Tech News

1. Cybercrime:

   • A Chinese woman known as the "Bitcoin Queen" received an 11 years, 8 months jail sentence for laundering $7.3 billion in Bitcoin from a cryptocurrency scheme. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • A UK judge sentenced a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a $5.6B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K BTC. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

2. Data Breaches and Leaks:

   • GlobalLogic is notifying over 10,000 current and former employees that their data was stolen in an Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) data breach. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • UK cyber insurance claims soared by 230% as ransomware devastates businesses. 👉 cybernews.com

3. Vulnerabilities and Exploits:

   • Microsoft's November 2025 Patch Tuesday addresses 63 flaws, including one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update to address a known issue preventing Windows 10 users from enrolling in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • SAP has released November security updates addressing several vulnerabilities, including a maximum severity flaw in SQL Anywhere Monitor. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Hackers exploited a vulnerability and the antivirus feature in Gladinet's Triofox to achieve remote code execution. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • A critical vulnerability in the expr-eval JavaScript library can be exploited for remote code execution. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch a Samsung vulnerability exploited in spyware attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Microsoft discloses 'Whisper Leak' attack that identifies AI chat topics in encrypted traffic. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • A now-patched security flaw in Samsung Galaxy Android devices was exploited as a zero-day to deliver LANDFALL Android spyware. 👉 thehackernews.com

4. Malware and Phishing Campaigns:

   • A large-scale ClickFix campaign targets the hospitality industry, stealing credentials and deploying PureRAT malware. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • A new phishing automation platform, Quantum Route Redirect, targets Microsoft 365 users to steal credentials. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Researchers detected malicious npm package targeting GitHub-owned repositories. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • Android Trojan 'Fantasy Hub' malware service turns Telegram into a hub for hackers. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • A banking malware called Maverick, propagated via WhatsApp, hijacks browser sessions to target Brazil's banks. 👉 thehackernews.com

5. Artificial Intelligence (AI):

   • Google Cloud predicts AI will run cybercrime operations by 2026. 👉 cybernews.com
   • Microsoft's AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build “frontier-grade research capability” and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency. 👉 businessinsider.com^$
   • A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license. 👉 reuters.com
   • Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup. 👉 theverge.com
   • Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup. 👉 fortune.com 👉 techcrunch.com
   • The furious push by AI hyperscalers to build out data centers will need about $1.5 trillion of investment-grade bonds over the next five years. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
   • AMD CEO Lisa Su says AMD's annual revenue growth will average 35%+ over the next three to five years and that the total AI chip market will reach $1T by 2030. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
   • Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos. 👉 zdnet.com 👉 arstechnica.com

6. Nation-State Actors:

   • APT37 hackers abuse Google Find Hub in Android data-wiping attacks. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com 👉 thehackernews.com
   • China says the December 2020 theft of 127,272 BTC, now worth ~$13B, from Chinese mining pool LuBian is likely a “state-level hacker operation” led by the US. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

7. Operating Systems:

   • Microsoft: Windows 11 23H2 Home and Pro reach end of support. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Microsoft releases KB5068781 — The first Windows 10 extended security update. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

8. Financial News:

   • SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake in October for $5.8B and part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.2B, boosting Q2 profit to $16.2B. 👉 ft.com^$
   • Coinbase confirms that it has called off acquisition talks with stablecoin infra startup BVNK. 👉 fortune.com
   • Nebius signs a ~$3B, five-year deal to provide Meta with AI infrastructure and reports a $100.4M net loss in Q3. 👉 reuters.com
   • Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation. 👉 fortune.com
   • SoFi launches SoFi Crypto, saying it's the first nationally chartered bank in the US to offer crypto trading to consumers. 👉 theblock.co
   • CoreWeave closed down 16% after its CEO admitted delays at a data center developer that Jim Cramer implied may be Core Scientific. 👉 cnbc.com
   • Sea reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $6B, above $5.65B est. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

9. Social Media:

   • Threads adds new features for podcasters, as it tries to become the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators. 👉 techcrunch.com
   • A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit. 👉 torrentfreak.com
   • China accuses US of stealing $13 billion in bitcoin hack: Bloomberg. 👉 theblock.co

10. Mobile Security:

    • Samsung rolling out new conversational AI across its 2025 TVs. 👉 theverge.com
    • Google unveils new features for Pixel phones, including AI-powered notification summaries, notification prioritization, and AI photo edits in Messages. 👉 techcrunch.com
    • Apple has launched the iPhone Pocket, a knitted bag designed to hold iPhones. 👉 apple.com

11. Gaming Industry:

    • Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350. 👉 ft.com^$
    • Sony says PlayStation 5 has sold a total of 84.2M units since launch. 👉 engadget.com

12. Operating Systems:

    • Firefox 145.0 ends support for 32-bit Linux systems. 👉 nerds.xyz

13. Right to Repair:

    • Democratic U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is escalating pressure on the defense industry to stop opposing military right-to-repair legislation. 👉 reuters.com (1 day ago)

14. Science and Technology Visas:

    • China has introduced a visa that will allow young foreign researchers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to move there without having to secure a job first. 👉 nature.com (1 day ago)

15. Data Centers:

    • Microsoft says it will spend $10B to build a data center park in Sines, Portugal, in partnership with Portuguese developer Start Campus and UK startup Nscale. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
    • An investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea. (1 day ago)

16. Animal Testing:

    • Animal testing in science would be phased out faster under a new plan to increase the use of artificial intelligence and 3D bioprinted human tissues, a UK minister has said. 👉 theguardian.com (1 day ago)

17. Animal Testing:

    • Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity has verified around 17.5 million people through its iris-scanning Orb device. (1 day ago)

18. Streaming Services

    • Amazon says ads on Prime Video reach 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels. 👉 deadline.com

19. Brave Browser

    • Brave CBO Brian Brown says the company passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1 and its browser had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024. 👉 theinformation.com

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