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Meta has launched a new, unified support hub for Facebook and Instagram, X was fined 120 million euros by EU regulators, and Meta has established new licensing partnerships with various news organizations.
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Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros., including HBO Max and the HBO studio, for a groundbreaking $82.7 billion to cement its position as the top streamer and gain major franchises like DC Comics and Harry Potter. The deal, valued at a mix of cash and stock and expected to close in the third quarter of 2026, was prompted by Warner Bros. Discovery’s debt and streaming performance and is anticipated to face significant antitrust review.
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Meta has launched a new, unified support hub for Facebook and Instagram on iOS and Android globally to streamline issue reporting and account recovery, recognizing previous support challenges. The company is also developing an AI assistant to provide instant, personalized help and is using AI to improve account recovery by better identifying past usage devices and locations for more effective options. While the hub is in-app, potentially limiting its use for locked-out users, the underlying recovery improvements are meant to address this.
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X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU regulators under the Digital Services Act (DSA) for violations related to illegal content, deceptive design of its blue checkmark, poor ad transparency, and denying data access to researchers. This penalty, which is the first of its kind, has drawn criticism from U.S. officials who’ve called it an “attack” on American companies. While rival platforms like TikTok and Meta are also facing scrutiny, EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen defended the action as proportionate, not censorship, and stated that future investigations are expected to be faster.
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Meta has established new licensing partnerships with various news organizations, including CNN, Fox News, USA Today, The Daily Caller, and Le Monde, to provide content for its AI chatbot. This strategy, which follows Meta’s termination of previous publishing deals and the closure of the Facebook News tab, aims to enhance the AI’s content diversity and timeliness. This move comes amid ongoing lawsuits by publishers, such as The New York Times, against AI companies for unauthorized content use, and mirrors similar licensing approaches taken by competitors like OpenAI.
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Walmart-backed PhonePe is shutting down its Pincode quick-commerce app, which launched less than two years ago on the ONDC network, after the app failed to compete with rivals. The company is redirecting its focus and resources from the challenging consumer-facing market to its core objective of offering B2B services, such as inventory and order management tools, to offline merchants to improve their efficiency and margins, ahead of its target mid-2026 public listing.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating Waymo’s robotaxis, primarily in Austin, Texas, for repeatedly and illegally passing stopped school buses. The federal regulator is concerned about the fifth-generation self-driving system’s “unexpected or illegal behavior.” Despite Waymo’s claimed software update after a Georgia incident, the Austin Independent School District reported 19 incidents, including five post-update, and requested Waymo halt operations during school hours—a request the company denied. A December 1st incident highlights ongoing safety issues.
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The New York Times has sued the AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement in the Southern District of New York, alleging the company illegally copied and distributed its content (stories, videos, podcasts) to generate similar or identical user query responses. This lawsuit is part of a broader effort by The Times to protect its intellectual property from AI misuse, as it is already suing Microsoft and OpenAI, and follows Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors over illegally downloaded books.
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Apple is facing a significant “brain drain” as high-profile executives and innovators depart for rivals like Meta and OpenAI, including the general counsel, policy head, top designer, and head of AI strategy. This puts CEO Tim Cook under pressure to define a clear AI strategy. Rivals like Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman are actively recruiting this talent to develop AI-centric products that threaten the iPhone’s dominance. While the iPhone is currently secure, Apple’s perceived slow movement in AI creates a long-term risk to the company’s legacy if successful AI products aren’t delivered before Cook’s departure.
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Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media monitoring agency, has blocked Snapchat and FaceTime, claiming they were used for terrorist acts and fraud. This action continues Russia’s post-2022 invasion crackdown on foreign communication platforms like Facebook, X, Instagram, and Signal. Restricting these services allows the Russian government to control public conversation and information, potentially steering citizens toward “MAX,” a state-run super app, as part of a push for technological self-reliance, which also facilitates government surveillance.
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Meta Platforms Inc. is planning significant budget cuts as high as 30%, for its metaverse initiative. Why has Netflix killed the ability to cast content from your phone to most TVs and streaming devices? YouTube said it will take steps to comply with Australia’s ban on allowing users of its service who are younger than 16, but doesn’t believe it should be considered a social media platform. TikTok introduced a “Nearby Feed” in the U.K., France, Italy, and Germany, giving users a location-based stream of local posts.
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Apple Interface Chief Alan Dye just got poached by Meta, and Andy Beach tells us about AI assisted diner tags on Open Table.
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https://www.theverge.com/news/838017/oneplus-15-preorders-us
https://www.theverge.com/news/827430/oneplus-15r-will-get-a-late-launch-next-month
https://www.theverge.com/news/837594/crucial-ram-ssd-micron-ai
Google launches Workspace Studio to create automated Gemini-powered agents
TikTok rolls out a ‘Nearby Feed’ to display local content in select countries
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-fi-web-rcs-support-3621999/
YouTube adopts new Australian law banning social media accounts for users under 16, Night mode in Portrait is absent on iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, and Alan Dye, former Apple VP of Human Interface Design, joins Meta to lead a new hardware design studio.
