Tiger Global loses India tax case tied to Walmart-Flipkart deal in blow to offshore playbook

India’s top court has ruled against Tiger Global in a tax case stemming from its Flipkart exit during Walmart’s 2018 takeover, a decision that strengthens New Delhi’s ability to challenge offshore treaty structures and could raise tax risk for global funds counting on predictable exits from one of the world’s fastest-growing major markets. On Thursday, […]

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Troublesome 16-pin connector sidelines $30,000 H200 Hopper GPU — repair technician saves the data center day by fixing power port

There have been numerous 16-pin power connector blow-ups recorded by customers over the past few years on both consumer gaming cards and prosumer cards — and now this badly-designed connector saga has also (sort of) hit datacenter GPUs. Resident repair technician northwestrepair recently published a YouTube video of themself fixing a dead $30,000 H200 Hopper […]

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Is Samsung deliberately restricting third-party UWB tags on its phones?

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR A Redditor has claimed that Samsung is artificially restricting UWB functionality for third-party tracker tags. The user asserted that third-party tags like the Moto Tag don’t benefit from precision finding and augmented reality features. Meanwhile, some Galaxy owners found that third-party tags worked fine, but that uninstalling and reinstalling […]

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The Download: next-gen nuclear, and the data center backlash

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Iran is systematically crippling StarlinkThe satellite internet service is meant to be impossible to jam—but the Iranian authorities are doing just that. (Rest of World)  + Messages getting around Iran’s internet block suggest that thousands of people have been killed. (NYT $)+ On the […]

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Researchers Null-Route Over 550 Kimwolf and Aisuru Botnet Command Servers

The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies said it null-routed traffic to more than 550 command-and-control (C2) nodes associated with the AISURU/Kimwolf botnet since early October 2025. AISURU and its Android counterpart, Kimwolf, have emerged as some of the biggest botnets in recent times, capable of directing enslaved devices to participate in distributed denial-of-service […]

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Playing With CodePen slideVars | CSS-Tricks

Super cool new CodePen feature alert! You’ve probably seen a bunch of “interactive” demos that let you changed values on the fly from a UI panel embedded directly in the demo. Jhey’s demos come immediately to mind, like this one: CodePen Embed Fallback That’s a tool called TweakPane doing the work. There’s another one called […]

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JSONL is a seriously weird format!

CsvPath Framework has had JSONL support for a while. It wasn’t until we updated FlightPath Data to edit JSONL that I really started noticing how seriously free-wheeling JSONL is. Here are some of the quirks: There is no header order Headers change line-by-line… …or is there one total set of headers that grows line-by-line? Arrays […]

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GitHub Availability Report: December 2025

In December, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.  December 08 19:51 UTC (lasting 1 hour and 15 minutes) Between November 26, 2025, at 02:24 UTC and December 8, 2025 at 20:26 UTC, enterprise administrators experienced a disruption when viewing agent session activities in the Enterprise AI Controls page. During […]

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