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Each week, Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
Check out this week's selection, which includes
--Kids turn from cybercrime to real-world violent thefts,
--How retailers profit from crypto ATM scams,
--Integrated web browsers are insecure out of the box,
--An MIT railroad club led to modern-day hackers,…

Best infosec-related long reads for the weeks of 12/13/25, 12/30/25, and 1/3/26
Kids turn from cybercrime to real-world violent thefts, How retailers profit from crypto ATM scams, Integrated web browsers are insecure out of the box, An MIT railroad club led to modern-day hackers, AI coding tools are susceptible to attacks, LLM guardrails are inherently exploitable

Folks: Aral, you’re all about free and open technology, why won’t you speak at #FOSDEM?
Me: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115697202966701085
Also, I’m actually all about this:

Even if you want to watch some of their stuff, you can minmax making them less profit:
- buy used physical media
- don’t talk about their stuff online
- ████ it
And maybe look beyond, there’s so much better stuff out there anyway.

Financial documents show Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses that year before turning a profit in 2030 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-anthropic-profitability-e9f5bcd6

RE: https://systemli.social/@anneroth/115527424993024365
“These are marketing statements driven by profit-motive and ideology rather than empirical evidence and formal proof”
Es gibt sogar einen Offenen Brief von Wissenschaftler*innen dazu. Ich schw…

This comment on the "resonant computing manifesto" really nails it.
The job of that manifesto was to capture the growing trend of "fuck this tech landscape" vibe und direct it in a way that the same people who profited of the last decades will continue to profit. Off of us.
https://

the resonant computing manifesto
() background: the resonant computing manifesto counts among its drafters at least three xooglers with at least a decade of tenure each; three venture ca...

Sony Music reports Q2 revenue up 21% YoY to ~$3.51B, operating income up 28% to ~$749M; Sony Pictures' revenue down 3% to ~$2.24B, operating income fell to $90M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sony-quarterly-earning…

Sony Lifts Forecast as Music Division Soars on ‘Demon Slayer’ Boom
Sony Group Corporation lifted its annual earnings forecast after posting double-digit profit growth for the July–September quarter.

Samsung’s profit triples after AI supercharges memory market - The Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/01/08/companies/samsung-profit-triples/

Nancy Pelosi made $130M in stock profits during Congress career -- a return of 16,930% (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/08/us-news/nancy-pelosi-made-130-million-in-stock-profits-in-her-37-years-in-congress-a-profit-of-16930/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p12#a251109p12

💸 Porto dismantle one of biggest ticket-scalping networks uncovered in football
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/22/porto-dismantle-one-of-biggest-ticket-scalping-networks-uncovered-in-football…

Porto dismantle one of biggest ticket-scalping networks uncovered in football
Porto have reclaimed hundreds of seats at their Estádio do Dragão stadium that had been exploited for profit on the illegal resale market

My initial thoughts as I read through the Canadian summary:
- While it mentions a political revolution in the U.S., with Trump removing or ignoring controls on his powers, it doesn't talk about how critical their midterms are.
- If the Democrats fail to take control of the House and Senate, then 2027 and beyond will be worse. Trump, senile and aging badly, will be a puppet for the worst elements in the U.S government.
- There's a real possibility that midterms could get canceled outright as Trump seeks absolute power.
- Smaller risks, in terms of impact, are food and health safety.
- The U.S. is removing all restrictions on profit in their food chain. Inspection agencies are being dismantled and legislation eliminated. Yet we continue to import goods from them.
- The anti-vaccine strategy at the very top is leading to surges in COVID, flu, measles and more. How long until that spills over our border.
#CanPoli

Nintendo's shares slid as much as 4.7% on December 10 to their lowest level since May, amid concerns that rising memory chip prices will erode its profit (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/ninten…

Hopefully allaying some corners of people who felt burned by Hashicorp in times past…
"Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit" – Mitchell Hashimoto
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit

KI-Update kompakt: OpenAI For-Profit, GitHub AgenHQ, Halluzinationen, Spesen
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

