Elon Musk’s X is the first major platform fined under the EU’s Digital Services Act. The €120 million ($140M) penalty targets the paid verification system and a lack of ad transparency. X now has 60-90 days to propose fixes, but a legal battle is brewing.
Epic is keeping its next free game a secret until December 11th, building hype ahead of The Game Awards. For now, you can grab two comedy-focused titles to play over the holidays.
MongoDB’s latest earnings report sent its stock soaring, directly countering fears that AI would make its database obsolete. The company is positioning itself as AI’s “memory layer,” but significant competitive and financial risks remain.
The 2025 holiday shopping season is facing an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks. Research reveals a 620% spike in Black Friday phishing, over 18,000 suspicious holiday-themed domains, and a quadrupling of mobile threats. Attackers prepared months in advance.
Amazon has updated its listings to confirm a December 10 US launch for the new Kindle Scribe and the colorful Kindle Scribe Colorsoft. The base model starts at $499.99, while the Colorsoft begins at $629.99.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly declared an internal “code red,” urging staff to prioritize core improvements to ChatGPT. The move comes as Google’s Gemini apps and models close the gap in both performance and popularity.
A tool called Gistr is positioning itself as a strong alternative to Google’s NotebookLM, especially for learning from YouTube. It adds video-specific features like transcript highlighting and playable video moments directly in your notes.
The traditional workweek cadence is breaking down, and AI is the reason. Research shows AI-enabled teams are seeing a 20% reduction in meetings and are onboarding employees twice as fast, fundamentally changing how work gets structured.
European regulators have opened a formal antitrust investigation into Meta’s new policy for AI providers on WhatsApp. The probe will examine if the rules stifle competition in the digital markets. Meta calls the claims “baseless.”
The Linux kernel is taking a surprising step by enabling support for Microsoft’s C language extensions. This move in version 6.19 could make life easier for developers working across ecosystems. It’s a pragmatic, if ironic, evolution for the open-source giant.
