December 2025

Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL 2025-12-06 at 02:04 By Thomas Claburn Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push Electronics biz Vizio may be required by a California court to provide source code for its SmartCast TV software, which is allegedly based on […]

Crims using social media images, videos in ‘virtual kidnapping’ scams 2025-12-06 at 01:27 By Jessica Lyons Proof of life? Or an active social media presence? Criminals are altering social media and other publicly available images of people to use as fake proof of life photos in “virtual kidnapping” and extortion scams, the FBI warned on

Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it 2025-12-06 at 00:27 By O’Ryan Johnson Some within the CRM giant balked, but Benioff prevailed ServiceNow’s dominant spot among IT service management (ITSM) platforms is facing its “most credible” threat to date, as longtime platform rival Salesforce

Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG 2025-12-06 at 00:00 By Thomas Claburn Who needs JavaScript? Security researcher Lyra Rebane has devised a novel clickjacking attack that relies on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln 2025-12-05 at 23:52 By Jessica Lyons Security community needs to rally and share more info faster, one researcher says Amid new reports of attackers pummeling a maximum security hole (CVE-2025-55182) in the React JavaScript library, Cloudflare’s technology chief said his company took down its own

Tether solvency fears are ‘misplaced’ as company sits on large surplus: CoinShares 2025-12-05 at 23:18 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi James Butterfill counters claims about Tether’s solvency, pointing to a multibillion-dollar surplus despite new criticism from Arthur Hayes and S&P Global. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Bitcoin’s end-of-year run to $100K heavily depends on Fed pivot outcomes 2025-12-05 at 23:18 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman Bitcoin’s chance of hitting $100,000 before New Year’s Eve depends on investors’ reaction to the Fed policy pivot, and the market’s response to soaring BigTech and AI company debt. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com

Crypto Biz: Mining weakness tests Bitcoin’s market cycle 2025-12-05 at 23:18 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Bitcoin miners face record margin pressure as proxy stocks sink, Kalshi lands $1B funding and Ether derivatives volumes overtake Bitcoin on CME. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Bitcoin treads water at $90K as whales eat the Ethereum dip: Finance Redefined 2025-12-05 at 22:06 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Corporate Ether acquisitions declined 81% in the past three months, but the largest corporate ETH holders continued to scoop up billions of dollars in Ether. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

AI giant Anthropic hires ex-Schumer, Eric Adams staffer as it faces too ‘woke’ claims 2025-12-05 at 21:16 By Thomas Barrabi Anthropic has tapped an ex-staffer for Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and outgoing Mayor Eric Adams for a top communications role – as the AI giant tries to distance itself from allegations that is too “woke,”

Is Bitcoin shifting to a 2-year cycle? 2025-12-05 at 21:02 By Cointelegraph by Marco Castrovilli ProCap BTC’s Jeff Park reveals how institutional flows and ETFs could shorten Bitcoin’s market cycle — with major implications heading into 2026 This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Meta reaches AI deals with CNN, Fox News, other media outlets 2025-12-05 at 20:49 By Thomas Barrabi Meta has reached deals to pay Fox News, CNN and several other news publishers in exchange for using their articles in its AI chatbot, the company said Friday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception 2025-12-05 at 20:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo TikTok, by contrast, satisfied DSA concerns over its ad repository transparency The European Union has issued its first-ever Digital Services Act fine, slapping Elon Musk’s X with a €120 million penalty for breaching the bloc’s

Zero-Click Agentic Browser Attack Can Delete Entire Google Drive Using Crafted Emails 2025-12-05 at 20:49 By A new agentic browser attack targeting Perplexity’s Comet browser that’s capable of turning a seemingly innocuous email into a destructive action that wipes a user’s entire Google Drive contents, findings from Straiker STAR Labs show. The zero-click Google Drive

Polymarket plans to use in-house market maker to trade against users: Report 2025-12-05 at 20:06 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The company has approached traders, including sports bettors, about joining the effort as it expands in the US and rival Kalshi faces scrutiny over similar practices. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

Cloudflare says service restored after outage that brought down Zoom, LinkedIn 2025-12-05 at 19:18 By Associated Press It said it was “investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs,” or application programming interface that allow software systems to communicate with each other. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post

Polish lawmakers fail to revive controversial crypto bill after presidential veto 2025-12-05 at 19:18 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Poland’s parliament upheld a veto on the Crypto-Asset Market Act, delaying EU-aligned regulation and deepening divisions over security and innovation. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Critical XXE Bug CVE-2025-66516 (CVSS 10.0) Hits Apache Tika, Requires Urgent Patch 2025-12-05 at 19:18 By A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Apache Tika that could result in an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-66516, is rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring scale, indicating maximum severity. “Critical XXE

Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 … to pay for more AI and security 2025-12-05 at 18:54 By Richard Speed All those new features won’t fund themselves Microsoft 365 customers have gotten an early Christmas present from Santa Satya: price rises. All that AI goodness isn’t going to pay for itself.… This article is an