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Tuesday December 30, 2025. 06:03 PM
In true Silicon Valley fashion, when asked to stop being disruptive, Waymo chose litigation. The City of Santa Monica did not suddenly decide it hates technology. It told Waymo to stop running loudly disruptive, brightly lit overnight charging operations at two Broadway...
Developers can now submit apps to be hosted inside ChatGPT that extend conversations with real functionality. These aren’t your ma or pa’s GPTs… these are real applications for ordering groceries, building slide decks, booking apartments, all without leaving the chat....
A scheme to encourage climbers to bring their waste down from Mount Everest is being scrapped -- with Nepalese authorities telling the BBC it has been a failure. From the report: Climbers had been required to pay a deposit of $4,000, which they would only get back if they...
Generative AI has become powerful enough to create a brand-new kind of problem… and OpenAI is willing to pay handsomely for someone brave enough to deal with it. That role is OpenAI’s new “head of preparedness,” a job that comes with enormous responsibility,...
The camera industry shipped 6.5 million interchangeable lens cameras last year -- a 50% decline from 2010's peak -- yet 2025 may have been the most creatively ambitious year in nearly two decades of digital photography. DPReview's Richard Butler argues that this year's...
TL;DR: This Sam's Club membership is 50% off at $25 while supplies last — one purchase gets you two cards for two shoppers! Who says you have to pay a fortune for just one bottle of hot sauce when you could take home a whole gallon for nearly the same price? — Read the rest...
ChatGPT can feel either incredibly smart or oddly unhelpful. The difference, it turns out, often comes down to how people use it. As more workers, students, and creators lean on AI tools every day, experts are sharing practical ways to get sharper, more useful answers from...
Meta Platforms has officially announced the acquisition of Manus, a high-flying startup known for building autonomous AI agents that don’t just chat, but actually get work done. This acquisition marks a major pivot for Meta, moving from its focus on open-source Llama models...
Nvidia has licensed intellectual property from inferencing chip designer Groq, and hired away some of its senior executives, but stopped short of an outright acquisition. “We’ve taken a non-exclusive license to Groq’s IP and have hired engineering talent from Groq’s...
Nvidia has licensed intellectual property from inferencing chip designer Groq, and hired away some of its senior executives, but stopped short of an outright acquisition. “We’ve taken a non-exclusive license to Groq’s IP and have hired engineering talent from Groq’s...
In a year when print book sales have slipped 1% to 679 million copies through early December, according to Circana BookScan, audiobooks continue to carve out territory that once belonged exclusively to hardcovers, and in several notable cases this year, the audio versions...
Cecilia Giménez, who so amazingly botched a restoration of a fresco depicting Jesus Christ that it and she became internationally famous, is dead at 94. The parishioner from Borja, Spain, set out to restore the faded and peeling icon 13 years ago, having gotten permission...
Japan's demographic transformation is no longer a distant forecast but an accelerating reality, and the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research now estimates the country's population will fall to roughly 100 million by 2050 -- more than 20 million fewer ...
Chinese authorities were once so fearful of overcrowding that it banned most families from having more than one child and made contraception available free of charge. But it ended the policy a decade ago and is now introducing a 13% sales tax on condoms and other...
Privacy has been increasingly in the news over the last year with plans for government digital IDs and age verification for websites, as well as concerns about how eCommerce businesses and others use personal data.What can we expect from the privacy landscape in 2026? Some...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjpeg2, osslsigncode, php-dompdf, and python-django), Fedora (fluidsynth, golang-github-alecthomas-chroma-2, golang-github-evanw-esbuild, golang-github-jwt-5, and opentofu), Mageia (ceph and ruby-rack), and SUSE (anubis,...
The six-decade flow of highly skilled Indian immigrants to the United States -- a migration pattern that produced some of the country's highest-earning households, several Nobel laureates, and the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, and Pepsi -- appears to be grinding to a halt amid...
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, Win32/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, loss32 Win32 plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning system...
Digital screen snafu or satirical comment on Microsoft's licensing policies? Bork!Bork!Bork! Today's Bork comes courtesy of an exhibition dedicated to the UK street artist Banksy and demonstrates that 'Limitless' does not always apply to Windows Activation.…
Nina Kalinina has been on an absolute roll lately, diving deep into VisiOn, uncovering Bellcore MGR, installing Linux on a PC-98 machine, and much more. This time, she’s ported Windows 2 to run on a machine it was never supposed to run on. I bought my first Apricot PC about ...
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