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Friday December 19, 2025. 10:52 PM
It’s been four months since the Kodi Foundation released the first build of Kodi 22 “Piers,” the long-awaited next generation of its widely used home theater software. Following close on the heels of Kodi 21.3 “Omega,” which was released a few days ago, a new build ...
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The AARP runs ads claiming that any request to pay by gift card is always a scam. Patrick McKenzie, writing at Bits About Money, points out this is technically false — gift cards are a legitimate payment method used by billions of dollars worth of businesses serving...
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When New York State banned phones in public schools bell-to-bell this September, Governor Hochul pitched it as a way to improve classroom focus. What nobody expected was the lunchroom renaissance. According to New York Magazine, teachers across the city are watching scenes...
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Get ready for empty theaters. Melania Trump has released a trailer for a new documentary about herself, a film that appears to consist primarily of dramatic lighting, slow-motion walking, and the firm belief that the public is at all curious about her inner life. — Read the...
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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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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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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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It seems the Orange Menace was eagerly waiting to slap his name on The Kennedy Center. In a move so on-brand it may as well have come gift-wrapped in gold leaf, the Trump administration went ahead and started glomming the convicted felon's name on the building one day after...
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A Starlink satellite has exploded, and the remains are falling to Earth. According to a statement on the Starlink X-Twitter account: On December 17, Starlink experienced an anomaly on satellite 35956, resulting in loss of communications with the vehicle at 418 km. — Read t...
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The Trump administration says inflation is dropping, and if you're not feeling that in your rent, grocery bill, or gas tank, clearly you're not using the same calculator. This week's Consumer Price Index report showed inflation easing. The problem is that it arrived late, is ...
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Do you use Large Language Models like ChatGPT? Maybe you rely on Urban VPN Proxy, a free extension for Google's Chrome browser or Microsoft Edge, to tunnel your way to online anonymity? Well, cut it out: According to a recent report from Koi Security, the extension has been...
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A landmark study from France tracking 28 million adults has confirmed what public health officials long suspected: people who got vaccinated against COVID-19 were not only far less likely to die from the virus, they were significantly less likely to die from anything else,...
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