Tootfinder

A UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Chinese Bitcoin Fraudster Jailed After Huge UK Crypto Seizure
A Chinese woman described as a “super villain” who orchestrated a multibillion dollar investment fraud to buy Bitcoin was sentenced to 11 years and 8 months in jail by a London judge.

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
GEMA vs. OpenAI: Niederlage für ChatGPT vor Münchner Gericht

Puck: Disney offered YouTube the same rates as major distributors at least for ESPN, but YouTube wants to pay less; Disney is losing $30M/week without YouTube (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/11/youtube-tv-rate-report-disney-losses/

YouTube TV deal reportedly hung up on ESPN pricing as Disney loses $30 million a week
According to a new report, YouTube TV is seeking even better rates on Disney channels than other providers, while Disney is losing money.

ICE thugs can't handle a little snow.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/us/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-agents-chicago

NFL Week 11 staff picks: Seahawks-Rams headlines slate of Super Bowl contender matchups https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6801629/2025/11/13/nfl-week-11-staff-picks-predictions-seahawks-rams-super-bowl-contenders/…

Bra stats idag
I solved today's #TiledWords puzzle!
🪱 “Worm”
🕒 3 minutes, 47 seconds
💡 0/3 reveals used
https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/2025-11-11

Tiled Words
A daily word puzzle with a twist

Can you fund this already, there's two days left in the Kickstarter and it's over 90% funded.
Sorry that I'm annoying, I'll stop when it's funded.
#retrocomputing
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere

JD Vance, RFK Jr. to attend MAHA Summit (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/11/jd-vance-rfk-jr-to-attend-maha-summit-00646397
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p71#a251111p71

This post from @… now lives in my head. https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/115532297355783539

“Google also announced the expansion of its 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy (CFE) partnership with Engie in Germany [..] now scaling up to contribute to Germany's energy transition and grid stability.
[..] Google's German operations are projected to run at or near 85% carbon-free energy in 2026.”

Google Announces €5.5 Billion Investment in Germany, including AI Infrastructure, through 2029
BERLIN — November 11, 2025 — Google today announced a new €5.5 billion investment (2026-2029) in infrastructure and offices in Germany — including a new data center in Dietzenbach,...

I sure hope Nvidia is using their own chips to model when their bubble will burst and are informed about what to do when chip demand screeches to a near-halt…
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/softbank-sells-its-entire-stake-in-nvidia-for-5po…

SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion
SoftBank is looking to capitalize on its "all in" bet on ChatGPT maker OpenAI.

Pokrovsk not encircled but remains Russia’s main target, Syrskyi says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/pokrovsk-not-encircled-but-remains.html

OH: Brainstorming without a brain is a problem.

Kaya Founders raises P1.47-billion fund to back more Filipino founders
https://www.philstar.com/business/2025/11/11/2486427/kaya-founders-raises-p147-billion-fund-back-more-filipino-founders

4 von 14 BSW-Abgeordneten im Brandenburger Landtag sind aus der Partei Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht ausgetreten. Die Koalition ist wegen des Streits um 2 Medienstaatsverträge zerstritten. Es geht um die Reform von ARD, ZDF und Deutschlandradio sowie um mehr Jugendmedienschutz. Der Franktionschef ist dagegen, der stellv. Minipräsident vom BSW will morgen im Hauptausschuss dafür stimmen.

Regierungskrise in Brandenburg: Vier Brandenburger BSW-Abgeordnete treten aus der Partei aus
Paukenschlag in Potsdam: Vier Landtagsabgeordnete in Brandenburg verlassen das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht. Hintergrund ist unter anderem der Streit um den neuen Medienstaatsvertrag.

"Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change "
#Climate #ClimateChange #Podcasts

Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change 
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics. 

Daily #AcWriMo: not as much writing as I wanted but completed first 1/4 of main paper, got final draft from colleague on 2nd, ok comments back from reviews on 3rd AND 4th & 5th paper a colleague is leading now out as preprint online. 🙌
And we found an obscure bug in the model code 🙄
#FediWriMo.

