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Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Techme101

The new integrations join other services like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and others.

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Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerruner’s Kirsten Green

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Techme101

Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine.

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France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Techme101

France’s postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline.

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Inside Uzbekistan’s nationwide license plate surveillance system

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Techme101

The Uzbek government’s national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password.

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Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Techme101

Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.

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The tooth fairy just got reimagined for the tech-savvy generation

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Techme101

Move over, Santa. Now there’s another magical character for kids to track: the Tooth Fairy. After making a personalized Tooth Fairy video for his nephew, Oliver Finel noticed a gap. While there are plenty of Santa trackers, nothing similar existed … Continue reading →

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OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an ‘LLM-based automated attacker.’

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Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Techme101

Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data center and clean energy developer.

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Trump admin halts 6 GW of offshore wind leases again

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Techme101

The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to delay the construction of 6 gigawatts of offshore wind near a hotspot of data center development.

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Paramount renews bid for Warner Bros, ensuring $40 billion Larry Ellison backing

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Techme101

It’s the latest attempt by one major Hollywood superpower to acquire another.

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