December 12, 2025

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Reddit argues it isn't like other social platforms in case against Australia's social media ban: Reddit, one of the world's largest social platforms, is arguing that it doesn't meet the definition of "social media platforms" as it seeks to overturn Australia's law banning children under 16 years of age from social media. Read More

Zevo wants to add robotaxis to its car-share fleet, starting with newcomer Tensor: As robotaxi adoption continues, wild ideas like personal ownership and renting them out are starting to pop up again. Read More

Flaw in photo booth maker's website exposes customers' pictures: Hama Film makes photo booths that upload pictures and videos online. But their backend systems have a simple flaw that allows anyone to download customer pictures. Read More

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Disney hits Google with cease-and-desist claiming 'massive' copyright infringement: Disney is accusing the tech giant of unauthorized distribution of its copyrighted characters without permission via Gemini AI. Read More

Google debuts 'Disco,' a Gemini-powered tool for making web apps from browser tabs: Google Labs is testing a product that will work with your browser tabs to make web apps for you. Read More

OpenAI fires back at Google with GPT-5.2 after 'code red' memo: OpenAI just launched GPT-5.2, a frontier model aimed at developers and professionals, pushing reasoning and coding benchmarks as it races Google's Gemini 3 while grappling with compute costs and no generator. Read More

1X struck a deal to send its 'home' humanoids to factories and warehouses: Despite launching as a humanoid robot designed to help consumers around the house, 1X's Neo robots are heading to industrial use cases. Read More

Epic Games' Fortnite is back in US Google Play Store, as court partially reverses restrictions it won on iOS: The game is back on the Google Play Store, but another court decision is rolling back some of the developer-friendly changes on iOS. Read More

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Google launched its deepest AI research agent yet — on the same day OpenAI dropped GPT-5.2: For the first time, developers can embed Google's Deep Research tool, based on Gemini 3 Pro, into their own apps. Read More