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Spotify Panama Playlists expose the soundtrack of the elite (and the death of their privacy)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 10:43:37

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A website called Panama Playlists claims to have exposed the Spotify listening habits of politicians, tech CEOs, celebrities, and journalists by tracking their public playlists and listening activity. The leak reveals the personal music choices of some of the world’s most powerful people, including US Vice President JD Vance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, United States Attorney General Pam Bondi, and others. The site highlights a big flaw in how Spotify hand

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Spotify activity revealed for celebrities, politicians, exposing privacy faults

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-21 14:44:35

Spotify has always had a bent toward social sharing and keeping music activity public. Now, a new website called Panama Playlists has exposed the service’s privacy gaps by revealing Spotify playback activity, playlists, and more for various celebrities—including tech leaders, politicians, and more. Panama Playlists exposes Spotify’s privacy shortcomings Do you know what your Spotify privacy settings are? That’s the question being prompted by a new website. As highlighted by The Verge, Panama

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China claims Nvidia built backdoor into H20 chip designed for Chinese market

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-21 14:28:28

Beijing has summoned Nvidia over alleged security issues with its chips, in a blow to the US company’s push to revive sales in the country after Washington granted approval for the export of a made-for-China chip. China’s cyber regulator on Thursday said it had held a meeting with Nvidia over what it called “serious security issues” with the company’s artificial intelligence chips. It said US AI experts had “revealed that Nvidia’s computing chips have location tracking and can remotely shut dow

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Google is experimenting with machine-learning powered age estimation tech in the U.S.

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-21 14:05:39

Google is testing a machine-learning-powered tech in the U.S. to determine the age of users and filter content across all its products accordingly. The company said it will consider data from Google accounts, including types of details users have searched for or categories of videos they have watched on YouTube, to determine the age. If the company’s tool decides that a user is under 18, they would get an email with details about how Google products might change for them. For these users, Goog

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Amazon Throws Money at ‘Netflix of AI’

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-21 17:59:49

Amazon poured more than $1 billion into its streaming series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, only for it to get a pretty tepid reception. So Amazon appears to be going for a new approach to streaming content: If you think you can do better, prove it. According to a report from Business Insider, the company is funding an AI streaming platform called Showrunner that, in theory, will let people create their own shows using generative AI tools. Showrunner is the creation of Fable Studio,

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Trump administration's digital health tracking system gives tech giants access to medical records

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-22 05:15:00

Forward-looking: The Trump administration wants the US public to upload personal health data and medical records to a series of apps and systems managed by private health companies and tech giants. The move is supposed to allow easier access to health records across the nation, bringing personal healthcare into the digital age, but there are plenty of concerns about the security of the data and the possibility that it could be exploited. During an event announcing the initiative yesterday, Pres

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Figma prices IPO at $33, above expected range

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-22 02:04:49

Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, appears at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on May 9, 2024. Figma, the developer of design software that was supposed to get acquired by Adobe, priced its IPO on Wednesday at $33 per share, above its expected range. The company's stock will debut on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "FIG" on Thursday. The offering raised $1.2 billion, with most of the proceeds going to existing stockholders. Figma is aiming to take ad

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Meta's big AI spending blitz will continue into 2026

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-22 04:02:15

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to continue his company's artificial intelligence spending blitz well into the next year as rival tech giants do the same. Zuckerberg told analysts Wednesday during a second-quarter earnings call that AI's rapid pace of progress has informed much of Meta's recent business decisions, including the company's $14.3 billion June investment into the data-annotating startup Scale AI as part of a revamped AI strategy involving a wave of high-profile hires. AI's swift ad

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Elon Musk's plan to build Boring Co. tunnels in Nashville sparks partisan feud

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-12-22 05:28:00

Elon Musk has expanded a number of his companies within Texas, including Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring Co. and Neuralink. Tesla broke ground on a lithium refinery in Texas earlier this year with Governor Greg Abbott in attendance. Christophe Gateau | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Elon Musk's tunneling venture, The Boring Company, announced plans earlier this week to build a 10-mile underground loop in Nashville, in coordination with Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee, who put out a press rele

