Meta whines New Mexico is “impossible” to please after historic $25 billion fine

The company also failed to notify users when apps misused their data, only flagging two of 2,000 unique apps associated with data misuse, Mathew said. Following its investigation, Meta’s “decision…

Arc browser is shutting down

The Browser Company plans to “sunset” its Arc browser on December 22nd, according to a post on the Arc website. The company moved on to developing its AI-focused Dia browser…

404 Not Found | The Verge

Hackers attempted to exploit the PHP flaws impacting sites across the web days before they were patched, according to a report from Amazon Threat Intelligence. CJ Moses, Amazon chief information…

Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise | TechCrunch

The bad week for cybersecurity just got worse for thousands more companies, who were spied on by Chinese hackers following the breach of IT management and remote access giant ConnectWise.…

US-backed vaccine trial on babies canceled after international outcry

Mistrust Stabell Benn and colleagues appear impervious to this point. In a LinkedIn post Wednesday, Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer, a Bandim Health researcher involved in the trial, blamed the backlash on the…

Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’

Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It’s a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years…

Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work | TechCrunch

Uber and OpenAI announced an expansion of their partnership on Thursday, with the ride-share giant telling TechCrunch that its entire global workforce — some 30,000 people — will now be…

Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean

“So we have a lake and we have a gulf, now we need a river and we need an ocean. So I was thinking of the Hudson river, then I…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Startup Battlefield 200: Celebrating outstanding achievements | TechCrunch

This year, TechCrunch Disrupt showcased the incredible talent and groundbreaking ideas of our 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 cohort. Out of thousands of applications, we selected 200 of the most promising…

This emulator reimagines Nintendo’s Virtual Boy with a full color display

VBoy Color comes with built-in color packs for 15 different games, which actually represents a significant chunk of the Virtual Boy’s limited official library. Tinkerers can edit those packs manually…