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Thursday December 18, 2025. 11:22 PM
A team of physicists claims to have killed the simulation hypothesis with math. According to Science Daily, researchers led by Dr. Mir Faizal at UBC Okanagan used Gödel's incompleteness theorem to argue that reality requires 'non-algorithmic understanding' — something...
Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many. Waterfox, a popular fork of Firefox, is saying nay to AI. Considering how unpopular Mozilla's plan to botify its browser has become, this could win the alternative some converts.…
Vivek Ramaswamy published a New York Times op-ed warning that Nick Fuentes's 'Groyper' movement represents the same identity politics Republicans claim to oppose — just with a white nationalist flavor. The far-right Ohio gubernatorial candidate argued that American...
Visa says it has completed hundreds of real-world transactions initiated by AI agents, marking an early test of a (near) future where software can move from shopping recommendations to payment without a human needing to click through the checkout process. The transactions...
The Wall Street Journal let AI run a vending machine. It lost over $1,000 after reporters tricked it into giving everything away. Anthropic let its Claude AI run a vending machine in the Wall Street Journal newsroom for three weeks as an internal stress test. — Read the rest...
In 1979, VisiCalc was released for the Apple II, and to this day, many consider it the very first spreadsheet program. Considering just how important spreadsheets have become since then – Excel rules the world – the first spreadsheet program is definitely an interesting...
A California judge signaled support for forcing Vizio to provide the full source code for its SmartCast TV software after finding a contractual obligation under the GPL. If upheld, the case could strengthen users' rights to modify GPL-licensed software embedded in consumer...
Thursday marks the deadline for all federal law enforcement agencies to deliver their intelligence files on 'Antifa' and 'Antifa-related' activities to the FBI. Attorney General Pam Bondi set the date in a memo earlier this month. According to The Washington Post, the FBI...
Held liable for years of committing financial fraud, and well known for over-inflating his own crowd sizes, Donald Trump is not one to be trusted with numbers. Fox, however, found it necessary to explain how math works to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. — Read the rest...
Jamie Zawinski, one of the founders of Netscape and later Mozilla, has dug up the original versions of the iconic Mozilla dinosaur logos, and posted them online in all their glory. While he strongly believes Mozilla owned these logos outright, and that they were released as...
Formula 1's 2026 technical regulations bring not only smaller and lighter cars but an entirely new vocabulary that fans and commentators will need to learn before the season opens in Australia in March. The drag reduction system that has been part of F1 racing since 2011 is...
In the most expensive version of buying one's own book to make the bestseller list, SpaceX now has 'over 1,000' Cybertrucks sitting around. A few months ago, we noted Elon Musk, the 11-dimensional chess player, grand strategy to make his giant failure look less giant. —...
Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.” Snowflake pushed an update this week that caused a “major outage” worldwide, leaving many users unable to query data, experiencing failures when...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Deadline: YouTube has terminated two prominent channels that used artificial intelligence to create fake movie trailers, Deadline can reveal. The Google-owned video giant has switched off Screen Culture and KH Studio, which together...
Evita Duffy-Alfonso, daughter of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, called the TSA 'unconstitutional' Thursday after airport security made her wait 15 minutes for a pat-down, and she nearly missed her flight. According to The Hill, Duffy-Alfonso, who is pregnant, requested ...
Twenty-six House Republicans are demanding that Trump abandon his plan to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, which would put it in the same category as certain types of Tylenol and anabolic steroids. According to Fox News, Rep. — Read the rest The post...
Federal prosecutors have coined a new term: fraud tourism. Two Philadelphia men allegedly traveled to Minneapolis after a friend told them Minnesota's social programs were easy money. They had no connection to the state or its Somali-American community, which previous...
Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date Web browsers for desktop and mobile devices tend to receive regular security updates, but that often isn't the case for those that reside within game consoles, televisions, e-readers, cars, and other...
ICE signed a $636,500 contract with AI Solutions 87, a company registered to a residential address in West Bend, Wisconsin, to provide AI-powered skip tracing for the agency's deportation operations. According to 404 Media, the company's website says its AI agents 'deliver...
Shortly after retaking office, Donald Trump fired every single member of the Kennedy Center's governing board and replaced them with cronies, administration staffers, and family-adjacent influencers. Then they made him chairman. Now they've voted to rename the building after ...
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