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This is the weekend edition of Daily Tech Headlines for the week ending Saturday, December 27, 2025. I'm Sarah Lane. Let's catch up on a bit of breaking news and essential news over the past several days. New York State will require social media platforms to display warning labels when users interact with features that the state considers addictive, like Infinite Scroll, Autoplay, Algorithmic feeds and like counts. The law was signed by governor Kathy Hochul and applies to platforms accessed from New York meant to warn about potential mental health harms, especially to younger users, with labels shown at first interaction and then periodically afterwards. Shares of Oracle are down about 30% this quarter, which hints at its worst performance since 2001amidst an aggressive AI infrastructure build out tied largely to OpenAI concerns center on heavy capital spending, rising debt, weaker than expected revenue and free cash flow, and increasing reliance on OpenAI for future growth. According to a support page currently only visible in Hindi, Google plans to roll out a feature that lets users Change their existing@gmail.com address something previously not supported. For native Gmail accounts, users can reportedly choose a new username, keeping the old address as an alias for email, and sign in with all account data unchanged, but are limited to three changes and have to wait 12 months before modifying or deleting that new address. As we inch closer to CES 2026, we're going to get a lot of pre show announcements. For example, LG unveiled a new ultragear EVO lineup of premium gaming monitors featuring 5K displays with on device AI upscaling designed to reduce GPU demands. The LineUp includes a 39 inch OLED, a 27 inch mini LED with 2,304 local dimming zones, and a 52 inch large format display, all offering high refresh rate modes and and fast response times. However, no pricing or availability just yet. LG also announced plans to showcase a humanoid home robot called Cloyd at ces. Featuring two articulated arms with five fingered hands designed to help with household tasks. The Robot apparently uses LG's affectionate intelligence system for adaptive user friendly interactions, but the company really hasn't explained any specific capabilities with or confirmed whether it will become a commercial product. Luckily, the DTNS team will be at CES so we'll know more soon. If it can wash a sink full of dishes, I'm in. Starting in 2026, Apple will allow third party iOS app stores to operate in Brazil and let developers use external payment systems. Apple can still charge fees and any warnings about the third party app stores and external payment options have to use neutral language. Apple also has to implement the changes within 105 days and could face fines of up to 27 million if it doesn't. Europe and Japan previously regulated Apple to open up third party stores and external payment options are also available. In the US, Xiaomi unveiled the 17 Ultra smartphone, including a Leica edition that adds a unique physical manual zoom ring. The phone has a 1 inch 50 megapixel main sensor, a 200 megapixel periscope telephoto camera, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, up to 16 gigs of RAM, a 6.9 inch 120Hz AMOLED display with up to 3500 nits of brightness and a 6800 milliamp per hour battery with fast wired and wireless charging. The Leica Edition adds some custom design touches, the film, simulations and accessories. Pricing starts at about $995 for the standard model and $1,140 for the Leica version. Intel is promoting Wi Fi 8 not so much for speed, but more for its focus on reliability, low latency and intelligence for the AI era. This is achieved through near perfect packet delivery, seamless switching, advanced traffic prioritization, smarter inference management and new environmental sensing. This all relies on smarter signal processing, longer error correcting codes, collaborative access points and stronger security than encrypts control signals. Disney crossed $6 billion in global box office revenue in 2025. This is significant because it's the first time since before the pandemic driven by billion dollar hits Lilo and stitch and and Zootopia 2, along with strong showings from Avatar, Fire and Ash and three Marvel sequels. The studio earned $2.3 billion domestically and 3.65 billion internationally, making its biggest year since 2019. For more analysis of the tech news of the day and the week, subscribe to DailyTech News Show.com that's where you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I am Sarah Lane. Thank you for listening. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and we'll talk to you Monday.