Elon Musk Says X to Make Its Algorithm Open Source in Seven Days
Vincent Lee / bloomberg - Social media platform X will open its new algorithm to the public in seven days, Elon Musk said on Saturday, including the code used to decide what posts and advertisements are recommended to users.
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DeepSeek to Unfurl AI Model with Enhanced Coding Capabilities in February: Report
Jon Swartz / techstrong - DeepSeek is preparing to launch its next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model, V4, in mid-February, according to a report in The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the company's plans. The upcoming release marks the Chinese s…
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Austrian BENTELER acquires Germany’s ioki to create Europe’s first full-service autonomous mobility provider
ain - According to the companies, the acquisition creates Europe’s first full-service provider for autonomous mobility, combining vehicles, software, and operations under one roof.
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Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account — Windows users are now herded into an online-only portal for activation
tomshardware - Microsoft has somehow put the cap on yet another way to circumvent its internet-powered setup process, and this time it's on a build that they haven't even supported for a while! Production activation via call is still listed in Microsoft's support docs, …
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“GOG Stands for Freedom, Independence, and Genuine Control,” Says Michał Kiciński, the GOG Co-Founder Who Just Acquired the Digital Store from CD Projekt RED
David Carcasole / wccftech - Co-founder of CD Projekt RED and of Good Old Games (GOG), Michał Kiciński, has just acquired the digital storefront from CD Projekt RED. Kiciński, CDPR, and GOG announced the news today in a blog post on the official GOG Blog, as Kiciński promises to keep…
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Ubisoft shuts down ‘Rainbow Six Siege’ servers following hack
Terrence O’Brien / theverge - Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game's servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control over a significant chunk of the game's systems, includin…
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NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux
EditorDavid / slashdot - NVIDIA has been "gradually dropping support for older videocards," notes Hackaday, "with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed." "What's more surprising is the terrible way that this is being handled by certain Linux distributions, with Ar…
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Google will finally allow you to change your @gmail.com address
Mayank Parmar / bleepingcomputer - Google will finally allow you to change your @gmail address or create a new alias, according to a new support document. [...]
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No, It’s Not Just You – Steam Is Currently Down, Website and Store Pages Offline [Update]
David Carcasole / wccftech - Update 24/12/2025 3:36 pm EST - The Steam store and website are back online. Altogether, the store was only offline for a little over an hour. You can go back to redeeming those gift cards and squeezing every cent out of them during the Winter Sale. That …
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IO Interactive's 007 First Light has been delayed until May 27
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - IO Interactive's James Bond simulator 007 First Light has been delayed until May 27, 2026. It was supposed to come out in March. The company says two-month delay is for polish and refinement, which is fine by me. I'd always rather wait a bit longer for a …
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Xbox Cloud Gaming finally comes to Amazon Fire TV smart TVs
Matthew Mountjoy / mobilesyrup - Microsoft’s partnership with Amazon is expanding further, as it has been announced that Xbox Cloud Gaming will come to the latter’s line of smart TVs. Specifically, the newest models of the Fire TV 4-Series and the Fire TV Omni QLED Series now feature the…
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OpenAI admits prompt injection may never be fully solved, casting doubt on the agentic AI vision
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI is using automated red teaming to fight prompt injections in ChatGPT Atlas. The company compares the problem to online fraud against humans, a framing that downplays a technical flaw that could slow the rise of the agentic web.The article OpenAI ad…
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Loses Indie Game Awards Wins Over AI Use
techpowerup - The Indie Game Awards has previously taken a stance against the use of generative AI, confirming that games that used generative AI during the development process are not eligible for consideration for any awards. Now, it has upheld that stance, with a ne…
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Call of Duty, Titanfall developer Vince Zampella has died at age 55
Jay Peters / theverge - Vince Zampella, who had a major hand in developing franchises like Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, and Battlefield, died in a car crash on Sunday, NBC Los Angeles reports. He was 55. NBC Los Angeles and CBS Los Angeles report California Highway Patrol respo…
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Clearwater Analytics (CWAN) Stock: Private Equity Firms Announce $8.4 Billion Acquisition
Trader Edge / blockonomi - TLDR Clearwater Analytics (CWAN) enters $8.4 billion take-private agreement with Permira and Warburg Pincus Shareholders to receive $24.55 cash per share, representing a 47% premium over Nov. 10 price Singapore’s Temasek joins investor group with Francisc…
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Omnidocs acquires majority stake in Switzerland’s officeatwork to deepen DACH presence
Cate Lawrence / tech - Danish software company Omnidocs has acquired a majority stake in officeatwork, a Switzerland-based provider of document creation solutions with a strong foothold in the DACH region. Omnidocs is a do...
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ChatGPT gets tone controls: OpenAI adds new personalization options
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI now lets users customize how ChatGPT communicates.The article ChatGPT gets tone controls: OpenAI adds new personalization options appeared first on The Decoder.
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Google confirms Gemini will fully replace Assistant on phones in 2026
digitaltrends - Google’s shift from Assistant to Gemini on smartphones is delayed, meaning users can continue using Assistant while Google fine-tunes Gemini for a full mobile rollout.The post Google confirms Gemini will fully replace Assistant on phones in 2026 appeared …
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Cursor's $29 Billion Bet on a Bottleneck It May Be Creating
Robert Brown / implicator - Cursor just paid a premium for a code review startup to fix what it calls the new bottleneck in software development. But a July 2025 study using Cursor's own tools found AI made experienced developers 19% slower. The math gets uncomfortable from there.
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