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Thursday December 11, 2025. 09:45 PM
Cisco's stock price touched $80.25 on Wednesday, finally eclipsing its dotcom-era peak of $80.06 set on March 27, 2000 -- when the networking giant briefly surpassed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable company. The journey back took 25 years, eight months and 13...
Artificial intelligence shaped nearly every corner of tech in 2025 as organizations weighed how to integrate new capabilities while managing operational and governance challenges. The year’s major developments reflected technical progress, workforce shifts, security...
System76, creator of Pop!_OS and prominent Linux OEM, has just announced the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS – normally not something I particularly care about, but in this case, it comes with the first stable release of COSMIC Desktop. COSMIC is a brand new desktop environment...
'Dying of laughter' is usually a figure of speech. But sometimes it's a coroner's report. Death from laughter is a rare but documented phenomenon, typically caused by cardiac arrest or asphyxiation triggered by prolonged, uncontrollable laughter. Cases have been recorded...
I’m sure most of us here are aware of the bright red-and-yellow colour scheme called “Hot Dog Stand”, included in Windows 3.1. While it’s not the only truly garish colour scheme included in Windows 3.1, its name probably did a lot to make it stand out from the others. There’s...
Amazon is doubling down on same-day fresh food delivery. The company has expanded its Same-Day Delivery service for perishable groceries to more than 2,300 cities and towns across the United States, marking one of its biggest grocery rollouts to date. Amazon confirmed the...
In defiance of a court order, logic, and basic human decency, ICE deported Guatemalan asylum seeker Faustino Pablo Pablo to the one place he was explicitly not allowed to be sent: Guatemala, where a judge had already found he was likely to be tortured. — Read the rest The po...
In 2010, a Lithuanian artist named Julijonas Urbonas designed the ultimate thrill ride: a steel roller coaster engineered specifically to kill everyone who rides it. He called it the Euthanasia Coaster. Urbonas, a former amusement park employee and PhD candidate at the Royal ...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed two bills aimed at regulating the use of AI in entertainment, requiring disclosure when ads feature AI-generated performers and mandating consent from heirs before a deceased person's likeness can be used commercially. Hochul ...
IBM owns Red Hat which in turn runs Fedora, the popular desktop Linux distribution. Sadly, shit rolls downhill, so we’re starting to see some worrying signs that Fedora is going to be used a means to push “AI”. Case in point, this article in the Fedora Magazine: Generative...
When she can't take the heat, puppy slayer Kristi Noem runs from the hearing. After getting caught in a lie to Congress about deporting veterans, the Homeland Security Secretary claimed she had to duck out of a said hearing early to chair a FEMA council meeting. — Read the re...
Version 24.04 LTS of the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS distribution has been released with the COSMIC Desktop Environment: Today is special not only in that it's the culmination of over three years of work, but even more so in that System76 has built a complete desktop environment...
After Charleston airport police released a report describing Rep. Nancy Mace's very public meltdown at the gate, Mace spiraled as she took to Fox Business, claiming the entire thing was made up, just like her political victim complex. Rep. Nancy Mace told Fox Business host...
Uber has discontinued its monthly electric vehicle bonuses for drivers in the United States and Canada, marking the latest in a series of rollbacks from a company that once pledged to pour $800 million into helping its drivers transition away from gasoline-powered cars. The...
Org argues that the approval process was flawed and regulators should have known better A trade group of European cloud providers has laid into the European Commission’s decision to allow the VMware-Broadcom merger to go ahead, alleging that it failed to assess the...
Coffee subscriptions offer their steepest discounts in December—including on WIRED’s two favorite coffee subscriptions.
Kyle Rittenhouse is back on social media, and he's got news: he's married. The 22-year-old, who was acquitted in 2021 after fatally shooting two people during the Kenosha protests, announced on X that he wed a woman named Bella six months ago. — Read the rest The post Kyle R...
On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, codenamed “garlic” during development, marking the company’s most capable model for coding and agentic workflows. The model brings a massive 400,000-token context window and 128,000-token output capacity — roughly 5x the context of...
As the old saying goes, if you can’t beat them, join them. AI generated video is already absolutely everywhere, and you're about to start seeing a lot more of it -- this time featuring a host of well known Disney characters. The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI have agreed a ...
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
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