Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
CrowdStrike, whose botched software update caused a global IT outage in July 2024, has more than recovered the $30B in market value it shed after the crisis — Cyber security company has more than recovered the $30bn in market value it shed after the crisis
Sources: Reliance writes off its $200M investment in Bengaluru-based hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo, as CEO Kabeer Biswas looks to sell Dunzo for $25M-$30M (Bismah Malik/Inc42)
Bismah Malik / Inc42:
Sources: Reliance writes off its $200M investment in Bengaluru-based hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo, as CEO Kabeer Biswas looks to sell Dunzo for $25M-$30M — SUMMARY — Dunzo cofounder and CEO Kabeer Biswas as per our sources is leading talks with high net worth individuals and family offices for an acquisition deal
Douyin, Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu vow to improve their algorithms, after China launched a campaign in November 2024 to address “typical issues with algorithms” (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:
Douyin, Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu vow to improve their algorithms, after China launched a campaign in November 2024 to address “typical issues with algorithms” — ByteDance’s Douyin, PDD’s Pinduoduo, and Xiaohongshu have promised to address issues related to the misuse of algorithms
Joe Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tim Gill, who founded the publishing software company Quark before becoming an influential LGBTQ+ activist (Max Levy/Denver Post)
Max Levy / Denver Post:
Joe Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tim Gill, who founded the publishing software company Quark before becoming an influential LGBTQ+ activist — “He has helped lead the fight against HIV-AIDS, laid the groundwork for marriage equality and so much more”
What to expect at CES 2025: TVs with AI features, laptops built around Nvidia’s new 50-series discrete GPUs, Matter smart home devices, and more (The Verge)
The Verge:
What to expect at CES 2025: TVs with AI features, laptops built around Nvidia’s new 50-series discrete GPUs, Matter smart home devices, and more — It’s time for the biggest tech show of the year. CES 2025 officially kicks off next week, with most of the industry’s biggest names gathering …
How China-linked Volt Typhoon hackers breached local utilities and the US DOD’s sensitive networks in Guam, a US territory vital for defending Taiwan militarily (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
How China-linked Volt Typhoon hackers breached local utilities and the US DOD’s sensitive networks in Guam, a US territory vital for defending Taiwan militarily — Small-scale telecommunications networks and utilities on a remote Pacific island are up against what US intelligence agencies say is an unprecedented Chinese cyberwar plan.
Amit Yoran, the CEO of cybersecurity company Tenable, passed away after a battle with cancer; he previously held a number of roles, including president of RSA (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Amit Yoran, the CEO of cybersecurity company Tenable, passed away after a battle with cancer; he previously held a number of roles, including president of RSA — Longtime entrepreneur and cybersecurity executive Amit Yoran passed away Friday after a battle with cancer.
Analysis of social media posts, AI art, Spaces comments, biographical details, and more suggests Adrian Dittmann is a German fan of Elon Musk living in Fiji (Jacqueline Sweet/The Spectator World)
Jacqueline Sweet / The Spectator World:
Analysis of social media posts, AI art, Spaces comments, biographical details, and more suggests Adrian Dittmann is a German fan of Elon Musk living in Fiji — An Elon Musk fan in Fiji tricks the world — The AI avatar for the Adrian Dittmann X account, left, and Adrian Dittmann appearing …
A look at India’s draft DPDP Rules, which require platforms to verify the age and identity of a parent when obtaining consent to process data of users under 18 (Kamya Pandey/MEDIANAMA)
Kamya Pandey / MEDIANAMA:
A look at India’s draft DPDP Rules, which require platforms to verify the age and identity of a parent when obtaining consent to process data of users under 18 — The newly released draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025 say that online platforms must check the age …
Industry insiders hope the success of Black Myth: Wukong, which earned ~$1.1B from ~25M copies sold, will rekindle Chinese gaming investments after crackdowns (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
Industry insiders hope the success of Black Myth: Wukong, which earned ~$1.1B from ~25M copies sold, will rekindle Chinese gaming investments after crackdowns — As Beijing eases regulations, developers are tooling up to produce big-budget titles with international appeal