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Kleiner Perkins-backed Ambiq pops on IPO debut

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-12-22 05:00:24

Ambiq Micro, a 15-year-old manufacturer of energy-efficient chips for wearable and medical devices, closed its first day of trading on Wednesday at $38.53 a share, a 61% increase from the $24 IPO price the company set the previous day. The success of the IPO signals strong investor demand in the public market for new small-cap companies benefiting from AI innovation. Ambiq closed its first day as a public company with a valuation of $656 million (excluding employee options). This represents a

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Déjà vu? T-Mobile may be changing your plan whether you want it to or not

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-22 05:42:20

Back in 2023, T-Mobile received a ton of flak for announcing it would soon forcibly switch some of its legacy customers to newer, more expensive plans. Within weeks, the company reversed its stance amid growing complaints, claiming the move had only been a test . Two years later, it seems the company is at it once again. Several T-Mobile customers have taken to Reddit to complain about a new email making the rounds. The message informs recipients of a plan change set to take effect on August 13

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What JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Sam Altman Can’t Stop Listening to, According to the ‘Panama Playlists’

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-22 08:34:16

From JD Vance's dinnertime Bieber to Sam Altman's Shazaming of incredibly popular hit songs, a website claiming to have published the Spotify listening habits of members of the Trump administration, tech leaders, and journalists is making the rounds. “We’ve been scraping their accounts since summer 2024. Playlists, live listening feed, everything. We know what songs they played, when, and how many times,” the Panama Playlists site reads, alleging, “With a little sleuthing, I could say with near

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Figma’s IPO price hit a $19.3B valuation out of the gate

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-22 09:04:41

Figma will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday in one of the most anticipated IPOs of 2025. The IPO is 40x oversubscribed, VCs confirmed to TechCrunch and Bloomberg previously reported. That means demand for shares is 40x the number of shares the company and its existing investors are selling. So it should surprise no one that Figma, which offers design software, has priced its initial shares at $33 per share, above its previously announced range. On Monday, the company sa

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Aurora’s autonomous trucks are now driving at night. Its next big challenge is rain.

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-12-22 09:48:10

Over the next year, Aurora Innovation CEO Chris Urmson wants to “unlock” the Sunbelt of the United States, a southern route where its self-driving trucks will carry goods for companies like Uber Freight and Hirschbach Motor Lines. Aurora, which launched its driverless commercial self-driving truck service this spring, has already made some progress towards that goal. The company reported Wednesday in its second-quarter letter to shareholders that it now has three self-driving trucks operating c

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Microsoft stock pops 9% on earnings beat as Azure annual revenue tops $75 billion

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-22 14:46:53

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025. Microsoft shares jumped 9% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter. Here's how the company performed in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $3.65 vs. $3.37 expected $3.65 vs. $3.37 expected Revenue: $76.44 billion vs. $73.8

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Arm shares slip as smartphone royalties disappoint

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-12-22 14:51:32

The replica of the ARM is an electronic chip board during a collaborative ceremony launching a partnership between Malaysia and ARM Holdings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 5, 2025. Arm Holdings shares dipped as much as 9% in after-hours trading on the company's first-quarter earnings results Wednesday. Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share : 35 cents adjusted vs. 35 cents expected : 35 cents adjusted vs. 35 cents expected Re

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EBay stock surges on earnings beat, rosy guidance

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-22 14:16:07

Shares of eBay popped 10% in extended trading on Wednesday after the online marketplace posted stronger-than-expected results for the second quarter, and offered an upbeat forecast for the current period. Here's how the company did in the second quarter compared to analyst estimates compiled by LSEG. Earnings per share: $1.37 adjusted vs. $1.30 expected $1.37 adjusted vs. $1.30 expected Revenue: $2.73 billion vs. $2.64 billion expected GMV, or the dollar value of items sold, grew 6% year ove

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Substack accidentally sent push alerts promoting a Nazi publication