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Amazon is challenging Nvidia’s dominance with its upcoming Trainium3, which is four times faster than Trainium2. Trainium2 already brings in multi-billion-dollar revenue from more than a million chips used by 100,000+ companies, including a 500,000-chip commitment from Anthropic (Project Rainier). Amazon is pursuing a price-performance strategy but must overcome industry dependence on CUDA. Future plans include Trainium4 interoperability with Nvidia GPUs.
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YouTube will comply with Australia’s new law banning social media accounts for users under 16 by automatically signing them out and preventing login, subscription, and posting beginning December 10. The company calls the rule a “disappointing update,” arguing it may reduce safety by disabling parental controls. The law carries heavy penalties and is viewed as a potential global precedent.
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The iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max no longer allow Night mode in Portrait mode, ending support present in all Pro models from the iPhone 12–16 era. Night mode remains available for standard photos, selfies, and time-lapse video, but users can no longer capture low-light Portrait shots unless they use older devices. Apple has not explained the change.
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Alan Dye, Apple’s former VP of Human Interface Design and a key figure behind visionOS, has been hired by Meta to lead a new design studio spanning hardware, software, and AI under CTO Andrew Bosworth. It’s a significant win for Meta as it scales hardware like Quest and Ray-Ban smart glasses. Apple will replace Dye with senior designer Stephen Lemay.
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Linux usage on Steam climbed to 3.2% in November, while Windows remains dominant at 94.79%. SteamOS Holo leads Linux distributions at 26.4%, followed by Arch Linux, Linux Mint, CachyOS, Bazzite, and Ubuntu. Growth may be driven by Windows 10’s coming end-of-life and continued gaming improvements from Steam Deck and Proton, despite ongoing anti-cheat limitations.
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Google introduced Workspace Studio (formerly Workspace Flows), an AI-powered automation platform built on Gemini 3 that lets users create and share custom agents to automate workflows across Gmail, Chat, Drive, and third-party apps like Salesforce. Agents use plain-language prompts and can perform tasks like prioritization and sentiment analysis. Deployment is rolling out across Workspace, AI Pro, and Ultra tiers.
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Yahoo Sports is rolling out Game Breakdowns, an AI feature for NFL Week 14 that generates evolving summaries, identifies storylines and stakes, surfaces key plays, and provides follow-up question prompts. Available in beta for Fantasy Plus subscribers, the feature aims to go beyond basic AI recaps by offering a dynamic narrative before, during, and after games.
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The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Meta for allegedly blocking rival AI chatbots—including ChatGPT—from accessing WhatsApp’s business API, while allowing Meta AI. Regulators warn the policy, taking effect in January, may unlawfully limit competition. Meta could face fines up to 10% of its global revenue. WhatsApp denies wrongdoing.
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Spotify’s Wrapped 2025 drew over 200 million users in its first 24 hours—a 19% jump year over year. After criticism of the AI-heavy 2024 edition, Spotify added new data-centric and social features such as “listening age,” listener categories, and the “Wrapped Party,” leading to more than 500 million social shares, up 41%.
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So why are we still letting humans drive? And Google letting Gemini write headlines isn’t going so well.
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Uber Teams with Avride to Offer Robotaxi Rides in Dallas in Latest Expansion – Bloomberg
Waymo’s testing AVs in four more cities, including Philly
Opinion | The Medical Case for Self-Driving Cars – The New York Times
Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are Suddenly Behaving Like New York Cabbies – WSJ
The ’Mad Men’ 4K Stream on HBO Max Had All Sorts of Problems
Mad Men’s 4K debut botched by HBO Max streaming episode with visible crewmembers – Ars Technica
India revokes order to preload smartphones with state-owned security app | India | The Guardian
Amazon Fire TV Uses AI to Let Users Describe Movie Scenes
Google is Testing AI Mode Integration Into Search Results
Google is replacing Discover news headlines with laughably awful AI titles
Google Discover is testing AI-generated headlines and they aren’t good
Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public
YouTube Set to Comply With Australia’s Under-16s Ban – Bloomberg
Spotify Wrapped 2025 adds its first multiplayer feature with ‘Wrapped Party’ | TechCrunch
Spotify Wrapped Top 50 Podcasts of 2025 Unveiled
Bending Spoons agrees to buy Eventbrite for $500M to revive stalled brand | TechCrunch
Google’s new ‘Call Reason’ feature tells you why someone’s calling- Android Authority
Google quietly restores Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock on Pixels
A little-known Chinese company nearly landed a rocket from space on its first try – Ars Technica
Linux usage on Steam hits a record high for the second month in a row | The Verge
The hunt for copper to wire the AI boom
Mirumi the furry companion robot is now available on Kickstarter | The Verge
Microsoft’s Surface Go, a 2-in-1 detachable tablet laptop, was a marvel of power and portability but it doesn’t meet the system requirements needed to run Windows 11. But what about the latest Ubuntu release? Rich shares his experience buying a used Surface Go cheap and getting it work with Ubuntu Linux including support for the Surface Go’s stylus pen and eraser. Can Linux make an old machine new again?