Microsoft dreht an der Preisschraube: Ab Juli 2026 wird Microsoft 365 für Unternehmen und Privatnutzer teurer – teils deutlich. Begründung: „Angepasster Wert“ der Produkte. Faktisch heißt das: Mehr Cloud, mehr KI, mehr Kosten. Profit kennt eben kein Abo-Limit.
@…
#Microsoft

This has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n

Future of Privacy Forum Appoints Matthew Reisman as Vice President of U.S. Policy
https://fpf.org/press-releases/future-of-privacy-forum-appoints-matthew-reisman-as-vice-president-of-u-s-policy/

Study: 15 TikTok accounts posting AI videos of sexualized underage girls have nearly 300K followers and 2M likes; TikTok says 14 accounts don't violate rules (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/tiktok-ai-videos-children-report

Videos of sexually suggestive, AI-generated children are racking up millions of likes on TikTok, study finds
AI-generated videos showing what appear to be underage girls in sexualized clothing or positions have together racked up millions of likes on TikTok, even though the platform’s rules prohibit such content, according to new research from an online safety non-profit.

Anyone here has used both #Zotero and #Endnote?
If so, which one do you prefer (if we set aside the fact that one is non-profit and the other is an exploitative for-profit)? Like, on the features and ease of use only?

A lot of companies in tech are non-profit if we're honest. But the issue really is that by being a "non-profit tech company" you kinda align yourself the the idea of the tech company itself and all the baggage that brings. It's where a lot of the issues (for example with Mozilla) come from
https://ma…

Sources: Shein told investors in August that it expects $2B in net income in 2025 despite US tariffs and forecasts mid-teen percentage growth in full-year sales (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-06/s…

Shein Eyes $2 Billion Profit in 2025 Despite US Tariff Headwinds
Shein Group Ltd. has told investors that it’s expecting a bumper $2 billion in net income in 2025, after higher profit margins through price hikes and cost-cutting helped overcome a drop in online traffic caused by President Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs.

The Economist reports revenue up 4% YoY to £170.3M in the six months to September 2025 and pre-tax profit up 28% YoY to £19.7M; a 27% stake is up for sale (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/the-economist-rothsch…

The Economist reveals revenue growth as Rothschild stake up for sale
The Economist revealed revenue and profit growth for the past six months as potential buyers expressed interest in a 27% stake in the business

'Peace for Profit': Trump Allies Plot $2 Trillion Windfall From Ukraine Deal Leak | IBTimes UK
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peace-profit-trump-allies-plot-2-trillion-windfall-ukraine-deal-leak-1758984

Microsoft dreht an der Preisschraube: Ab Juli 2026 wird Microsoft 365 für Unternehmen und Privatnutzer teurer – teils deutlich. Begründung: „Angepasster Wert“ der Produkte. Faktisch heißt das: Mehr Cloud, mehr KI, mehr Kosten. Profit kennt eben kein Abo-Limit.
@…
#Microsoft

»Der verborgene Cyber-Krieg hinter der nachhaltigen Finanzwirtschaft:
[…] Die Entwicklung von KI-unterstützten zu KI-gesteuerten Bedrohungen […]«
Ich behaupte mal, dass die meisten Verantwortliche in Banken Technik-Gläubig sind und dem Marketing der IT-Giganten blind glauben - denn bis jetzt war es meistens ein hoher Profit für die Anleger.
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Der verborgene Cyber-Krieg hinter der nachhaltigen Finanzwirtschaft
Am Internationalen Tag der Banken werden sich die meisten Diskussionen um Zinssätze, Wirtschaftspolitik und die globale Kreditvergabe drehen. Doch diese

Profit aus Transit - Mega-Center soll Konkurrenz für „Excalibur“ werden #News #Nachrichten

