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Squid Game’s second season will debut on December 26th with a newly-announced “final season” to follow sometime in 2025, Netflix said on Wednesday. Netflix also shared a brief trailer to accompany the news.

It’s been nearly three years since the first season of Squid Game premiered on Netflix, and the show has gone on to be a humongous success for the



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A cunning Houthi attack on Tel Aviv is forcing Israel to rethink its air defenses for long-range drones launched from Yemen.
A cunning Houthi attack on Tel Aviv is forcing Israel to rethink its air defenses for long-range drones launched from Yemen.
  • The Houthis attacked Tel Aviv with a long-range drone that attacked from an unexpected direction.
  • Sensors picked up the unidentified aircraft but air defense crews failed to try to identify it.
  • Like many other nations, Israel is seeking lower



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Meta expects infrastructure costs to be a "significant driver of expense growth next year."
  • Meta's second-quarter revenue hit $39 billion, surpassing Wall Street expectations.
  • The company says it's going to keep spending big this year to support AI research and development.
  • Investors cheered despite the plans for increased spending



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TechCrunch reported that a group of researchers from the university KU Leuven in Belgium identified six popular dating apps that malicious users can use to pinpoint the near-exact location of other users. Dating apps including Hinge, Happn, Bumble, Grindr, Badoo and Hily all exhibited some form of “trilateration” that could expose users’ approximate locations, which prompted some of the apps to



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The US Copyright Office has published a report recommending new and improved protections against digital replicas. "We have concluded that a new law is needed," the department's report states. "The speed, precision, and scale of AI-created digital replicas calls for prompt federal action. Without a robust nationwide remedy, their unauthorized publication and distribution threaten substantial harm



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A source told The Information that TikTok was paying Microsoft almost $20 million per month to access OpenAI’s models as of March, making up nearly a quarter of the revenue generated by its increasingly lucrative cloud division.

Microsoft’s cloud AI business was on track to earn $1 billion in annual revenue, according to The



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The 2024 Microsoft Surface Laptop is currently the least expensive available with a Qualcomm X chip. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge

Currently, the $999 Microsoft Surface Laptop is the cheapest way to get a Windows machine that runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus chip, with all the battery life benefits (and caveats) that might entail. But in 2025, they’ll be cheaper —



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Reddit’s chief executive officer Steve Huffman didn’t pull any punches with Microsoft in an interview with The Verge. He called out Microsoft and other AI search engines like Anthropic and Perplexity for not paying for the information they take from Reddit, some of which have already been blocked from Huffman’s website.

Reddit has deals in places with companies like Google and OpenAI to receive



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The perfect shape for a car — and a mouse. | Image: Honda

Take a look at this HP-X concept from 1984 that has been restored, seemingly so Honda can show the world how cool futuristic cars used to look.

As a car born in the Knight Rider era, the HP-X placed advanced tech within the driver’s reach, including a CD player, GPS, real-time telemetry, and “special sonar”