Festivitas lets you decorate your Apple devices with holiday lights and snow

This year, the whimsical holiday app comes to iPhone and adds a snow effect for Mac users.

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OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal

Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential. 

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Deezer rolls out ‘My Deezer Year 2025,’ its Spotify Wrapped clone

Deezer launched its version of Spotify Wrapped to give listeners an overview of their top tracks and artists.

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Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys bet tightens its grip on the chip-design stack

The $2 billion investment in Synopsys, which makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips, deepens their existing partnership at a time when analysts scrutinize circular AI-industry deals and warn of a potential bubble.

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Amazon’s AI chatbot Rufus drove sales on Black Friday

On Black Friday, Amazon sessions that resulted in a sale were up 100% in the U.S. when the AI chatbot Rufus was used. They only increased by 20% when Rufus wasn't used.

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What lies in store for the security world in 2026?

As we prepare to close out 2025, the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank panel looks back at the past year, and ahead to 2026.

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How headlines can drive change in cyber security

Big news stories can shift attitudes. There’s no doubt that insurance vendors and brokers are using major cyber attacks to promote their products, but can security teams also use it to help their businesses be better prepared?

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Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation

The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP), and saw participation from a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, General Catalyst, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Canva and Figma Ventures.

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Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI

An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

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How to build a data dream team  

Why you need to get the right data team in place before you start to deploy AI in your organisation.

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