How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot

When Chinese AI startup DeepSeek became a global sensation in January, it not only shocked Silicon Valley but also startled ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company. The Chinese tech giant had already launched Doubao, its own flagship AI assistant app with tens of millions of users. But when DeepSeek became the best-known Chinese AI company overnight, no…

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Berenberg says luxury boom is over as it downgrades LVMH

By Bloomberg Published October 16, 2025 The luxury sector’s three-decade boom is over, according to Berenberg analysts whose downgrade of LVMH coincided with the stock’s biggest surge since 2001. Inside the ‘House of Dior’ in Beverly Hills – FashionNetwork.com “Luxury is at an inflexion point,” the team led by Nick Anderson wrote in a note…

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Denial of Fuzzing: Rust in the Windows kernel

Summary Check Point Research (CPR) identified a security vulnerability in January 2025 affecting the new Rust-based kernel component of the Graphics Device Interface (commonly known as GDI) in Windows. We promptly reported this issue to Microsoft and they fixed the vulnerability starting with OS Build 26100.4202 in the KB5058499 update preview released on May 28th 2025. In the following sections, we…

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