Amazon launches private AI bug bounty to strengthen Nova models - rewards up to $25K
https://www.amazon.science/news/amazon-launches-private-ai-bug-bounty-to-strengthen-nova-m

🤦🏽 The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
#politics

The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
The Dutch elections were a victory for liberal centrists and a defeat for the anti-immigration Geert Wilders. Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebration.

Folks, just a quick update to let you know that I plan on being off the fediverse for the rest of the week to rest/recover.
See you all next week!
💕

Gestern war wieder mal Dienstag und damit #DNIPBriefing-Tag. Wir bschlnigen jtzt mal unsr Tmpo um aufzholen.
1️⃣ Meta, der Konzern hinter Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp & Co, wird dieses Jahr zwischen 70 und 72 Milliarden Dollar für KI ausgeben, darunter sind auch Investments in zwielichtige Firmen. Dieses Geld will auch im Hause Zuckerberg zuerst einmal verdient werden.

I’m intrigued by this game.
https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/115531459693014554

Heimautomatisierungsgerät „Reiskocher Küche“ war eine gute Idee.

Capitalism is so broken.
I learned about these two products in the past couple days. 😆 Be sure to control your laserpecker using the iPhone in its pantyhose pocket (aka iScrotum). 😂
laserpecker: #endstagecapitalism #apple #laserpecker

Coinbase confirms that it has called off acquisition talks with stablecoin infra startup BVNK; reports previously put the acquisition price around $2B (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/11/coinbase-bvnk-2-billion-deal-falls-through-stableco…

Exclusive: Coinbase and stablecoin startup BVNK call off $2 billion acquisition
BVNK was previously fielding offers from not only Coinbase but Mastercard.

FilmLA: in Q3, LA-based commercial production dropped 18% YoY and was 40% lower than the five-year average, leaving a major hole in industry workers' safety net (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/busines

Hollywood’s Commercial Production Crews Are Losing a Lot of Work
Commercial production has long been crucial to sustaining entertainment workers in the Los Angeles area. But it continues to plummet.

5,5 Milliarden Euro: Googles "BIP-Booster" für KI in Deutschland
Google kündigt 5,5 Mrd. Euro Privatinvestitionen bis 2029 an für Cloud-Infrastruktur, Rechenzentren und grüne Energielösungen in Deutschland.

Now Looney Bonespurs thinks he can rename Veterans Day.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/11/trump-veterans-day-speech-victory-day/3501762890394/

CoreWeave closed down 16% after its CEO admitted delays at a data center developer that Jim Cramer implied may be Core Scientific; CORZ closed down 10% (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/coreweave-stock-core-scientific-delays.html

CoreWeave CEO won't say if Core Scientific caused data center delays, both stocks plunge
CNBC's Jim Cramer noted data center delays at sites in Texas, Oklahoma and North Carolina tied to Core Scientific.

Trump claims tariff "unwind" would cost $3 trillion (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/11/trump-tariffs-3-trillion-supreme-court
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p70#a251111p70

NFL Week 11 confidence picks: Why the Broncos will upset the Chiefs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6800559/2025/11/12/nfl-week-11-confidence-picks-broncos-chiefs/

Ukrainian minister implicated in nuclear power corruption scandal suspended: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/ukrainian-minister-implicated-in-nuclear.html

Check out today's Metacurity for a comprehensive run-down of crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea,
--CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,'
--Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season,
--Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled,
--Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money …

Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea
CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,' Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season, Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled, Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money laundering, Firefox gets anti-fingerprinting fix, much more

"Revealed: Soap Opera-inspired Clean Energy Ads Helped Shell Boost Petrol Sales in Brazil"
#Brazil #Shell #FossilFuels

Revealed: Soap Opera-inspired Clean Energy Ads Helped Shell Boost Petrol Sales in Brazil
British-owned VML used positivity of clean energy to build brand awareness that increased fuel sales, documents show.

