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The US is imposing visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints — The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
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| Bloomberg: |
ServiceNow agrees to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75B in cash in a deal set to close in H2 2026, marking its largest acquisition to date — ServiceNow Inc. has reached a deal to buy the cybersecurity startup Armis in a deal valued at $7.75 billion, representing its largest acquisition to date.
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| Heo Kyungjun / The Asia Business Daily: |
South Korean prosecutors allege China's CXMT mass-produced 10nm-class DRAM using leaked Samsung tech, indicting 10 employees who previously worked for Samsung — Prosecutors: “Hundreds of DRAM Process Steps Copied and Leaked” — Samsung Electronics' Sales Declined by 5 Trillion Won Last Year
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| Polly Thompson / Business Insider: |
Starlink says it has reached 9M “active customers” across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M on November 5 — - SpaceX says its Starlink internet has hit 9 million customers, just over a month after reaching 8 million. — The numbers close a year …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
A federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1 — The law was set to take effect next month. … A federal judge blocked a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1st.
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| Jordan Fabian / Bloomberg: |
After a yearlong review, the US says China is engaging in unfair chip trade practices, but holds off on additional chip import tariffs at least until mid-2027 — The US accused China of engaging in unfair trade practices in the semiconductor sector, but is declining to impose additional tariffs on chip imports until at least mid-2027.| Aime Williams / Financial Times: |
The Trump administration plans to replace the lottery system for H-1B visas with a “weighted” system prioritizing higher-paid individuals, starting February 27 — ‘Weighted’ selection process that prioritises higher-paid and more skilled applicants will begin in February| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
France's La Poste says it has suffered a suspected DDoS attack in “a major network incident” on December 22, which disrupted its postal and banking services — France's national postal and baking services company La Poste was knocked offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service …
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| Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters: |
Fleet management software provider Motive files for a US IPO, reporting a $138.5M net loss on $327.3M in revenue for the nine months ended September 30 — AI-powered fleet management company Motive Technologies on Tuesday disclosed a rise in nine-month revenue in its U.S. initial public offering filing … | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Marissa Mayer's new startup Dazzle, which is building next-gen AI personal assistants, raised an $8M seed at a $35M valuation and plans to exit stealth in 2026 — The former Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, refuses to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution.
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Sources: Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe for around $1B; Observe has raised more than $470M — Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake's history, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Xbox had a terrible 2025: Microsoft canceled games and raised console and Game Pass prices, Costco stopped selling Xbox, and Valve's Steam Machine upstaged it — But can it be resurrected in PC form? — Want to see a dead body? I present to you the Xbox.
More: Kotaku. Bluesky: @scalehelix.net, @quinnypig.com, @econreporter, and @thedimpsler. Mastodon: @ampressman@journa.host. Forums: r/DreamStationcc
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Lemon Slice, which launched a 20B-parameter model that creates digital avatars for AI agents, streaming video at 20 FPS on a single GPU, raised a $10.5M seed — Developers and companies are increasingly deploying AI agents and chatbots within their apps, but so far they've mostly been restricted to text.| Yueqi Yang / The Information: |
Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, raised a $35M Series A for his new perpetual futures exchange AX, a source says at a $187M valuation — Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, has raised $35 million for his startup Architect Financial Technologies, which offers a global perpetual futures exchange.
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