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Wednesday December 31, 2025. 01:45 AM
PC Gamer argues that 2025 was a year full of high-profile AI embarrassments across games and entertainment, with Disney and Lucasfilm serving as the 'opening salvo.' From the report: At a TED talk back in April, Lucasfilm senior vice president of creative innovation Rob...
Zohran Mamdani appears not to understand that smartphones can be used for evil New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has invited the city’s residents to join him at a block party to celebrate his inauguration but told attendees not to bring a Raspberry Pi single-board...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from DW: India has surpassed Japan to become the world's fourth-largest economy, according to calculations in the Indian government's end-of-year economic review. On current trends, India is expected to overtake Germany to become the...
Axios reports that venture capitalist Alex Davis is warning that a speculative rush to build data centers without committed tenants could trigger a financing crunch by 2027-2028. 'This critique is coming from inside the AI optimist camp,' notes Axios, as Davis' firm,...
Tuesday December 30, 2025. 11:40 PM
China is quietly mandating that chipmakers use at least 50% domestically made equipment when expanding capacity, 'as Beijing pushes to build a self-sufficient semiconductor supply chain,' according to Reuters. From the report: The rule is not publicly documented, but...
Daniel Stenberg has written a blog post about the decision to ban the use strcpy() in curl: The main challenge with strcpy is that when using it we do not specify the length of the target buffer nor of the source string. To make sure that the size checks cannot be...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Mac Bauer is fast, but the city's trams, weighing more than 100,000lbs and traveling at a maximum speed of nearly 45mph, should be far faster than him. And yet as of late December, in head-to-head races against...
TL;DR: Get the productivity powerhouse Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows with a free suite of training courses for just $34.97, or 85% off the $239.99 regular price. Do you have an older Windows machine that needs a new shot at life? — Read the rest The post...
The ITSM outfit would join Oracle, Comcast, and Netflix in installing bunk beds in the corner office ServiceNow’s amended employment contract with CEO Bill McDermott extends his time with the company into the next decade, but also provides possible next steps for the...
Two cybersecurity professionals who spent their careers defending organizations against ransomware attacks have pleaded guilty in a Florida federal court to using ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware to extort American businesses throughout 2023. Ryan Goldberg, a 40-year-old incident...
The global airline industry is on track to post an all-time profit high of nearly $40 billion in 2025, according to trade group IATA, surpassing the pre-pandemic 2019 figure of $26 billion, but carriers are still managing a net margin of just 4% -- roughly $7.90 per...
The solution? Lock up the screens and read to your kids If you're thinking of plopping your infant in front of a screen to get some peace and quiet, you might want to reconsider - higher screen exposure in infancy was linked to longer decision times later on and higher...
A simple idea, handsomely done: Epilogue's SN Operator, a USB dock that accepts Super Nintendo carts. It comes with an emulator app (though you can use all the popular ones) and is compatible with Windows, MacOS and Linux. From the website: Play iconic SNES® titles with...
After 5 seasons and about 50 hours of television, Stranger Things ends this week. Netflix dropped the trailer for the finale: 'I need you to fight, one last time.' As Vecna prepares to destroy the world as we know it, the party must put everything on the line to defeat...
A study by a Singapore government agency has found that children exposed to high levels of screen time before age two showed brain development changes linked to slower decision-making and higher anxiety in adolescence, adding to concerns about early digital exposure. From a...
You didn't think you'd get to enjoy your time off without a major cybersecurity incident, did you? A high-severity MongoDB Server vulnerability, for which proofs of concept emerged over Christmas week, is now under active exploitation, according to the US Cybersecurity and...
An anonymous reader shares a report: The French government on Dec 30 postponed a ban on plastic throwaway cups by four years to 2030 because of difficulties finding alternatives. The ban was meant to start on Jan 1. But the Ministry for Ecological Transition said the...
It turns out that sloths do fart after all. Zoologist and founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society, Lucy Cooke, once gave a delightful TED talk about sloths. She defended the notably unhurried creatures against the disparaging words of a Spanish conquistador who said...
After more than three decades of service, New York City's iconic MetroCard is about to retire, as December 31, 2025 marks the final day commuters can purchase or refill the gold-hued plastic cards that replaced subway tokens back in 1994. The Metropolitan Transportation...
SoftBank has finally written the check. A $40 billion gamble is now fully funded. SoftBank Group has completed its previously announced roughly $40 billion investment in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, fulfilling the largest private tech funding commitment in history. As...
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