Please complain about Schumer and his cohort. Please give the mushy centrists black eyes. Please light a fire under all the politicians.
But…please also look for work you can do that doesn’t center around elections. Start local. Help people. Throw sand in the gears. Whatever it is, do work that counts.
Create a context in which there •has• to be an anti-fascist opposition party, because that’s the work so many people are already doing. •That• is what the cynicism is trying to stop you from doing.
/end

Threads adds new features for podcasters, as it tries to become the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/threads-targets-…

Threads targets podcasters with new features, aiming to become the home for show discussions | TechCrunch
Threads is targeting podcasters with new features, including dedicated links in the bio and more visible links in the feed.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kieler Forscher entwickeln Rotorblätter für Kleinwindkraftanlagen aus Naturfaser

The county involved in the 2023 raid of the Marion County Record in Kansas agrees to pay a cumulative $3M to three journalists and a city councilor (Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector)
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/marion-coun…

Trump slams "politically correct" politics in Veterans Day speech (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/11/trump-veterans-day-speech-arlington-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p68#a251111p68

NFL Week 11 picks against the spread: Why I like the Seahawks in the showdown in L.A. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6799093/2025/11/13/nfl-week-11-picks-predictions-betting-2025/

Google unveils new features for Pixel phones, including AI-powered notification summaries, notification prioritization, and AI photo edits in Messages (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/goog

Google Pixel update adds battery-saving maps mode, AI photo remixing, and smarter notifications | TechCrunch
Google says the new power saving mode for Google Maps can save you up to four hours of battery life

Ukraine's Special Forces confirm 'successful fire attack' on Russia's Stavrolen petrochemical plant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/ukraines-special-forces-confirm-successful.html

Analyse: Das GEMA-Urteil rüttelt am Selbstverständnis der KI-Branche
Ein Gerichtsurteil in München könnte weitreichende Folgen für die KI-Branche haben. Das eigentliche Dilemma erscheint kaum auflösbar, analysiert Malte Kirchner.

China says the December 2020 theft of 127,272 BTC, now worth ~$13B, from Chinese mining pool LuBian is likely a "state-level hacker operation" led by the US (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-11/c…

China Accuses US of Orchestrating $13 Billion Bitcoin Hack
China’s cybersecurity agency accused the American government of orchestrating the theft about $13 billion worth of Bitcoin, representing China’s most recent attempt to attribute major cyberattacks to the US.

Bloody chaos at UC Berkeley after Antifa storms TPUSA event (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/11/us-news/bloody-brawl-breaks-out-as-agitators-protest-tpusa-event-at-uc-berkeley-in-california/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p76#a251111p76

Zelensky to impose sanctions against close associate following large-scale corruption probe, source says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/zelensky-to-impose-sanctions-against.html

Kieler Forscher entwickeln 3D-Druckverfahren für Glas
Kieler Forscher haben ein laserbasiertes 3D-Druckverfahren für Glas entwickelt. Es vereinfacht den 3D-Druck mit Glas deutlich.
https://www.

DirecTV launches DirecTV Elect, an AI-driven political ad platform offering access to CTV ad inventory across DirecTV and US cable networks (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/directv-elect-political-ad-ctv-launch/

DIRECTV takes on local TV with political advertising product
November 11, 2025 - DIRECTV is launching a new product called DIRECTV Elect that gives political ad buyers greater reach through connected TV platforms.

Bills' lack of playmakers among 5 glaring flaws for NFL contenders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6802241/2025/11/13/nfl-trends-week-11-contenders-concerns-bills-steelers-colts/

House hearing on member stock trading eyed for next week (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/11/congress/member-stock-trading-hearing-00646729
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p81#a251111p81

Aus für offenes WLAN? Vorratsdatenspeicherung gefährdet digitale Teilhabe
Freifunker warnen: Der Regierungsplan zum anlasslosen Protokollieren von Nutzerspuren bedroht offene WLANs. Eine Zuordnung von IP-Adressen sei kaum möglich.

