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December 23, 2025, 11:55 PM
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Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
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.
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.
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
Ari Levy / CNBC:
Waymo, which paused its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20, says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages  —  Three days after a blackout in San Francisco caused Waymo to pause it driverless car service, the Alphabet-owned company …
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.
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 …
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.

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Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter:
Law&Crime launches streaming service Law&Crime+, which includes crime scene footage and court documents, for $3.99/month or $40.99/year on Roku and platforms

Erik Wemple / New York Times:
In a legal filing, NYT accuses the DOD of defying a court ruling that declared parts of its press rules unconstitutional, after the DOD issued new rules Monday

Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Court filing: lobbyist Jack Abramoff spent $12,800 buying press for AML Bitcoin prior to his 2020 indictment; Forbes and the Daily Caller were among recipients

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Yueqi Yang / The Information:
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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
The European Commission says Apple will bring AirPods-like pairing and iPhone notification access to third-party devices under the DMA in iOS 26.3 in 2026

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Bloomberg:
Samsung's Harman agrees to acquire ZF's radar and automotive computing driver-assistance business for €1.5B, as the European auto-supplier sector struggles
Ivan Zhao / @ivanhzhao:
How AI can work across scales, from individuals to organizations to economies, like steel and the steam engine before it, as AI arrives as “infinite minds”
Bonny Chu / Fox News:
The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
OpenAI details efforts to secure its ChatGPT Atlas browser against prompt injection attacks, including building an “LLM-based automated attacker”
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Italy's competition watchdog fines Apple €98.6M, saying the company's ATT rules are “disproportionate” and “harmful” to app developers and advertisers
Bloomberg:
Alphabet agrees to acquire data center company Intersect for $4.75B in cash, plus its existing debt, as part of its push to expand its AI data center footprint
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