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Monday December 15, 2025. 08:10 PM
New Yorkers have shelled out another $1.3 million since late May to defend former Governor Andrew Cuomo against sexual harassment allegations, according to The City. The total tab for taxpayer-funded legal defense across all his harassment cases now exceeds $21 million. —...
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Powered by the original mobile Linux OS with crowdsourced specs hands on After successful crowdfunding, the latest release of the original handheld Linux distro will power a new handset coming in mid-2026.…
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Just weeks ago, MAGA figures vowed after Charlie Kirk's assassination that they would never celebrate or mock the death of a political opponent. That commitment lasted until Monday morning, when President Trump posted that Rob Reiner died from 'a mind crippling disease known ...
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Cloudflare's sixth annual Year in Review report describes an internet increasingly shaped by two forces: automated traffic and government intervention, as global connectivity grew 19% year over year in 2025. Google's web crawler now dominates automated traffic, dwarfing...
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Rarely are deals better than what you see on Black Friday, but Cozy Earth is upping the ante for this pajama sale.
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Mobile traffic now accounts for nearly half of requests Global internet traffic grew by 19 percent during 2025, while nearly half of traffic now comes from mobile devices. A significant and growing portion also comes from bots, many designed to train AI.…
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Google has decided to retire its free dark web monitoring tool, saying it wasn't as helpful as the company hoped. From a report: In a support page, Google announced the discontinuation of the 'dark web report' tool, two years after offering it as a free perk to Gmail users...
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Version 8.16.0 of the calibre ebook-management software, released on December 4, includes a 'Discuss with AI' feature that can be used to query various AI/LLM services or local models about books, and ask for recommendations on what to read next. The feature has sparked discu...
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Who hasn't exploited this max-severity flaw? At least five more Chinese spy crews, Iran-linked goons, and financially motivated criminals are now attacking React2Shell, a maximum-severity flaw in the widely used React JavaScript library, according to Google.…
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Paris Buttfield-Addison literally wrote books on Swift Apple has blocked a long-time developer from his Apple ID after he failed to redeem what support suggested was a dodgy $500 gift card, leaving him unable to work, cut off from personal files, and barred from what he...
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The Trump administration announced Monday the United States Tech Force, a new program to recruit around 1,000 technologists for two-year government stints starting as soon as March -- less than a year after dismantling several federal technology teams and driving thousands...
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Eagle-eyed Swifties have ID’d the star’s pillow brand in a recent TV show appearance, and it’s one of my favorites as well. Coop is having a special sale to commemorate the event.
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As the Secretary of Health and Human Services tells the American public that the measles vaccine causes deaths every year, and to try Vitamin A, South Carolina's measles epidemic is surging right before holiday travel is set to kick off. Yay team? — Read the rest The post...
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Cosplaying FBI Director, the bug-eyed Kash Patel has fumbled yet another major shooting investigation, this time misidentifying a suspect in the Brown University shooting that killed two and injured nine. After publicly announcing the arrest and praising his agency's work,...
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In November 2005, the Netherlands was preparing for Domino Day, an annual television event where millions of dominoes are arranged in elaborate patterns and toppled for a live audience. Four days before the broadcast, a house sparrow flew into the Frisian Expo Centre in...
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Named 'Sticky Kicks' and encasing real syrup, Denny's branded sneakers drop December 17 and will cost $195. You could get a lot of bacon and eggs for that, even in Trump's economy! Here's Ellie Doty, senior vice president and chief brand officer at Denny: 'Sticky Kicks are...
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In yet another demonstration of its addiction to surveillance, the UK government now wants your smartphones to stop you from looking at images containing nudes unless you pass an age verification check. The Financial Times reports the UK will soon “encourage” Apple...
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Following along with real estate fraud and grifter nonpariel, Donald Trump's 'affordability is a hoax,' Ohio Senator Jon Husted took to national TV to explain the GOP's plan to solve the affordability crisis: when prices go up, Americans should earn more. — Read the rest ...
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For decades, Parkinson's disease research has overwhelmingly focused on genetics -- more than half of all research dollars in the past two decades flowed toward genomic studies -- but a growing body of evidence now points to something far more mundane as a primary culprit:...
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The MAGA movement's talent for self-destruction is on full display as Candace Owens wages a bizarre campaign of conspiracy theories against Erika Kirk, widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot in September. According to Salon, Owens has accused...
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