Amazon says ads on Prime Video reach 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/amazon-prime-video-ad-supported-reach-315-million-…

Amazon Prime Video Ad-Supported Reach Hits 315M Monthly Viewers
Amazon says advertising on Prime Video now reaches 315 monthly viewers, up from 200 million in April 2024.

How China stopped an NYC-based independent Chinese film festival, including pressuring directors and moderators, as it largely erases independent films in China (Vivian Wang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/world/asia/china-film-festival-new-…

How China Reached Into New York to Stop a Tiny Film Festival
A showcase for independent Chinese films was scrapped after the Chinese authorities pressured directors, moderators and even a volunteer to pull out.

Mirage of energy sanctions against Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/mirage-of-energy-sanctions-against.html

Trump says Veterans Day now 'Victory Day' in Arlington cemetery speech (Steven Nelson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/11/us-news/trump-declares-veterans-day-as-victory-day-in-arlington-cemetery-speech/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p75#a251111p75

Europe's dilemma: Supporting Trump's Ukraine peace plan while hoping he walks away: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/europes-dilemma-supporting-trumps-ukraine.html

Gregory Bovino and his Border Patrol agents are planning to leave Chicago as early as this week, sources say (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/us/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-agents-chicago
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p66#a251111p66

AMD CEO Lisa Su says AMD's annual revenue growth will average 35% a year over the next three to five years and the total AI chip market will reach $1T by 2030 (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

At an all-hands, BBC chair Samir Shah dismissed concerns of a Conservative coup at the BBC as "fanciful"; source: Gibb did not want DG Tim Davie to resign (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/bbc-samir-shah-robbie-gibb-donald-trump-12…

BBC Chair Shuts Down “Disrespectful” Attacks On Board Amid Staff Anger Over Robbie Gibb’s Role In Trump Scandal
BBC chair Samir Shah dismisses talk of Conservative coup on staff call, during which unrest over a Donald Trump-shaped crisis was on display.

Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage customer-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email, raised $100M at a $700M valuation (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/israeli-ai-s…

Swiss Billionaires Pivotal in Wooing Trump Ahead of Tariff Deal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-11/swiss-billionaires-pivotal-in-wooing-trump-ahead-of-tariff-deal
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p73#a251111p73

💥 Pressure Front: why Kyiv REJECTS Trump’s "peace"! Ukrainian drones halt Caspian oil production!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/pressure-front-why-kyiv-rejects.html

Heizen ohne Nebenwirkungen! 👂🔇 Ab 2026 wird es deutlich leiser!
Die EU reguliert bereits seit über 10 Jahren in den Ökodesign-Verordnungen die Emissionen von Wärmeerzeugern
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11076858?wt_mc=sm.re

Amazon says advertising reaches 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels on Prime Video (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/amazon-prime-video-ad-supported-reach-31…

Amazon Prime Video Ad-Supported Reach Hits 315M Monthly Viewers
Amazon says advertising on Prime Video now reaches 315 monthly viewers, up from 200 million in April 2024.

JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $42.1B, above ~$41.4B est., and net income down 55% YoY to ~$745M, as it competes in meal delivery and fast-commerce (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-13/jd-com…

'Ghost job' postings are adding another layer of uncertainty to the stalling jobs picture (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/ghost-job-postings-add-another-layer-of-uncertainty-to-stalled-jobs-picture.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p79#a251111p79

- Ukraine and Europe's future: what's in the new 20-point peace plan #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/ukraine-and-europes-future-whats.html

Analyse: Weltweiter CO₂-Ausstoß steigt trotz aller Fortschritte auch 2025
Dass es der Menschheit noch gelingt, die Klimaerwärmung auf weniger als 1,5 Grad Celsius über dem vorindustriellen Niveau zu halten, "ist nicht mehr plausibel".

