Dec 19 (Reuters) - Dina Powell McCormick has resigned from Meta Platforms board of directors effective immediately, just eight months after joining, the company said on Friday. Read full story

Shareholder Richard J. Tornetta brought the suit, accusing Musk and the Tesla board of a breach of fiduciary duties.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Earlier this month, Strava, the popular fitness-tracking app, released its annual "Year in Sport" wrap-up -- a cutesy, animated series of graphics summarizing each user's athletic achievements. But this year, for the first time, Strava made this feature available only to users with subscriptions ($80 per year), rather than making it free to everyone, as it had been historically since the review's debut in 2016. This decision has roiled ..

Soverli introduces an auditable OS layer for smartphones, enabling mission- critical security, encrypted communications, and business continuity alongside Android and iOS.

MILAN, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The EU Council on Friday backed a negotiating position for a digital euro that includes both online and offline functionality, diverging from earlier European Parliament proposals that focused solely on offline usage. Read full story

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Global data-center dealmaking surged to a record high through November this year, driven by an insatiable demand for computing infrastructure to meet the boom in artificial intelligence usage. Read full story

MILAN, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Italy's Treasury has agreed to sell PagoPA, which handles digital payments to public administrations, to the state mint and to state-backed postal group Poste Italiane for up to 500 million euros ($586 million), the mint said on Friday. Read full story

Dec 19 (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust agencies have cleared Nvidia's investment in Intel, according to a notice posted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley is emerging as a leading contender for a key role in SpaceX's blockbuster initial public offering, as the bank's close ties to CEO Elon Musk give it an edge in his decision,according to three people familiar with the matter. Read full story

Dina Powell McCormick, who was a member of President Donald Trump's first administration, has resigned from Meta's board of directors.

Bring home a MacBook Pro for just $429.99 (reg. $1,799) while supplies last.

TikTok's owner ByteDance has signed a deal creating a U.S.-focused joint venture majority-owned by American and global investors, allowing the app to avoid a U.S. ban while ByteDance retains a minority stake. The BBC reports: Half of the joint venture will be owned by a group of investors including Oracle, Silver Lake and the Emirati investment firm MGX, according to a memo sent by chief executive Shou Zi Chew. The deal, which is set to close on January 22, would end years of efforts by ..

This is the freshly announced OnePlus Pad Go 2 and it's the maker's affordable global tablet. It ships in Lavender Drift and Shadow Black and costs 320/350/27,000 for the base 8-128GB Wi-Fi only model. The top-of-the-line 8/256GB model is 400/450/33,000, and it packs 5G. Currently in Europe, OnePlus will gift you a Watch 2R with a Pad Go 2 purchase! You get a USB-A to USB-C cable in the box. The Pad Go 2 supports 33W charging, but you'd need to supply your own charger! You can pair the OnePlus ..

In todays episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into five storiesfrom AI to DOGEthat encapsulate the year and give us clues as to what might unfold in 2026.

As competition heats up for AI talent, Google turned to hiring more so-called boomerang employees in 2025.

The headlines might be gloomy, but CEO Gary Cohen argues the outlook for iRobot is sunny.

HPs 1972 GPIB bus finally receives stable Linux support, allowing vintage lab instruments to connect seamlessly with contemporary systems.

Google says the lawsuit is its last resort.

The White House says it's investigating how a personal-finance YouTuber's livestream briefly appeared on the White House's official live video page. The creator says he has no idea how his video ended up there. The Associated Press reports: The livestream appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House usually streams live video of the president speaking. It's unclear if the website was breached or the video was linked accidentally by someone in ..

Anthropic is finally letting more people use Claude in Google Chrome . The company's AI browser plugin is expanding beyond $200-per-month Max subscribers and is now available to anyone who pays for a Claude subscription. The Claude Chrome plugin allows for easy access to Anthropic's AI regardless of where you are on the web, but its real draw is how it lets Claude navigate and use websites on your behalf. Anthropic says that Claude can fill out forms, manage your calendar and email and complete ..

Ants with lots of workers tend to put less energy into making them armored.

The Mixx Analog+ is a turntable with a top-loading CD player in the center of it

In this episode, we look back at 2025 and look ahead to what's happening in 2026including whats in store for Uncanny Valley.

This might be the first voice-based response to song searches that we've seen from Google.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel- level anti-cheat software. As we've written before, this is software that runs with more elevated privileges than most other apps and games you run on your PC, allowing it to load in earlier and detect advanced methods of cheating. More recently, anti-cheat software has started to require more Windows security features like Secure Boot, a TPM ..

Inin suggests new low-cost options allowed it to "recalculate production" for full cartridge.

SantaStealer is a rebranded infostealer using modular data theft, modest pricing, and limited stealth, with no confirmed large-scale deployment yet.

Payroll-focused social engineering attacks target help desk staff, redirect employee salaries, and show how human factors can bypass traditional technical protections.

Forced by an act of Congress, the Justice Department has released hundreds of thousands of pages of documents related to Epsteinbut not everything, as is required by law.

Behold Mark Zuckerberg: man of principle. Witness the Meta CEO's dedication to the most high-minded of causes: "currying favor with whoever's in charge." In 2013, when Barack Obama was president, Zuckerberg co-founded FWD.us , a pro- immigration advocacy group. For years, he vocally supported providing paths to citizenship for "the most talented and hardest-working people, no matter where they were born." Now, in 2025, with Donald Trump back in power and pushing draconian immigration policies, ..

LG says it'll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots aren't going away.

hands on Infinite Machine, a New York-based electric vehicle startup, began with a stolen Vespa.

The new joint venture will prevent TikTok from shutting down in the U.S. due to national security concerns.

Several hundred machines across a diverse set of organizations already compromised, Microsoft says.

Netflix is acquiring Estonian startup Ready Player Me , a company creating "cross-game avatar tech" that allows players to bring their digital personas with them to different games, the company's CEO Timmu Tke shared in a LinkedIn post . The acquisition is part of Netflix's new games strategy, which puts an emphasis on approachable multiplayer titles and adaptations of the streaming service's IP. Ready Player Me's team of around 20 employees will be incorporated into Netflix's staff, TechCrunch ..

Microsoft's latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines -- none of which the software can actually perform reliably when put to the test. The Verge methodically tested each prompt shown in the ad and found that Copilot repeatedly hallucinated interface elements that didn't exist, claimed to highlight on-screen buttons when it hadn't, and ..

BIOS checks will only affect a limited subset of Valorant players for now.