So this is percolating and the results so far are not surprising.
I'd vote NO, for the following reasons:
- oil demand continues to decline and risk is high we'll end up with an expensive underutilized pipeline. Therefore high risk we'll end up subsidizing any private entity that builds this thing.
- why would we invest public dollars to support infrastructure for a product where 75% of the profit leaves Canada? There has to be a net benefit, beyond steel sales and jobs, for this project to be considered.
- Indigenous land rights must be respected. They will be left with the rusting pipeline decades in the future, and it's impact on the land.
- the B.C. government must also have a final vote as they have to give up land and provide support.
- we don't need additional oil tankers on our west coast.
- and most importantly, with this MOU, Canada pretty much declared we aren't serious about protecting the environment or fighting climate change. We're oil whores. Harsh but....
#CanPoli #ClimateAction

United States will “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere.” Orders diplomats to seek “major business opportunities in their country, especially major government contracts.”
http…

Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy
President Trump’s new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians.

Their plan seems NOT to try and eliminate or at least minimize these ads, but rather to see if they can extract premium rates because the ads have been IDENTIFIED as scams.
JFC, why would anyone do business with this company. Why would functioning governments (this sadly excludes the US rn) allow this company to operate within its borders.
This is not a whoopsie. This is a deliberate corporate decision to allow users to be preyed upon and profit from it.

The Betrayal of Ukraine: Peace, Power, and the Price of Electricity
How Farage, Musk, Thiel and the Trumps hope to profit from the surrender of Ukraine
https://www.theangrydogs.com/p/the-betrayal-of-ukraine-peace-power

We all favor efficiency, right? Efficiency is what drives profit, growth, share value, prosperity, etc, right? And localized sub-optimization drives whole systems optimization, right? Well, except when…
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-plur

Checking in on the state of Amazon’s chickenized reverse-centaurs
When your shitty boss is a shitty app and you’re not even allowed to call yourself an employee.

As the head of a non-profit, I would never do this sort of thing. This is just nauseating. Good money intended for a good cause going to support bad actors.

Donnie continues to attempt to create problems so that he can claim he's the only one capable of solving them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/gun-violence-prevention-non-profit-grants-disqualified

"Profit before planet: Big fashion brands’ sustainability disclosures still abysmal, report reveals"
#Fashion #FastFashion #Sustainability

Der SPIEGEL berichtet über 20 Milliarden Dollar Investorengelder für xAI. Parallel bleibt X ein Ort, an dem pornografische Inhalte florieren und geduldet werden. Das ist kein Widerspruch, sondern Teil derselben Logik: Reichweite schlägt Regulierung, Kapital schlägt Ethik. Und am Ende stimmt der Profit.
#Netzpolitik

Current ethnic cleansing in US is making some a lot of money, while destroying others.
“When ICE takes…person…system around them…built to swallow everything they ever touched.”
“Towing companies profit. State agencies profit. &…people who once lived in…homes & drove…cars & held…IDs are left w/nothing but…clothes on their backs. This is not a broken system.”
“…system functioning exactly as…designed.”

When ICE Takes a Person, Why Do Their Possessions Vanish Too?
An investigative expose. Forty-one percent of migrants say their belongings never returned from ICE custody, and the items left behind at the moment of arrest disappear just as quietly.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@BigTittyBimbo/115667885319262803
I'm ashamed that I've let corporate giants profit from my watch time on platforms like Twitch.
Even so, I keep using it because they’ve hooked me with free in-game drops yo…

The electric vehicle boom in Norway is, in part, a result of high taxes. New vehicles are taxed at 25%, but new #EV at 0%. Registration fees are waved, as are (were?) city tolls, and often there is free EV parking. Plus there are income tax deductions for EV.
Businesses, on the other hand, profit from vastly cheaper electricity prices (compared to households) - or they can use the free (!) ele…

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366634571/Russian-money-launderers-bought-a-bank-to-disguise-ransomware-profit
Russian money launderers bought a bank to disguise ransomware profit

Russian money launderers bought a bank to disguise ransomware profit
A billion-dollar money laundering network active in the UK funnelled money, including the profits of ransomware attacks, into its own bank to circumvent sanctions on Russia and help fund its attacks on Ukraine