In Parliament, the UK's culture secretary says concerns about the BBC are legitimate but some politicians are "launching a sustained attack on the institution" (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/bbc-trump-row-lis…

UK Culture Secretary Blasts Fellow Politicians For “Launching A Sustained Attack” On BBC
The BBC Donald Trump saga has led Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy to defend the BBC and criticise politicians for attacking it.

John Fetterman makes a case for himself. It's not very convincing. (Karen Heller/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/11/11/john-fetterman-unfettered-memoir-book-review/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p74#a251111p74

Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) review: better hardware and software, and Alexa is an improvement, but no camera cover and ads in the future (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/818814/amazon-echo-show-11-8-alexa-…

5 things I love about Amazon’s new Echo Shows — and 3 things I don’t
Amazon’s Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11 launch this week, here are my first impressions

Bonhams says it sold three Bob Ross paintings at an LA auction for $600K , with the proceeds going to support US public broadcasters, and plans to sell 27 more (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/bob-ross-paintings-auc…

3 Bob Ross Paintings Sell for $600,000 to Support Public Broadcasters
The landscapes by the television host were sold as part of a campaign to help public television stations weather federal funding cuts.

Foxconn reports Q3 revenue of $66.3B, in line with estimates, net profit up 17% YoY to $1.86B, vs. $1.63B exp., says it expects significant YoY growth in Q4 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/foxconn-hon-hai-third-quarter…

Nvidia supplier Foxconn third-quarter profit beats expectations, rising 17% on AI demand
Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, reported Wednesday that its third-quarter profit jumped 17% from a year earlier.

A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/scien…

At the Cybathlon, May the Best Brain-Computer Interface Win
Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise.

China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds (Amy Hawkins/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-co2-emissions-flat-or-falling-for-past-18-months-analysis-finds
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p84#a251111p84

The EU opens a DMA investigation into Google over allegedly demoting news outlets with promotional content; Google says this is part of its anti-spam efforts (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

ICE agent points firearm at woman in car filming in Santa Ana, prompting police response (Sierra Van Der Brug/Orange County Register)
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/11/10/ice-agent-points-firearm-at-woman-in-car-filming-in-santa-ana-prompting-police-response/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p67#a251111p67

Republicans need Trump for the debate on Obamacare credits (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/11/trump-obamacare-credits-00646243
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p97#a251111p97

Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350, a ~25% discount, following a similar move by Nintendo with the Switch 2 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f6edb22a-0b19-4073-9e28-ec29b096dde3

Sony launches cheaper Japan-only PlayStation 5 console
Region-locked version at 25% discount in move to boost domestic sales

Aircraft Carrier Moves Into the Caribbean as U.S. Confronts Venezuela (Eric Schmitt/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/us/politics/aircraft-carrier-moves-into-the-caribbean-as-us-confronts-venezuela.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p92#a251111p92

SoFi launches SoFi Crypto, saying it's the first nationally chartered bank in the US to offer crypto trading to consumers (James Hunt/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/378368/sofi-launches-crypto-trading-for-consumers

Democrats lose shutdown battle -- as Trump, Republicans risk losing war (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/11/democrats-trump-shutdown-politics-midterms/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p87#a251111p87

Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a "secure, fortified space" to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/818364/google-private-ai-compute

Google is introducing its own version of Apple’s private AI cloud compute
Google is rolling out Private AI Compute to use the cloud for AI requests while keeping on-device levels of privacy, a similar feature to Apple. 

Former Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria is attempting a comeback bid in Virginia (Nicholas Wu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/11/congress/elaine-luria-to-launch-comeback-bid-00646594
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p88#a251111p88

Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine partner with ElevenLabs to create AI versions of their voices for its Iconic Voice Marketplace; McConaughey also invests (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/matthew-mcconau…

Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine Ink ElevenLabs AI Voice Deals
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have teamed with AI audio company ElevenLabs to produce virtual replications of their famous voices.

