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3181.

Russia cracks down on 'illegal' cryptomining with prison terms up to five years — Kremlin will begin prosecuting in 2027 (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Anton Shilov | get Bitcoin → | tags: cryptocurrency, illegal, large

3182.

Almost 80 European deep tech university spinouts reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025 (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-30 | by Anna Heim | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: billion, europe, european

3183.

U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks, face 20 years in prison each — group demanded up to $10 million from each victim (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Jowi Morales | get Norton → | tags: arrest, cybersecurity, digitalmint

3184.

SoftBank has fully funded $40 billion investment in OpenAI, sources tell CNBC (cnbc.com)

2025-12-30 | by Samantha Subin | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: billion, billion investment, cnbc

3185.

Softbank has fully funded $40 billion investment in OpenAI, sources tell CNBC (cnbc.com)

2025-12-30 | by Samantha Subin | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: billion, investment, openai

3186.

Life in a Shrinking Japan (slashdot.org)

2025-12-30 | by Posted | get Smartphones → | tags: akita, fell, japan

3187.

China tells chipmakers to use homegrown chipmaking tools for 50% of new capacity — decree designed to squeeze foreign suppliers out of supply chain (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Anton Shilov | get Semiconductors → | tags: asml, chinese, lithography

3188.

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked” (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-30 | get Bankruptcy → | tags: debanked, french, french icc

3189.

US cybersecurity experts plead guilty to BlackCat ransomware attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-30 | get Nigerian Ransomware → | tags: blackcat, digitalmint, extortion

3190.

Meta Just Bought Manus, an AI Startup Everyone Has Been Talking About (slashdot.org)

2025-12-30 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: ai agent, manus, meta

3191.

Meta Buys AI Startup Manus, Adding Millions of Paying Users (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2025-12-30 | get Meta → | tags: billion, billion major, bought

3192.

Meta acquires intelligent agent firm Manus, capping year of aggressive AI moves (cnbc.com)

2025-12-30 | by Dylan Butts | get Intelligent Agent → | tags: firm, manus, meta

3193.

Nvidia Takes $5 Billion Stake In Intel Under September Agreement (slashdot.org)

2025-12-29 | get Graphics Processing Unit → | tags: ai chip, announced, billion

3194.

Apple files appeal in £1.5 billion case over App Store fees in the UK (9to5mac.com)

2025-12-29 | by Marcus Mendes | get App Store fees → | tags: app store, appeal, apple

3195.

2025 was the year AI got a vibe check (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-29 | by Rebecca Bellan | get Smartwatch → | tags: billion, infrastructure, model

3196.

SoftBank to acquire DigitalBridge for $4 billion (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-29 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: acquire, acquire digital, ai softbank

3197.

Coupang to split $1.17 billion among 33.7 million data breach victims (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-29 | get Ethereum → | tags: breach, coupang, million

3198.

U.S. pledges $2 billion in aid as Trump administration warns agencies to ‘adapt or die’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-29 | get Nuclear Reactors → | tags: agencies, billion, humanitarian

3199.

'The Big Short' Investor Michael Burry Bet $10 Million That AI Stocks Will Crash By 2027 (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-29 | get AI Stocks → | tags: accounting, accounting inflate, burry

3200.

Nvidia gives Intel a lifeline with $5 billion common stock deal — September deal gets FTC approval for more than 217.4 million Intel shares at $23.28 per share (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-29 | by Hassam Nasir | get GPU → | tags: billion, bu tan, intel

3201.

Hacker arrested for KMSAuto malware campaign with 2.8 million downloads (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-29 | get KMSAuto → | tags: clipper, kmsauto, malware

3202.

Softbank to buy data center firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion in AI push (cnbc.com)

2025-12-29 | by Sam Meredith | get Data Center → | tags: billion, digitalbridge, infrastructure

3203.

The economy of self—the value of viewing yourself as a personal economic ecosystem (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-29 | get Ecosystem → | tags: board, board parties, clock

3204.

DigitalBridge shares jump as much as 50% after report SoftBank is in talks to acquire data center firm (cnbc.com)

2025-12-29 | by Sam Meredith | get Data Center → | tags: billion, bloomberg, company softbank

3205.

60 Game Workers Form First Ubisoft Union in North America (slashdot.org)

2025-12-29 | by Posted | get Game Workers → | tags: canada, cwa canada, gillis

3206.

Former Coinbase support agent arrested for helping hackers (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-29 | get Blockchain → | tags: coinbase, customer, incident

3207.

Breach Forces Ubisoft to Take 'Rainbow Six Siege' Offline (slashdot.org)

2025-12-29 | by Posted | get Ubisoft Siege → | tags: banned, billions, credits

3208.

Rob Pike Angered by 'AI Slop' Spam Sent By Agent Experiment (slashdot.org)

2025-12-29 | by Posted | get Cloud → | tags: agents, ai village, email

3209.

CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-28 | by Will Dunn | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: best, carrillo, executive

3210.

Apple escalates its appeal of a $2 billion fine from a UK antitrust lawsuit (engadget.com)

2025-12-28 | get iPhone → | tags: app store, appeal, apple