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-22 10:10:04

It was easy to view Substack's 2023 Nazi controversy as a kicked can that could turn up again. Well, white supremacist content led to another headache for the company this week. User Mag reported on Tuesday that the app sent a push alert to some users promoting a Nazi newsletter. The company told Engadget the notification was an "extremely offensive and disturbing" error. The Substack newsletter in question describes itself as "a National Socialist weekly newsletter." It includes "opinions and

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What JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Sam Altman Can’t Stop Listening To, According to the ‘Panama Playlists’

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-22 14:34:16

From JD Vance's dinnertime Bieber to Sam Altman's Shazaming of incredibly popular hit songs, a website claiming to have published the Spotify listening habits of members of the Trump administration, tech leaders, and journalists is making the rounds. “We’ve been scraping their accounts since summer 2024. Playlists, live listening feed, everything. We know what songs they played, when, and how many times,” the Panama Playlists site reads, alleging, “With a little sleuthing, I could say with near

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Arm shares dip 8% on revenue miss

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-12-22 18:17:47

The replica of the ARM is an electronic chip board during a collaborative ceremony launching a partnership between Malaysia and ARM Holdings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on March 5, 2025. Arm Holdings shares dipped as much as 9% in after-hours trading on the company's first-quarter earnings results Wednesday. Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share : 35 cents vs. 35 cents expected : 35 cents vs. 35 cents expected Revenue: $1.05 billi

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Meta to spend up to $72B on AI infrastructure in 2025 as compute arms race escalates

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-22 18:31:42

Meta is pouring money into the physical and technical infrastructure needed to scale its AI ambitions. The company said Wednesday in its second-quarter earnings report that it plans to more than double its spend on building AI infrastructure, like data centers and servers. “We currently expect 2025 capital expenditures, including principal payments on finance leases, to be in the range of $66-72 billion…up approximately $30 billion year-over-year at the midpoint,” Meta said. That’s an aggressi

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SpaceX faces two new lawsuits alleging safety‐related retaliation

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-22 18:47:20

When longtime supervisor Robert Markert warned SpaceX leaders that one part of the rocket fairing recovery process could “easily cause serious injury or death,” he alleges he was ignored because “it was the more economical solution,” according to a recently filed lawsuit. A few months later, he was out of the job. Markert is one of two former SpaceX employees who have filed separate wrongful-termination lawsuits, both of which were removed to federal court earlier this month. The two complaints

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Meta shares climb 10% on revenue beat, raised forecast

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-22 23:52:10

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a smartphone, as he makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event, at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. September 25, 2024. Meta shares jumped as much as 10% after the company reported second-quarter earnings on Wednesday that beat on revenue. Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share : $7.14 vs. $5.92 expected : $7.14 vs. $5.92 expected Revenue: $47.52 vs. $44.80 billi

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Microsoft's stock pops 7% on earnings beat as Azure annual revenue tops $75 billion

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-12-22 23:48:42

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on , April 4, 2025. Microsoft shares jumped 7% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter. Here's how the company performed in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $3.65 vs. $3.37 expected $3.65 vs. $3.37 expected Revenue: $76.44 billion vs. $73

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Check Your Celsius Energy Drinks, They Might Be Booze

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-23 04:20:40

High Noon has issued a voluntary recall after Celsius energy drinks in eight states were mislabeled and may contain vodka. The company reports that a “shared packaging supplier” mistakenly shipped empty cans for Celsius Astro Vibe Sparkling Blue Razz Edition to High Noon, which filled the cans with alcoholic drinks from its Beach Variety 12-packs. The mislabeled cans were shipped to distributors in Florida, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin between July

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10 Winners and 4 Losers From San Diego Comic-Con 2025

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-23 09:20:19

San Diego Comic-Con 2025 is officially in the books, and it was a unique year, to say the least. Without Marvel or DC to anchor the pop culture excitement, the field was wide open for a number of smaller properties to steal the spotlight. Some took full advantage, building crazy buzz. Others did not. Here’s our rundown of the winners and losers of Comic-Con 2025. Winners Aliens and Predators The legendary sci-fi enemies took center stage at Comic-Con 2025 and brought major excitement to both

