Global fintech VC funding rose 27% YoY in 2025 to $51.8B; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% YoY (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/most-active-fintech-inve…
Truck carrying Russian troops blown up in Krasnodar Krai, Ukraine's intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/05/truck-carrying-russian-troops-blown.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Chronixx:
🎵 Here Comes Trouble
#Chronixx
https://ideacitymusic.bandcamp.com/track/chronixx-here-comes-trouble
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Wwr2S7QZTR5PVJn6jhgdk
14- und 15-jährige Todesopfer. Bei den Verletzten wird es wohl nicht anders aussehen. Es ist absolut furchtbar!
Und nur zu hoffen, dass Verantwortlichkeiten aufgeklärt werden. Es kann nicht sein, dass der Kanton alles von sich wegschiebt auf die Gemeinde. Ob das Betreiberpaar eine Versicherung hat?
#CransMontana
Crunchyroll is raising its US prices by $2 per month; the cheapest tier gets its first price increase since 2019 and now offers offline downloads on one device (Isaac Rouse/Polygon.com)
https://www.polygon.com/crunchyroll-subscription-price-increase-2026/
DealBook Summit: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says "the more constitutional you want to make" the US' Caribbean boat strikes "the more you're going to need" Palantir (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-
Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15-20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026 (TrendForce)
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/12/05
Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/838167/ai-chatbots-can-be-wooed-…
Sources: HP, Dell, Acer, and Asus are considering sourcing memory chips from Chinese chipmakers; HP and Dell are currently qualifying DRAM products from CXMT (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/h…