Elon Musk’s X fined €120m over ‘deceptive’ blue ticks

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

The European Commission says the social media site is opening its users up to scams and impersonations.

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After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something stranger

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

“You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain,” Hodak says, “possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people.”

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Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

An AI image generator startup’s database was left accessible to the open internet, revealing more than 1 million images and videos, including photos of real people who had been “nudified.”

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Walmart-backed PhonePe winds down its Pincode app in yet another e-commerce step back

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

PhonePe has shut down its Pincode app over two years after its debut.

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Nvidia partner Foxconn reports 26% revenue spike as AI boom continues

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

The Taiwanese company has increasingly moved into the AI infrastructure space in recent times

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Cloudflare Suffers Global Outage

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

This latest event follows hot on the heels of Nov. 18, when Cloudflare was hit by a global outage for several hours. 
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Meet Binance’s new co-CEO Yi He: The mysterious and omnipresent ‘life partner’ of CZ

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

Binance Holdings, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, named a new co-CEO in a major shake-up after its former head, Changpeng Zhao, received a presidential pardon. 

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Global websites back online as Cloudflare issues a dashboard fix

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

Shares of the company were down 4.5% in premarket trading after global websites went down and Cloudflare said it was investigating.

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Taiwan bans Chinese social media app RedNote for one year on fraud risks

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

It said that it will block access to the app, describing it as one that is “potentially becoming a high-risk area for online shopping fraud.”

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Meta Poaches Apple Design Legend for AI Future

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

Alan Dye, the mastermind behind Apple’s user interface evolution, officially joined Meta to spearhead a new creative studio within Reality Labs.
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