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A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just hours before Trump's announcement, renewing questions on insider information in prediction markets — - These bets — many of which were on Maduro's capture, and are now on what happens next to the ousted leader …
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| Sophie Shulman / CTech: |
Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi for $400M; Koi has raised $48M to date — The deal would extend the cyber giant's reach in enterprise endpoint protection amid AI-driven market shifts. — Palo Alto Networks, the cybersecurity giant … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Sources: Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity company Axonius for $2B; Axonius has raised ~$700M and was valued at $2.6B during earlier rounds — Exclusive: The deal would follow a string of major acquisitions as Cisco strengthens its enterprise security portfolio.
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Filing: West Co, founded by Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, raised $29M; it launched the invite-only social app Tangle, “designed for intentional living”, in November — Biz Stone and Evan Sharp raise new funds for ‘Tangle’ as they assess the ‘devastation’ caused by online excess| Michael Savage / The Guardian: |
Reddit surpasses TikTok as the fourth most-visited social media service in the UK, likely driven by changes to Google's search algorithms and AI deals — Platform is now Britain's fourth most visited social media site as users seek out human-generated content| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
How a crew of crypto-focused criminals moved from SIM swap attacks to coordinated, violent home invasions and kidnappings, targeting small-time crypto investors — The pecking at the sliding glass door awoke Julia Goodwin shortly before midnight. She and her husband, Glenn, retirees in their 60s … | Jasmine Sun / New York Times: |
Tech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more — Jayden Clark first heard about Chinese peptides at his Fourth of July party this past year. — In the backyard of a San Francisco … | Scott Stein / CNET: |
Hands-on with Xreal's Neo, a $99 battery pack and mini-dock that acts as a passthrough converter so the company's glasses can work with the Nintendo Switch — I loved playing Switch games on the Xreal 1S glasses, but getting them connected is a little awkward.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Xreal unveils the $449 1S, a pair of AR glasses with 1200p, 700 nits brightness, 52 degree FOV, and 16:10 aspect ratio; the 1S can convert any 2D video into 3D — Despite the spec bump, the Xreal 1S are $50 cheaper than their predecessor. … At CES 2026, Xreal announced an upgraded …
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| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
EU officials and policymakers say the EC will intensify its enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to renew clashes with US Big Tech and Trump — Challenges to Google, Meta, Apple and X will test Brussels' willingness to stick with digital rule book| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of June Paik, CEO of Seoul-based chip startup FuriosaAI, valued at ~$700M, whose AI chip dubbed “RNGD” is slated to enter mass production this month — June Paik spurned a takeover offer from Meta Platforms last year. Now his South Korean company, FuriosaAI, has an AI chip entering mass production.| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court system to provide aid in the probate process, which has been plagued by delays and hallucinations — A yearlong effort to build an AI probate assistant reveals the limits of government chatbot development.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Fueled partly by US tech companies, governments worldwide are racing to deploy GenAI in schools and universities, even as agencies such as UNICEF urge caution — In early November, Microsoft said it would supply artificial intelligence tools and training to more than 200,000 students and educators in the United Arab Emirates.
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| Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Kara Swisher on Sam Altman's determination to “do anything to make OpenAI win”, Elon Musk, the tech industry's Trump pivot, and more — After a year of dominating mega-deals and driving stock-market gains, the tech industry is poised for a pivotal 2026 that centers largely …
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