The U.S government will take a 25% cut, according to the president.

Letterboxd has introduced its first wave of exclusive digital film rentals for the companys previously announced Letterboxd Video Store. The inaugural collection is themed Unreleased Gems and includes four movies that received awards or acclaim during a film festival. The titles will be available to watch from Letterboxd from December 10 through January 9. Each film is limited to certain geographic markets and the prices will also vary both by title and country. The Unreleased Gems rental ..

The Xiaomi 17, which was unveiled in China in September, is still awaiting its global debut. Although Xiaomi hasnt shared any details about an international release, a tipster has now hinted at its expected launch timeline. According to the tipster, the Xiaomi 17 may see a global debut in January 2026. The phone is also said to arrive in India around the same time. Meanwhile, a Xiaomi phone with the model number 25113PN0EC has been spotted on Geekbench. It is expected to be the global Xiaomi 17 ..

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A fledgling social media platform has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel trademarks for Twitter so it can take them for itself, contending that billionaire Elon Musk's X Corp has abandoned them. Read full story

Dec 8 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery, challenging a rival offer from Netflix and injecting uncertainty into the future of Hollywood's storied media company. Read full story

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday called a fine imposed on Elon Musk's social media company X by European Union tech regulators "a nasty one" and said he did not understand how they could justify the move. Read full story

Dec 8 (Reuters) - The developer of the most popular app used to share information about sightings of federal immigration agents sued the Trump administration on Monday, alleging free speech violations after Apple removed ICEBlock from its online store. Read full story

Startup wagers the path to sustainable AI might be found in natures most amazing design - the brain Interview Naveen Rao founded AI businesses and sold them to Intel and Databricks. Hes now turned his attention to satisfying AI's thirst for power and believes his new company, Unconventional AI, can do it by building chips inspired by nature.

According to a statement from the Public Interest Research Group, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 has removed language that would have granted the US military the right to repair its own equipment rather than requiring it to use official defense contractors for maintenance. This bill is still being considered by Congress, but it is uncertain whether the right to repair language is likely to be re-introduced once it has been removed. "Despite support from Republicans, ..

Dec 8 (Reuters) - Warby Parker said on Monday it is collaborating with Alphabet's Google to develop lightweight AI-powered glasses, with the first product expected to launch in 2026. Read full story

Trump vows to sign AI executive order this week.

BRUSSELS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Carmakers BMW and Toyota and auto rental and leasing firms from across Europe urged the European Commission on Monday not to set mandatory targets for electric vehicle purchases for corporate fleets, arguing it would be cripplingly expensive and counter-productive. Read full story

Nvidia and chip rival Advanced Micro Devices agreed over the summer to share 15% of the revenue from China chip sales with the U.S. government.

The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic A growing number of websites are taking steps to ban AI bot traffic so that their work isn't used as training data and their servers aren't overwhelmed by non-human users. However, some companies are ignoring the bans and scraping anyway.

Were releasing new updates for the Galaxy XR headset starting today, and announcing updates for Android XR.

Katsuhiro Harada is departing Bandai Namco at the end of 2025. He announced the news both with a farewell note shared on X and, in possibly the coolest exit ever, with an hour-long DJ mix. Harada's 30-year career has most closely been involved with Tekken and he's a familiar face in the fighting game community. He began as a voice actor in the original Tekken game and continued to do so even as he became a director for the series. He has worked on other Bandai Namco titles as a producer, both ..

Chinese companies moved quickly into smartglasses after Meta's release, with Inmo and Rokid sold worldwide.

Samsung's leaked accessory may be more proof of Qi2 support in the Galaxy S26.

But the 25 announcements in the last 10 minutes included a few well worth waiting for AWS CEO Matt Garman's annual re:Invent keynote was the best kind of keynote, in that you could have slept in for nearly all of it and still been thrilled to pieces, provided you caught the last ten minutes. He concluded what was otherwise an AI-palooza chock full of boring guest speakers with an Andy Jassy style "twenty-five releases in ten minutes," complete with a basketball-style ten-minute shot clock ..

The Chocolate Factory will also put its AI to work inside one of Americas biggest utilities NextEra Energy on Monday tightened its grip on hyperscaler power demand, adding 2.5 GW of new renewable projects for Meta while deepening its partnership with Google, which already covers about 3.5 GW of capacity.

The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure service members ability to fix their own equipment.

OpenAI's chatbot will now allow you to buy groceries via Instacart right in the app.

The *other* One of the Best 'Star Wars' Games of All Time was planned to get the remake treatmentbut whether it still is remains to be seen.

Missed the auroras? These photographers have got you covered.

Despite making some moves to address the proliferation of AI-generated audio on its platform, Spotify failed to catch a copycat making imitations of music by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. The long-running experimental rock band from Australia, has been a vocal critic of Spotify and was one of several artists that took their music off the platform in the summer. The move was in response to the discovery that outgoing CEO Daniel Ek was a leading investor in an AI-focused weapons and military ..

This year, Waymo debuted on freeways in three cities, and started autonomous driving in cities including Miami, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Orlando.

ICEBlock creator sues to protect apps that are crowd-sourcing ICE sightings.

Watch Tesla's Optimus robot tip over while removing a phantom headset.

Petco breach exposed sensitive customer data, including SSNs and drivers licenses

Only 0.1% of people got YouTubes rarest Recap personality types.

You'll soon have an easier time moving from Android to iOS, or vice versa, thanks to a future software update for both platforms.

The centralization will continue until morale improves.

Sometimes you light so much cash on fire that you burn the whole house down.

Suit argues forcing Apple to remove app, and threatening dev with legal action is a First Amendment violation Does the first amendment allow citizens to track law enforcement activity? After publishing an iOS app that shows where ICE agents have deployed, ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron saw the Trump admin pressure Apple into pulling the software and threaten him with prosecution. Now he's fighting back.

You dont have to try every cookie on the holiday table, wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.

A USGS webcam captured harrowing footage of Hawaiis Klauea erupting over the weekend. It didn't survive.

Take a look at Project Aura's computing puck.

The director reacted to what audiences liked and didn't like about his movie for its follow-up, out December 19.

Broadcom shares hit an all-time high during Monday's trading session.

Back in November we first heard that Google was working on creating something very similar to Apple's NameDrop, but for Android devices. NameDrop was launched in 2023 and lets you share files with another iPhone owner by simply bringing your iPhones close together. NameDrop also supports sharing contact info. And Google seems to be focused on that contact sharing bit in its implementation, at least initially. The video embedded below shows how Google's version of NameDrop for Android will ..