Daily Tech News Roundup - 2025-12-23

Source: Dev.to

1. The FCC’s foreign drone ban is here

Source: The Verge
Summary: The Federal Communications Commission has banned new drones made in foreign countries from being imported into the US unless the Department of Defense or the Department of Homeland Security recommends them. Monday’s action added drones to the FCC’s Covered List, qualifying foreign‑made drones and drone parts, like those from DJI, as communications equipment representing “unacceptable …”

2. The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband

Source: The Verge
Summary: Yesterday, Bari Weiss, the new editor‑in‑chief of CBS News, censored a segment of its newsmagazine 60 Minutes about men who had been deported to an El Salvador prison. Today, it’s popping up online. 60 Minutes had already begun promoting the now‑censored segment online. Because it was pulled so late, it seems that CBS missed at …

3. ChatGPT’s yearly recap sums up your conversations with the chatbot

Source: The Verge
Summary: ChatGPT is joining the flood of apps offering yearly recaps for users. It’s rolling out a “Year in Review” feature that will show you a bunch of stats — like how many messages you sent to the chatbot in 2025 — as well as give you an AI‑generated pixel‑art‑style image that encompasses some of …

4. OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt‑injection attacks

Source: TechCrunch
Summary: OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. The firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an “LLM‑based automated attacker.”

5. Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy‑grid bottlenecks

Source: TechCrunch
Summary: Alphabet is set to pay $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for the data‑center and clean‑energy developer.

6. Call of Duty, Titanfall developer Vince Zampella has died at age 55

Source: The Verge
Summary: Vince Zampella, who had a major hand in developing franchises like Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, and Battlefield, died in a car crash on Sunday, NBC Los Angeles reports. He was 55. NBC Los Angeles and CBS Los Angeles report California Highway Patrol responded to a single‑car crash at around 12:45 PM local time on …

7. Trump admin halts 6 GW of offshore wind leases again

Source: TechCrunch
Summary: The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to delay the construction of 6 gigawatts of offshore wind near a hotspot of data‑center development.

8. Paramount renews bid for Warner Bros, ensuring $40 B Larry Ellison backing

Source: TechCrunch
Summary: It’s the latest attempt by one major Hollywood superpower to acquire another.