South Korean police arrest four over hacking 120K home security cameras, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material; one person made ~$12K (John Yoon/New York Times)
120,000 Home Cameras Were Hacked for Sexual Videos, South Korean Police Say
The authorities arrested four people this week in the latest turn in the country’s effort to stop exploitative recordings.
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South Korean police arrest four for hacking 120K home security cameras, whose footage was used to make sexually exploitative material; one hacker made ~$12K
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Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
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Kuaishou debuts multimodal AI video model with ‘Nano Banana’ editing capability
Kuaishou expects the new model’s abilities to drive its adoption by filmmakers, production studios, advertisers and influencers.
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Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production
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Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in October 2025, making its co-founders billionaires (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
Kalshi, a Prediction Market, Raises $1 Billion in a New Round
The fund-raising effort, the company’s third this year, values it at $11 billion, and comes amid stiff competition in the increasingly popular in...
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Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after its $300M Series D in October, making its co-founders billionaires
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Discord now lets users buy, wishlist, and gift in-game cosmetic items directly within its platform, starting with a store within Marvel Rivals' Discord server (Ash Parrish/The Verge)
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Discord now lets you buy and gift video game skins
Now you can gift your friends stuff for games you don’t even play.
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Discord now lets users buy, wishlist, and gift in-game cosmetic items directly within its platform, starting with a store within Marvel Rivals
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Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium, spun out of the nonprofit AI lab Kyutai, raised $70M led by FirstMark and Eurazeo, after launching in September (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/eric-schmidt-xavier-niel-back-french-ai-voice-startup-gradium
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Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium, spun out of the nonprofit AI lab Kyutai, raised $70M led by FirstMark Capital and Eurazeo, after launching in September
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Taiwanese prosecutors charge Tokyo Electron for failing to prevent staff from allegedly stealing TSMC trade secrets, indicting the company on several counts (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/taiwan-charges-tokyo-electron-in-tsmc-secrets-theft-case
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Taiwanese prosecutors charge Tokyo Electron for failing to prevent staff from allegedly stealing TSMC trade secrets, indicting Tokyo Electron on several counts
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At a Tokyo forum, Masayoshi Son says he "was crying" over SoftBank selling its $5.83B Nvidia stake but "I just had more need for money to invest in OpenAI" (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
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SoftBank’s Son ‘was crying’ about the firm's need to sell its Nvidia stake
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son has downplayed his firm's decision to dump its Nvidia position, saying he "was crying" to sell the shares.
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At a Tokyo forum, Masayoshi Son says he “was crying” over SoftBank selling its $5.83B Nvidia stake but “I just had more need for money to invest in OpenAI”
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Just Eat founder Jitse Groen plans to step down as CEO effective January 1, replaced by Prosus Europe head Roberto Gandolfo; Groen founded Takeaway.com in 2000 (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/just-eat-founder-steps-down-as-ceo-after-prosus-acquisition
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Just Eat founder Jitse Groen plans to step down as CEO on January 1, to be replaced by Prosus Europe head Roberto Gandolfo; Groen founded Takeaway.com in 2000
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Study: using the SCONE-bench benchmark of 405 smart contracts, Claude Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 found and developed exploits collectively worth $4.6M (Anthropic)
Smart Contracts \ red.anthropic.com
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Study: using the SCONE-bench benchmark of 405 blockchain smart contracts, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 developed exploits together worth $4.6M
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A profile of Cursor CEO Michael Truell, a 25-year-old who started building the AI coding tool in 2023, as some question Cursor's reliance on third-party models (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/millions-of-coders-love-this-ai-startup-can-it-last-45b72441?st=ccoTKq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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A profile of Cursor CEO Michael Truell, a 25-year-old who started building the AI coding tool in 2023, as some question Cursor
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