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Friday December 19, 2025. 09:41 PM
Microsoft's latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines -- none of which the software can actually perform reliably when...
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Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua members A Venezuelan gang described by US officials as 'a ruthless terrorist organization' faces charges over alleged deployment of malware on ATMs across the country, illegally siphoning millions...
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President Trump's closure of the de minimis customs loophole in May -- which previously allowed Chinese packages valued under $800 to enter the U.S. duty-free -- has redirected a flood of cheap goods toward Europe, where similar exemptions for packages under $175.8 in the EU ...
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Humanoid robots are stepping into the app era. Chinese robotics company Unitree has unveiled what it calls the world’s first “Robot App Store,” allowing users to download, share, and develop software for its humanoid robots, bringing the smartphone app model to...
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Google.ai is a new front-end for Google's AI services. Currently, it's free, ad-free, and delivers uncluttered answers to questions. It won't work this well for long, though. It's destined for enshittification, but how soon? I asked Google.ai to give me its own...
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From dead crabs to shredded bed sheets, fraudsters are using fake photos and videos to get their money back from ecommerce sites.
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alternative_right writes: Grocery delivery service Instacart will refund $60 million to settle FTC claims that it misled customers with false advertising and unlawfully enrolled them in paid subscriptions. Instacart partners with over 1,800 retailers to provide online...
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Journalist Gil Duran's podcast 'The Nerd Reich' does what tech journalism largely failed to do for two decades: treat Silicon Valley's libertarian ideology as a powerful and well-funded political movement rather than a quirky personality trait of genius founders. — Read the...
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Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.
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But not Phil Collins, sadly The US Department of Energy (DOE) has a Christmas gift for the AI industry in the shape of agreements for collaboration in the Trump administration's Genesis Mission, which aims to use AI to drive scientific discoveries.…
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman estimates that staying competitive in frontier AI development will require 'hundreds of billions of dollars' over the next five to ten years, a sum that doesn't even account for the high salaries companies are paying individual researchers...
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Threats of prosecution loom as Democratic lawmakers rattle sabers and the Trump DOJ ignores the deadline set by Congress to release the Epstein files. With images of Trump condoms now released as part of the photo dump, Trump's well-understood close friendship with Epstein...
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The FreeBSD Foundation has a blog post about the progress it has made in 2025 on the Laptop Support & Usability Project for FreeBSD. The foundation committed $750,000 to the project in 2025 and has made progress on graphics drivers, Wi-Fi 4 and 5 support, audio improvements,...
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Cloudflare has published its fifth annual Impact Report, outlining how its network and security services have been used to support elections, independent media, and nonprofit organizations while also addressing environmental commitments. The report explains why these efforts ...
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An impressive 3D-printed LEGO-inspired Christmas tree, measuring almost 6 feet tall, now holds the Guinness World Record for 'Tallest 3D-printed interlocking plastic brick Christmas tree (supported).' This highly specific award implies the existence of a taller, unsupported...
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The Trump administration is breaking the law it just signed, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Friday that the Justice Department won't release all Jeffrey Epstein files by the deadline set in the Epstein Files...
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Samuel Saxon, a 47-year-old ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations supervisor based in Cincinnati, now faces federal charges on top of state felony counts for allegedly strangling a woman he lives with. Police responded to a Corryville apartment on December 5 after witnesses ...
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Vice President JD Vance visited Allentown, Pennsylvania, to claim that the Trump administration has solved the housing crisis by deporting people. Somehow, illegal aliens are coming here and sucking up all the affordable housing, keeping it out of the hands of good,...
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Catherine Almonte Da Costa lasted exactly one day as New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's director of appointments before decade-old social media posts torpedoed her career. The posts, made between 2011 and 2012 on a now-deleted X account, included references to 'money...
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Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewalls WatchGuard is in emergency patch mode after confirming that a critical remote code execution flaw in its Firebox firewalls is under active attack.…
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