X: @kevinweil, @kevinweil, and @dyett
LinkedIn: Stu Smith, Rebecca Torrence, and JP Patil
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft says it is closing The Garage, which for 17 years gave employees worldwide space and tools for side projects and ran the company's Global Hackathon — Microsoft is winding down The Garage as a companywide program, ending a 17-year run for the effort that gave employees space … | Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: |
METR says a pilot test of OpenAI's monitoring system found vulnerabilities, including an exploit that could have let AI agents hide hundreds of recent actions — AI safety research group METR said on Thursday a pilot exercise to stress-test OpenAI's internal monitoring system uncovered several …
More: METR, CNBC, Finimize, The Deep View, Channel NewsAsia, NBC News, Crypto Briefing, The Information, Unite.AI, and Tech Times
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
iPhone Duo review: the outer device is by far the worst iPhone Apple has ever made, while the inner device is a splendid tablet with a UI that bests the iPad's — Nothing major, but since publishing at 7:00pm last night, I've made a few additions and changes to my iPhone Duo review.
More: Wired, iDrop News, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, 9to5Mac, Tech Advisor, Techaeris, iThinkDifferent, The Verge on YouTube, and The Verge
X: @omarshahine, @firstadopter, @brian_henderson, @mitsuhiko, @quinnypig, @patrickmcgee_, @gruber, @_architected, @marcportermagee, and @gentry. Threads: @reckless1280. Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon …
Forums: r/iPhoneDuo, r/iphone, and r/apple
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
The Browser Company says it will shut down its Arc browser on December 22, launched in 2023, shifting attention to its AI-focused Dia browser, launched in 2025 — New feature development for the innovative web browser ended last year. Now The Browser Company is telling users to try Dia, Arc's replacement.
More: TechCrunch, Thurrott, How-To Geek, Engadget, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, Unite.AI, RuntimeWire, and Digital Trends
| Emily Mullin / Wired: |
Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open-weight, 14B-parameter decoder-only model trained on 300B tokens that lets users query DNA sequences via natural language — The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.
More: Hugging Face, Chemical & Engineering News, and Business Insider
X: @loubnabenallal1, @loubnabenallal1, @cmpatino_, and @_lewtun
| Andrew Gray / Reuters: |
Palantir says that neither it nor the US government has a “kill switch” for its Maven military AI system that NATO uses, after Ukraine's Starshield disruptions — US software company Palantir (PLTR.O) sought to reassure Europeans that its military AI system used by NATO has no … | New York Times: |
More: Reuters and CSIS
X: @georgeszamuely, @siobhan_ogrady, @maxpatten, @philklay, @rmac18, and @samagreene
Bluesky: @thewanderingjew, @owillis, and @fbajak
Forums: r/worldnews and r/Destiny
| Alfred Ng / Politico: |
Amazon issues refunds from a 2025 settlement, crediting “President Trump's Federal Trade Commission,” the first time an FTC refund has been tied to a president — Millions of Americans are expected to receive a settlement check from Amazon credited to “President Trump's Federal Trade Commission” … | Politico: |
Sources: the Pentagon quietly established the Technology Support Office (TSO), a sabotage agency for executing cyberattacks, supply chain disruptions, and more — The Pentagon has spent months quietly building an elite new tech agency to help covertly disrupt and sabotage foreign technology …
X: @johnnysaks130 and @ryp__. LinkedIn: John Sakellariadis. Bluesky: @rikefranke.eu. Forums: r/politics
| New York Times: |
US SEC filings show how Meta restructured its stock to shield Mark Zuckerberg from California's proposed wealth tax, after he said he'd sell his Palo Alto home — The billionaire told Meta's board that he planned to list his Silicon Valley home for sale. The company remade its stock structure …
More: TBPN, The Guardian, CNBC, BBC, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Times of India, CBC News, Wired, 24/7 Wall St., capitalandmain.com, Wall Street Journal, Accounting Today, CBS News, The Daily Caller, Newser, Politico, The American Bazaar, Reuters, The Information, and San Francisco Business Times
| The Information: |
Sources: Datadog offered to acquire Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for nearly $4B; Upwind is finalizing a $300M round at a ~$3.8B valuation — Enterprise software firm Datadog recently offered to buy Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for nearly $4 billion … | Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
