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A University of Cambridge analysis reveals how cheap SMS text message verification to create online accounts fuels global influence and manipulation campaigns — Analysis reveals how cheap text message verification fuels global influence and manipulation campaigns
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| Sarah Holder / Bloomberg: |
A look at Netflix House in Philadelphia, a new 100K sq. ft. location for in-person experiences, which resembles a Disneyland attraction and a Dave & Buster's — The entertainment company's new “Netflix House” experience is bringing the brand's shows into former department stores.
More: Esquire, The Hollywood Reporter, Visit Philadelphia, and Netflix Tudum
| Brooke Sutherland / Bloomberg: |
The AI boom is delaying US municipal projects, as ~$4T in AI infra spending through 2030 shifts skilled construction workers to AI data centers — The data center construction boom is sucking up resources from other parts of the market. State and local projects may face particular competition for labor.
More: TechCrunch. X: @entrepreneur_cm. Bluesky: @prietschka, @danny.page, @simond1954, and @tnewmsblues
| Isabelle Lee / Bloomberg: |
Seagate and Western Digital, with stocks each up 200%+ in 2025, will join Nasdaq 100 before the December 22 market open; GlobalFoundries will leave the index — Six firms are set to join the Nasdaq 100 Index as part of its annual reconstitution, the benchmark's overseer said Friday.
More: Reuters, MarketWatch, Nasdaq, CoinDesk, Nasdaq, Cointelegraph, and Coinpedia Fintech News
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| Taylor Telford / Washington Post: |
Blowback over posts about the death of Charlie Kirk has prompted companies to be more aggressive about monitoring employees' social media activity — Fervor over employee posts about Charlie Kirk's death is leading companies to adjust policies and step up monitoring of workers' online conduct.| Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times: |
Cisco's stock touched a new record high of $80.25 on December 10, surpassing its previous split-adjusted high of $80.06 on March 27, 2000; CSCO is up 31.64% YTD — 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 — It only took 25 years, eight months and 13 days, but the stock of Cisco Systems finally hit a new record high.
More: Bloomberg, CNBC, Barchart.com, and Barron's Online
| Bloomberg: |
How Oracle's massive Stargate deal with OpenAI has pushed Oracle to the center of the AI boom, turning its market cap into a barometer on AI sentiment — Silicon Valley is in the midst of another epic boom, and Larry Ellison has Oracle right at the center of it, for better or worse.
More: Bloomberg Law, Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, Benzinga, Reuters, DatacenterDynamics, Investor's Business Daily, The Information, Proactive, ZeroHedge News, Capital Brief, Crypto Briefing, and Blockonomi
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| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
Sources: The Trump administration is drafting a new cyber strategy that would enlist private companies to mount offensive cyberattacks on foreign adversaries — President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to turn to private businesses to help mount offensive cyberattacks …
Bluesky: @tomtruth, @metacurity.com, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @lukaszolejnik, and @rondeibert
Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/technology
| Financial Times: |
Sources: private capital giant Apollo Global has shorted loans and rapidly cut exposure to the enterprise software sector in 2025 amid concerns over AI threat — Private capital giant shorted loans and cut exposure to sector amid concerns over threat from AI| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Nex, which makes the $249 Nex Playground motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids and projects more than $150M of sales this year — How an obscure company pivoted, then pivoted again, nearly ran out of money—and built a hit product| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI quietly adopted Anthropic's “skills” mechanism in ChatGPT and Codex; ChatGPT's skills include creating and modifying spreadsheets, docx files, and PDFs — One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic's new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement.
More: Deseret News, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, and GitHub
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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI hopes the Disney deal boosts Sora, which has high costs and limited traction; Sensor Tower: users average 13 minutes per day on Sora vs. 90 on TikTok — Sora has struggled to build an engaged audience despite already hosting bootleg content from the Hollywood studio
More: Nikkei Asia, MediaNama, and Communicate Online
| Mark Haranas / CRN: |
Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Coastal Cloud, a Florida-based Salesforce consulting partner, for $700M, in a bid to boost its AI and US customer business — Tata Consultancy Services is buying U.S.-based Salesforce Summit Partner Coastal Cloud for $700 million to boost its global presence and AI business.
More: Pulse 2.0, Tata Consultancy Services, Trak.in, Free Press Journal, Livemint, Moneycontrol, Coastal, Business Standard, Business Standard, The Hindu, The Economic Times, Salesforce Ben, VCCircle, TechCircle, The American Bazaar, Times of India, Analytics India Magazine, Fortune India, NDTV Profit, Verdict, and Constellation Research
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Broadcom's shares fell 11% on December 12, their biggest single-day drop since January, after the company's AI sales outlook fell short of investor expectations — Broadcom Inc., a chip company vying with Nvidia Corp. for AI computing revenue, suffered the worst stock decline in more than 10 months …
More: Taipei Times, Motley Fool, Heatmap News, CNBC, Benzinga, Barron's Online, and Proactive
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