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Reuters: Sources and docs: India’s government is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung are opposed  —  India’s government is reviewing a telecom industry proposal to force smartphone firms to enable satellite location… Read More »Sources and docs: India’s government is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung are opposed (Reuters)

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Netflix agrees to buy WBD’s studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash and stock deal; the transaction is expected to close after Q3 2026  —  Deal will transform US tech company into the dominant… Read More »Netflix agrees to buy WBD’s studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash and stock deal; the transaction is expected to close after Q3 2026 (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues including the deceptive design of its blue checkmarks  —  Elon Musk’s social media company X was fined… Read More »The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues including the deceptive design of its blue checkmarks (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Shashwat Chauhan / Reuters: The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges  —  The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Thursday that spot crypto asset contracts… Read More »The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges (Shashwat Chauhan/Reuters)

About Amazon: AWS unveils its 192-core Graviton5 processor, with an up to 25% performance boost over Graviton4, and says Graviton makes up 50%+ of AWS’ new CPU capacity  —  Fifth generation chip provides the best price performance for a broad… Read More »AWS unveils its 192-core Graviton5 processor, with an up to 25% performance boost over Graviton4, and says Graviton makes up 50%+ of AWS’ new CPU capacity (About Amazon)

Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia: Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan’s capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years  —  TOKYO — Since relocating his Tokyo… Read More »Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan’s capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)

Bloomberg: Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn’t approved  —  Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has entered exclusive negotiations to… Read More »Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn’t approved (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A look at Microsoft Excel’s evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others  —  Before it took over her life, Leila Gharani mostly took Microsoft Excel for… Read More »A look at Microsoft Excel’s evolution, as it remains the most widely used spreadsheet software with 500M paying users despite competition from Google and others (Bloomberg)

Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned devs about “verification debt”  —  Werner Vogels ends his 14-year keynote streak… Read More »A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned devs about “verification debt” (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

Casey Newton / Platformer: A look back at five years of Meta’s Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have generally had limited impact  —  Five years after the Oversight Board’s creation, few are… Read More »A look back at five years of Meta’s Oversight Board, whose rulings on the relatively small number of cases it hears have generally had limited impact (Casey Newton/Platformer)