Kingston Community Energy (2012) - Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen -

Kingston Community Energy (2012)
Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen

Ventura County Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster ( #VCVOAD )
is a collaborative of nearly 50 local non-profit agencies,
faith-based organizations,
volunteer groups,
public institutions,
and private entities
dedicated to improving outcomes for people affected by disasters.
VC-VOAD helps communities respond to and recover from major disasters guided by our f…

About | Ventura County VOAD

Samsung expects Q4 operating profit up 208% YoY to ~$13.8B, vs. ~$12.3B est., and revenue up 23% to ~$64.2B, as demand for AI servers lifted memory chip prices (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p51#a251207p51

Ich habe die Petition „Unsere Nudes sind nicht euer Business” von HateAid unterschrieben. Jetzt bist du dran!
Petition: Unsere Nudes sind nicht euer Business
https://hateaid.org/petition-notyourbusiness
> Unterschreibe jetzt unsere Petition gegen den Profit mit geklaut…

Petition: Unsere Nudes sind nicht euer Business
Unterschreibe jetzt unsere Petition gegen den Profit mit geklauten und gefälschten Nacktbildern. Gemeinsam fordern wir von Politik und Plattformen: Unsere Nudes sind nicht euer Business.

For Her
It's the place you come when you're done guessing, done hustling blindly, and finally ready to build the kind of brand people talk about without you begging for attention...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/passion-t…

Great comment by @…:
«[…] private institutions are fundamentally extractive. Decisions are made on the basis of profit or some similar self-serving motivation. They provide as little as possible for the revenue they receive. Public institutions, by contrast, are fundamentally constructive. They exist to promote the social good or (if we believe Mark Carney) s…

Russian frustration at failing to capture strategic objectives translates into increased ferocity and cruelty to the civilian population in Ukraine.
USA could have stopped all of this long ago, but the merchant class likes to profit off of war.
Report from the front lines, despite Russian drone attacking the reporter and narrowly missing.
Friend link bypasses the paywall, please share and support Ukraine and true journalism.

NYT reports 12.33M subscribers in Q3 after adding 460K digital subs, total revenue up 9.5% YoY to $700.8M, and adjusted operating profit up 26.1% YoY to $131.4M (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/business/media/new-york-times-ea…

The Times’s Profit Jumps With 460,000 More Subscribers
The Times now has 12.33 million total subscribers to all of its products. It has said it is aiming for 15 million by the end of 2027.

Yeah, Jimmy “I’m actually quite in favour of business and capitalism and all that”* Wales, the surveillance capitalist and Fandom-president adtech man who once told me he doesn’t believe in any form of government regulation – not even in food standards or healthcare – can go fuck himself.
Find better heroes. Or even better yet, get over the whole stupid concept itself.
*

"Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit!" – Morten Linderud
https://linderud.dev/blog/self-hosting-dns-for-no-fun-but-a-little-profit/

I've been a member of Little Free Library for 18 months. Their emails have been a nuisance, but I remained because of my goodwill towards the org. I finally hit my limit and unsubscribed today. Why? I counted 18 emails in the last 30 days!
If you're a non-profit and view each email as having essentially zero cost to your org, you should ask if you're not silently chipping away at goodwill by being a pest.

Last year my inbox was inundated on #GivingTuesday by every non-profit organization that had ever gotten ahold of my email address. But this year I've gotten like three appeals so far. Curious.

