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Thursday January 1, 2026. 01:30 AM
The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of tech startups are stocking offices with free nicotine pouches as founders and employees chase sharper focus and stamina in hyper-competitive AI-era work environments. The Wall Street Journal reports: Earlier this year, ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cyber Press: A newly uncovered Chinese threat group, DarkSpectre, has been linked to one of the most widespread browser-extension malware operations to date, compromising more than 8.8 million users of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera ...
OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history, with average stock-based compensation hitting roughly $1.5 million per worker in 2025. 'That is more than seven times higher than the stock-based pay Google disclosed in 2003, before it filed for an...
Wednesday December 31, 2025. 11:52 PM
Whatever you intended to do when you opened a new tab, nothing stops you in your tracks quite like short-form video. The format, popularized by Tik Tok, 'degrades our capacity to retain intentions,' according to research from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. —...
Reuters reports that the United States Department of the Treasury under the Donald Trump administration has lifted sanctions on three executives linked to the spyware firm Intellexa. Reuters reports: The move partially reverses the imposition of sanctions last year by...
It’s 31 December 2025 today, the last day of the year, but it also happens to mark the end of support for the last and final version of one of my favourite operating systems: HP-UX. Today is the day HPE puts the final nail in the coffin of their long-running UNIX operating...
TL;DR: Get no-compromise security for your most sensitive files with 10TB of cloud storage from Internxt for $269.97, 91% off the normal $2,900 price. You take your privacy seriously, and so should anywhere you entrust with your data. Internxt takes document security to a...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: France intends to follow Australia and ban social media platforms for children from the start of the 2026 academic year. A draft bill preventing under-15s from using social media will be submitted for legal checks and is ...
New Jersey has found its answer to the relentless flooding that has plagued the state's coastal and inland communities for decades: buy the homes, demolish them and turn the land back into open space permanently. The state's Blue Acres program has acquired some 1,200...
A judge in England ruled this week that the presence of a microwave does not turn a single room into an apartment. The St. George Hotel in Great Yarmouth said its rooms were flats after housing officers found that 32 of its 62 rooms were being used to house homeless people....
The future of policing apparently includes enchanted forests. Buried in a local Fox News story about police using AI to keep streets safer is the part that actually matters: the software once decided a person had turned into a frog. Not metaphorically. — Read the rest The po...
Elon Musk spent 2025 promising Mars, robotaxis, artificial godhood, flying cars, and trillions in government savings. What we got was a familiar silence at year's end, broken only by the sound of goalposts being dragged farther down the field. Mashable did the thankless work ...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Getting to space is hard. In many ways, getting back is even harder. NASA soon aims to pull off the kind of re-entry it last conducted more than 50 years ago: safely returning astronauts to Earth after they fly to the moon and back. The...
GPUzilla has reportedly received orders for more than two million units With the sales ban lifted, Chinese tech giants, including ByteDance, are scrambling to secure orders for Nvidia's H200 graphics accelerators while they can. But will there be enough to satisfy demand?…
JPMorgan Chase is now fighting to avoid paying $10.2 million in disputed legal charges racked up by Charlie Javice, the convicted founder of student-finance startup Frank, after court filings revealed her defense team billed more than $5 million simply for attending her...
Perpetually unaware and refusing to be held back by facts, Donald Trump mourned a long-dead Israeli falcon as a bald eagle, to disparage the wind. Talk about being gone with the wind. Unable to identify a bald eagle, Trump saw an old photo of a dead bird and decided it was...
What, weekend warriors from Silicon Valley not good enough? The US Army has been all-in on becoming an AI-powered outfit for some time, and now it's creating a career path for officers to specialize in making its automation dreams come true. …
A 24-year-old just raised $64 million to build an AI mathematician that’s smarter than Terence Tao (widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician). Her name is Carina Hong, and her startup Axiom Math has already solved a 130-year-old problem and disproved a...
The fight over net neutrality saw another turbulent year in 2025, as federal protections that seemed poised for a comeback in 2024 were first struck down by a court and then preemptively removed by the Trump administration's FCC without a chance for public comment. The...
Nvidia's flagship RTX 5090 graphics cards have a suggested retail price of $2,000. With big tech betting everything on generative AI and gobbling up the world's supply of high-end GPUs, the street price is already much higher—about $2,500 to start as of December 2025. —...
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