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Inside Uzbekistan's nationwide license plate surveillance system: The Uzbek government's national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password. Read More

The tooth fairy just got reimagined for the tech-savvy generation: Move over, Santa. Now there's another magical character for kids to track. Tooth Fairy Tracker features Kiki the Tooth Fairy as its central character. When a child loses a tooth, parents can visit the website and enter their email to receive notifications as Kiki begins her mission. Read More

OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks: 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." Read More

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ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped: The experience includes awards, poems, and pictures referencing your year in chat. Read More

Paramount renews bid for Warner Bros, ensuring $40B Larry Ellison backing: It's the latest attempt by one major Hollywood superpower to acquire another. Read More

Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks: Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data center and clean energy developer. Read More

Trump admin halts 6 GW of offshore wind leases again: 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. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Pirate group Anna's Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify: Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping. Read More