"Scotland barely owns any of its own economy now. We are startlingly foreign owned. Our banks, our energy, our land, our supermarkets, our whisky industry – we work and we shop and we generate wealth and then the owners of these industries take the profit and ship it off overseas" -- Robin McAlpine
#ScotPol

Mr. Nadella, don’t worry about the “real world impact” of what you call “AI,” i.e., LLM-driven chatbots. Already today, lazy students and fraudulent researchers “get value out of AI in the real world.”
But I get it, the big question is: how can Microsoft profit from cheating and fraud in education and research?
https://

Mr. Nadella, don’t worry about the “real world impact” of what you call “AI,” i.e., LLM-driven chatbots. Already today, lazy students and fraudulent researchers “get value out of AI in the real world.”
But I get it, the big question is: how can Microsoft profit from cheating and fraud in education and research?
https://

Mr. Nadella, don’t worry about the “real world impact” of what you call “AI,” i.e., LLM-driven chatbots. Already today, lazy students and fraudulent researchers “get value out of AI in the real world.”
But I get it, the big question is: how can Microsoft profit from cheating and fraud in education and research?
https://

Analysts expect Samsung's Q4 operating profit to jump 160% YoY to ~$11.7B, driven by a severe global shortage of memory chips amid booming AI demand (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/s…

Ah, Google Documents.. So convenient.. But #Google is bad and the current US government is crazy.
What is the closest existing alternative to GDocs which is not owned by an american for-profit?
So far, Libre Office docs could be a replacement but there doesn't seem to be an integrated way to do co-editing online with it?
Conditions:

• I am not interested in L…

„Das Unternehmen bestätigte Zahlen der „Süddeutschen Zeitung“, wonach nur knapp 52 Prozent aller Fernzüge ohne größere Verzögerungen ans Ziel kamen. Ein schlechterer Monatswert ist bisher nicht bekannt.“
Ich würde gern mit Ihnen darüber sprechen, ob Privatisierung (= Zwang, Profit zu machen) von Daseinsvorge wirklich so eine gute Idee ist

SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $17.02B, vs. $17.22B est, operating profit up 62% YoY to $7.92B, a record, boosted by demand for its HBM chips for AI (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/sk-hynix-q3-profit-revenue-record-.html

Nvidia-supplier SK Hynix third-quarter profit jumps 62% to a record high on AI-fueled memory demand

"The bill would give antitrust protections to the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), pre-empting state regulations on the issue, and clarify nationwide that student athletes are not employees, precluding many labor rights and limiting their ability to profit off their name, image, and likeness."
House GOP forced to cancel vote on new Trump bill - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/score-act/

Trump's Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy (Anton Troianovski/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/politics/trump-national-security-strategy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p141#a251205p141

"Ministers to crack down on ‘for-profit’ litter enforcers in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Santa Barbara’s future vitality depends on making space for younger generations who want to build their lives here
— and a walkable, bike-friendly downtown offers immense value for renters, service workers, parents, and young professionals alike.
We cannot rely on big, national retail chains to anchor State Street
Bringing cars back will just bring back cruising, since parking has always been on nearby streets and in garages.
A walkable downtown supported by efficien…

The Daily Beast COO Keith Bonnici says the publisher has been profitable through the first nine months of 2025 and expects its first full year of profitability (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/daily-beast-annual-profit-growth/

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Beast Expects First Annual Profit in 17-Year History
The publisher has seen revenue and headcount grow 20% and 25%, respectively, after changing ownership last April

In a reply to Elon Musk's post of "you stole a non-profit", Sam Altman says OpenAI's structure is needed to create "what should be the largest non-profit ever" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still trading jabs over OpenAI
In response to Elon Musk, Sam Altman wrote on X that he "helped turn the thing you left for dead into what should be the largest non-profit ever."

A shocking cybercrime has shaken India’s digital security landscape, with hackers stealing at least 50,000 CCTV clips over nine months from facilities across the country and selling them online, feeding them into an international porn fetish network for profit.
80 CCTV dashboards in seven cities were compromised using 'admin123' default passwords

Inside India’s voyeur web: 80 CCTV dashboards hacked across 20 states; hospitals, schools, homes streamed to porn channels; 50,000 clips sold | Rajkot News - The Times of India
A shocking cyber scandal has exposed widespread CCTV breaches across India, with hackers exploiting a default password, \"admin123,\" to access intimate

