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Technology - Recent Headlines

UK surveillance law still full of holes, watchdog warns -- Investigatory Powers Commissioner says reforms have failed to close oversight gaps -- Security

Pulitzer winner Peter Arnett, who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, dies at 91

NBC News - 6 hours ago

Best phones under Rs 100,000 (Dec 2025): Vivo X300, Realme GT 8 Pro to Google Pixel 9 Pro

First Post - 6 hours ago

Third of UK citizens have used AI for emotional support, research reveals

Guardian UK - 6 hours ago

Palmer Luckey told you so

Business Insider - 6 hours ago

Feds defend $1.1-million Deloitte contract for AI advice after firm admitted mistakes

Toronto Star - 6 hours ago

Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions -- MPs press minister for answers – and get few -- Networks

'Money today or blood tomorrow': Europe faces crunch decision on Russian assets for Ukraine

NBC News - 6 hours ago

What we'll be wearing, cooking and obsessing over in 2026

Evening Standard - 6 hours ago

Meta May Be Putting Facebook Links Behind a Paywall for Creators

International Business Times - 6 hours ago

India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64 -- No details on power consumption, lots of patriotic pride

Iran's Army Ground Force equipped with AI to confront enemy

Mehr News Agency - 7 hours ago

Shortest day of the year descending on Northern Hemisphere: what to know

ABC News - 7 hours ago

Google launches Disco, an AI-first browser to take on ChatGPT Atlas

First Post - 7 hours ago

Oracle's debt seems to be affecting data center funding

CNBC - 7 hours ago

Ditch your smartwatch for this classic Casio that's only £16.99 -- I bought this watch and it is a refreshing reprieve from digital overload.

Daily Express - 8 hours ago

67-Million-Year-Old T. Rex Becomes First AI-ncient Influencer

Deccan Chronicle - 9 hours ago

Pro-Palestinian hacker group breaches phone of ex-Israeli PM

Mehr News Agency - 9 hours ago

With Freebies, OpenAI, Google Vie For Indian Users And Training Data

Deccan Chronicle - 10 hours ago

United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance -- World Summit on the Information Society resolves the world needs a permanent forum to discuss how we manage the 'Net -- Public Sector

Google reviving glasses: Will it succeed this time? Android XR with AI could redefine wearable computing, challenge smartphone dependency - 4 - m read

Gulf News - 11 hours ago

Trump talks lower prices, health care costs, military bonuses in year-end address

NBC News - 12 hours ago

Branded Content - Stream movies or edit docs: How to multitask anywhere with new 10-inch foldable

The Straits Times - 12 hours ago

UK parents told to lead by example and turn off phones this Christmas -- The children's commissioner says children are "crying out" for family time over the festive break.

BBC News - 12 hours ago

Analytics provider: We didn't expose smut site data to crims -- An employee of the adult site could be responsible.

Netflix Cancels LGBTQ-Themed Military Series 'Boots' After One Season Following Pentagon Calling It 'Woke Garbage'

Breitbart - 12 hours ago

Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future -- Even with its new fabs coming online, demand will exceed supply -- Systems

Senators Call on Attorney General Pam Bondi to Recuse Herself From Warner Bros. Sale Review

Hollywood Reporter - 12 hours ago

Medical examiner releases causes of death for Rob and Michele Reiner -- Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner died of "multiple sharp force injuries," the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday.

CBS News - 13 hours ago

SoftBank leads decline in Japanese tech stocks as worries over AI spending spill over to Asia

CNBC - 13 hours ago

How China Built its 'Manhattan Project' To Rival West in AI Chips

Deccan Chronicle - 13 hours ago

Latest CBS News Videos - The Uplift: Made with love - Visit a Uyghur restaurant in Southern California, where culture is shared and the food is made with love. Plus, a man who wanted to save his friends life by donating a kidney ends up saving his own life. 8M ago - 20:47

CBS News - 13 hours ago

Exclusive--Poll: Americans Want Legislation Targeting CCP-Controlled Tech Posing as American-Owned

Breitbart - 13 hours ago

Why Brussels sprouts no longer taste like you think -- The days of bitter sprouts are gone - is it time for our taste buds to catch up?

