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Tuesday January 6, 2026. 04:30 AM
New chips same as the old chips AMD kicked off CES on Monday by unveiling a slew of desktop and mobile processors aimed at everyone from casual users and creative professionals to gamers and AI devs. But with few improvements, they're more 'newish' than new.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that's among the strictest in the nation took effect at the beginning...
joshuark shares a report from Business Insider: Jason Lemkin, known to some as the Godfather of SaaS, says the time has come to push the limits of AI in the workplace. Lemkin, the founder of SaaStr, the world's largest community of business-to-business founders. In a recent...
In the 1950s, British military planners faced a problem: if the Soviets invaded West Germany, how could they slow the advance? Their solution was Blue Peacock, a project to bury ten-kiloton nuclear landmines across the North German Plain, set to detonate by wire, an...
Anna's Archive lost control of its primary.org domain after it was placed on registry-level serverHold -- 'an action that's typically taken by the domain name registry,' reports TorrentFreak. Despite mounting legal pressure and speculation tied to its Spotify backup, the...
In the mid-1930s, a dangerous Illinois Central railroad crossing in Grenada, Mississippi, had claimed too many lives. Local inventor Alonzo Billups had seen enough, and his solution was gloriously excessive: a massive gantry spanning the highway, topped with a giant neon...
After Congress approved President Donald Trump's rescission package eliminating federal funding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve after 58 years, rather than continue to exist and potentially be 'vulnerable to future political manipulation or...
As someone who enjoys writing about video games in a snarky tone that doubtlessly convinces everyone I'm a horrible misanthrope, few journalistic figures are more aspirational than Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw of Zero Punctuation fame. While Zero Punctuation, his weekly, typically...
Last year, multiple Palo Alto crosswalks were hacked. A dozen of the city's voice-enabled crosswalks played less-than-flattering fake versions of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, instead of the usual recordings. At the time, the crosswalks' Bluetooth connection was considered...
Congratulations, gamers. We've all made it to the year of Grand Theft Auto 6 — assuming Rockstar doesn't pull yet another delay. Every second between now and November will feel like an eternity as we creep closer, so why not check out another brand-new GTA game to...
We may still be stuck in reboot culture hell, but at least it's coming around for a genuinely good show again. You may remember Bryan Cranston teasing a movie based on Malcolm in the Middle. This brilliant family sitcom ran from 2000 to 2006 and was almost immediately...
Microsoft’s C# has won the Tiobe Index Programming Language of the Year designation for the second time in three years, with the largest year-over-year increase in ranking in the company’s programming language popularity index. Meanwhile, another Microsoft language,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: At CES in Las Vegas today, Lego has unveiled its new Smart Play platform, aimed at taking its distinctly analog plastic blocks and figures into a new world of tech-powered interactive play -- but crucially one without any...
I've previously proclaimed my passion for potoroos, which has included sharing this absolutely adorable double-decker strawberry snacking duo. Honestly, though, there's a dearth of potoroo ASMR in the world, and still so much work to do to remedy that. So on this last day...
The way the histories of CP/M, DOS, Microsoft, and the 8086 intertwine would be worthy of an amazing film if it wasn’t for the fact it would be very hard to make it interesting screen material. Few OEMs were asking for an 8086 version of CP/M. One that did was SCP – the...
Both GNOME and Firefox are considering disabling middle-click paste by default, arguing it's a confusing, accident-prone X11 relic that dumps clipboard contents without warning. Phoronix reports: A merge request for GNOME's gsettings-desktop-schemas was opened this weekend...
We’ve talked about just how bad Apple’s regular icons have become, but what about the various icons Apple now plasters all over its menus, buttons, and dialogs? They’ve gotten so, so much worse. In my opinion, Apple took on an impossible task: to add an icon to every menu...
The chip giant says Vera Rubin will sharply cut the cost of training and running AI models, strengthening the appeal of its integrated computing platform.
Company claims its Ultra Series 3 processors will offer the best battery life yet Intel has finally let its new Panther Lake CPUs out of the cage. First detailed in October and now launching under the brand name Intel Core Ultra Series 3, these are the first chips made with...
Just maybe not in the way you're thinking Nvidia's DGX Spark and its GB10-based siblings are getting a major performance bump with the platform's latest software update, announced at CES on Monday. The AI mini PC is also getting access to the GPU giant's full suite of AI...
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