South Korea’s Coupang is facing the costliest data breach in the country’s history, offering compensation to tens of millions. Meanwhile, Ubisoft is scrambling after a massive *Rainbow Six Siege* hack that flooded the game with absurd amounts of fake currency.
The South African rand has jumped 13% against the dollar in 2025, its biggest annual gain in 16 years. Overseas investors have poured a net 72.4 billion rand into local bonds, a massive increase from 2024, as political stability and a weaker dollar boost appeal.
Fund managers warn Europe is at a “fork in the road” between competing in AI and sticking to its climate commitments. The problem? Its own green energy rules are slowing down the data center build-out needed for AI, pushing tech firms to the U.S. and Asia.
Despite political rollbacks, green debt issuance soared to nearly $1 trillion this year. The surge is being powered by the insatiable energy needs of AI data centers and a new view of green projects as core infrastructure.
Nissan has disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 21,000 customers, linked to unauthorized access on a Red Hat-managed server. This is the company’s third significant cybersecurity incident in as many years. Stolen data includes names, addresses, and partial email addresses.
Samsung just revealed the most downloaded apps on the Galaxy Store for Fall 2025. The list is a surprising mix of streaming, AI tools, and social media. It tells us a lot about what Android users are prioritizing right now.
The year 2025 was defined by the physical reality of AI’s infrastructure demands. Massive new data center campuses are being built, but the frantic pace raises big questions about sustainability and a potential market correction.
Anna’s Archive, an open-source shadow library, says it has scraped metadata from over 250 million Spotify tracks and the actual audio files for 86 million of them. The group plans to release the data publicly, starting with metadata now and music files by popularity later.
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted mysterious “little red dots” in the early universe. New analysis of over a hundred of them suggests they’re not galaxies, but massive balls of gas powered by a central black hole.
ZFS is a rock-solid filesystem, but using it on a generic Linux distro can be a recipe for breakage and maintenance woes. The core issue stems from Oracle’s licensing and the resulting need for external kernel modules. The solution? Use an OS built for it.