BBC News - 14 hours ago

MetaX and Moore Threads' IPOs underscore Chinese chipmakers' challenge to Nvidia

CNBC - 14 hours ago

Minecraft - Pocket Edition -- Mojang

Gizmodo - 14 hours ago

'Inexcusable': Optus staff face sack after review into Triple Zero outage

Sydney Morning Herald - 14 hours ago

Pulsetto Vagus Nerve Stimulator Review: A Non-Invasive Path to Better Sleep and Less Stress

International Business Times - 14 hours ago

GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners - updated - Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.

Young Emirati empowers women with '3bayti' app -- m read

Gulf News - 14 hours ago

Local pushback grows against AI data centers -- A frenzy of development to support the artificial intelligence boom is prompting pushback from communities who say they don't want data centers in their backyards. Technology journalist Jacob Ward joins CBS News to discuss. -- Dec 16

CBS News - 14 hours ago

Police call for public help in Brown probe -- The manhunt for the gunman who killed two students and wounded nine others at Brown University last weekend is now in its fifth day. CBS News legal reporter Katrina Kaufman has the latest from Providence, Rhode Island.

CBS News - 15 hours ago

FTC probing Instacart's AI pricing tool after being caught charging customers different prices: report

New York Post - 15 hours ago

China's Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks -- Misconfigured servers are in, 0-days out

Children's tsar urges parents to ditch their phones during festive family time

Evening Standard - 15 hours ago

'It penetrates your bones': Day laborers protest noise machines installed at Home Depot

Los Angeles Times - 15 hours ago

ServiceNow unworried by Salesforce firing shots across its bow -- Believes it can translate workflow smarts into AI ROI -- SaaS

Instacart shares drop on report that FTC is probing company over AI pricing tool

CNBC - 15 hours ago

Coinbase adds prediction markets, more tools in push to be one-stop trading app

CNBC - 15 hours ago

Mystery solved: Amazon is the prospective tenant in talks with data center developer rocked by stock plunge

Business Insider - 15 hours ago

Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement -- GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their heads -- AI + ML

Meg Ryan honors Rob Reiner and his wife Michele -- Meg Ryan starred in Rob Reiner's "When Harry Met Sally...," a breakout role that catapulted her career in romantic comedies.

CBS News - 16 hours ago

Smartphones face a memory cost crunch – and buyers aren't in the mood - AI-nflation - Rising DRAM and NAND prices are squeezing handset makers and threatening a fragile market recovery - Personal Tech - 16 Dec 2025 - | 27

Jared Isaacman Becomes Youngest NASA Administrator After Senate Confirmation

Breitbart - 16 hours ago

CBS News special celebrates Rob Reiner's life and legacy -- The special features interviews with Kathy Bates, Annette Bening, Albert Brooks, Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Jerry O'Connell and Mandy Patinkin.

CBS News - 17 hours ago

Nolte: Failing Oscars Demoted to YouTube

Breitbart - 17 hours ago

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't - On Call - Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up

Lemonada CEO Steps Down, Names Co-Founder As New Chief

Hollywood Reporter - 17 hours ago

LinkedIn is giving us its own version of Spotify Wrapped. Are you ready?

Business Insider - 17 hours ago

Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator in do-over after Musk feud

ABC News - 17 hours ago

Hackers breach confidential files in cyberattack on French ministry

Daily Sabah - 17 hours ago

Vesuvius Exploded in August—So Why Were Pompeii Victims Wearing Heavy Clothing? Despite the fact that Mount Vesuvius triggered one of the most infamous ancient tragedies, not everyone agrees on exactly when it took place. Human History - Margherita Bassi

Gizmodo - 17 hours ago

Micron forecasts surging revenue as computer memory demand for AI remains high

CNBC - 17 hours ago

Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause -- Vermont lawmaker proposes DC moratorium to give Congress time to rein in the AI boom -- Public Sector

Warner Bros. Golden Parachutes Revealed: What David Zaslav and C-Suite Will Get in a Deal

Hollywood Reporter - 17 hours ago

Hacker Group Extorts Pornhub Over Premium User Data -- AJ Dellinger

Gizmodo - 17 hours ago

The Oscars have a new stage on YouTube. The audience may have other plans.

