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Ashwin Manikandan / Reuters: Bain and Flipkart report: quick commerce made up over two-thirds of India’s e-grocery orders in 2024, with GMV rising nearly five times to $6B-$7B from 2022  —  India’s quick commerce sector accounted for over two-thirds of all e-grocery orders last year, with its total market share growing …

Our favorite bike locks for every ride, including new locks designed to thwart angle grinders.

Social platform X struggled after Elon Musk took over, but its fortunes improved dramatically after US President Donald Trump won reelection. Now it will be become part of Musk’s AI startup xAI.

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Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: Filing: Intel says three board members will not stand for reelection at its 2025 annual meeting, shrinking the size of the board to 11 members  —  Three Intel (INTC.O) board members will not stand for reelection at its 2025 annual meeting, the chipmaker said in a regulatory filing on Thursday …

Bloomberg: Source: hackers broke into Oracle’s Cerner servers sometime after January 22 and stole patient data to extort US medical providers; the FBI is investigating  —  – The FBI is investigating the incident from earlier this year  — Hacker used stolen logins to access old servers, Oracle said

Reuters: Sources: Blackstone is evaluating a small minority investment in TikTok’s US operations, joining the front-running bid by ByteDance’s non-Chinese shareholders  —  Private equity firm Blackstone is evaluating making a small minority investment in TikTok’s U.S. operations, according to two people familiar with the matter.

While everyone contributes to a company’s culture, leaders have an outsized ability to influence it.

Especially if you’re remote.

And how suppliers can maintain crucial relationships when pursuing new channels.

Get some solid shut-eye with the help of these sleep masks.

Keita Takahashi talks about his latest game, To a T, which lets you navigate teenage hardships while your hands are stuck in a T-pose.

If Elon Musk is America’s CEO, DOGE is the Silicon Valley executive branch.

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority says it intends to begin authorizing new crypto firms in 2026 after it designs a more stringent regulatory regime  —  The FCA’s intention is to create new rules for a more stringent regulatory regime, its director of payments said.  —  What to know:

Sarah Wynn / The Block: Crypto.com says the US SEC won’t pursue enforcement action; Crypto.com sued the SEC in October after receiving a Wells notice signaling potential charges  —  – Crypto.com said that the SEC will not file an enforcement action against the company.  — Crypto.com sued the SEC in October …

Reuters: Court documents: India criticizes Elon Musk’s X for wrongly labeling an official website, used to notify tech firms of harmful content, as a “censorship portal”  —  India has criticised Elon Musk’s X for wrongly labelling as a “censorship portal” an official website …

When researchers asked people to work on a computer with their phones 1.5 metres away, the amount of time they spent on their phone went down – but they just scrolled social media on their laptop instead

You’re an aerospace engineer on a tight timeline to develop a component for a rocket engine. No sweat, you think — you know the concepts by heart, and the model looks appropriate in CAD. But you inspect the 3D-printed part that you’ve outsourced for manufacturing, and something is wrong. The impeller blade angle is off, […]

OpenAI just unveiled a new subscription tier called ChatGPT Pro. Users can pay $200 a month for almost unlimited access to ChatGPT’s tools, and an exclusive new AI model.

Thelma, Gladiator, and Kinds of Kindness are just a few of the movies you need to watch on Hulu right now.

Next year, you won’t need to download yet another app to use an EV charger from an unfamiliar brand. Most of the major EV makers and charging networks are on board.

Victoria Song / The Verge: Oura rolls out Symptom Radar, a feature that tries to detect early signs of sickness using biometrics like heart rate variability, to Oura Ring Gen 3 and 4  —  At the height of the covid-19 pandemic, many wearable companies rushed to see if their devices could detect early signs of […]

Greg Otto / CyberScoop: US intelligence reports: online terrorist network 764 is using techniques normally used for financial crimes, such as SIM swapping, to commit child sextortion  —  The child sextortion group 764 and the global collective of loosely associated groups known as “The Com” are using tools …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: US SEC filing: xAI raised $6B, bringing its total raised to $12B; it was reportedly aiming for a $50B valuation  —  xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.  —  Investors gave a minimum of $77,593 …

A US ban on exporting high-end chips used for AI development to China doesn’t seem to have affected Tencent, as researchers have found signs of the tech giant using the chips well after the ban was put in place

People struggling with their mental health are more likely to browse negative content online, and in turn, that negative content makes their symptoms worse, according to a series of studies by researchers at MIT. The group behind the research has developed a web plug-in tool to help those looking to protect their mental health make […]

Until very recently, Mariano Salcedo, a fourth-year MIT electronic engineering and computer science student majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making, was planning to apply for a master’s program in computer science at MIT. Then he saw the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building, which opened this fall for a selection of classes. “Now, instead […]

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These seven principles help PE firms turn talk into action.