Sony says the PlayStation 5 has sold a total of 84.2M units since launch, including 3.9M units sold in Q2, up from 3.8M a year ago (Steve Dent/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playstation/sony-has-sold-842-million-play…

Sony has sold 84.2 million PlayStation 5s since launch
Sony sold more PS5s last quarter than it did a year ago (3.9 million compared to 3.8 million), boosting its total PS5 sales to 84.2 million since launch.

Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a "help me edit" feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-google-

Your Google Photos just got 3 huge Nano Banana image editing upgrades - for free
Google Photos just made it easier than ever to create realistic AI edits, thanks to Google DeepMind's top image-editing model.

Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/li

The Little-Known Search and Browser Startup Generating $100 Million in Annualized Revenue
Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google’s Chrome. But before they have a chance of dethroning Chrome, they first have to surpass Brave.Brave has been around for a decade and passed $100 million in ...

Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/378358/lighte

A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347 copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100 actresses and 25TB of pirated content via a torrent tracker (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/redditor-conv…

Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds are investing ~$3B in a New Mexico-based Stargate data center, set to consume 4.5GW, as Blue Owl expands into AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/open…

OpenAI’s Stargate Project Gets $3 Billion Blue Owl Investment
Blue Owl Capital, one of Wall Street’s biggest private lenders, is ramping up its big bet on artificial intelligence with a roughly $3 billion investment in a New Mexico data center that’s part of OpenAI’s Stargate project, said a person with knowledge of the deal. Blue Owl, which has nearly ...

Valve says it has stopped production of its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, which it's "no longer manufacturing", after unveiling the Steam Frame (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/817967/valve-index-vr-hea…

Valve has stopped manufacturing its Index VR headset
Valve is no longer manufacturing the Valve Index VR headset, which it released in 2019. Instead, it’s putting its efforts behind the new Steam Frame.

Anthropic plans to spend $50B on a US infrastructure buildout, starting with data centers in Texas and New York in partnership with Fluidstack, opening in 2026 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/anthropic-ai-data-centers-texas-new-york.html…

Anthropic to spend $50 billion on U.S. AI infrastructure, starting with Texas, New York data centers
Anthropic rival OpenAI has secured more than $1.4 trillion worth of deals with Nvidia, Broadcom, Oracle and the major cloud providers.

Coinbase plans to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, saying Delaware "once provided companies with consistency" but now has "unpredictable outcomes" (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/coinbase-m

Coinbase moves incorporation to Texas from Delaware, following Musk's lead
Coinbase's legal chief wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the crypto platform is moving its state of incorporation to Texas.

Indian investment app Groww raised ~$748M in its Indian IPO, closing up 29% and giving it a ~$9B market cap; Groww is the first Indian YC-backed startup to IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/groww-rais…

Groww raises nearly $750M in IPO as India's retail investing boom continues | TechCrunch
The company's shares opened 12% above their issue price, at ₹112, and closed at ₹128.85, lending it a market cap of ₹795 billion (approximately $9 billion).

Boston-based Teradar, which aims to launch a solid-state sensor for autonomous cars in 2028 that it says can outperform lidar and radar, raised a $150M Series B (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/tera

Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar | TechCrunch
Teradar's sensor uses the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and combines the best traits of radar and lidar sensors without some of the drawbacks.

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs launches Marble, its first world model to let users turn prompts, photos, and other media into editable 3D environments, after a beta (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/fei-

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product | TechCrunch
Marble is different from competitors like Odyssey, Decart, and Google's Genie because it creates persistent, downloadable 3D environments rather than generating worlds on-the-fly as you explore.

An analysis of 47,000 publicly shared ChatGPT conversations: ~10% related to emotional or mental health, ChatGPT exhibits a "default to yes" behavior, and more (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/12/how-people-use-ch…

We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here’s what people really use it for.
What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses.

The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cyberattacks, including regulating companies providing services to private and public sector organizations (Catarina Demony/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-plans-tougher-…

Australia's spy chief said Chinese state hackers probed telecom networks and critical infrastructure; Australia lost $8B last year to espionage (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/austra