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The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Senate Confirms Selig as Chief of CFTC and Hill to Run the FDIC
The US Senate on Thursday night confirmed Michael Selig as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Travis Hill as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., installing permanent chiefs of two agencies that play critical roles overseeing financial markets and banks.

heise | Final Cut, Motion & Compressor: Das können die neuen Versionen als Abo und Kauf
Apples Videoschnittlösung gibt es am Mac als Direktkauf oder als Teil von Creator Studio. Wir haben uns die neue Version samt Motion und Compressor angesehen.

So much infosec news, so little time. Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical cybersecurity developments you need to know, including
--ID documents for billionaires and top pols at Abu Dhabi conference were exposed online,
--Angola journalist was hacked with Intellexa spyware,
--Poland arrests Phobos ransomware affiliate,
--Severe flaw found in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machine,
--Hacker who paid only a penny for a luxury hotel room was busted …

ID documents for billionaires and top politicians at Abu Dhabi conference were exposed online
Angola journalist was hacked with Intellexa spyware, Poland arrests Phobos ransomware affiliate, Severe flaw found in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machine, Hacker who paid only a penny for a luxury hotel room busted in Spain, Oz financial technology company YouX suffered a massive breach, much more

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Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Trump's NASA Pick Is Confirmed to Lead Space Program in Peril (Kenneth Chang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/science/nasa-jared-isaacman-confirmed-senate.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p121#a251217p121

The US Senate confirms FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill to lead the agency, which regulates stablecoin issuers and impacts how the crypto industry is banked (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/11/s…

Two Trump Appointees Confirmed to Take Over Core Crypto Regulators CFTC, FDIC
In a package of confirmations, the U.S. Senate approved Mike Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to run the FDIC, both with major potential reach into crypto.

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Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

MAGA infighting erupts at Turning Point USA Conference (Andrew Howard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/18/maga-infighting-erupts-at-day-one-of-turning-point-usa-conference-00699665
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p6#a251219p6

Apple adds support for third-party voice-based conversational apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, letting CarPlay users access apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/18/ios-26-4-carplay-support/

iOS 26.4 Brings CarPlay Support for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
With iOS 26.4, CarPlay users will be able to use third-party chatbots with CarPlay. AI services like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT will be accessible...

Circana: Xbox Series console sales fell 70% YoY to an all-time low in November, compared to the PS5's 40% YoY drop and Switch 1 and 2's combined 10% YoY fall (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-us-console-unit-sales-…

Xbox U.S. Console Unit Sales Just Reached an All-Time November Low - IGN
This morning, we learned that November was a surprisingly bad month for video game spending across the board. But one console in particular is really struggling, and that's the Xbox.