»DNS0 ist abgeschaltet. Ein Rückblick auf das kurze Leben des EU-finanzierten DNS-Resolvers.
DNS0 ist Geschichte. Betreiber war eine französische Non-Profit-Organisation, 2022 gegründet von Romain Cointepas und Olivier Poitrey.«
Das in Europa ein freier & offener DNS Dienst was wichtiges ist nimmt so gut wie niemensch ernst. Selbst IT-Techniker ist es mMn dem nicht wirklich bewusst.
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DNS0 ist abgeschaltet. Ein Rückblick auf das kurze Leben des EU-finanzierten DNS-Resolvers.
DNS0 ist Geschichte. Betreiber war eine französische Non-Profit-Organisation, 2022 gegründet von Romain Cointepas und Olivier Poitrey.

Michael Saylor's Strategy creates a $1.44B cash reserve funded by stock sales after cutting full-year profit and BTC yield targets due to bitcoin price drops (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/12/0

Michael Saylor and Strategy (MSTR) Raise Cash to Fund Preferred Dividends
Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company also added to its bitcoin holdings last week, bringing its total stack to 650,000 BTC.

TelevisaUnivision reports Q3 revenue down 3% YoY to $1.3B and $90.5M net income, down from $190.3M YoY; subscription and licensing revenue rose 3% YoY to $493M (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/televisaunivision-3q-pr…

TelevisaUnivision Sees 3Q Profit Dip Due in Part to Ad Shortfall
TelevisaUnivision Sees 3Q Profit Dip Due in Part to Advertising Shortfall

Whereas with our tiny not-for-profit, Small Technology Foundation, we set things up so we don’t have shares/ownership and we only receive a salary and pay all our taxes. Which is how it should be and would be perfectly fine if we taxed these motherfuckers their fair share also.
PS. I know I suck at advocating for ourselves but here’s your infrequent reminder that you can help us continue to exist, should you like to see that, by becoming a patron:

Super Micro reports Q1 revenue down 15% YoY to $5B, vs. $6.09B est., and forecasts Q2 profit below estimates; SMCI drops 9% after hours (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/super-micro-sh…

"Although Ecosia is a not-for-profit, they seem to be re-enacting the for-profit erosion of human knowledge and the active murder of the open web currently being orchestrated by Google and the other tech giants."
(Original title: Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech)
https://

Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech
Why replace human work with fossil-fuel-slurping mistake generators? Ecosia’s “Green AI” is selling false hope for bad tech

'Witkoff needs a psychiatrist': Europeans fume at Trump's plan to profit from frozen Russian assets (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/steve-witkoff-needs-a-psychiatrist-europeans-fume-at-donald-trump-plan-to-profit-from-frozen-russian-assets/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p136#a251121p136

Lachlan Murdoch says Tubi hit profitability for the first time during the past quarter, its revenue grew 27% YoY, and viewing time rose 18% YoY (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/fox-results-tubi-profitability-lachlan-murdoch-12366026…

Fox Streamer Tubi Turns Profit Earlier Than Expected, Lachlan Murdoch Reveals On First Results Call Since Family Settlement Drama
Today's Fox Q1 Results saw Tubi hit profit, Lachlan Murdoch reveals, which came earlier than expected for the AVoD platform.

Block expects gross profit to increase in the mid-teens YoY through 2028, reaching ~$15.8B, with adjusted operating income growing ~30% YoY; XYZ closed up 7.56% (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/block-unveils-3-y…

Block's stock pops 9% on gross profit forecast, 3-year financial outlook
Block laid out long-term financial targets, projecting annual gross profit growth in the mid-teens through 2028.

