An administrative law judge in California ruled Tesla's license to sell or manufacture cars in the state should be suspended for 30 days.

PayPal now wants to become a bank in the US. The company has submitted the required applications to the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to establish PayPal Bank, which would be a Utah-based chartered industrial loan company. PayPal says this would strengthen its business and improve its efficiency, enabling it to "better support small business growth and economic opportunities across the US". Aside from providing small business loans, ..

OpenAIs new GPT Image 1.5 model transforms ChatGPT into a powerful, user- friendly image editing and creation tool

We took a hair-raising trip around a track in the final four-door GT version of Jaguar's polarizing relaunch concept car. Is just might be good enough to end the British brand's abysmal run of luck.

Opal our tool for building AI-powered mini apps is now directly available in the Gemini web app as a new experimental Gem. You can find it in your Gems manager and s

TikTok was threatened with a U.S. ban on December 16, 2025. But there's already an order which delays a ban until January 2026.

Dec 16 (Reuters) - Alphabet unit Waymo is in talks with potential investors to raise money at a valuation of at least $100 billion, the Information reported on Tuesday, citing peoplefamiliar with the ride-hailing service provider's plans. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The hacking group "ShinyHunters" said on Tuesday it has stolen data belonging to premium customers of the leading sex website Pornhub and is threatening to publish it. Read full story

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Mark Carney says that amid a fundamental shift to the nature of globalization, his government will catalyze the growth in both the public and private sector. But Canadian linguists say that's a problem. Language experts have called out the Canadian prime minister's growing "utilization" of British spellings in key documents -- including the recent federal budget and a press release issued following a meeting with Donald Trump. Carney, who ..

Dec 16 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's X Corp sued a startup on Tuesday after it sought to cancel X's Twitter trademarks so it can "bring Twitter back" as a new social media platform. Read full story

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Tuesday opined on massive AI spending that has hurt tech stocks.

Misconfigured servers are in, 0-days out Chinese espionage crew Ink Dragon has expanded its snooping activities into European government networks, using compromised servers to create illicit relay nodes for future operations.

A proof-of-concept tool exploits messaging app receipts to silently track behavior, drain batteries, and increase mobile data usage.

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Tuesday threatened a wide range of retaliatory measures against EU service providers, including possible fees or restrictions on foreign services, if the firms continue what the USTR called "discriminatory" actions. Read full story

Gemini is getting the context it needs to automatically analyze screenshots.

Despite changing its name and using decidedly bird-free branding, X is trying to hold on to its original Twitter trademarks, TechCrunch reports . The xAI- owned social media platform has updated its terms of service to include references to Twitter after previously only mentioning X, and seemingly attempted to counter a startup's petition to cancel the company's Twitter trademarks with a petition of its own. The startup X appears to be responding to is Operation Bluebird, a company cofounded by ..

OTTAWA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada says regulations on future Canadian stablecoins must ensure they are backed by high-quality liquid assets and be pegged one-to-one to a central bank currency, Governor Tiff Macklem said on Tuesday. Read full story

Samsung's Micro RGB tech will be coming to TVs as small as 55 inches in 2026, and will feature the same Glare Free screen found in the company's top OLED model.

The company has reportedly consulted itself and decided it needs fewer people Consultant cut thyself! Where consulting firms typically tell other companies how to make more money by trimming the fat, they are now looking inward, as advances in AI and a push for efficiency prompt layoffs, with blue-chip advisor McKinsey weighing thousands of job cuts, according to reports.

Intel has quietly stopped maintaining its open-source user-space driver stack for Gaudi accelerators. Phoronix reports: It turns out earlier this year Intel archived the SynapseAI Core open-source code and is no longer maintained by Intel. The open-source Synapse AI Core GitHub repository was archived in February and README updated with: "This project will no longer be maintained by Intel. Intel has ceased development and contributions including, but not limited to, maintenance, bug fixes, new ..

Backers say the SPEED Act is crucial to helping the U.S. beat out China and other global competitors for leadership in AI.

When the partnership was unveiled in September the UK government said it would "shape the futures of millions of people".

A fake Leonardo DiCaprio torrent hides PowerShell malware in subtitles, delivering AgentTesla to steal credentials and evade security measures.

Google's AI image generator and editor Nano Banana has been a huge hit. And on Dec. 16, OpenAI launched a new image editing tool of its own ChatGPT Images.

Wall Street's bullishness on Tesla has returned after the stock had its worst performance since 2022 in the first quarter of the year.

The Honor Power 2 is expected to launch in early 2026, packing a massive battery and a MediaTek Dimensity 8500 chipset. While Honor has yet to officially reveal any details, a fresh leak has now surfaced, shedding light on the phones camera specifications and color options. Prolific leaker Digital Chat Station has revealed new details about the Power 2. As per the tipster, the phone will offer a 50MP primary rear camera and a 16MP front camera. The Honor Power offered an 8,000mAh battery The ..

An employee of the adult site could be responsible. Analytics vendor Mixpanel says it is not the source of data stolen from Pornhub and says the info was last accessed by an employee of the adult site.

A veteran games journalist claims Half-Life 3 is real and still planned as a Spring 2026 launch title tied to Valve's next Steam Machine push. Ars Technica reports: On the contrary, veteran journalist Mike Straw insisted on a recent Insider Gaming podcast that "everybody I've talked to are still adamant [Half- Life 3] is a game that will be a launch title with the Steam Machine." Straw -- who has a long history of reporting gaming rumors from anonymous sources -- said this Half-Life 3 ..

The 1844 WashingtonBaltimore telegraph chess match started remote play, inspiring later international competitions, teletype games, and massive online platforms today.

Laptop prices could jump in the near future due to the suddenly increased demand for RAM hardware. Samsung has reportedly doubled the price of DR55 RAM.

Automated Content Recognition brings "mass surveillance" to homes, lawsuits say.

No mention of protections to stop it being used to snoop on people Want to hear just the guitar riff from a song? How about cutting out the train noise from a voice recording? Meta says its new SAM Audio model can separate and edit sounds using simple prompts, cutting down on the manual work typical of audio-editing tools.

Companies such as Databricks, SpaceX and OpenAI have reached mega valuations while staying private for longer.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The last vehicle will roll off the assembly line at Volkswagen's plant in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday, marking the first time in the automaker's 88-year history that it has closed a plant in its home country. Volkswagen warned of potential production cuts last year, as it faced shaky demand in Europe and China, its biggest market, as well as higher tariffs that have crimped sales in the United States. After 24 years of vehicle ..

"We're going to be making 3D movies of what is going on in the Milky Way galaxy."

VChance DU16 is a 16-inch 4K portable monitor with HDR, aluminum build, battery operation, USB-C connectivity, and professional usability.

More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions Ad blockers and VPNs are supposed to protect your privacy, but four popular browser extensions have been doing just the opposite. According to research from Koi Security, these pernicious plug-ins have been harvesting the text of chatbot conversations from more than 8 million people and sending them back to the developers.