Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Samsung announces new Galaxy Book5 Pro and Book5 360 laptops with Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra processors, available in the US, Canada, UK, and more in February — Samsung has announced new Galaxy Book 5 Pro and 360 laptops featuring the NPU-packing (but not CoPilot Plus-qualifying) …
Fubo is expected to become immediately cash flow positive after its deal with Disney closes in 12 to 18 months; Fubo stock jumped 253.85% on Monday (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Fubo is expected to become immediately cash flow positive after its deal with Disney closes in 12 to 18 months; Fubo stock jumped 253.85% on Monday — WATCH NOW — Disney will combine its Hulu+ Live TV service with Fubo, merging together two internet TV bundles, the companies announced Monday.
The Connectivity Standards Alliance announces that Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept its Matter certification for their own “Works With” programs (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
The Connectivity Standards Alliance announces that Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept its Matter certification for their own “Works With” programs — Buying a smart home product today means checking which ecosystems it works with by looking for the little “Works with Apple Home” …
Meta elected three new directors to its board, including UFC CEO and outspoken Donald Trump supporter Dana White (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Meta elected three new directors to its board, including UFC CEO and outspoken Donald Trump supporter Dana White — – White has been outspoken ally of US President-elect Trump — Investor Songhurst, Exor CEO Elkann also named as directors … Along with White, the social-media company …
Similarweb: DAUs of the Bluesky’s mobile app in the US grew 12% in December vs. 284% in November; Bluesky has 26.44M total users, after hitting 20M in November (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Similarweb: DAUs of the Bluesky’s mobile app in the US grew 12% in December vs. 284% in November; Bluesky has 26.44M total users, after hitting 20M in November — Social network and X competitor Bluesky’s massive growth slowed in December in the U.S., after having surged from 9+ million …
AMD unveils Ryzen AI Max+, a laptop chip with new integrated memory and 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, claiming 84% faster rendering performance vs. the MacBook M4 Pro (Paul Alcorn/Tom’s Hardware)
Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware:
AMD unveils Ryzen AI Max+, a laptop chip with new integrated memory and 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, claiming 84% faster rendering performance vs. the MacBook M4 Pro — Disruption is a daily thing. — AMD announced its ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max series laptop processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas …
Dell is rebranding its PC lines as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, and Latitude (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Dell is rebranding its PC lines as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max, each with Base, Plus, and Premium tiers, killing names like XPS, Inspiron, and Latitude — The PC manufacturer’s new laptops, desktops, and monitors will have a simplified naming scheme with labels like ‘Pro’ and ‘Max.’
AMD unveils the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, with clock speeds up to 5.7GHz, 144MB of cache, and up to 64% faster performance than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)
Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech:
AMD unveils the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, with clock speeds up to 5.7GHz, 144MB of cache, and up to 64% faster performance than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K — AMD has officially announced its high-end 3D V-Cache CPUs, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D & 9900X3D, for enthusiast AM5 PC builders & gamers.
Gemini agrees to pay $5M to end a CFTC claim that it misled the derivatives regulator in a bid to launch the first US-regulated Bitcoin futures contract (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Gemini agrees to pay $5M to end a CFTC claim that it misled the derivatives regulator in a bid to launch the first US-regulated Bitcoin futures contract — The Winklevoss twins’ Gemini Trust Co. agreed to pay $5 million to end a Commodity Futures Trading Commission claim that it misled …
Tencent’s stock drops 6%+ after the US DoD added it to a blacklist of companies with alleged ties to China’s military; it may face delisting or index removals (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Tencent’s stock drops 6%+ after the US DoD added it to a blacklist of companies with alleged ties to China’s military; it may face delisting or index removals — – Firms on Chinese military list face delisting, index removals — Some Chinese firms successfully fought to be taken off list