Someone made a huge profit predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/03/maduro-capture-bets-trade-prediction-markets
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p64#a260103p64

Affirm reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $933M, vs. $883M est., GMV up 42% to $10.8B, vs. $10.38B est., and profit above estimates; AFRM jumps 11% after hours (Reinhardt Krause/Investor's Business Daily)
https://www.investors.com/news/technology/affirm…

Thomson Reuters reports Q3 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.78B and operating profit up 43% YoY to $593M; Reuters News had $207M in revenue and $42M adjusted EBITDA (Thomson Reuters)
https://investors.thomsonreuters.com/news-r…

Future reports revenue down 6% YoY to £739.2M in the year to September 30, pre-tax profit down 11% to £91.9M; CEO Kevin Li Ying wants to cut its Google reliance (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/maga…

Future takes action on 'Google Zero' as revenue declines
Future focusing on engaging audience without relying on Google.

In its Q3 earnings, Alphabet said the profit included "net gains on equity securities of $10.7B," in part from a private company, which sources say is Anthropic (Bloomberg)

UK retailer M&S reports a £135.6M profit hit in H1 2025 after a cyber attack in April, which it attributes to DragonForce, and claimed £100M from its insurers (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/103718d7-457a-4546-b9ea-9b80d3872e75

Nintendo reports Q2 revenue of $3.7B, vs. ~$3B est., and net profit of ~$667M, vs. ~$412M est.; it now expects 19M Switch 2 sales by March 2026, up from 15M (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/nintendo-raises-switch-2-sales-fo…

Nintendo hikes Switch 2 sales forecast to 19 million units as flagship console momentum grows
Nintendo is riding a wave of momentum after launching its latest console called the Switch 2.

Uber reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $13.5B, Gross Bookings up 21% YoY to $49.7B, trips up 22% YoY to 3.5B, and a $1.1B operating profit, below $1.6B est. (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9ceb0184-79d6-4097-af7a-f6ea3d3909d8

A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just hours before Trump's announcement, renewing questions on insider information in prediction markets (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/03/maduro-capture-bets-trade-prediction-mark…

Someone made a huge profit predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened
The winnings come as the rules governing prediction markets are still evolving.

HP reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $14.6B, forecasts FY 2026 profit below est., and plans to cut 4,000-6,000 jobs through FY 2028; HPQ drops 5% after hours (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Snowflake reports Q3 product revenue up 29% YoY to $1.16B, and forecasts Q4 adjusted operating income margin below estimates; SNOW drops 7% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-0…

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company expects to earn close to $15B in profit in 2025, up from around $13B in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/stablecoin-leader-tether-expect…

Samsung projects Q3 operating profit up 32% YoY to ~$8.47B vs. ~$6.8B est., its biggest quarterly profit in more than three years, as AI development accelerates (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Sources: Microsoft asks its Xbox unit to hit 30% "accountability margins", or profit margins, and Xbox canceled products, cut jobs, and raised prices to meet it (Bloomberg)

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.

Lenovo reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $20.45B, vs. $20B est., net profit down 5% to $340M, vs. $382M est., but adjusted net profit up 25% to $512M (P.R. Venkat/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/lenovos-quarterly-reve…

Kuaishou reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$5B and net profit up 37% YoY to ~$632M, above ~$588M est., driven by ad growth and its Kling AI video generator (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/ea…

Sources: Databricks is raising $5B and expects sales to grow 55% this year, putting its post-money valuation at $134B, as AI costs squeeze gross profit margins (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/datab…

Databricks Boosts Sales Forecast, Driving Valuation to $134 Billion
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi has been more vocal than other Silicon Valley executives about the dangers of an AI bubble. His company’s new $5 billion round of fundraising, at a higher valuation than ever, epitomizes the risks and rewards of the boom: While sales are growing faster than forecast, AI ...

Galaxy Digital reports Q3 net income of $505M and total assets up 27% QoQ to $11.5B, including $1.9B in cash and stablecoins and $3.2B in equity (Blockworks)
https://blockworks.co/news/galaxy-posts-505m-profit

Sources: ByteDance is on track for ~$50B profit in 2025 after generating a ~$40B net income in the first three quarters, surpassing its internal target for 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-19/tik…

TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to ~$14.8B, beating est., after previously reporting a 30% rise in revenue, the latest sign of robust spending on AI chips (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…