Business Insider - 18 hours ago

Australian Surf Crew Captures a Real-Life Ocean 'Glitch' That Repeats

Gizmodo - 18 hours ago

California threatens Tesla with 30-day suspension of sales license for deceptive self-driving claims

ABC News - 18 hours ago

Two families sue Meta over teens' deaths by suicide, citing 'sextortion' scams

NBC News - 18 hours ago

Researchers Tested Herpes Drugs for Alzheimer's. It Backfired -- Health -- Ed Cara

Gizmodo - 18 hours ago

How ArtWorkout Created One of the Best Drawing Apps for iPad

International Business Times - 18 hours ago

America's Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision

Gizmodo - 19 hours ago

Why the world's oldest energy source is poised to power the future

Toronto Star - 19 hours ago

Inside xAI's all-hands: Elon Musk says if the company can survive the next 2 to 3 years, it will come out on top

Business Insider - 19 hours ago

Texas Sues TV Makers, Claiming They Can Collect Images of What Viewers Are Watching -- Matt Novak

Gizmodo - 19 hours ago

Hollywood stars launch Creators Coalition on AI

Los Angeles Times - 19 hours ago

Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats -- More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions

UTA, CAA Unveil Dozens of Year-End Promotions In Agency Ranks

Hollywood Reporter - 19 hours ago

The Oscars are heading to YouTube starting in 2029, ending a more than 50-year run on ABC

Business Insider - 19 hours ago

All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup -- Startup expects its first Kaleidos reactor to power on at Idaho National Lab next year -- The Future of the Datacenter

Viral bar brawl woman ID'ed as San Fran tech worker — she's just been fired

New York Post - 19 hours ago

What to know about MIT professor Nuno Loureiro and the investigation into his shooting

ABC News - 19 hours ago

Media, Telecom Deals Value Soars on Mega-Mergers — And That's Before Warner Bros.

Hollywood Reporter - 19 hours ago

SiriusXM hopes a new Howard Stern deal can turn its fortunes around -- The Explainer -- The company has been steadily losing subscribers -- Justin Klawans, The Week US -- Published

The Week - 20 hours ago

Senators Send Toymakers Warning Letter About AI-Powered Toys

NBC News - 20 hours ago

The head of Amazon's AGI team is leaving

Business Insider - 20 hours ago

What Is a Micro RGB TV and Why You're Gonna See Them Everywhere -- Gadgets -- Kyle Barr

Gizmodo - 20 hours ago

AI griefbots create a computerized afterlife -- Under the Radar -- Some say the machines help people mourn; others are skeptical -- Justin Klawans, The Week US -- Published

The Week - 20 hours ago

The fake refund scam: Why scammers love holiday shoppers

Fox News - 20 hours ago

The everyday activities that could help you live longer -- From running up stairs, to rigorous gardening: these everyday activities could boost your health and help you live longer. -- 5 Dec 2025

BBC News - 20 hours ago

From Nvidia to OpenAI, Silicon Valley woos Westminster as ex-politicians take tech firm roles

Guardian UK - 21 hours ago

Fifa video game to return after four years in Netflix exclusive -- The game will be made by Delphi Interactive and released in time for the 2026 World Cup.

BBC News - 21 hours ago

Border Patrol Bets on Small Drones to Expand US Surveillance Reach

Wired News - 21 hours ago

FCC Chair Deflects Responsibility on Kimmel, Says Agency Is Not Independent

Hollywood Reporter - 21 hours ago

Watch: Enloe Health Employee Harasses Target Worker for Supporting Charlie Kirk

Breitbart - 21 hours ago

JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity

Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images

NBC News - 21 hours ago

Meta's billionaire AI star Alexandr Wang thinks boss Mark Zuckerberg's micromanaging is 'suffocating': report

New York Post - 21 hours ago

Oracle stock dips on report Blue Owl Capital won't back $10 billion data center

CNBC - 21 hours ago