Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks strike a deal that a source says is Google Cloud's largest security services deal "approaching $10B" over several years (Kenrick Cai/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/google-cloud-lands-deal-with-palo-alto-networks-approaching-10-billion-per-2025-12-19/
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Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will retain direct control over core US revenue drivers, including ecommerce, ads, and marketing (Financial Times)
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Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis (Erin Woo/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-balancing-act-googles-compute-crunch
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Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis
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Sources: China is retrofitting older models of ASML's DUV machines to produce advanced smartphone and AI chips, exposing cracks in US-led export controls (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
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Sources: China is retrofitting older models of ASML
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DraftKings launches DraftKings Predictions, a new app that lets customers in 38 states trade contracts on sports and financial events through prediction markets (Ira Boudway/Bloomberg)
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DraftKings Enters Prediction Markets Rush With New Trading App
DraftKings Inc. is releasing a new app on Friday that will allow customers to trade contracts on sports and financial events through prediction mar...
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DraftKings launches DraftKings Predictions, a new app that lets customers in 38 states trade contracts on sports and financial events through prediction markets
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Denmark says Russia was behind "destructive and disruptive" cyberattacks on a water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the lead-up to local November elections (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
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Denmark says Russia was behind two ‘destructive and disruptive’ cyber-attacks
Intelligence service says attacks were work of groups connected to Russian state in ‘clear evidence’ of hybrid war
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Denmark says Russia was behind “destructive and disruptive” cyberattacks on a water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the lead-up to local November elections
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Sources: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cuts ties with FWD.us, an immigration advocacy group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, eliminating FWD.us' main funding source (Bloomberg)
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Zuckerberg Cut Ties With Pro-Immigration Organization He Founded
Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy has cut ties with the pro-immigration advocacy group that he founded more than a decade ago, a move that parallels...
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Sources: the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cut ties with FWD.us, a pro-immigration advocacy group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, eliminating its main funding source
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Coinbase sues Connecticut, Illinois and Michigan over state attempts to regulate prediction markets, arguing that they fall under the jurisdiction of the CFTC (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
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Coinbase Sues Three US States Over Prediction Market Regulation
Coinbase Global Inc. said it is suing the US states of Michigan, Illinois and Connecticut over their attempts to regulate prediction markets.
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Coinbase sues Connecticut, Illinois, and Michigan over attempts to regulate prediction markets, arguing that the markets fall under CFTC
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Sources: UK officials believe China was behind the October cyber attack on the UK's Foreign Office, which aimed to access tens of thousands of sensitive files (Financial Times)
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Sources: UK officials believe China was behind the October cyber attack on the UK
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Meta's head of Threads Connor Hayes says that fediverse compatibility isn't a priority for its current roadmap, but it is something that it's "maintaining" (Alex Heath/Sources)
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Connor Hayes wants Meta's X rival to be "the place on the internet to talk about what's going on in the world." Also: Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour this...
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