A look at Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese firms have opened offices, fueling a growing Chinese tech community — A growing Chinese techie community in Nuevo Polanco is fueling a boom in restaurants and markets to serve them.
Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT — As legitimate businesses purchase AI tools from some of the largest companies in the world, cybercriminals are accessing …
Gravis Robotics, which adds cameras, sensors, and AI to heavyweight construction machines so they can operate autonomously, raised $23M led by IQ and Zacua — Gravis Robotics, a Zurich-based startup that is turning heavyweight construction machines into autonomous robots …
CME Group says futures trading on its markets, including for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, was halted on November 28 due to a cooling issue at CyrusOne's data centers — An outage at the world's biggest exchange operator, CME Group, has halted trade on its currency platform …
The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads and Apple Maps likely meet DMA thresholds; Apple says the services should not be called “gatekeepers” — The European Commission said on Friday that Apple's (AAPL.O) Apple Ads and Apple Maps likely meet the thresholds to be considered …
OpenAI says a Mixpanel security incident on November 9 let a hacker access API account names and more, but not ChatGPT data, and it terminated its Mixpanel use — Transparency is important to us, so we want to inform you about a recent security incident at Mixpanel, a data analytics provider OpenAI used …
Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term — In October 2019, an international police operation brought an abrupt end to Share-Online.biz, the largest file-hosting platform in Germany at the time.
PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B+ so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B+, up from $9.24B in 2023 — The big story — Sitting in his new Beijing office, AI2 Robotics Founder and CEO Eric Guo wistfully reflected on fundraising challenges …
Malaysia's Johor state, which has approved 51 data centre projects as of November, stops approvals for new low-tier data centers citing high water consumption — JOHOR will stop approving applications for Tier 1 and Tier 2 data centres due to their massive water consumption, which can reach up to 50 million litres a day.
TSMC sues former VP Lo Wen-jen, who left to join Intel, alleging a high likelihood that he leaked secrets to Intel after a two-decade career at TSMC — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. sued a former executive who left to work for Intel Corp., saying there is a high likelihood …
Ubisoft says Tencent's €1.16B investment in Vantage Studios, set to reduce its debt, is complete, giving Tencent a 26% stake in Vantage and valuing it at €3.8B — Ubisoft Entertainment SA's shares jumped by the most in nearly a year after the company closed a deal with Tencent Holdings Ltd …
X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria — ROLE PLAY — A new feature on Elon Musk's X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
Sources: iOS 27 will be a Snow Leopard-style update focused on bug fixes and performance, plus new AI features; FT's retirement report on Tim Cook was premature — Apple's next major iPhone software update — iOS 27 — will have two major elements: quality improvements and artificial intelligence features.
A researcher details an LLM-based AI agent that “demonstrated a near-flawless ability” to bypass bot detection methods while answering online survey questions — We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people. Online survey research …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : PE firm Everstone combines India's Wingify, which helps A/B test sites, and France's AB Tasty, which...
