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 (HTM) [2025-12-08] Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation
       Facebook agrees to change "pay or consent" model after talks with European Commission.
       
 (HTM) [2025-12-04] In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool
       Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again?
       
 (HTM) [2025-12-03] Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln
       Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML—no authentication needed.
       
 (HTM) [2025-12-03] Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
       Report: Microsoft declared "the era of AI agents" in May, but enterprise customers aren't buying.
       
 (HTM) [2025-12-03] Fraudulent gambling network may actually be something more nefarious
       Researchers say there's more to the network, which has operated for 14 years.
       
 (HTM) [2025-12-02] OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months
       Three years after Google sounded alarm bells over ChatGPT, the tables have turned.
       
 (HTM) [2025-12-02] Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules
       New research offers clues about why some prompt injection attacks may succeed.
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-26] HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use
       Product development, internal operations among teams expected to be hit hardest.
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-26] Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble
       Several companies are selling crypto stockpiles in effort to fund share buybacks, shore up stock prices.
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-24] UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push
       Plan will offer guaranteed payments for British startups making AI hardware
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-22] Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
       Voting system required three keys. One of them has been "irretrievably lost."
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-21] How to know if your Asus router is one of thousands hacked by China-state hackers
       So far, the hackers are laying low, likely for later use.
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-21] Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand
       Google's AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-20] HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs
       HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-19] Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size
       "I worry this is the big botnet flexing," CEO said. But outage was self-inflicted.
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-19] Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
       Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-18] Tech giants pour billions into Anthropic as circular AI investments roll on
       ChatGPT competitor secures billions from Microsoft and Nvidia in deal to use cloud services and chips.
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-18] Bonkers Bitcoin heist: 5-star hotels, cash-filled envelopes, vanishing funds
       Bitcoin mining hardware exec falls for sophisticated crypto scam to tune of $200k
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-18] Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean
       Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.
       
 (HTM) [2025-11-17] 5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs
       Fleets of laptops run from US residences gave appearance workers were in the US.