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Elon Musk says US government contracts will account for under 10% of SpaceX's revenue this quarter, down from 16.6% last quarter and around 20% in 2025 (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Microsoft has been turning off rented computing capacity from Oracle after declining to renew a 2023 deal, because the hardware used older Nvidia chips (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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The US DOJ indicts three foreign nationals for allegedly using AI to impersonate CEOs and attorneys at major international law firms in a $129M+ fraud scheme (Rebecca Cohen/NBC News)

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Researcher: *sshole, a decade-old OpenSSH flaw, lets attackers use a password of 256+ characters to log into passwordless accounts on some musl Linux systems (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Democrats, with Elizabeth Warren a top contender to chair Senate Banking, are poised to step up oversight of Nvidia over chip exports and circular financing (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

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Fox closes its $22B Roku acquisition well ahead of the expected 2027 date; Anthony Wood joins Fox's board and co-chairs a new unit with Tubi, Fox One, and Roku (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Sources: TSMC is considering expanding into manufacturing 3D DRAM at the request of Nvidia, its biggest customer, amid memory chip shortages (Qianer Liu/The Information)

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Employees at Microsoft, long known for its stability in the industry, are grappling with its decision to offer buyouts to 60,000 people as AI spending grows (Emmy Martin/New York Times)

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Experts say the new Democratic congressional majority will likely seek to rebuild CISA, prioritize AI security, revive local cyber grants, probe DOGE, and more (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)

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In preliminary findings, the EU says TikTok breached the DSA by failing to prevent its recommendation algorithm from trapping users in harmful "rabbit holes" (Alexander Martin/The Record)

In preliminary findings, the EU says TikTok breach...

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Sources: Democrats are eyeing Apple, Meta, and Elon Musk-led companies as early congressional investigation targets, after winning House and Senate majorities (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

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Sources: Nvidia is requiring Southeast Asian customers seeking Nvidia Cloud Partner status to enroll in a program that tracks the locations of their AI chips (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

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Elon Musk says Tesla plans to wind down production of the Cybertruck at its Texas Gigafactory in mid-2027 "to make room for increased Cybercab production" (Kana Inagaki/Financial Times)

Elon Musk says Tesla plans to wind down production...

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Cleanview: ~40% of planned data center capacity is in states where newly elected governors have pledged to pause or halt construction (Bloomberg)

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Blockaid: Binance hackers stole ~$2.5B, or 40% of the $6.3B haul, in a single Ethereum transaction using wallet permissions that cost just $15 to set up (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

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NY-based Kalepa, whose AI platform supports insurance underwriting, pricing, and portfolio management, raised a $75M Series B led by Updata at a $470M valuation (Manya Saini/Reuters)

NY-based Kalepa, whose AI platform supports insura...

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Sources: China's top memory maker YMTC plans to source up to 70% of equipment for its fourth chip factory locally, up from just over 50% for its third factory (Reuters)

Sources: China's top memory maker YMTC plans to so...

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Asian tech stocks plunge amid fears US Democrats may delay data centers; Taiwan's Taiex sees a record intraday point drop, Kospi falls 8.7%, and Nikkei 6.7% (Jada Nagumo/Nikkei Asia)

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