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Tuesday December 30, 2025. 03:46 PM
Cecilia Giménez, who so amazingly botched a restoration of a fresco depicting Jesus Christ that it and she became internationally famous, is dead at 94. The parishioner from Borja, Spain, set out to restore the faded and peeling icon 13 years ago, having gotten permission...
Chinese authorities were once so fearful of overcrowding that it banned most families from having more than one child and made contraception available free of charge. But it ended the policy a decade ago and is now introducing a 13% sales tax on condoms and other...
Privacy has been increasingly in the news over the last year with plans for government digital IDs and age verification for websites, as well as concerns about how eCommerce businesses and others use personal data. What can we expect from the privacy landscape in 2026? Some...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjpeg2, osslsigncode, php-dompdf, and python-django), Fedora (fluidsynth, golang-github-alecthomas-chroma-2, golang-github-evanw-esbuild, golang-github-jwt-5, and opentofu), Mageia (ceph and ruby-rack), and SUSE (anubis,...
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, Win32/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, loss32 Win32 plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning system...
Nina Kalinina has been on an absolute roll lately, diving deep into VisiOn, uncovering Bellcore MGR, installing Linux on a PC-98 machine, and much more. This time, she’s ported Windows 2 to run on a machine it was never supposed to run on. I bought my first Apricot PC about ...
I knew digital cameras and phones had to do a lot of processing and other types of magic to output anything human eyes can work with, but I had no idea just how much. This is wild.
Google may be about to let users change their Gmail address. According to Telegram group Google Pixel Hub, via 9to5Google, a Hindi version of Gmail’s support page states that the feature is “being rolled out gradually to all users”. The feature should make it possible...
More and more, there are Android tips — and then there are Pixel tips. Owning a Google Pixel phone has become a ticket of sorts to a uniquely top-tier type of Android experience. With Google’s pure vision for the way the operating system itself should work (and none of...
Meta is now buying the hyped AI startup Manus for about $2 billion, TechCrunch reported. Founded in Singapore by former Chinese entrepreneurs, Manus gained widespread attention after a viral demo video showing an AI agent that could handle everything from job interviews to...
For more than a decade, many considered cloud outages a theoretical risk, something to address on a whiteboard and then quietly deprioritize during cost cuts. In 2025, this risk became real. A major Google Cloud outage in June caused hours-long disruptions to popular...
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has quickly become the enterprise default for grounding generative AI in internal knowledge. It promises less hallucination, more accuracy, and a way to unlock value from decades of documents, policies, tickets, and institutional memory....
With the end of 2025 drawing ever closer WhatsApp is getting ready for its busiest period. As the clock strikes midnight around the world, a surge of messages will be sent over the platform, and Meta is using the arrival of 2026 as a launchpad for new features and options...
I go to a lot of tech conferences — 13 in 2025 — and many of those I attend are outside the US; several are in London, one is in Amsterdam, another in Paris, and two in Tokyo. Wherever I went this past year, when we weren’t talking about AI, Linux, the cloud, or...
Here's a lost wonder of the 1990s: Star Trek panoramas ripped from CD-ROM and presented on the web in accessible modern form. There are four environments to explore and pan: the main bridge of the USS Enterprise from the original Star Trek, the bridge of a Klingon Bird of...
Monday December 29, 2025. 11:58 PM
Jair Bolsonaro, the former right-wing president of Brazil jailed for an attempted coup, suffers maladies both mundane and mysterious. One even prevented him from wearing pants. The latest to hit the news is his chronic hiccups, which complicated an otherwise successful...
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YouTube’s algorithm has been quietly conquered by artificial intelligence… and the numbers are more jaw-dropping than you think. Research by browser-based video editor Kapwing reveals that between 21% and 33% of content in fresh user feeds now consists of AI-generated...
Cloud computing has fundamentally transformed the way enterprises operate. Initially built for more basic, everyday computing tasks, its capabilities have expanded exponentially with the advent of new technologies (such as machine learning and analytics). But AI —...
SoftBank Group has announced plans to acquire DigitalBridge Group, an asset manager specializing in digital infrastructure investments such as data centers, cell towers, and fiber networks, in a deal valued at $4 billion. The acquisition underscores SoftBank’s aggressive...
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