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India’s telecom ministry no longer requires pre-installation of an undeletable security app, Ireland’s media regulator begins DSA investigation of LinkedIn and TikTok, and Amazon removes AI-generated anime dubs.
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On Wednesday India’s telecom ministry issued a new notice rescinding the previous notice of a mandatory pre-installation of the cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi by smartphone manufacturers. The ministry said “Given Sanchar Saathi’s increasing acceptance, the government has decided not to make pre-installation mandatory for mobile manufacturers”. The app launched in January 2025 and, according to the Indian government, it has been downloaded 14 million times and contributes information on approximately 2000 fraud incidents per day. The ministry also reports that once the news broke about the mandatory and unremovable installation, approximately 600,000 people registered to download Sanchar Saathi on December 2nd.
Source: TechCrunch
Ireland’s media regulator opened an investigation of LinkedIn and TikTok over a possible breach of online safety rules under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). The investigation will assess if the content reporting mechanisms of the platforms are easy to access, user-friendly, and allow anonymous reporting of suspected CSAM as required by the DSA. If a platform is found to be violating the Digital Services Act, Irish regulators can issue fines up to 6% of revenue.
Source: RTE
YouTube Australia published their plan to comply with Australia’s ban on social media for those under-16, which comes into effect on December 10th. YouTube Australia will automatically log out all users under 16 years old and further notes that any YouTube channels created by under-16s will no longer be visible to other users, nor accessible to the creator. Once a user turns 16, the channel can be reinstated. YouTube Australia’s blog post regarding their next steps contains a section titled “Why this law won’t keep teens safer online” and concludes with “we will continue to work with the Australian Government to advocate for effective, evidence-based regulation that actually protects kids and teens, respects parental choice, and avoids unintended consequences.”
Source: Bloomberg
On Tuesday Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced a lawsuit against Temu and parent company PDD Holdings Inc., alleging the online retailer is stealing customer data. According to the lawsuit, the Temu app collects sensitive data without consent, including GPS locations, and that data could be requested by the Chinese government. In a news conference Mayes said, “the scope of this invasion of privacy is enormous, and that’s why I consider it possibly the gravest violation of the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act that we have ever seen in Arizona.” Mayes also encouraged people to uninstall the app and scan their devices for malware.
Source: AP News
Beginning Wednesday, Uber riders within a designated 9 square mile area in Dallas will have access to robotaxis. These Uber robotaxi rides, in partnership Avride, will have a human specialist present in the car to monitor operations before progressing to fully driverless rides in the future. The cost of the rides will be the same as with a human driver and users can choose whether they will accept a robotaxi ride or switch to a standard driver. Uber plans to expand the robotaxi availability area in the coming months.
Source: CNET
Uber partnered with Waymo to begin testing autonomous vehicles in Philadelphia, currently with a safety monitor, and will begin manual driving for data collection in Baltimore, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. Waymo has not yet announced a timeline for offering robotaxis to riders in those cities.
Source: CNBC
The AI-powered mail app Superhuman Mail, which was acquired by Grammarly earlier in 2025, which then dropped the Grammarly name and replaced it with Superhuman, updated its ‘write with AI’ feature to work with the inbox, calendar, and web. The AI can now put together information from other emails and research topics online, and open the Ask AI tool if clarification is required regarding a prompt. A basic version of the AI features is included in the Free and Pro plans, while the full version for Business and Enterprise includes features like ‘personalized AI’ which can write like the user.
Source: Engadget
The Verge discovered a Google Discover test replacing original news headlines with an AI-generated version. Sean Hollister showed Google Discover list a headline “Steam Machine price revealed” for an Ars Technica article actually titled “Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one”. The article did not name a price, which is expected to be announced in 2026. Google spokesperson Mallory Deleon told The Verge this experiment is currently only “for a subset of Discover users”. Users can find a disclosure reading “Generated with AI, which can make mistakes”, but only if they click the “See More” button.
Source: The Verge
Amazon removed the AI-generated English dubs for several anime series on Prime Video. The AI-generated dubs were strongly criticized online for its low-quality and, in a statement, the National Association of Voice Actors called it “AI slop”. The AI dubs, labelled as “AI Beta” in the language selection menu, were previously available for Banana Fish, No Game, No Life, and Vinland Saga, which reverted to having just subtitles and Japanese language audio available.
Source: Engadget