1Password passes $500M in ARR, up from $400M in November 2025, driven by enterprise AI coding assistants and agents, and launches 1Password for Agents — And the free cash flow margin is in the double digits amid an explosion in coding assistants and agents in enterprise settings
More: 1Password, MacRumors, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Neowin, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, BetaKit, SiliconANGLE, and Axios
LinkedIn: Evan Sandhu, Nicole Marshall, and Mark Peddie
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots — Design platform Canva released its first image generation model, called Canva Craft, developed by its research team to compete …
More: The Verge, Thurrott, Australian Financial Review, Capital Brief, and Crypto Briefing
| Maria Diaz / ZDNET: |
Amazon rebrands its Kindle Unlimited subscription as Kindle+ and expands access to audiobooks, including titles narrated by AI — Unlike narrated audiobooks from Audible and other providers, the audiobooks created with Virtual Voice in Kindle+ will instead be narrated by AI. — ZDNET's key takeaways| Anthropic: |
Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation and says 70+ platforms have integrated it, after donating MCP to the AAIF in 2025 — Today, we're donating Agent Skills, the open standard that gives AI agents specialized knowledge and workflows, to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF).
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Blockchain.News, The New Stack, and Unite.AI
X: @rohanpaul_ai, @adocomplete, @claudedevs, @tokengremlin, @bcherny, @claudedevs, @claudedevs, and @dsp_. Forums: r/singularity
| Rhea Rose Abraham / Reuters: |
Epic says “Fortnite is coming back to the App Store in Australia” on Thursday after a federal court ruled in an antitrust case that Apple must open up iOS — Epic Games said its shooter title “Fortnite” will return to Apple's (AAPL.O) App Store in Australia on Thursday …
More: Federal Court of Australia, AppleInsider, GamesBeat, iDrop News, Lex on Tech, Thurrott, GSMArena.com, and 9to5Mac
Forums: Hacker News, r/indotech, and MacRumors Forums
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its GPT-5-powered Diagnostic Orchestrator uses agents that mimic panels of experts to diagnose conditions up to 4x more accurately than doctors — 'We're going to build something that is indistinguishable from human performance ... in the next couple of years,' Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge.
More: TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Microsoft AI, and Unite.AI
X: @tomwarren and @verge
Bluesky: @michaelmclean.me and @michaelmclean.me
Forums: r/accelerate, r/singularity, r/Health, and r/technology
| Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: |
Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, a venture of OKX and ICE, to trade blockchain-based versions of their shares — A growing number of companies are pushing back against tokenized trading of their shares. Microsoft and Alphabet are the latest …
More: CoinGeek
| Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: |
Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing — Formic, a physical AI commercialization platform, raised $50 million in financing, CEO Saman Farid tells Axios exclusively.
LinkedIn: Shawn Fitzgerald and Stephan Cizmar
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DeepSeek raised ~$15B in its latest fundraising round, one of China's largest ever, with CATL and Tencent among the biggest contributors — The Chinese AI pioneer DeepSeek has raised about 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) in its latest fundraising round, one of the country's largest ever …
More: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Reuters, New York Post, PYMNTS.com, New York Times, Quartz, and Semafor. LinkedIn: Mirtunjaya Goswami
| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Source: Elon Musk's public endorsement of a SpaceX-Tesla merger has rattled some insiders, who worry his comments could invite shareholder scrutiny and delays — Elon Musk's public endorsement this week of a potential $3.5 trillion merger between SpaceX (SPCX.O) and Tesla (TSLA.O) … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart unveils Agent Gateway, an MCP server that lets AI agents shop on its site, and Agent Profiles that authorize agents and track their purchases separately — Walmart is embracing agentic commerce with the launch of its own Agent Gateway to manage transactions and other new features aimed … Sponsor Posts
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