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These are the Daily Tech headlines for Wednesday, December 31, 2025. I'm Jen Kutter and thanks for listening through 2025. Everyone here at Daily Tech Headlines wishes you all an excellent new year and we're looking forward to bringing you another strong year in 2026. Online prediction brokers Kalshi and Polymarket have been accused of partnering with social media accounts that push sports rumors from accounts posing as league insiders. These accounts will sometimes invent news stories while advertising their partnership with the betting companies, and a few accounts have also been labeled as parodies. A Cauchy spokesperson says the company tries to promote integrity, but acknowledges that it is difficult to police every affiliate account on X. In a comment to the Athletic, corporate and securities lawyer Ariel E. Givener said, without consistent standards around disclosures, market resolution rules, influencer involvement and cross border participation, platforms may unintentionally drift into gray areas, the South China Morning Post reports. A source claims ByteDance, known for TikTok and Douyin, and aims to spend approximately 100 billion won on Nvidia's AI chips in 2026. This would be an increase of approximately 85 billion yuan from 2025. The spend is dependent on if Nvidia is indeed able to sell the H200 processing units to Chinese customers in 2026, as Beijing has not yet greenlit any shipments since the US Government recently allowed for exports to the country and a source told Reuters Nvidia approached TSMC about ramping up production of H200AI chips due to a strong demand worldwide. Demand is particularly high from China, with Chinese companies placing orders for more than 2 million chips in 2026. While the source claims Nvidia holds less than a million in stock, an Nvidia spokesperson responded to the Reuters report saying license sales of the H200 to authorized customers in China will have no impact on our ability to supply customers in United States. On Tuesday, the U.S. department of justice announced the settlement of a case against Disney over a failure to properly label some YouTube videos as aimed at children. The failure to label enabled Disney and partners to unlawfully collect children's personal information without consent or notifying parents, which is a COPPA violation. Disney will pay $10 million and set up a content review program to ensure strict compliance with the Children's online Privacy Protection Act. 9 to 5 Google reports Android is slowly rolling out a Reading mode redesign, making the feature easier to trigger. Previously, Reading mode did not consistently appear on articles and the toggle button would shrink into a less than noticeable circle. The update presents Show Reading Mode in the three dot menu under Listen to this page and will use Material 3 expressive containers. The update is available on Chrome 143 in the stable channel and can be enabled through manual flags if the rollout has to reach out to a particular device. Apple updated a support page to add more devices to its vintage list. Products are listed as vintage once it has been over five years since available for sale, and those remain eligible for servicing until they get moved to the obsolete list sometime in the future, usually seven years after being discontinued. The newly listed vintage products are iPhone 11 Pro, Apple Watch Series 5, the 202013 inch MacBook Air with Intel, the iPad Air 3 with cellular, and the iPhone 8 Plus model with 128 GB of storage. Polish game developer CD Projekt Red, best known for the Witcher series, divested itself of the game retail marketplace GOG.com, selling the platform to CDP and GOG co founder Mika Kicinski. The Gog store sells DRM free classic games unavailable on other platforms, and Kicinski says this will still be a key part of the GOG mission. GOG will continue a marketing partnership with CD Projekt, ensuring that its games will continue to be available on the platform and Responses to A survey by ResumeBuilder.com indicates job seekers are turning to dating sites to increase the odds of getting through to a company working around AI screening tools. The survey says one in three used a dating app to find a job, and one in 10 admitted that it was the primary reason for getting a dating app at all. Survey respondents looked for profiles working at the company they wanted to apply at in order to match with them for networking purposes. ResumeBuilder.com's Chief Career Advisor Stacey Haller told Bloomberg. Networking is the only way people are rising above the horror show that is the job search today. For more discussion on the tech news of the day, subscribe to the Daily Tech news show@dailytechnewsshow.com where you can also find the show notes and links to every headline. Please remember to rate and review Daily Tech Headlines on your podcast service of choice from everyone here at Daily Tech Headlines. Thanks. Watching for Listening.