A study of digital healthcare startups found that successful firms avoided prototypes early.

Our favorite WIRED-tested giftable gadgets for everything from water and coffee to wine and cocktails.

Inspired by her own experienced of abuse, Nighat Dad fights for women’s social and digital rights in Pakistan and beyond.

They’ve racked up millions of views on Instagram, but these products aren’t coming to a store near you.

Jordyn Holman / New York Times: A look at the logistics network of Amazon, Walmart and Target for same-day or next-day delivery; Walmart says it now offers same-day to 86% of US households  —  Retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target have figured out that if they get you your online order today, you will probably […]

Reuters: Meta plans to invest $10B to build a data center in Louisiana, in what would be its largest data center in the world, and expects work to start in December  —  Facebook-parent Meta (META.O) said on Wednesday it plans to invest $10 billion to set up an AI data center in Louisiana …

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Sources: AT&T, JPMorgan, and Dunkin’ pull ads from Twitch after a controversial group of livestreamers alleged that Twitch is promoting antisemitic content  —  – Exiled contributors mount campaign that includes edited clips  — Their targets are pro-Palestinian streamer and Twitch staffers

A robotic wheeled rat that was trained with AI learned how to play and fight with real rodents – and could one day offer companionship to lab rats

Car design is an iterative and proprietary process. Carmakers can spend several years on the design phase for a car, tweaking 3D forms in simulations before building out the most promising designs for physical testing. The details and specs of these tests, including the aerodynamics of a given car design, are typically not made public. […]

The ChatGPT maker is the latest AI giant to reveal it’s working with the defense industry, following similar announcements by Meta and Anthropic.

Researchers hacked several robots infused with large language models, getting them to behave dangerously—and pointing to a bigger problem ahead.

The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it’s already turning up victims.

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Amazon is rolling out a Buy with AWS button that software companies can add to their websites as a way for customers with AWS accounts to pay for services  —  In 2022, Amazon introduced the Buy with Prime button, allowing premium subscribers to make purchases using their Amazon account even when […]

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: First impressions of Amazon Nova LLMs: they are competitive with Google Gemini, among the cheapest available, and may position Amazon as a top model provider  —  Amazon released three new Large Language Models yesterday at their AWS re:Invent conference.  The new model family is called Amazon Nova …

Financial Times: xAI plans to expand its Colossus supercomputer tenfold to incorporate more than 1M GPUs; work has already begun to increase the size of its facility in Memphis  —  Facility in Memphis expected to incorporate more than 1mn GPUs as billionaire’s xAI aims to catch up with rivals

In a unique demonstration of brain implants that incorporate living cells, the devices were able to connect with the brains of live mice

The latest weather forecasting AI model from Google DeepMind can beat the leading providers more than 97 per cent of the time, and it is quicker and cheaper to run

A bird-inspired robot called RAVEN can walk, hop and jump into flight, an ability that could help people develop fixed-wing drones that can take off and land anywhere

For the first time, MIT sent an organized engagement to the global Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity, which this year was held Oct. 21 to Nov. 1 in Cali, Colombia. The 10 delegates to COP16 included faculty, researchers, and students from the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), the Department of […]

Dry river channels and lake beds on Mars point to the long-ago presence of a liquid on the planet’s surface, and the minerals observed from orbit and from landers seem to many to prove that the liquid was ordinary water.  Not so fast, the authors of a new Perspectives article in Nature Geoscience suggest. Water is […]

The MIT K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics and Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health (MOH) have launched the first fully accredited educational program for prosthetists and orthotists in Sierra Leone.  Tens of thousands of people in Sierra Leone need orthotic braces and artificial limbs, but access to such specialized medical care in this African nation […]