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Palo Alto Networks agrees to buy CyberArk for $25 billion

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-23 09:38:29

In Brief Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks announced on Wednesday its intent to acquire identity management and security company CyberArk for $25 billion. The deal, a mix of cash and stock, marks Palo Alto’s entrance into the identity security space, according to a company press release. Palo Alto has been on a shopping spree since Nikesh Arora took over as CEO and chairman of the company in 2018, according to the Financial Times, which estimated the company has spent more than $7 billion

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Meta slated to reported second-quarter earnings after the bell

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-12-23 18:00:01

Meta is set to report its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, with analysts eyeing any changes to the company's costs and related guidance amid CEO Mark Zuckerberg's recent artificial intelligence hiring blitz. Here's what analysts polled by LSEG are expecting: Earnings per share : $5.92 expected : $5.92 expected Revenue: $44.8 billion expected Investors are likely to be monitoring any comments from Zuckerberg about his company's recent spending on AI and how that technology might benefit

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How to Watch Panathinaikos vs. Rangers From Anywhere for Free: Stream Champions League Qualifier Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-23 17:00:04

Glasgow Rangers will aim to move a step closer to playing in European football's biggest competition today. The club takes a two-goal advantage to the Olympic Stadium in Athens in this second qualifying round, second-leg clash against Panathinaikos. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch this match as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the game isn't available where you are. Former Scotland international Russell Martin kicked of

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Google confirms it will sign the EU AI Code of Practice

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-23 18:14:50

Big Tech is increasingly addicted to AI, but many companies are allergic to regulation, bucking suggestions that they adhere to copyright law and provide data on training. In a rare move, Google has confirmed it will sign the European Union's AI Code of Practice, a framework it initially opposed for being too harsh. However, Google isn't totally on board with Europe's efforts to rein in the AI explosion. The company's head of global affairs, Kent Walker, noted that the code could stifle innovati

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Latest Tech News

Spotify Panama Playlists expose the soundtrack of the elite (and the death of their privacy)

Spotify activity revealed for celebrities, politicians, exposing privacy faults

China claims Nvidia built backdoor into H20 chip designed for Chinese market

Google is experimenting with machine-learning powered age estimation tech in the U.S.

Amazon Throws Money at ‘Netflix of AI’

Trump administration's digital health tracking system gives tech giants access to medical records

Figma prices IPO at $33, above expected range

Meta's big AI spending blitz will continue into 2026

Elon Musk's plan to build Boring Co. tunnels in Nashville sparks partisan feud

Kleiner Perkins-backed Ambiq pops on IPO debut

Déjà vu? T-Mobile may be changing your plan whether you want it to or not

What JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Sam Altman Can’t Stop Listening to, According to the ‘Panama Playlists’

Figma’s IPO price hit a $19.3B valuation out of the gate

Aurora’s autonomous trucks are now driving at night. Its next big challenge is rain.

Microsoft stock pops 9% on earnings beat as Azure annual revenue tops $75 billion

Arm shares slip as smartphone royalties disappoint

EBay stock surges on earnings beat, rosy guidance

Substack accidentally sent push alerts promoting a Nazi publication

What JD Vance, Pam Bondi, and Sam Altman Can’t Stop Listening To, According to the ‘Panama Playlists’

Arm shares dip 8% on revenue miss

Meta to spend up to $72B on AI infrastructure in 2025 as compute arms race escalates

SpaceX faces two new lawsuits alleging safety‐related retaliation

Meta shares climb 10% on revenue beat, raised forecast

Microsoft's stock pops 7% on earnings beat as Azure annual revenue tops $75 billion

Check Your Celsius Energy Drinks, They Might Be Booze

10 Winners and 4 Losers From San Diego Comic-Con 2025

Palo Alto Networks agrees to buy CyberArk for $25 billion

Meta slated to reported second-quarter earnings after the bell

How to Watch Panathinaikos vs. Rangers From Anywhere for Free: Stream Champions League Qualifier Soccer

Google confirms it will sign the EU AI Code of Practice

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