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Monday December 22, 2025. 10:00 AM
If you want to know what is actually happening in generative AI—not what vendors pretend in their press releases, but what developers are actually building—Datasette founder Simon Willison gets you pretty close to ground truth. As Willison has been cataloguing for years...
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Netflix has acquired Ready Player Me, a platform for creating avatars. It comes as the company moves deeper and deeper into the gaming arena. The acquisition will give Netflix subscribers the chance to create customized avatars that can be used across gaming titles. It is a...
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There are some sites which are famous and others which are notorious; Anna’s Archive falls into the latter category. Ostensibly a pirate site from which ebooks can be downloaded, the site has billed itself as an archivist, preserving data and documents for the future. The...
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The 6.19-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'I obviously expect next week to be even quieter, with people being distracted by the holidays. So let's all enjoy taking a little break, but maybe break the boredom with some early rc testing?'
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Sunday December 21, 2025. 11:29 PM
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to try FreeBSD on a laptop, take note – 2025 has brought transformative changes. The Foundation’s ambitious Laptop Support & Usability Project is systematically addressing the gaps that have held FreeBSD back on modern laptop ...
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TL;DR: For $59.99 (MSRP $250) you can get a lifetime subscription to Montessori-inspired games for kids 2-8. Not all screen time is created equal. For games your kids will love to play, but not so much that taking the iPad leads to tantrums, there's Pok Pok. — Read the rest ...
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In 2020, Tim Ferriss wrote a post cataloging what happens when your monthly audience grows larger than New York City. The list is grimmer than you'd expect. Ferriss uses a helpful metaphor: think of your audience as a city where you're the mayor. — Read the rest The post...
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Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino calls it 'turn and burn' — fast-moving shows of force meant to deter criminals and keep agents from getting bogged down. A New York Times video investigation of one operation in Los Angeles shows what that looks like in practice: SWAT teams, ...
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When a third of San Francisco lost power on Saturday, the city's fleet of autonomous Waymo vehicles apparently didn't know what to do. Videos posted across social media showed the driverless cars frozen at intersections with dead traffic lights, long lines of human drivers...
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Less than a day after the Justice Department posted its initial release of Epstein files, at least 16 documents vanished from the public website with no explanation or notice. Among them: a photograph showing Donald Trump. According to multiple outlets, the removed photo...
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Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) don't agree on much. They do agree that Attorney General Pam Bondi should face consequences for the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files. According to NBC News, the bipartisan pair appeared on Sunday talk...
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TL;DR: The CISSP Security & Risk Management Training Bundle is $24.97 (reg. $424), saving you $399 on eight comprehensive courses that prep you for one of cybersecurity's most intimidating certifications. Deal ends Dec. 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT. If the CISSP exam has been looming...
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The 2025 election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board has concluded; the winners are Greg Kroah-Hartman, Steven Rostedt, Julia Lawall, David Hildenbrand, and Ted Ts'o.
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Saturday December 20, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Save 51% on this ASUS Touchscreen Chromebook CM30 (2024) for just $159.99 (Reg. $329.99). Your computer should fit into your life. That's why this 2-in-1 Chromebook has a touchscreen, stylus, and all-day battery — making it the best fit for work and play. — Read...
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Roy Marsh was sitting by a boating lake in Lincolnshire, England when a gust of wind blew a reed into his mouth. He spit it out. Two enforcement officers immediately approached and told him they'd seen him spitting on the ground. — Read the rest The post An 86-year-old man...
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The DOJ released a de-Trumped batch of Epstein files, missed the deadline, and redacted extensively. Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act requiring the Justice Department to release all its files on Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days. Friday was the deadline. —...
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Wall Street's oldest law firm surrendered to Trump and now has to merge to survive. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft was founded in 1792. It is the oldest law firm in New York City. Earlier this year, when Trump signed executive orders stripping security clearances from...
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The White House demanded Trump's made-up FIFA peace prize be as big as the actual World Cup trophy. When FIFA president Gianni Infantino invented a 'peace prize' to give Donald Trump after he lost out on the Nobel, the White House had specifications. — Read the rest The...
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Trump went to North Carolina to talk about the economy and ended up explaining how Melania organizes her underwear drawer. President Trump traveled to Rocky Mount, North Carolina on Friday to deliver what the White House billed as an economic message. — Read the rest The...
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TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to OysterVPN is now $30.99 (MSRP $199.97). It doesn't seem fair that your internet access is based on the country where you live. To level the playing field in a safe, private manner, OysterVPN gives you unrestricted internet access with the...
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